I joked about reclaiming The Shadow Over Innsmouth as a trans narrative, but there actually is something interesting in the way its anxiety over bodies maps to gender as well as race.
@ghost_bird I think someone already wrote that? @DialMforMara might know of it?
@Canageek @DialMforMara Interesting. Plenty of revisionist takes that address Lovecraft’s racism (“Winter Tide” is the most relevant here) but not so much on his phobias around women and sex.
@DialMforMara @ghost_bird I love the story behind that one. After a speech at Necronomicon which many took to be racist (I think it was, but it was convoluted enough to be hard to tell WHAT it was about), the owner of Golden Goblin games got drunk at an after party, and was talking about how someone should put out a collection of stories where the people Lovecraft was racist against saved the day, then went "wait, I OWN a publishing company! I can do that"
@Canageek @ghost_bird I don't think Winter Tide takes all the cosmic horror out of it. It does, though, reframe it into a child (Aphra, though she's an adult by human standards) struggling to understand the logic by which grownups operate.
Side note: I do want to see more "childhood cosmic horror" where the Cthulhu Apocalypse is "mom's gonna kill me for this"
@ghost_bird @DialMforMara Might have been an idea I've seen. I prefer takes that keep the core ideas of Cosmic Horror (ie we are small an insignificant and that is terrifying) but address or work around the racism. (Golden Goblin has put out a short story collection where all the protagonists are ethnic minorities, for example)