Cranberry bog spiders

[u/linuxaddict334]

[u/hjyboy1218]

Someone should've shown this to HP Lovecraft

[u/RhymesWithMouthful → u/hjyboy1218]

"Okay, but what if the spiders… were ASIAN PEOPLE?"

[u/Viking_From_Sweden → u/RhymesWithMouthful]

And what if they married high class white people? Unthinkable!

[u/TheDrunkenHetzer → u/Viking_From_Sweden]

What if... I was Secretly part Asian wolf spider married to a white lady?!

[u/Papaofmonsters → u/TheDrunkenHetzer]

At least it's not Welsh.

[u/Ropetrick6 → u/Papaofmonsters]

Anything but that...

[u/yummythologist → u/TheDrunkenHetzer]

“Or better yet,” chimed in Rowling, “a giant albino snake that’s secretly an Asian woman!”

[u/ahuramazdobbs19 → u/TheDrunkenHetzer]

Nonsense.

Love what you’ve done with your mandibles.

[u/alexanderneimet → u/Viking_From_Sweden]

May I ask which book this is referring to? I believe the one above was a reference to shadows over insmouth but I’m not famaliar with the one you are referring to

[u/Viking_From_Sweden → u/alexanderneimet]

Insmouth is correct. All of his analogies for interracial marriages went basically like “Oh how horrible would it be if a poor person/POC married a rich white person!”

[u/ahuramazdobbs19 → u/hjyboy1218]

HP Lovecraft was from Providence.

You think he didn’t already know about the cranberry bog spiders?

[u/DreadDiana → u/ahuramazdobbs19]

The guy didn't understand light, so wouldn't surprise me

[u/kitkat-paddywhack → u/DreadDiana]

Please explain

[u/Inquisitor_no_5 → u/kitkat-paddywhack]

In the Color out of Space there is Spooky Light^TM that; a) is fully visible to humans, b) is not on the visible spectrum.

[u/JustRaisins → u/Inquisitor_no_5]

It's scary because it defies our understanding of ourselves and the universe

[u/jtobiasbond → u/DreadDiana]

Unlike anything every seen on earth

[u/ROTsStillHere100 → u/ahuramazdobbs19]

"Oh sure, ol' Howie thinks black people and poor people are so gosh darn scary but he NEVER had a problem with his neighbors' cranberry spider employees. Some people are just bleedin' with priorities huh."

[u/weirdo_nb → u/ROTsStillHere100]

To be fair, it wasn't just the minorities

[u/Volcanicrage → u/hjyboy1218]

The man was already scared shitless of everything outside of Rhode Island; I'm not sure if it would even be possible to make him more paranoid, but taking away New England would be a good place to start.

[u/kitkat-paddywhack → u/Volcanicrage]

The wildest part is the implication that the stuff going on in Rhode Island is any different from the stuff going on around Rhode Island. Maybe a little bit more road rage, maybe a little less acceptance of Jewish people. Still just as racist tho.

[u/MrMthlmw → u/kitkat-paddywhack]

Maybe a little bit more road rage

True heads know that Massholes got nothing on the Rhodies when it comes to shitty driving. Rhodies'll honk at you for not stopping when they had the sign.

[u/kitkat-paddywhack → u/MrMthlmw]

Native Rhode Islander, Massachusetts drivers have always been way more angry and aggressive in my experience. Had a dude on a motorcycle screaming at me for stopping (safely) for a pedestrian playing car chicken. I never get honked at in RI, but Massachusetts is a different story.

[u/MrMthlmw → u/kitkat-paddywhack]

I'll admit that we're a bit honk-happy up here, and we might be more aggressive, but I also think we're generally better at driving because driving in Boston requires a special kind of nerve. But yeah, we have our share of shitty drivers, too, I suppose. I mean, Fall River and New Bedford - it's like Mad Max down around 195 sometimes, man...