100% Blind Reaction To The King in Yellow. It Ruined My Mind.

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  @HAANNNNNN · 10 months ago

  Run Avery, it's here.

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  @TheOdorE_McC · 2 years ago

  Lovecraft was a part of a circle of authors who shared their works and fictional worlds with each other (literally known as the Lovecraft Circle). That’s why so much of the Cthulhu Mythos is written by other people.

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  @NoxEditsYT9 · 11 months ago

  At the crossroads, don't turn left

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  @RikaFlat · 2 years ago

  The King in Yellow has already pissed yourself

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  @NovaSquirel · 2 years ago

  Nux tomorrow: "I am doing a 100% DEEP dive into the Lore... of Fefe and it will be glorious."

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  @belaier6487 · 2 years ago

  It's crazy how a god of shepherds got mentioned once by H.P.Lovecraft and changed forever into cthulhus' step brother.

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  @BasicallySeth · 2 years ago

  I highly recommend Tale Foundry's other video on the king in yellow, where they dissect and give their interpretation of what the king in yellow is.

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  @Vein-Om_Spai · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TMPZxtzeeg&amp;t=134">2:14</a> Hastur, The King in Yellow and Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos - are different entities.

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  @colinwhelan2099 · 2 years ago

  Just in case Nux sees this<br>I&apos;d like to offer an interpretation on Carcosa with the themes in the video:<br>Carcosa could represent the idea of being creatively lost. A place where the light you need to see loses more and more of itself to lengthening shadows and you&apos;re powerless to stop it. A place of weird things you could never understand and when you try and put your soul out there, your very voice, the truest expression of you, nothing around is even capable of understanding. So it dies

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  @sbatou87 · 2 years ago

  And then there&apos;s a game where you can marry the King in Yellow. I am not kidding.

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  @Brutalyte616 · 2 years ago (edited)

  So The Mask&apos;s excerpt from the King In Yellow play is a reference to the &apos;Masque of the Red Death&apos; by Edgar Allen Poe, wherein a stranger wearing a strange red mask attends a masquerade ball being held by a gathering of pompous nobles amidst a virulent plague called the Red Death. The host, offended by the color of the mask and how it makes them and the other nobles uncomfortable considering the events surrounding the festivities, demands that the strager remove their mask and reveal themselves. The stranger reveals that they aren&apos;t wearing a mask, much to their horror, and come the morning all the nobles are dead. The implication is that the Stranger is actually the specter of Death Itself, able to appear to the nobles as they are all already infected by the Red Death and thus doomed to a horrible painful death that no one will know about until someone visits the manor and knocks down the locked doors the nobles had used to try and shut out the outside world and the plight of their fellow man, only to find their diseased corpses. However, another interpretation is that the stranger is someone with the Red Death who managed to slip in to the masquerade ball, and their face was so horrible that everyone thought it was just a mask, and they do not realize this until they have locked themselves in with the man and mingled with him, infecting all of them and consigning themselves to a horrible fate.<br><br>The horror of the Masque of the Red Death, and by extension the short excerpt from the King In Yellow, is encountering something that wears the shape of a person, like Death or the thing that is called the King In Yellow, only to discover that it is in fact something much more horrible and inevitable, and that it may very well be something you have brought upon yourself through your own actions.<br><br>With the King In Yellow, there is an underlying theme, not of the inherent power of words and language, but the perception of madness from the person afflicted. Take a moment to ponder whether any of the characters in this story are reliable narrators, and whether or not things have played out as they, and by extension the author and Tale Foundry, has described.<br><br>In &apos;The Repairer of Reputations&apos;, the main character suffers from a delusional madness, and at the end he suffers a moment of clarity, wailing about how the crown of the King In Yellow has passed to his cousin. As we do not have the full context of the play of the King In Yellow, we are left to ponder if this moment of clarity is a realization that the curse of the King In Yellow has actually passed to someone else, or that they have reenacted something from the play and believe now the crown has passed either to their living or dead relative.<br><br>The Mask tells two stories. The excerpt tells part of the story of the play, with the aforementioned reference to the Masque of the Red Death implying that the stranger is some foreboding presence akin to Death Itself, while the short story tells of a man who has hidden away his true self to conform to the expectations of others, and he now believes he is truly living the lie, but in doing so he winds up getting everything he&apos;s ever wanted. While on the surface there&apos;s a heartwarming tale of self-sacrifice and perseverance being karmincally rewarded with true love and prosperity, even amidst tragedy, there is something that the audience must remember; the main character of The Mask has been lying since the beginning, and the excerpt from the play specifically addresses the perception of falsehoods versus reality through the masks. So, when they talk about how the love of their life miraculously survived a fatal accident after her husband killed himself in grief and left everything to the main character, we are left to ask the question: Did that actually happen? Perhaps, and maybe the tale is tragic but wholesome, but perhaps the husband didn&apos;t kill himself and it was all a conspiracy between two lovers to steal his fortune. Or, perhaps none of this happened, and the man wearing the mask has become so deluded he thinks he&apos;s gotten everything he ever wanted, when the reality of the matter could be far more bleak and grim.<br><br>In The Court of the Dragon, the main character goes to seek comfort in a familiar church after reading the play of the King In Yellow has shaken his faith, but as the pastor delivers a sermon about how nothing can harm the soul, he finds no comfort in the words, and is instead brought to revulsion by the hateful countenance of the organist, and believes the organist is out to get him and equating the organist with Death Itself. In the end, he is dragged away by the organist and finds himself in Carcosa, being comforted by the King In Yellow. Taken at face value, this is a strange case of the man being whisked away to another world by something he was initially afraid of and finding comfort in a strange alien being, but there&apos;s an issue. Why would the organist be the thing that drags him to Carcosa, and why would the man find peace in the King In Yellow that had previously shaken his faith? Well, we now tread down the matter of open interpretation of metaphor and symbolism, but let us assume that the organist represents something; something so traumatic that the man cannot find peace in his faith in God, as the organist&apos;s presence undermines that faith and makes it feel empty and disgusting, and it is only when the organist catches up to them and drags them to Carcosa that he meets the King In Yellow and finds peace. My interpretation there is that the organist represents a guilt or trauma that runs so deep that the man cannot believe it has not damaged his soul and his standing with God, and it is only through being dragged kicking and screaming to admit what has happened that he finds Carcosa and the King In Yellow, and through him finds peace.<br><br>The last story, The Yellow Sign, talks about how the main character refuses to read the King In Yellow for fear of what it could do to him, and he is haunted by the specter of a corpse-like man that, as the man&apos;s wife introduces him to the Yellow Sign and they learn of the King In Yellow, burst into their lives after years of tormenting the man and ruining his creative spirit, condemning the man to an asylum as his wife is taken away from him, and the authorities are left discussing how the corpse had been dead for years.<br><br>If you&apos;ve read this far, you might have already pieced together what I&apos;m about to say, but here&apos;s my interpretation.<br><br>The main character across all these stories is actually the same person, and we are hearing a distorted retelling of the events of their life, either as told by them or reimagined by various storytellers. The man in question is a deranged murderer that has lost his wife after his crimes were discovered and he&apos;s been dragged away to an insane asylum. The organist and the corpse-like man is the specter of the man he murdered, haunting him, and throughout each story he has told lies to either paint himself as a tragic victim or hide from his own guilt. What the original story actually was is impossible to say, but Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, and the King In Yellow, as in both the play and the entity itself, are all a metaphor for this unnamed madman trying to contend with his perception of God, religion, and the state of his own soul. My reading is that in the end, whatever this man did, in the end he managed to find his faith in God and found peace with himself, believing he was forgiven for the things he had done, even if it&apos;s all a delusion and he&apos;s still locked in asylum somewhere instead of finding himself beside his God in the Kingdom of Heaven; the King In Yellow in Carcosa<br><br>In that vein, the King In Yellow is a metaphor for the peculiar state of madness, and the author likens religion in all its forms to be a peculiar form of madness that can drive people insane or compel them to commit terrible acts, but can also grant them peace of mind and fulfillment, and ultimately the supposed delusion of religion may indeed be true if there is indeed a King In Yellow out there somewhere, but all the same it will often seem as nothing more than fanciful literature or the deranged ramblings of fanatical madmen to those that do not already believe in it.<br><br>Of course, that&apos;s just my take on it as someone who&apos;s just read the cliff notes of the King In Yellow, so I&apos;m probably putting way too much stock in this.

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  @Calaban-v71 · 2 years ago

  The King in Yellow theme, and Carcosa, is about... Unravelling (There is that power in words)<br><br>The play unravels you. Your grip on self, your grip on relationships, your grip on belief. The whole world, as the play spreads.<br><br>Carcosa is where the unravelled husks go, to fade into oblivion. In short its the dark fall into Dementia. And how it ruins lives. The horror is how that dementia is a force applied, a tool, of a dark, living god. <br><br>The movie Annihilation, I believe, taps strongly into the King in Yellow. Same flavor of eldritch horror.

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