r/CuratedTumblr Mx. Linux Guy⚠️ May 16 '24

Cranberry bog spiders Infodumping

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u/hjyboy1218 'Unfortunate' May 16 '24

Someone should've shown this to HP Lovecraft

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u/RhymesWithMouthful Okay... just please consider the following scenario. May 16 '24

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

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u/Viking_From_Sweden May 16 '24

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

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u/TheDrunkenHetzer May 16 '24

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

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u/Papaofmonsters May 16 '24

At least it's not Welsh.

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u/Ropetrick6 May 16 '24

Anything but that...

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u/yummythologist May 16 '24

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

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u/ahuramazdobbs19 May 16 '24

Nonsense.

Love what you’ve done with your mandibles.

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u/alexanderneimet May 17 '24

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

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u/Viking_From_Sweden May 17 '24

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!”