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[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 166 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

"I'm going to teach your women to read, and encourage your children to go into a different profession than their fathers'!"

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Make women show their ankles in public next

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lewd.
Where?
Which evil specifically & where can I find it??

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Noses don't have ankles, stupid.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

Depends on the religion, I guess.

[–] Lena@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

This could be an anime

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Those are, on average, still consisted extreme political beliefs, so a war is inevitable - choose your side.

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

"...and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there, only just the night before, about eight o'clock."

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 122 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cthulhu for president 2024. Why settle for a lesser evil?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Cthulhu is the CEO of, and the entire board of an international company that was originally started by selling second hand pencils, and is now in control of 2/3 of the worlds food supply, ceiling fans, caste iron cookware, navel ship contracts, fire alarm and led light bulb multinational alliances, crawfish bait stores, mesh trucker hats, smart TVs...

It's far above anything as simple as one countries president.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 44 points 1 month ago (5 children)

While the "caste iron cookware" sounds fascinating, I'm mostly interested in these "navel ships"

Please don't edit your comment, the mental images I'm getting from it are fantastic

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Attempting to fathom the terrors of the Old Ones only leads to maidness

[–] SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

*attempts to fathom terrors* *suddenly gets urge to put on a maid outfit and dust the place* You're not wrong...

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m mostly interested in these “navel ships”

You ever heard of "belly-button shots"? Well a navel ship is what you get if you float a tiny boat on one.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago

Tiny? Do you have any idea how large the Great Old One's navel is? You can float a destroyer in it...

[–] BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Navel ships makes for the real cosmic horror here.

Lovecraftian horror is just realizing the earth is floating in a sea of dark matter that splooshed into the elder god's belly button.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

What, haven't you seen fandoms shipping the bellybuttons of two characters together

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

These naval ships rely on the motion of the ocean to get where they wanna go

[–] cakey@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

Call of cthulhu - Nanowar Of Steel

It just sounds like what you wrotr

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[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

"

  • I'll drive all humanity insane!
  • How does the insanity manifest?
  • They'll carve strange sculptures, chant and dance around them, and maybe make orgies."
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“ancient evils” are usually things like blasphemy, insubordination or having intrinsic self-worth.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ancient evils are actually pretty moderate. Anyone down to open The Gate? Yog'Sothoth seems chill and would love the internet.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yog’Sothoth stared into 4chan, and 4chan stared back. And Yog'Sothoth noped right on outta there.

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yog'Sothoth does his dark bidding on the internet.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago

There's no better place for it. Imagine still needing to supply robes and flesh-bound books.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I could see it either way. The competing visions for ancient evil: Murdering children for asking questions, or the existence of unmarried women.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, just like human countries - on average about that, but also produced on massive country/continent/empire scales.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Missed the follow-up post to this from tumblr

[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So moderate that I pledge my loyalty to it & move in its domain, defend it from objectively evil human empires, find inner peace & purpose.

[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] technohacker@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Snot, though...

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thx (edited it), I just increasingly miss the ' shit when it's autocorrected.

[–] fed0sine@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is my first time seeing itsnotits in the wild on Lemmy.

Before your edit, I would have walked away thinking they are a joke account that writes "its" for every grammatical situation, even if its incorrect.

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[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think ancient evil very much does exist. But it's the same as modern evil. I figure it must exist, and it's the presence of this evil that has caused such a fucked up society to emerge.

In other words, this is not the golden age of mankind; quite the opposite I'm afraid... 😝

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's almost like modern United States were built on an ancient Indian burial ground...

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oof.

And from the ashes of Roman imperialism, no less. And, by the way, that is the only thing imperialism brings - ashes...

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some of the ruins are pretty neat too. But back then their architecture had style. The ruins of todays concrete and steal cubes are going to be lame.

[–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TIL big box stores = steal cubes. Nice.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Guess that was a freudian missspelling

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think that's likely to happen. Once the Internet and digital media is gone the information age will become an information dark age to historians.

Depending on what happens it's entirely possible for future cultures to actively avoid another industrial revolution like ours was.

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[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

They were just born in the wrong time!

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ancient evil awakens,

tries to invent the extended car warranty,

Doesn't understand why people aren't fleeing in terror.

[–] durfenstein@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Qual coming at Frieren like...

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