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87-524: Vantas may refer to: Karkat and Kankri Vantas , characters from the webcomic Homestuck (2009-2016) Vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays (VANTAs) Histrelin acetate, a drug sold under the brand name Vantas Vantas, a cancelled brand of Exeed TX SUVs in North America Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

174-475: A boy "so cool he only appreciates things ironically." He copied this behavior from his older brother (also his biological father through ectobiology and his only guardian), who collects puppets and katanas on what Dave assumes is an ironic level. Dave has been described as "smart-cynical", and is John's best friend. Surrounded by bad video games and junk food, he wears aviator sunglasses , obscuring his eyes entirely, and wields katana in combat situations. Dave

261-523: A dull gray as his signature accent color as not to reveal his true blood color. His astrological sign is Cancer . The name Karkat is a reference to "Karkata", the name of Cancer in the Hindu zodiac. It may also be a reference to the Hindi word करकट meaning waste, a reference to his blood color. Nepeta is an olive-blood, considered the "middle class" of the hemospectrum. She lives in a cave with her lusus, and

348-427: A few films using lovecraftian horror themes. 2007's The Mist , Frank Darabont 's movie adaptation of Stephen King's 1985 novella by the same name , featuring otherworldly Lovecraftian monsters emerging from a thick blanket of mist to terrify a small New England town, and 2005's The Call of Cthulhu , made by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society , a black and white adaptation using silent film techniques to mimic

435-411: A kind of Internet behavior that is "marginalized or controversial, or something most people just want nothing to do with." Homestuck aims to normalize and humanize internet cultures that are usually disfavored and rejected. Trolls chat with unique typing quirks , inserting clues concerning the speaker's identity in their chat patterns. For example, Vriska, a troll with spider-like attributes, replaces

522-507: A large cast. Though Hussie used death as "the line between relevance and irrelevance", characters generally remain relevant in some way in the story, as there exist various video game-style constructs that allow a character to be revived. Rebecca Peterson of The Martlet described how "characters are gleefully killed off, brought back, and killed again" in a manner that makes it difficult to follow which characters are still alive. Characters may even have multiple versions of themselves active in

609-461: A marked resemblance to some of Lovecraft's more dream-influenced work. Borges also dedicated his story, "There Are More Things" to Lovecraft, though he also considered Lovecraft "an involuntary parodist of Poe ." The French novelist Michel Houellebecq has also cited Lovecraft as an influence in his essay H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life in which he refers to the stories written in

696-540: A number of films that have been classified as Lovecraftian horror. This includes the themes of human fragility, impotence in the face of the unknowable, and lack of answers in Picnic at Hanging Rock , and The Dunwich Horror , with its source in Lovecraft's work and emphasis on "forces beyond the protagonist's control." The 1979 film Alien has been described as Lovecraftian due to its theme of "cosmic indifference",

783-451: A pair of "diametrically opposed twins living inside the same body" named Calliope and Caliborn. Andrew Hussie also inserted himself into Homestuck ' s story as a character, where he offers detailed summaries and ends up in "bizarre in-world encounters." After Ryan North asked why "MS Paint Adventures" doesn't follow the adventures of a " Ms. Paint", Hussie included a minor Carapacian character to Homestuck with that name. Late in

870-421: A set of weird , pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements. His work was influenced by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe , Algernon Blackwood , Ambrose Bierce , Arthur Machen , Robert W. Chambers , and Lord Dunsany . However, Lovecraft was keen to distinguish his work from existing gothic and supernatural fiction , elevating the horror, in his own words, to a "cosmic" level. Stephen King has said

957-571: A story set two years later. 1992's The Resurrected , directed by Dan O'Bannon , is an adaptation of Lovecraft's novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward . It contains numerous elements faithful to Lovecraft's story, though the studio made major cuts to the film. The self-referential Necronomicon (1993), featured Lovecraft himself as a character, played by Jeffrey Combs . The three stories in Necronomicon are based on two H. P. Lovecraft short stories and one Lovecraft novella: "The Drowned"

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1044-540: A unique culture. Homestuck characters are particularly popular to cosplay at anime conventions . According to Lauren Rae Orsini writing for The Daily Dot , there existed 128 named characters in Homestuck in September 2012, with more still being introduced. The cast of Homestuck features a large quantity of LGBT characters and a major theme of the webcomic is the multitude of characters that die throughout

1131-400: A video games beyond a visual aesthetic are recognized. Lovecraft was an influence on Dungeons & Dragons starting in the early 1970s, and initial printings of AD&D Deities & Demigods included characters from Lovecraft's novels. Dungeons & Dragons influenced later role-playing games, including Call of Cthulhu (1980) which influenced later board games such as

1218-439: A violent cycle of revenge which kills her lusus (caretaker). Eventually it is revealed that this also killed Aradia, turning her into a ghost and causing her to lose interest in everything she enjoyed prior, including archaeology and focus instead on acquiring and playing Sgrub. At Vriska's suggestion, Equius Zahhak creates a robot body for Aradia which she inhabits for a large part of the comic. After her robot body explodes, she

1305-563: A world where the Mythos, while existing as fiction written by Lovecraft, is also very real. As well as appearing with Fort in two comics stories, Lovecraft has appeared as a character in a number of Lovecraftian comics. He appears in Mac Carter and Tony Salmons 's limited series The Strange Adventures of H. P. Lovecraft from Image and in the Arcana children's graphic novel Howard and

1392-501: Is Gemini . Karkat is the de facto leader of the trolls' group, and his introduction in Act 5 mirrors that of John Egbert at the start of the webcomic. He is quick to anger, loud, and often rude, but has a strong sense of justice, and is good at heart. His blood color is candy-red, which is considered a mutant color outside the hemospectrum, giving him an unshakable fear of persecution, causing him to be self-conscious, and leading him to use

1479-502: Is Taurus . Tavros' ancestral figure, Rufioh, was inspired by the character Rufio from the 1991 film Hook . Dante Basco , who played Rufio in Hook , started reading Homestuck because his character made an appearance in it, and he later stated that Tavros is his favorite Homestuck character because of his relation to Rufio. Sollux is a computer programmer whose personality is associated with ideas of duality and bifurcation. Sollux

1566-536: Is Andrew Hussie's "gift for character-building", and that the characters are unique and "strangely relatable". Elliott Dunstan of Monkeys Fighting Robots said, "the sheer number of characters and possible interactions can get overwhelming", and that each fan ends up with a favorite cast member. The characters of Homestuck are particularly popular among cosplayers, with cosplay events such as San Diegostuck being held for Homestuck cosplay specifically. Mary Kinney of New York University wrote that Homestuck , which

1653-494: Is a webcomic written, illustrated, and animated by Andrew Hussie as part of MS Paint Adventures ( MSPA ). The webcomic centers on a group of teenagers who unwittingly bring about the end of the world through the installation of a beta copy of an upcoming computer game . Homestuck features a complex story and a large cast of characters, starring the four children John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider and Jade Harley. Hussie invented an alien species, called trolls, that have

1740-647: Is a fan of action movies and speaks in an antiquated fashion. English's surname comes from the villain Lord English. His grandmother took the surname to spite her abusive mother, whom was afraid of Lord English. He was in a romantic relationship with Dirk for a few months, however due to Jake's introversion, the two broke up. Jake later regrets his avoidant behaviour, and the two returned to being on good terms after some time. Jake also has an imaginary version of Dirk that haunts him, known as Brain Ghost Dirk. In

1827-634: Is a gold-blood, a caste known for great psychic power. He is the one who programs Sgrub (the troll version of Sburb) from the code Aradia Megido found. Sollux has the ability to talk to the recently deceased, who inform him that Alternia will be annihilated. He also claims that he is destined to go blind before dying, a claim which later proves to be partially true. Sollux speaks with a severe lisp, and his typing quirk reflects this. He frequently calls his friends by two-letter abbreviations of their names (e.g. Karkat becomes KK, Terezi becomes TZ, etc.). His introduction mirrors Dave Strider's and his astrological sign

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1914-413: Is a hammer. Later in life, John becomes a transgender woman and takes the name June. This originated as a headcanon, however Andrew Hussie made it canon when a fan of Homestuck found a hidden chocolate bar was granted a single wish for if they were the author. Rose Lalonde is portrayed as an "intellectual", both through her obsession with Lovecraftian literature and through her organizing and planning

2001-422: Is a violet-blood, making him part of the two castes that make up the sea-dwellers, a sub-race of trolls "distinct from the commoners by mutation and habitat", as it is put during his introduction. His astrological sign is Aquarius . Feferi is a sea-dweller like Eridan Ampora, as well as his former moirail. Feferi is the heir apparent for Alternian rulership, which puts her at risk from Her Imperious Condescension,

2088-552: Is also depicted as having a romantic interest in Jake English. One of the last two humans on a future post-apocalyptic Earth (along with Dirk Strider ), Roxy Lalonde lives by herself and is known to frequently drink. In sequel content, Roxy is depicted as a transgender man. He does not struggle with gender dysphoria in the traditional manner, and did not change his name after transitioning. This leads to situations such as Dave accidentally referring to Roxy as "mom," however he

2175-533: Is based on " The Rats in the Walls ", "The Cold" is based on " Cool Air ", and "Whispers" is based on The Whisperer in Darkness . 1994's The Lurking Fear is an adaptation of Lovecraft's story " The Lurking Fear ". It has some elements faithful to Lovecraft's story, while being hijacked by a crime caper subplot. 1995's Castle Freak is loosely inspired by Lovecraft's story " The Outsider ". This period saw

2262-544: Is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H.P. Lovecraft , Supernatural Horror in Literature Attack the story like a radiant suicide, utter the great NO to life without weakness; then you will see a magnificent cathedral, and your senses, vectors of unutterable derangement, will map out an integral delirium that will be lost in the unnameable architecture of time. Michel Houellebecq , H. P. Lovecraft: Against

2349-409: Is heavily stylized as an adventure game , features an "implied character" as the player . This "nebulous" actor changes the Homestuck world. For example, on the first page of the webcomic, the player is prompted to enter the protagonist's name. After clicking to go to the following page, the reader's sense of control dissipates as they are not actually allowed to enter a name. The relationship between

2436-612: Is inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's " The Dreams in the Witch House ". It has been confirmed by Toonami that the series Housing Complex C was meant to invoke Lovecraftian themes. Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities features two episodes adapted from Lovecraft's " Pickman's Model " and "Dreams in the Witch House." Elements of Lovecraftian horror have appeared in numerous video games and role-playing games . These themes have been recognized as becoming more common, although difficulties in portraying Lovecraftian horror in

2523-452: Is known for role-playing and acting like a cat. She embodies an interest in both furries and shipping , a combination Hussie described as "for the sake of efficiency." She is Equius Zahhak's moirail, or pacifying platonic soulmate, and she has a flush-crush on Karkat Vantas. Her astrological sign is Leo . The name Nepeta is a reference to the Genus name for the plant Catnip. The name Leijon

2610-498: Is mostly based on two Lovecraft stories, " The Thing on the Doorstep " and The Shadow Over Innsmouth . 2007's Cthulhu , directed by Dan Gildark, is loosely based on the novella The Shadow over Innsmouth (1936). The film is notable among works adapted from Lovecraft's work for having a gay protagonist. Since 2010, a number of popular films have used elements of cosmic horror, notably Alex Garland 's Annihilation (based on

2697-464: Is not one of intrusion but of realization. The world has always been implacably bleak; the horror lies in our acknowledging that fact." Lovecraft's work is also steeped in the insular feel of rural New England , and much of the genre continues to maintain this sense that "that which man was not meant to know" might be closer to the surface of ordinary life outside of the crowded cities of modern civilization. The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind

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2784-490: Is of the lowest caste. He is Nepeta Leijon's moirail, a companion who is seen as a platonic soulmate and helps pacify their more aggressive tendencies. His astrological sign is Sagittarius . Gamzee is a purple-blooded troll with strong ties to his religious faith, referred to as the "Cult of the Mirthful Messiahs," which he eventually brings about the creation and realization of through time travel. This religion

2871-593: Is one of the most popular canon same-sex relationships in the webcomic, commonly referred to as "Rosemary." Her astrological sign is Virgo . The name Kanaya is a reference to "Kanya," the name of Virgo in the Hindu zodiac . Maryam is a reference to the Arabic form of Mary . Terezi is the troll who guides Dave Strider through the earlier acts of Homestuck . She is blind (due to the same incident involving Vriska Serket that left Tavros Nitram paralyzed) and able to visualize

2958-467: Is one of the only two trolls to reach god-tier (along with Vriska Serket). Her astrological sign is Aries . In Homestuck: Beyond Canon, a version of her, along with Tavros Nitram, help guide Vriska through the beginning of "The Point" and give her a form of therapy. Tavros is a bronze-blood who deals with self-esteem issues throughout his character arc. He is shy and unassertive, and struggles with standing up for himself, especially to Vriska Serket. He

3045-495: Is remarkably similar to the word for lion in languages such as Finnish and Swedish. Kanaya is a jade-blood. She has a great interest in fashion, and is thematically strongly influenced by the Virgin Mary , taking on a motherly role towards the other trolls, particularly Karkat Vantas. Over the course of the story, she eventually becomes a so-called " rainbow drinker ", or vampire. Kanaya's romantic relationship with Rose Lalonde

3132-474: Is set in the world of the Cthulhu Mythos and has the players taking the role of a group of investigators trying to interrupt the awakening of the titular deity by a group of cultists in order to make him vulnerable and slay the eldritch god once and for all by shooting him in the face. Video games, like films, have a rich history of Lovecraftian elements and adaptations. In 1987, The Lurking Horror

3219-457: Is shown as an aristocrat with a genocidal superiority complex. He claims he has a strong desire to kill all land-dwelling trolls and had commissioned a doomsday device from Vriska Serket to that effect, but he never acts on any of this. He was broken up with by his moirail Feferi Peixes which later led to him becoming so enraged that he killed both her and Kanaya Maryam (who tried to stop him), as well as blinding and almost killing Sollux Captor. He

3306-464: Is shown to have an interest in fairy tales and fantasy stories, notably Pupa Pan, the Alternian equivalent of Peter Pan , and also has the ability to commune with animals. He uses a wheelchair after an encounter with Vriska, whose romantic intentions towards him are indecipherable, left him paralyzed, but he later gets robotic legs (although Vriska kills him directly afterwards). His astrological sign

3393-463: Is similar to that of the juggalo : he has an obsession with Faygo and believes firmly in miracles and the coming of the Dark Carnival . He is often high on Sopor Slime or possessed by other forces. He is good friends with Karkat Vantas and Tavros Nitram and asks Tavros out once, but the page cuts off before Tavros could give a definitive answer. His astrological sign is Capricorn . Eridan

3480-460: Is the fictional creator of Hussie's spin-off webcomic Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff , in-jokes of which are featured frequently in Homestuck . Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff are intentionally poorly made, featuring unsteady lines, liberal use of the spray paint tool, heavy JPEG artifacting , and the unpopular typeface Comic Sans . First shown on-screen during Homestuck ' s third act, Shaenon Garrity described Jade as "the most recalcitrant " of

3567-480: Is the main protagonist of Homestuck and the first character that is introduced. He is portrayed as a loyal "leader" of the group of kids, despite also being described as a "stereotypical mischief-making teen." Jokingly described by blogger Subdee as a " shoujo heroine", John's character is notably fond of bad films and has a seemingly irrational revulsion to the Betty Crocker brand. His weapon of choice

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3654-538: Is the most influential author on modern horror. Author Stephen King has said: "Now that time has given us some perspective on his work, I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the Twentieth Century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." By the late 20th century, Lovecraft had become something of a pop-culture icon, resulting in countless reinterpretations of and references to his work. Many of these fall outside

3741-401: Is understanding and forgives such errors. Dirk Strider is the brother to Dave Strider who shares a similar affinity for irony. At a young age, he made a digital copy of his brain that became his self-aware chat auto-responder. His older brother, another version of Dave, created a media empire surrounding Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff; the movie stars Donald Glover as "Geromy." Dirk considers

3828-482: The Betty Crocker fortune, and she is the symbolic leader of the four alpha kids. She wields a weapon similar to a pitchfork that vacillates between a pronged or spoon-like head depending on the Betty Crocker branding at the time. Her genetic son is, due to the "Paradox Clone" phenomenon, actually her grandfather and an alternate version of John Egbert, whose sister was Jake English's grandmother, Jade. Crocker

3915-573: The Cthulhu Mythos ; 1965 also saw Boris Karloff and Nick Adams in Die, Monster, Die! based on Lovecraft's short story " The Colour Out of Space "; The Shuttered Room (1967), based on an August Derleth "posthumous collaboration" with Lovecraft, and Curse of the Crimson Altar (U.S. title: The Crimson Cult ) (1968), based on " The Dreams in the Witch House ". The 1970s produced

4002-560: The Lovecraft Circle . In 1981, The Evil Dead comedy horror film franchise was created by Sam Raimi after studying H. P. Lovecraft. It consists of the films The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987), and Army of Darkness (1992). The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis , or simply The Book of the Dead , is depicted in each of the three films. John Carpenter 's "Apocalypse Trilogy" ( The Thing , Prince of Darkness and In

4089-413: The "monumental bleakness" of its setting, and leaving most questions unanswered. Rod Serling 's 1969–73 series Night Gallery adapted at least two Lovecraft stories, " Pickman's Model " and " Cool Air ". The episode "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture", concerning the fate of a man who read the Necronomicon , included a student named "Mr. Lovecraft", along with other students sharing names of authors in

4176-674: The 2014 novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer ) with its strong themes of incomprehensibility and outside influence on Earth. Robert Eggers ' 2019 movie The Lighthouse has been compared to Lovecraft's works due to the dreary atmosphere, deep sea horror imagery and the otherworldly and maddening power of the titular lighthouse that drives the protagonists to insanity. Ridley Scott 's 2012 science-fiction horror epic Prometheus and Gore Verbinski 's 2016 film A Cure for Wellness have been noted for their Lovecraftian elements. HBO's 2019 miniseries Chernobyl has been described as "the new face of cosmic horror", with radiation filling

4263-508: The Barbarian ; and August Derleth , who focused on extending the Cthulhu Mythos . Subsequent horror writers also heavily drew on Lovecraft's work. While many made direct references to elements of Lovecraft's mythos , either to draw on its associations or to acknowledge his influence, many others drew on the feel and tone of his work without specifically referring to mythos elements. Some have said that Lovecraft, along with Edgar Allan Poe,

4350-513: The Bold was heavily influenced by the works and style of Lovecraft. In addition to using pastiches of Cthulhu, the Deep Ones , and R'lyeh , writer J. Michael Straczynski also wrote the story in a distinctly Lovecraftian style. Written entirely from the perspective of a traumatized sailor, the story makes use of several of Lovecraft's trademarks, including the ultimate feeling of insignificance in

4437-495: The Empress of Alternia, who would make an attempt on her life if it weren't for her lusus' protection. She is fuchsia-blooded, the highest ranking blood caste, being that of royalty, but is shown to be much more passive than other high bloods, wanting to coddle low bloods rather than "cull" them. Her astrological sign is Pisces . Other characters featured in Homestuck include the nearly-all-powerful antagonist Lord English, and

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4524-512: The Frozen Kingdom from Bruce Brown. A webcomic , Lovecraft is Missing , debuted in 2008 and takes place in 1926, before the publication of " The Call of Cthulhu ", and weaves in elements of Lovecraft's earlier stories. Boom! Studios have also run a number of series based on Cthulhu and other characters from the Mythos, including Cthulhu Tales and Fall of Cthulhu . The creator of Hellboy , Mike Mignola , has described

4611-522: The Mouth of Madness ) feature Lovecraftian elements, which become more noticeable in each film. The blackly comedic Re-Animator (1985) was based on Lovecraft's novella Herbert West–Reanimator . Re-Animator spawned two sequel films. Released in 1986, From Beyond was loosely based on Lovecraft's short story of the same name . The 1987 film The Curse was an adaptation of Lovecraft's " The Colour Out of Space ". Its sequel, Curse II: The Bite

4698-465: The Woods , a comedy horror which deliberately subverts cosmic horror conventions and tropes.The concept of a sky-creature was part of an homage to the imagery evoked by H. P. Lovecraft , the 2010 film Altitude is a Canadian horror direct-to-video film directed by Canadian comic book writer and artist Kaare Andrews . William Eubank , director of the 2020 film Underwater , has confirmed that

4785-717: The World, Against Life The core themes and atmosphere of cosmic horror were laid out by Lovecraft himself in " Supernatural Horror in Literature ", his essay on gothic , weird , and horror fiction . A number of characteristics have been identified as being associated with Lovecraftian horror: Much of Lovecraft's influence is secondary, as he was a friend, inspiration, and correspondent to many authors who developed their own notable works. Many of these writers also worked with Lovecraft on jointly written stories. His more famous friends and collaborators include Robert Bloch , author of Psycho ; Robert E. Howard , creator of Conan

4872-528: The X-ray Eyes featuring a protagonist driven to insanity by heightened vision that allows him to see God at the heart of the universe. Though not direct adaptations, the episodes of the well-known series The Outer Limits often had Lovecraftian themes, such as human futility and insignificance and the limits of sanity and understanding. Amongst the other well-known adaptations of this era are Dark Intruder (1965) which has some passing references to

4959-518: The adventure board game Arkham Horror (1987) and Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016), and recruited new fans for the Cthulhu mythos. Magic: The Gathering expansions such as Battle for Zendikar (2015), Eldritch Moon (2016), and Shadows over Innistrad (2016) contain Lovecraftian components. The tabletop co-op game Cthulhu: Death May Die is also based on Lovecraft's works as it

5046-503: The best of Lovecraft's works are "uniquely terrible in all of American literature, and survive with all their power intact." The hallmark of Lovecraft's work is cosmicism , the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale, and uncompromising negativity. Author China Miéville notes that "Lovecraft's horror

5133-481: The books as being influenced primarily by the works of Lovecraft, in addition to those of Robert E. Howard and the legend of Dracula . This was adapted into the 2004 film Hellboy . His Elseworlds mini-series The Doom That Came to Gotham reimagines Batman in a confrontation with Lovecraftian monsters. The manga artist Junji Ito is heavily influenced by Lovecraft. Gou Tanabe has adapted some of Lovecraft's tales into manga. Issue #32 of The Brave and

5220-463: The creatures of his film are tied to the Cthulhu Mythos . Masking Threshold (2021) uses Lovecraftian story elements. Director and writer Johannes Grenzfurthner confirms the influence in interviews. Churuli (2021) an Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery follows two undercover police officers in search of a fugitive in a mysterious forest, encountering bizarre and otherworldly phenomena. The 2022 horror film Venus

5307-542: The face of the supernatural. From the 1950s onwards, in the era following Lovecraft's death, Lovecraftian horror truly became a subgenre, not only fueling direct cinematic adaptations of Poe and Lovecraft, but providing the foundation upon which many of the horror films of the 1950s and 1960s were constructed. One notable filmmaker to dip into the Lovecraftian well was 1960s B-filmmaker Roger Corman , with his The Haunted Palace (1963) being very loosely based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward , and his X: The Man with

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5394-438: The feel of a film that might have been made in the 1920s, at the time that Lovecraft's story was written. 2001's Dagon is a Spanish-made horror film directed by Stuart Gordon . Though titled after Lovecraft's story " Dagon ", the film is actually an effective adaptation of his story The Shadow over Innsmouth . Cthulhu is a 2000 Australian low budget horror film directed, produced, and written by Damian Heffernan. It

5481-490: The fifth "act" of Homestuck , Hussie introduced an alien species called "trolls", based on Internet trolls , who live on the planet of Alternia in another universe. While the first few acts of Homestuck focused on a more realistic theme of what it is like for a group of kids to be friends on the Internet, the trolls took on more explicit representations of facets of Internet culture . Hussie stated that each troll represents

5568-497: The film series to switch between "surrealist slapstick and inexplicable boxoffice dynamite, to veiled, near-subliminal protest pieces" and frequently pranked audiences in manners such as selling films that did not exist. Dirk Strider is also gay, and depicted as having a romantic interest in Jake English, similarly to Jane Crocker. He later helps Dave Strider with coming out and understanding his own sexual orientation. Similar to Jade Harley , Jake English lives alone on an island. He

5655-464: The four kids. Jade Harley lives on a remote island together with her dog, Becquerel, who is the First Guardian of Earth (later merging with him). As she can see the future through her dreams, Jade was the one who encouraged the other three kids to play the fictional video game Sburb, and therefore set the plot in motion. She often uses a hunting rifle in battle. Jane Crocker is the heiress to

5742-768: The game. Death is presented as a " leveling up step" for the characters in Homestuck , it being the only way for characters to gain God Tier powers. According to Autostraddle , many characters reach a greater importance after their death, as they can contribute to the story as ghosts or helper sprites. Some readers of the webcomic see this implementation of death as a subversion of the " bury your gays " trope, as homosexual characters frequently get killed off in American media. Homestuck Sources Lovecraftian horror American author H. P. Lovecraft refined this style of storytelling into his own mythos that involved

5829-401: The group's movement during the story. She tends to speak and write in a formal, overwrought manner, as if to demonstrate her knowledge. Aside from her interest in the occult , the character also enjoys knitting and uses her knitting needles as her go-to weapons. Rose forms a relationship with, and marries in Act 7, the troll Kanaya Maryam during the events of Homestuck . Dave Strider is

5916-464: The incorporation of the Mythos into new stories. Alan Moore has touched on Lovecraftian themes, in particular in his The Courtyard and Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths (and Antony Johnston 's spin-off Yuggoth Creatures ), but also in his Black Dossier where the story "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss?" mixed Lovecraftian horror with Bertie Wooster . Neonomicon and Providence posit

6003-434: The last ten years of Lovecraft's life as "the great texts". Lovecraft's penchant for dreamscapes and for the biologically macabre has also profoundly influenced visual artists such as Jean "Moebius" Giraud and H. R. Giger . Giger's book of paintings which led directly to many of the designs for the film Alien was named Necronomicon , the name of a fictional book in several of Lovecraft's mythos stories. Dan O'Bannon ,

6090-469: The letter 'B' with the number '8' and uses emoticons with eight eyes. Troll culture features a complex system of romance, featuring four " quadrants ", that was specifically designed to encourage shipping among Homestuck fans. Homestuck trolls are by default bisexual ; this normalization has been described by a fan as "incredible for all the bi and gay kids out there... seeing loads of couples that don't think twice about how they're dating somebody of

6177-588: The original writer of the Alien screenplay, has also mentioned Lovecraft as a major influence on the film. With Ronald Shusett , he would later write Dead & Buried and Hemoglobin , both of which were admitted pastiches of Lovecraft. Lovecraft has cast a long shadow across the comic world. This has included not only adaptations of his stories, such as H.P. Lovecraft's Worlds , H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness , Graphic Classics : H. P. Lovecraft , and MAX 's Haunt of Horror , but also

6264-482: The player and the reader of the story fluctuates from page to page, and the player character may switch from avatar to avatar. In this way, the reader experiences Homestuck ' s narrative through the experiences of various characters. In an interview with The Daily Dot , Homestuck guest artist Shelby Cragg praised Hussie's webcomic for its 50:50 gender ratio and large number of well-written female characters. Creatrix Tiara of Autostraddle noted that Hussie

6351-597: The role of an incomprehensible, untamable, indifferent terror. The films of Panos Cosmatos , Beyond the Black Rainbow and Mandy take cosmic horror themes and blend them with psychedelic and new age elements, while the work of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead in Resolution , Spring and The Endless has also been described as "Lovecraftian." Other films directly incorporating or adapting

6438-518: The same gender as themselves." With few exceptions, all trolls fall on the hemospectrum, a caste system dictated by blood color and its corresponding attributes, including lifespan, powers, personality, and rarity. Where burgundy-blooded trolls are common and fall at the bottom of the social hierarchy, fuchsia blood is exceptionally rare, and its carriers sit at the top of the hierarchy. Each troll also has an astrological sign that carries their blood color and reflects their personality. The names of

6525-457: The sphere of Lovecraftian horror, but represent Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture . Lovecraft's work, mostly published in pulp magazines , never had the same sort of influence on literature as his high-modernist literary contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald . However, his impact is still broadly and deeply felt in some of the most celebrated authors of contemporary fiction. The fantasias of Jorge Luis Borges display

6612-420: The story simultaneously, both dead and alive. In an interview with Big Shiny Robot , Hussie said the following on this topic: [ Homestuck ] seems to combine all the meaningless deaths of a trial-and-error game journey with the way death is treated dramatically in other media, where unlike [the] oblivious Mario , the characters are aware and afraid of the many deaths they must experience before finally winning

6699-488: The story. The first few acts of Homestuck center around four 13-year-old children. Early pages of Homestuck were experiments in "fan-sourced storytelling", where Hussie allowed readers of Homestuck to name its characters and make story suggestions. The main characters of Homestuck were all named by fans. The four main characters are presented as Internet friends who have technically never met one another but interact through an online chat application. John Egbert

6786-491: The sub-arc introducing the characters. Told as a powerful psychic with an ability to speak with the dead, Aradia is responsible for recovering the code for Sgrub, the troll version of Sburb, from some ruins. She is a burgundy-blood: the lowest ranking blood color on the hemospectrum with the shortest lifespan of all trolls, but also the most likely to have psychic powers. One night, before entering Sgrub, an incident occurs involving Vriska Serket, Terezi Pyrope, Tavros Nitram and

6873-485: The title Vantas . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vantas&oldid=1173908351 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages List of Homestuck characters#Karkat Vantas Homestuck

6960-433: The twelve trolls were also suggested by Homestuck readers, but they were the last instance of user input, as Homestuck ' s readership had expanded significantly at this point. In an interview with ComicsAlliance , Hussie remembered how "the moment it went crazy was really unmistakable ... it was when I brought the trolls into the picture", saying that Homestuck became a "contagious phenomenon" about halfway through

7047-490: The webcomic, Hussie introduced Davepetasprite^2 , a fusion of the characters Davesprite (an apparitional alternate timeline version of Dave Strider) and Nepeta Leijon. The character is notable for having a short-lived crisis regarding their gender identity , due to the differing genders of the sprite's two constituent characters. Eventually, most of the fandom defined the character as non-binary . According to Lilian Min of The Atlantic , Homestuck ' s greatest strength

7134-540: The work of Lovecraft include the 2011 film The Whisperer in Darkness based on Lovecraft's short story of the same name , the 2017 Finnish short film Sound from the Deep incorporating elements from At the Mountains of Madness in a modern-day setting, and Richard Stanley 's Colour Out of Space based on Lovecraft's short story " The Colour Out of Space ". Of note also is Drew Goddard 's 2012 film The Cabin in

7221-521: The world through her sense of smell and taste. She is teal-blooded, portrayed as an avid role-player and has a strong sense of justice. Her astrological sign is Libra . The name Terezi is a reference to the Albanian word Terezi , meaning "Justice." Terezi was the first of three Homestuck characters to be introduced in Namco Bandai 's dating simulator Namco High , of which Andrew Hussie

7308-453: Was considered among the "most hardcore" eyepatch -wearing fictional characters by The Mary Sue . In the alpha timeline, she is one of two trolls (along with Aradia Megido) to reach god-tier. Her astrological sign is Scorpio . Equius Zahhak Equius is an indigo-blooded robotics expert with an unnatural amount of strength. Despite his thorough belief in the hemospectrum, he has a borderline fetishistic adoration for Aradia Megido, who

7395-414: Was highly successful with creating a diverse LGBT cast, by writing the characters in a "realistic, non-fetishistic manner." A large number of LGBT readers have claimed to have been strongly affected by the representation of diverse sexualities and gender identities in the webcomic. Characters frequently die within the plot of Homestuck , which Andrew Hussie described as a necessity of a story with such

7482-412: Was loosely inspired by " The Curse of Yig ", originally a collaboration between Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop . The 1991 HBO film Cast a Deadly Spell starred Fred Ward as Harry Phillip Lovecraft, a noir detective investigating the theft of the Necronomicon in an alternate universe 1948 Los Angeles where magic was commonplace. The sequel Witch Hunt had Dennis Hopper as H. Phillip Lovecraft in

7569-434: Was the creative director. Vriska is cerulean-blooded and takes the role of an antihero in Homestuck . Being raised by a giant spider, Vriska uses a spider-themed typing quirk and aspires to be a pirate . Her weapon is a set of eight legendary eight-sided dice , which, depending on what they roll, can cause either devastating or worthless attacks. Her character is described as "ruthless, manipulative [and] powerful", and

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