#Howard lived 700 kilometres south of Quebec. Him acting them like they’re foreign and exotic is hilarious | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ava-of-shenanigans · 1 year

Text

I was re-reading The Colour out of Space again recently, and Lovecraft’s racism/classism/xenophobia shows up very little in that story, which is nice, but there is this one line that made me laugh a lot, actually:

Then the stronger-minded folk all left the region, and only the foreigners tried to live in the crumbling old homesteads. They could not stay, though; and one sometimes wonders what insight beyond ours their wild, weird stores of whispered magic have given them.

Because he’s talking about French-Canadians here.

WHAT DARK SECRETS COULD BE KNOWN TO THE QUEBECOIS??!

Also the thing he’s exoticizing them for is… having folklore and folktales. And, like, every culture does that. English people have folklore and folktales. New England people must have folklore and folktales, right? Or did Howard the Lovescraft somehow manage to grow up in a place with the cultural background of a raw potato?

#ava has thoughts #Tw caps #Context for why I find this so amusing: I’m Canadian #I’m not French Canadian but it’s still very funny to see one of my country’s largest cultural groups get treated this way #Howard lived 700 kilometres south of Quebec. Him acting them like they’re foreign and exotic is hilarious #My dude French Canadian central is like. Right above you.#lovecraft #the colour out of space

9 notes · View notes