Lovecraft was a racist and The Shadow Over Innsmouth is about fear of miscegenation. But if your contemporary take on the Deep Ones is to make them rapists then you're not actually helping fix the racism,
#TheCalloutOfCthulhu
@ghost_bird (I'm sure you know this already but like
most of the horror in Lovecraft's view was the idea of *consensual* relationships between people of different races/species/nations/whatever. making those relationships nonconsensual is a different kind of horror, but it rather misses the point)
(Yes I know the tag's a joke but this one really annoys me. And it's everywhere.)