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TripleBobRoss t1_j493isi wrote

Reply to At the Mountains of Madness by Departedart

My best friend is really into playing cards. I was thinking about trying to get him a deck of cards as a gift, with some kind of really cool art that you wouldn't normally see on cards. The thing is, I want to have like hundreds of dicks, kind of hidden in plain sight in the art. I would hope that he wouldn't notice, then one day he would notice all the dicks. But I have no art skills whatsoever, and wouldn't know how to arrange something like this.

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michajlo t1_j48tlla wrote

Reply to Night Visitor (OC) by LeeroyM

That's what you get for not covering yourself with a blanket or anything else. Everyone knows a bed sheet/blanket makes you immune to such visitors and their shenanigans.

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gw2master t1_j48ndj1 wrote

Reply to comment by Squidzbusterson in At the Mountains of Madness by Departedart

> Lovecraft hates penguins

The funny thing is, so did Herman Melville:

> Let us first glance low down to the lowermost shelf of all, which is the widest, too, and but a little space from high-water mark. What outlandish beings are these? Erect as men, but hardly as symmetrical, they stand all round the rock like sculptured caryatides, supporting the next range of eaves above. Their bodies are grotesquely misshapen, their bills short, their feet seemingly legless; while the members at their sides are neither fin, wing, nor arm. And truly neither fish, flesh, nor fowl is the penguin; as an edible, pertaining neither to Carnival nor Lent; without exception the most ambiguous and least lovely creature yet discovered by man. Though dabbling in all three elements, and indeed possessing some rudimental claims to all, the penguin is at home in none. On land it stumps; afloat it sculls; in the air it flops. As if ashamed of her failure, Nature keeps this ungainly child hidden away at the ends of the earth, in the Straits of Magellan, and on the abased sea-story of Rodondo.

from his The Encantadas (bunch of short stories/sketches about the Galapagos: pretty easy reading for Melville... also, easily found online for free as it's public domain).

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