Bholes & Dholes

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Bholes & Dholes

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@skeletorment 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, so it's not 'B-holes and D-holes' as I originally thought!

@SandyofCthulhu 2 жыл бұрын

You are a naughty man.

@johnrechtoris9796 2 жыл бұрын

Those also menace the world, figuratively speaking.

@KwadDamyj 2 жыл бұрын

Most reviled among these is Bob Dhole---not only is he a horror from outside human comprehension, but he's also something worse: *a politician!* :P

@stavivanackerson6563 2 жыл бұрын

Bob Dole is a saint compared to Joe Biden!!!!...

@markhill3858 2 жыл бұрын

Im not a yank, but I understand theres only one chromosomal difference between Bob Dhole and a human being

@Cameroo Жыл бұрын

"BOB DHOLE DOESN'T NEED THIS!"

@adambriton5394 19 күн бұрын

Girlish scream

@juddgoswick2024 2 жыл бұрын

This might be a case of making a mountain (of madness?) out of a Bhole hill....

@IloveOtherPplsMsry 2 жыл бұрын

Would not be surprised if these partly inspired Frank Herbert for the sandworms in Dune

@Chaingun 2 жыл бұрын

I think their intelligence is the same as an ant, their brain is tiny but they are born with instinct knowledge and it drives them.

@SandyofCthulhu 2 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@paireon3419 2 жыл бұрын

When I read this theory of yours in your Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos I was amazed by how awesome and sound it was (by the standards of a Lovecraftian universe of course; would be unspeakably horrible if it happened here).

@georgekostaras 2 жыл бұрын

Sandy you have top tier content

@vaarkobke3102 2 жыл бұрын

Also I'm so happy that I live in the Netherlands where a normal wasp is about the most venomous animals you can encounter. Never have to worry about some murder spider sleeping in my bed or some psychopath snake hiding in my toilet.

@andilucas6926 Жыл бұрын

Long's story "The Hounds of Tindalos" refers to DOELS, which I believe to be a reference to Arthur Machen's "The White People" rather than to Lovecraftian DHOLES / BHOLES. Interestingly in his novel "The Ceremonies" (which builds on Machen's story), T.E.D. Klein later connected the DOELS to the life cycle of planet-destroying cosmic worm monsters...

@Eden_Arcane 2 жыл бұрын

I love your speculative explanation here! As you were speaking I somewhat considered that the planetary form might be the larvae, sort of consuming the planet like how a young chicken takes the nutrients from its egg to grow

@Cameroo Жыл бұрын

Ah, August Derleth. The king of Lovecraft "collaborations"

@JanusHoW Жыл бұрын

The dholes and bholes, to me, seem like prototypes for what would become the gargantuan sand worms of Dune, except for the added layer of horror of never actually seeing them. Edit: But the horror of the dholes/bholes' home is reduced slightly if one encounters the "Running Thing". The Running Thing, created by Briam Lumley, is a huge fly-like creature with dog-level intelligence that is not only the dholes/bholes' bane due to its glowing nature and its taste for their flesh, but is friendly towards humans it encounters, and especially enjoys the sound of singing, which it reacts to by purring like a cat and becoming your friend if it likes your singing enough!

@anotherzingbo 2 жыл бұрын

Nice reference to The Tick. 😁

@SandyofCthulhu 2 жыл бұрын

He is my second favorite superhero of all time. After Zebraman.

@Lagi42800 6 ай бұрын

There is a Zebraman ?! Im interested

@linuslarsson8094 2 жыл бұрын

Re: intelligence of a T-Rex: I think the goto ballpark figure of intelligence is the brains porportional size to the rest of the body, rather than its absolute size.

@SandyofCthulhu 2 жыл бұрын

Size matters though.

@AdamPreset 2 жыл бұрын

This video bholed me over.

@markhill3858 2 жыл бұрын

Dear HP I fixed it for you - Sandy :) I dont mean to tease, youre doing Cthulhus Work son :)

@SandyofCthulhu 2 жыл бұрын

Lovecraft had different motivations in his work than I do.

@markhill3858 2 жыл бұрын

@@SandyofCthulhu hey Im not whingin :) I understand he hoped others would continue his work, and we both know theres nobody more qualified to add to it :) and whatever your motivations, theres no doubt youve helped half a million GMs in any system one could name

@vaarkobke3102 2 жыл бұрын

Will you protect humanity from the graboid apocalypse?

@SandyofCthulhu 2 жыл бұрын

Now that Fred Ward has passed away, we are defenseless.

@vaarkobke3102 2 жыл бұрын

@@SandyofCthulhu Is the Rec Room guy still alive though?

@gmradio2436 2 жыл бұрын

Burt Gummer had his last adventure. All hope is not lost. A new generation shall rise.

@wbbartlett Жыл бұрын

If the dholes did cause the earthquake in Long's story then doesn't that mean they already are on Earth? We're doomed!

@general0mega 2 жыл бұрын

Of my first set of mythos reads outside Lovecraft, Hounds of Tindalos was what stuck with me the most. Scientifically the protagonist is a little silly but the concept and the context Long builds are enjoyable. Somehow I didn't remember the Dhole reference in it, but I just had a thought (forgive me if I'm way off since I won't have time to re-read Hounds until the evening): the defense against the Hounds was all about protection against their intrusion from "angled" spacetime. But what if the Dholes' means of transportation is indeed standard spacetime manipulation: eh, why not "wormholes," and a wormhole connecting pieces of universe where the laws of physics are a little different should be viable. Also, the collapse of a singularity releases energy significant enough, as a burst of Hawking radiation, to cause measurable seismic activity.

@SandyofCthulhu 2 жыл бұрын

I think Long spells it Doel.

@Skullkan6 2 жыл бұрын

Campbell has a ton of stuff like that people forget. The majority of depictions of Gla'Acki are incorrect as it's living metal, not a slug, and everyone forgets Gla'Acki has a massive city under that lake.

@general0mega 2 жыл бұрын

@@SandyofCthulhu Thanks, this makes a lot more sense now. I gave it the re-read it deserves. Chalmers mentions the "Doel" entities twice, in chapters 3 and 5. Ch.3 is where he postulates that the Doels can can assist the Hounds, along with Satyrs. The last paragraph of Ch.5 is most interesting, as a written excerpt from before the time experiment, that "at night I have talked with the Doels. And in my dreams I have seen their maker." The Doel spelling also appears in Whisperer in Darkness in Chapter 7 (going by an online text since my hard copy's run off), in the same breath as the Tao and the Hounds, and shortly thereafter follow Yig and critically Azathoth. When I put that paragraph next to the end of Hounds I wonder whether the ultimate source of the Doels and the Hounds could be Azathoth, but then again isn't everything. For some reason I've always felt like the Doels, no H, were more akin to the ancient concept of "demons" or "daimons" than the sandworms of Dune, but I could get onboard with the big guys actually being intelligent enough for something resembling conversation, if we'd like to consider a Doel the projected consciousness of a Dhole, capable of interacting with humans, like what Yellow is the Hastur, Nyarlathotep to Azathoth, albeit on far less grand a scale.

@toddellner5283 2 жыл бұрын

I read The Dream Quest at about the same age I read The Jungle Book. The two different sorts of dhole caused six year old me a lot of confusion

@tabletopgamingwithwolfphototec 2 жыл бұрын

Love the theory.

@bigsarge2085 Жыл бұрын

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@karansingh1154 2 жыл бұрын

So when are we talking about Ahole.

@Trencher1375 2 жыл бұрын

Thats a good theory.

@brimstonesulfur5013 Жыл бұрын

It was changed because Bhole sounds too much like Bowl and Bowls aren’t scary

@dertodesknopf9658 2 жыл бұрын

This is probably the longest miniatures add that I have seen so fare.

@samiamrg7 27 күн бұрын

Tge juxtaposition of “Dholes,” which are actual canids, in a story called “Hounds of Tindalos” almost makes it sound like it is referring to actual Dholes, and the animals are actually just inherently magical and intelligent like the way foxes are in some folklores.

@Djturd64 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Sandy! Have you played Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth? you got me on a Lovecraft hype and would love to know your thoughts

@SandyofCthulhu 2 жыл бұрын

I have not yet played it.

@Djturd64 2 жыл бұрын

@@SandyofCthulhu Its old and at times a bit goofy but I think you would really like it :)

@gmradio2436 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought the planet Yiddith being destroyed was more being render unable to support the native civilization. I guess the end result is more or less the same. On a related note. Do you think these things are used in M.A.D. cosmic warfare?

@SandyofCthulhu 2 жыл бұрын

Well in the story they say that the bholes will destroy the world, but don't specify how. I assume millions of thousand-foot worms burrowing thorugh your world will eventually use up all usable food though. I really really hope that M.A.D. as an idea goes away in the future.

@gmradio2436 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your reply.