This movie kind of radicalized me. I guess it was kind of a tipping point. My view of the economic collapse went from ‘well, these things happen, no one’s really at fault’ to ‘oh they did this on purpose and they are our enemies.’

Anime crimes… did you bomb the Ghibli museum or something?

Pssh, that’s not kablamo

So what is to be done?

(Rosalía and FKA twigs to be clear)

I’ll close this out with a great Mountain Goats song

But Lovecraft’s influence gets weirder. Have any of you heard of an anime called ‘Haiyore! Nyaruko-san’? There is literally an anime about a high schooler falling in love with Nyarlathotep who has been manifested as one of his classmates.

But there’s like 90% chance I’d like it, a 51% chance it would be a hit, and a decent chance it’d be a classic. Furthermore Lovecraft has been gaining a lot of cultural currency. At this point I feel like most people won’t be weirded out if you mention ‘Cthulhu’.

Jesus and Deadpool have made it clear that high budget R rated movies can bring in the money, so there’s really no reason to reject it.

Please let him do this. I don’t know if he’d make a faithful adaptation, if he’d deconstruct Lovecraft’s racism like in ‘Lovecraft Country,’ or If he’d just lean into Howard Philips’ sense of existential dread in the face of an uncaring cosmos.