Lovecraft Girls - or How to Prevent the Apocalypse - Ch. 1 - The Queen in Yellow

[MangaDex]

 

[Perkon]

Nice a Cthulhu entity

 

[FrozenCircuit]

I don't get it

 

[yummyyummy]

what happens next?! I NEED TO KNOW

no im not serious it would be cool but its not so important

 

[Acolytus]

Are we getting lovecraftian waifus now?

 

[Torchthat]

@FrozenCircuit it's a female version of Hastur, the Cthulhu old god, called The King in Yellow, He who shall not be named and The unspeakable one. He is the half brother of Cthulhu and he mind control's people with his yellow sign, anyone who looks at the yellow sign starts worshiping it/Hastur and starts to spread it to others, causing insanity with it.

 

[Krune]

the funny thing is I could totally see Hastur/King in Yellow being totally down with being a meme they are into the arts after all this would be right up their alley.

 

[FrozenCircuit]

@Torchthat Thanks

 

[Bachenaugen]

When those damn Mormons try to take over the world, you call Old Man Henderson.

 

[immortalartisan]

That’s just generbent mr yellow

 

[Kaiser92]

they be rule34ed everybody

 

[Tamerlane]

I'm in fairy rings and tower beds
"Don't report this, " three men said
Books by the blameless and by the dead
King in yellow, queen in red
All praise
He's found the awful truth, Balthazar
He's found the saucer news

 

[sensitivegore]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net...ow_Sign.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20161006134025






(p.s Just a joke, I'm not actually going to sacrafice us to the outer ones...)

 

[Owyn]

The sign:

 

[jipowap]

The King in Yellow is the most human of the elder things, for it lives in and preys upon the passions in love and limerence. It sickens me and makes me weep with forlorn romance.

 

[gum_rummy]

Is this a meme?

 

[AMetroid]

Bit confusing for me as I had only herd the name Hastur from Overgeared.

Edit: oh They spelled it "Haster" in Overgeared. Seems like the translator didn't know the reference either.

 

[Petnavis]

@gum_rummy Not really - it's based on the King in Yellow Hastur which is a lovecraftian God. IIRC in the few stories about him he basically has a sign that drives people to replicate it and go insane. Think it targets artistic individuals in particular. It's been years since I read up on him so could be wrong

 

[GotGame]

@Acolytus We already had that, it's called Nyarko-san.

 

[AncientWatcher]

Genderbent or not, run the fuck away from the King in Yellow. Lovecraft created some terrifying monsters.