Just pinning this here to say thank you all for so many lovely comments. UPDATE: Because several people have asked, I'm not considering selling or licensing these designs, and I'm also not currently thinking of making more, at least not for a while.
I know you probably don't do commission or comment ideas, but would you do you're idea of a cozy/kind eldritch beings with the great ones from bloodborne, also awesome video👌
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, but I really love the idea! How would you feel about other people using the Gezelligeon in their own art?
I recently heard someone say that “lovecraftian horror isn’t the fear of tentacled monsters, but of the unknown.” I think that if you want to take pantheon to the next level and create true cosmic comfort, you really should lean into the idea of a creature that’s unknowable and powerful but unambiguously benevolent.
I like think of Lovecraftian horror as the combination of the unknown, as you said. But also the dread that comes with knowing something that should have been left forgotten. Your entire view of the world shattered. For an example: Imagine if you were religious, but turns out it was the incorrect one when things from a different religion reveal themselves to be real. That’s lovecraftian horror to me. The unknown and things that shouldn’t have been known.
Not an idea original to me, but I'd say a large part of Lovecraft's work is not fear of the unknown, but the realization that what Lovecraft always feared is true. For example, in the Call of Chuthulhu, Lovecraft, an atheist, through the words of the narrator, discovers that there is a god, and that god hates him. The Shadow Over Innsmouth is Lovecraft's fear that he is not the pure bred Anglo-Saxon he'd been lead to believe. The story about the refrigerated man, I forget the name, is Lovecraft's fear of technological progress, that it is somehow sinister.
@jurtheorc8117 Ik wou dat net zeggen! @sergejkaschuba8933 Though I didn't know German had it too! It's one of the few word you can apply to basically any situation! Does it mean and connotate the same, or is it similar in the way that craic (Irish, pronounced crack) is?
in danish we also have a direct translation, "hygge". and for the danish name for the pantheon i suggest, "hyggelighederne" basically translates to: the things that are "hygge". which is half a joke as that is an unusual way of conjugating "hygge" and is instead used on "uhygge" whicht means: scary. so "hyggelighederne" reads both as: the things that are "hygge", and: not the things that are scary. "uhygge" and "uhyre", which means monster, sound alike and are associated, so the name also implies something "not a monster".
@@jurtheorc8117 Unfortunately, I think you're stating the obvious. The original word that the author used to name the pantheon of cozy cosmic gods was the Dutch word "gezellig". I think they just added "-eon" from "pantheon" to the word "gezellig" to make "gezelligeon", which would roughly mean "temple to [all things] gezellig" So you're just making the noun out of the adjective. It was already a Dutch word. If you don't believe me, he says at 3:20 what he named the pantheon after and why.
Love the idea of benign horrors. Sure the beast lives in the realm of deepest dark, its form flickering in and out of our reality. Even looking apon it stretches the mind to almost pain. Theyre just chillin though. Happy to help any lost critter that has lipped into their interdimentional hole, back to where they belong
Almost makes me think of Ormagöden from Brütal Legend. He was the subject of envy and hate by other primordial horrors, for he was the only creature that could bear and produce flame: and the light of this flame forced all the other monsters to see themselves what they truly were. Ormagöden himself was not described as doing anything particularly significant in the histories: he was chilling in the world. All the other creatures wanted him dead. The worst of them kidnapped and imprisoned a harmless, beautiful singing creature named Aetulia and become the other monsters' first and most terrible king. Aetulia was used as bait to lure Ormagöden into a trap, where all the monsters would try to douse his flame with mud and preferably kill him. But rather than letting his light be extinguished. Ormagöden chose to make an end to his own life-- which would grant a more bountiful future for the world. Ormagöden, the Great Fire Beast, exploded himself. His steel flesh veined the earth, making it rich with ores of all kinds. His fire shot into the heavens, where it became the sun. His blood flooded the world, drowning all the hateful creatures, to finally form the oceans. And his death cry rings on to this very day, an anthem to spirit and power, a defiance of hatred and ignorance that dances with death and life alike, seeing beauty in both. An energy that has the power to reach and connect all. For his voice... is Heavy Metal. I'd love to see more benevolent monster creatures of great power.
Reminds me of that "Top 10 molpeople" meme. I just love the idea of these dark and scary monster looking creatures living in sewers and catacombs only for them to be really chill and cool. Good food, great company, amazing parties and the best damn bookclub this side of Ter Apel. And the only people who know about this are the couple weirdos and outcasts who've found and befriended them, like homeless people who were taken in by them and live comfortably amongst them!
This is how I run basically every entity in Call of Cthulhu, they all just chillin' or doing they own things. 9/10 times horror happens because Humans are too curious, or someone tries to get power that they should not have.
You might be interested in checking out "The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast" by Lovecraft and Barlow then. Not the main point of the (very short) story, but there's a being/deity that accidentally wanders in from another dimension, is set up as an oracle by priests, and then just lives contentedly hanging out and munching on snacks. This video very much made me think of that one.
like some humans squash the bugs with utmost contempt when they come into their home, or (well, rightfully in this case) sanitize the house of the most bacteria they can muster, meanwhile others study, keep and love bugs and bacteria, and in the former case even help bugs out if the house with a cup, while in the latter, they might purposefully make the best enviroment for some to grow, be it in a lab or even just one's own kombucha.
Video: “Would you worship The Gezelligeon?” Me, already in the middle of furiously building an altar out of quilts, fallen leaves, cinnamon sticks, mittens, knitting needles, old paperbacks, pumpkin candle wax, miniature gourds and tea cozies: “…maybe.”
I always liked the idea of some eldritch beings regarding us very, very small humans with a sense of curiosity or wonder compared to the indifference or even contempt most of Lovecraftian beings have for us. An eldritch being who thinks humans are the cutest little creatures and could talk about them for aeons the way an entomologist can gush for hours about their favorite bugs. :)
It honestly reminds me a lot of Bloodborne. Spoilers I suppose, but this game is almost a decade old. In Bloodborne, the eldritch Great Ones and their Cosmic Kin are described as "sympathetic," and often answer people who call upon them. Indeed, there are uncountable carved reliefs and opulent statues depicting their glory and majesty, and even still that depict the mortal people of Yharnam looking up in awe at their salvation. Their defining motivation is parenthood, so they have seemingly taken humanity itself under their wing as surrogate children. Even when you meet them, most of them have rather benign intentions. The grub-like Rom eats arcane energy and hides the eldritch truth from humanity to keep them from going mad. The spider-like Amygdalae seemingly occupy the role of high-ranking angels carrying out the judgement and will of greater beings. Ebrietas is directly involved with the local clergy, however misguided they are. The Moon Presence only intervened with the city's lycanthropy plague after being directly asked. Mother Kos provided guidance to an entire village, and her newborn Orphan only lashes out at the player in anger at their mother being killed.
"If there can be cultists doing unspeakable horrors to seek favour from cthulhu & Co., why couldn't there be others who light a candle for the Cabin keeper, or making pumpkin soup in honour of the Soup hag?" Also my brain: I put little dirt under my pillow for the Dirt Maaaan ~ It scanned a little too well in my mins and I make no apologies
The Snug-Buggeroff sounds like a grumpy version of this, but only because it has to get out of its comfy blanket shell and be productive for a bit. That one adds a lot of coffee to their hot chocolate.
I too have been working on my own spin on a pantheon of eldritch gods for a creative project. However, many of the cultists are the antithesis of Cosmic Horror, they are "Cosmic Wonder", they are absurdists, mad but not in a dreary way.
I like that, i like that a lot! Have you ever heard of the Zeno Clash series? They don't delve into cosmic horror, but there is a lot of color, wonder and imagination despite being set in a rather violent land. There's so many wonderful, bizarre, off-putting and weird creatures and environment that may prove inspiring. Had a prequel in 2023 called Clash: Artifacts of Chaos.
To quote Brandy's Cinderella's fairy godmother, "But the world is full of zanies and fools, who don't believe in sensible rules, and won't believe what sensible people say. And because these daft and dewey eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes, Impossible things are happening every day."
i heard an old myth of, idk, a satyr, or whatevs, didn't trust man, because one was blowing on their hands to keep 'em warm and their soup to cool it and couldn't trust a creature that blows hot and cold
I love this. As someone who likes the aesthetic of spookiness but can’t stand anything actually frightening or distressing, cozy Eldritch critters are right up my alley 😅
I think an apple or pastry themed deity whose whole deal is based around baking and cider pressing would fit well into Gezelligeon. My favorite family holiday growing up was cider pressing day. We'd go up to Grandpa's house, shake down all the apples from his trees and press gallons and gallons and gallons of fresh cider. It was the most that home ever felt like home.
The Scuttling Hug is a whole vibe tbh. Soup-hag may be the creepiest one but I ain't turning down a good soup, no sir. Cabin-keeper? How nice of em. Leaf Reader is just enjoying himself and his leaves, can't be against that. Now that I got that outta my system, I'll say this, I love the concept of doing something new with that genre and making it cozy. Just makes me think of the cozy mystery book sub genre. Yeah, murder and other crimes could happen but its done in a way that sits right and let's ya have fun with the characters along the way. I also like to think these are the kind of entities that could be comforting to those already insane. I mean think about it, we already have eldritch beings that cause insanity, these could be the ones that help the humans calm down after. You'll still be nutty but now ya got soup & blankets.
A paranormal entity that cures insanity? Damn it! I imagine this is a crystal spider that loves puzzles, and what is more difficult and interesting than a madman? Imagine a thriller comedy where they try to drive the victim crazy so that, for example, she goes out of business, and this spider levels all mental debuffs + tells how to avoid them on her own. As a result, the only one who goes crazy is the villains >=3
I love when an artists has a fully colored drawing and at the last minute they're like "these are some great colors I picked, you know what would be even better is if I changed all of them"
I tend to forget that some nice wobbly lines can go a long way for creating patterns and detail. Lovely drawings, and fun characters, and I like the idea of cosy-fying horror.
I’m waiting for an analog horror where the main character eats while listening to true crime, then falls asleep. A monster appears and starts quietly munching while watching the protagonist snore curiously.
I love the concept although i think it would be fun to make some things more cosmicly comforting rather than reminders of our material symbols/means of coziness but this has inspired me to make some of my own
I actually really like these guys, kind of reminds me of what I did in my story. If I had to point something out I think this is an opportunity to cover more... vague ideas of comfort less specific to humanity, It would tap into the more cosmic horror side of things while still keeping things... cozy, but with a tad more alien. like an entity based around harvesting, maybe they dont make soup or a specific meal but they make things grow faster in general, making crops ready to harvest, making the forests thicker. but on the other hand they can cause food to spoil, make people age faster, they dont need to be malicious, but when calling upon them you just... need to be careful, its comforting to think that you can call upon such a creature to help you with no strings attached, but if you play your cards wrong there will be consequences, maybe not the worst consequences but the creature itself wont notice. Comforting, but still kind of scary. absolutely love The Cabin Keepers whole M.O and the Soup Hags design is very clever, I like it.
This fertility deity idea is actually amazing. Works for normal agricultural deities, who are often described as both responsable for a harvest rotting or being bountiful too
What you speak of makes me think of the Grievous Miracle from Blasphemous and some theories that people have of it. The Grievous Miracle is a force, rather than a sapient entity. We never see what it looks like, if anything at all. It's more of a force as natural to the world as gravity, the tides, the cycle of night and day. It blesses and curses in equal measure and it can be hard to find a distinguishing line. Both the heretical and devoted turn into monsters, from seated bishops rooted into their flying chairs and young men that have to wander with candlesticks until death, to brass bull-headed pike throwers and corpses carrying breaking wheels. Within Blasphemous, the land of Cvstodia where the game takes place, is a very strict, theocratic Martyrdom culture. The people believe that penance of various forms is warranted to all of its citizens and various orders have sprung up for different, always painful and often bizarre forms of penance. Here's the theory in question that i've read: - Some have said that the Grievous Miracle is a benevolent force that does want to help out the mortal people of Cvstodia, or anyone who prays to it. We don't know anything about the outside world to lay claim to their faiths, so i leave those out of this consideration. As said, Cvstodia is a very strict and extreme martyrdom culture. It is all asking for punishment and pain to cleanse away our sins and shortcomings. And that would be exactly what the Miracle offers. The pain that the people ask for. Who knows if it would have granted kinder, softer and warmer boons, if the people only asked for it? Within Blasphemous there is an order called the Kissers of Wounds, and they seem to be the only group of people that have a benevolent kind of power without a hideous or painful twist to them. They kiss people on their bodies and it helps them heal faster. Blasphemous 1 and 2 are fascinating games.
We have that non-translatable word in Norwegian/Scandinavian too! It's called "Hygge" here. Love your concept here, this deserves all the attention it can get.
Imagine a other worldly creature whose job is to observe us and take notes because the big wigs decided its not "human" to kill and destroy such creatures during the research as they are lives too
I like this idea cuz it fits with old mythology, which is what cosmic horror is based on. Cosmic horror is supposed to be a medium where gods are the opposite of what they are portrayed in the myths, as most gids in myths are either neutral or good, so cosmic horror dieties are mostly evil. But people forget that there are plenty of evil gods in mythology, and that it would only make sense if some good cosmic dieties exist. If they didn't, wouldn't everyone and everything be destroyed by now?
Gods in mythology can be more complex than simply neutral or good. For example, Perun and Veles of Slavic mythology. From what i know, Perun is a god of Fire and Air. A powerful top god of the pantheon, mainly called upon by the more rich and notable people. He resides more in the skies, above us. Veles is a more monstrous trickster of the ground and water, but also closer to the forest and common man, who are more likely to call upon him than Perun. Moreover, Veles tends to try and steal Perun's cattle, which leads to a fight between them. From what i understand, this is a story to speak of how rain and storms come to be. Veles always loses, and always tries again. While these descriptions do place them within "Neutral/good" with beef towards one another, it is worth noting that both of them can still be destructive if they so choose. Or even not at all: if their fights continue for a long time, the ensuing rains can lead to storm, affecting people that had nothing to do with their quarrel. (Disclaimer that my knowledge on this subject comes from enthousiasm instead of experties). The Greek Gods are especially noteworthy for being less on the line of divine perfection, and more "normal people in an exceptional position". By now, knowledge has spread quite a bit of how stories of the Greek gods could be particularly messed up. A thing with Cosmic Horror deities is that they don't have to be consciously evil or malicious as such either, but that they and their followers operate on such a grand, cosmic scale, that they may not even take notice of entire civilizations. How i view it, is that their mere presence could perhaps distort time and space as we know it. Stuff like turning trees into liquid, or making buildings and gravity fold in on themselves to become an Escher painting.
If we're talking Lovecraft, then that wasn't really the point. The point was that morality, as we know it, is a safety blanket that we created. The gods aren't evil, per se, but they're not representative of human morality. They just happen to exist and contradict the idea that humanity is on an upward trend of progress. That's part of why humanity isn't made by gods in his work. They're made by aliens with an extremely advanced civilization that just died out. Because that's, ultimately, what happens even to great civilizations.
I think another good idea for a Gezelligeon is one base on a jigsaw puzzle. To me, there's nothing more relaxing than sitting on the couch, wrapped in a nice comfy sweater with a cup of tea in hand while working on a jigsaw puzzle on a nice, October weekend.
The realm they reside in could be one gigantic puzzle or maze, maddening to those who try to rush to the destination, solution, or answer but rather safe and understandable to someone who take their time to figure out how to navigate to and from. Like a world made out of TED-ed riddles.
as someone whose current project treats Biopunk as a perfectly normal (and potentially even cozy) sci-fi setting, I fully understand the desire to take genres and tropes near-exclusively used in horror and explore what they can be outside of that. Great art btw!
I’ve been thinking of something like this myself, I like the mystery and surreal aspects of cosmic horror but I don’t like the utterly depressing aspects of it. Mainly because I try and be anti-nihilist about existence and lovecraftian stuff is almost always about how utterly irrelevant humanity is. On a related note there’s a comic called ‘Eldritch Benevolence’ which is based on the same idea you’ve discussed here, would recommend checking it out.
This actually makes me think what other gods could come from this. Like a deity that lurks in liminal spaces or vast forests that ensures the safty of individuals on walks at night, while the stars or electric lights guide them to where they need to be. That was just one that came to the top of my head.
This concept is fantastic, as someone who enjoys eldritch horrors. But i CANNOT get over how good your art style is. I aspire for something similar in my own.
Imagine tjinming you found your doom in the craws of a unknown being, only for them to offer you a hug and a shoulder to cry on. Is a beautiful transfer of the unknown. You seem like a creative and good soul.
I love this concept. If I had to make one I'd definitely make "The Dweller on the Couch." This dude just sits on a couch fashioned from an old clump of moss and tree barks. It just keeps itself wrapped in a warm blanket made knitted by itself. It spends its time watching humans play strange "games" and "video essays" on a strange glass.
"my creatires dont necessarily cause madness" Ill accept that, but also mention that it brings to mind a flavor text from an MTG card: "not every mind touched by [the entity] turned to raging psychosis. Some minds simply withdrew from the world, lost in memories of better days" In short, cozy can still be of altered mind as well.
I suggest a secondary or minor deity: The Soa-king. A being content in their watery plane of existence of eternally comfortably warm water, with floating plates of foods or books or candles. Their exposed skin is wrinkly (obviously), but their lower body is invisible, almost as if it's part of the planar bath. The air is filled with scents of lavender, or patchoulli or jasmin, and they offer bath towels to those that must leave his warm and relaxing realm once again. A blessing from this minor deity gives you a slightly more productive day if you spend the evening/morning before in a bath relaxing.
Is anyone else up for bringing this cult to life? I, for one, am absolutely ready to worship them under cozy blankets, reading by candlelight while enjoying a hearty stew. 🥰
The Scuttling Hug ended up being such a fabulous design! .^.^ I would completely hug that, especially if she brought me a hot cup of mulled cider on a bitterly cold night.
I love the idea of an uncomprihendible monster who’s just a friend. Big things that see us as we see insects: Little cutiepies who are fun to watch and give little treats :3 I want to hang out on a stormy night with these fellas and read fun books
Hey, I just wrote something that I think might be helpful to this idea of yours. "Perhaps when the nightmare ends it isn't the end of everything but the begining of the dream?" Cosy cosmic horror is just what happens when you start at the end of regular cosmic horror and continue forward.
This is such a amazing and comforting concept!! I'd honestly love a hug from the Scuttling Hug, she seems so warm. Really love your linework, it looks so clean
I absolutely love what youre doing with the designs of you rcozy eldritch creatures, the palletes are great and the mix of wintery, autumnal themes with nastiness and obscurity of eldritch gods hits my artistic spot just right. Great content! May the algorithm be on your side.
I love your process of inking the lines on paper and coloring digitally. I've always struggled with digital linework, so I will be trying this method :)
I've had a "lie on the floor overwhelmed and crying into my own hair" kind of evening and the vibe of your eldritch critters just scooped me up and made me feel a bit more okay even with my dark thoughts. Thank you and keep drawing your incredible little guys
Hearing what these creatures are and watching them being created is a hit of dopamine and inspiration I desperately needed. Thank you for sharing your art with us ❤
My favourite is the scuttling hug, or as I like to call her, the Snuggle Bug! Her design is so cool and I would totally worship her - if I don’t already! I love tea and blankets and cozy rainy days
This is absolutely perfect! I’ve always loved you creating a series that have a shared narrative. Whether it’s recreating the Justice League, swapping Spider-Man and Green Goblin, your Doctor Who series, the DnD-but-animals range, the Superbuddies MoM and little-squidgy-guys-collecting-burly-protectors, you are at your very best when developing a shared universe. Of course you ended up designing ttrpgs lol
I dont have anywhere else to say this, i think the biggest problem with Call of Cthullu and Lovecraftian horror in general is that the fear of the unknown is always confirmed. Especially in Call of Cthullu but even in fiction, you the reader always know the weird, the strange etc is evil. Wich , especially in Call of Cthullu incentivizes carefullness, and disincentivizes exploration, wich is sad because theres so much interesting stuff to explore. I reallised this while playing the Horror on the Orient Express campaign, specifically, the Dreamlands express bits, where you have to solve a murder mystery on a train in dreams, and it was SO good, like we got to talk to random ass weird creatures, or see strange cities and meet the trains conductor who litterally just wanted to run a train. And it still makes me sad we never really got a chance to get out and see the various stops the train made because we were too afraid. And dont ge me wrong, there was still fear of the unknown, everyone of the other passangers could kill us, but they didn t and it was nice. For once our fear of the unknown was somewhat missplaced. And I wish we d see more of that in Lovecraftian stories, not necceserily good entities, but entities minding their own buisness wich we can lear about or no. Abd good entities have a role in that! Wich this project really helps.
Y'know how in sheer scope we are but insects to these grandiose beings? I imagine these beings are like when you move a worm drying on the sidewalk to soil, or when you crunch up a chip to feed to ants.
The soup lady looks so much like the design I have in mind for my dwarves of my fantasy world, its almost uncanny. Guess it's time to change the design so they look less eldritch.
I absolutely love your art, oh my goodness! And I love the coziness and more positive look on cosmic horror entities. Your characters are very comforting as well! :D
"We are to them what insects are to us!" sounds a lot less scary when I avoid stepping on bugs in the street and generally try to let the ones I find at work outside, where they'll be safer. Generally, I find that the cosmos is what we make of it. Why wouldn't unfathomably ancient and strange beings also decide the same?
These guys definitely love the Ritual of Reading, a tome-less practice that involves reading to the gods, as they love a good story. But their favorites are the ones you don't read and make up as you go
I think that out own smallness and a weirdness/comfort dichotomy is still compatible. Heck, synergistic even. Even in a weird, absurd world, where we are small as ants and can be snuffed out in an instant, we are still here, and yet still living, still finding beauty. Still finding comfort. Even in the great, dark forest, stretching for miles and alive with a million flickering kinds of darkness, the little flame in our cabin still burns - and we find coziness. Don't try to de-tooth your horrors, but rather try to make them scary but still beautiful. There can be no sense of safety if there's nothing to be safe from. Make them creatures of hope. Still, though, this is a really cool take, and also can I just say how much I love this new-generation trope of relating with the weird and wild?
For the Scuttling Hug: My ritual would be wrapping myself up in my fluffiest and nicest blankets, have a drink (warm preferred) and a snack by me, while getting very cozy. I would have my tablet nearby, or some sketchbook and markers to sketch...while having everything prepared and ready, i would whisper a small "thank you", hug a stuffy maybe or just my blanket hull surrounding me...then proceed in getting warm and cozy on a cold day :) Love the concepts, the drawings and the idea! I would def. include them in a pantheon of also "evil" gods...because there are always more shades to white and black
I like the idea of a unfathomable gorey being kinda just helping out without anyone knowing and when someone makes a sacrifice or something in their name they go like "no don't do that D:"
Despite in my eyes having almost nothing to do with the Cthulhu Mythos, or Lovecraft's concept, I really like your art and creative approach to the subject.
i’m a huge fan of cosmic horror and this makes me insanely happy. it makes me want to lean more into themes of comfort even in the unknowable for my own future stories! i’m so glad i got recommended this video
This was my first video I’ve seen of yours, I absolutely love this concept! Cosmic horror is also one of my favorite genres and something about this concept of these eldritch beings bringing comforts to us is beautiful to me! I’m inspired to make some of my own cozy lil monsters now:)
I would LOVE a game like this! Being a massive fan of Eldritch horror, general horror, & cozy vibes this game would be PERFECT for me! I cant wait to see this game come to life! and I would even love if people could submit NPC/background characters that you can interact with and maybe get a chuckle out of some funny responses! Or even take inspiration from Spiritfaer where you can offer something to cheer up sad NPCs and receive gifts from them as thanks to boost/upgrade your magic/home/recipes or whatever you add to this game!
I'm doing a similar exercise; immortal beings that want to preserve and observe the universe. Cthulu would be one of them, but he's not a being of mass death and destruction; rather, he tries to learn and understand human culture and technology to the best of his ability, and considering he has all the time in the world, he will make great findings. ...If nobody destroys the universe.
I think of the cabin keeper like 1 of those yt channels where they make elaborate habitats for ants & other small creatures. So the cabin keeper really "likes" observing the little critters when they choose shelters in unusual places, & he likes to make sure they can always find their little huts. Because he knows the critters do the best when they shelter in their little habitats. I also think the leaf reader would have a cult following of children, preschool teachers, & habitual campers.
This world is fantastic! The concept of these great gods from the deep ancient and unknowable corners of space that have come to earth to give you some soup, or read a story. But I would like if there was a little more mistery, or like the world has two sides, there May be a cabin keeper protecting cabins and lighting the way, but what does it have to protect the cabins from, and what is so important that he will light the way in order for you to be able to see it. Either way it’s a great idea.
Kinda reminds me of stuff like spirited away in how creatures that seems too terrifying and unfathomable to comprehend can actually be kind, like the soup hag definitely reminded me of zeniba and yubaba. Also gave me some over the garden wall vibes too
Just pinning this here to say thank you all for so many lovely comments. UPDATE: Because several people have asked, I'm not considering selling or licensing these designs, and I'm also not currently thinking of making more, at least not for a while.
When a video's fun, a video's fun 👍
The soup-hag could stir my cauldron any day.
I know you probably don't do commission or comment ideas, but would you do you're idea of a cozy/kind eldritch beings with the great ones from bloodborne, also awesome video👌
The hype is real! Well earned attention
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, but I really love the idea! How would you feel about other people using the Gezelligeon in their own art?
I recently heard someone say that “lovecraftian horror isn’t the fear of tentacled monsters, but of the unknown.” I think that if you want to take pantheon to the next level and create true cosmic comfort, you really should lean into the idea of a creature that’s unknowable and powerful but unambiguously benevolent.
Yog-Sothoth is much more approachable than their peers.
I've understood it as "the fear isn't Cthulhu is gonna kill you, it's that he doesn't care weather you live or die, same as you would a mayfly."
I like think of Lovecraftian horror as the combination of the unknown, as you said. But also the dread that comes with knowing something that should have been left forgotten. Your entire view of the world shattered.
For an example: Imagine if you were religious, but turns out it was the incorrect one when things from a different religion reveal themselves to be real.
That’s lovecraftian horror to me. The unknown and things that shouldn’t have been known.
Not an idea original to me, but I'd say a large part of Lovecraft's work is not fear of the unknown, but the realization that what Lovecraft always feared is true.
For example, in the Call of Chuthulhu, Lovecraft, an atheist, through the words of the narrator, discovers that there is a god, and that god hates him.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth is Lovecraft's fear that he is not the pure bred Anglo-Saxon he'd been lead to believe.
The story about the refrigerated man, I forget the name, is Lovecraft's fear of technological progress, that it is somehow sinister.
@@HeyYou992I don't think so no.
In german we have almost the same word „Geselligkeit“. Realising this it made this creatures instantly more quaint and approachable.
Guten Tag my Eastern neighbor! Us Dutch have "gezelligheid" as well.
@jurtheorc8117 Ik wou dat net zeggen!
@sergejkaschuba8933
Though I didn't know German had it too! It's one of the few word you can apply to basically any situation! Does it mean and connotate the same, or is it similar in the way that craic (Irish, pronounced crack) is?
in danish we also have a direct translation, "hygge".
and for the danish name for the pantheon i suggest, "hyggelighederne" basically translates to: the things that are "hygge".
which is half a joke as that is an unusual way of conjugating "hygge" and is instead used on "uhygge" whicht means: scary.
so "hyggelighederne" reads both as: the things that are "hygge", and: not the things that are scary.
"uhygge" and "uhyre", which means monster, sound alike and are associated, so the name also implies something "not a monster".
@@jurtheorc8117 Unfortunately, I think you're stating the obvious. The original word that the author used to name the pantheon of cozy cosmic gods was the Dutch word "gezellig". I think they just added "-eon" from "pantheon" to the word "gezellig" to make "gezelligeon", which would roughly mean "temple to [all things] gezellig"
So you're just making the noun out of the adjective. It was already a Dutch word.
If you don't believe me, he says at 3:20 what he named the pantheon after and why.
@@rennidenni7792 Yeah, i wrote the comment before properly watching the video.
Love the idea of benign horrors. Sure the beast lives in the realm of deepest dark, its form flickering in and out of our reality. Even looking apon it stretches the mind to almost pain.
Theyre just chillin though. Happy to help any lost critter that has lipped into their interdimentional hole, back to where they belong
Almost makes me think of Ormagöden from Brütal Legend. He was the subject of envy and hate by other primordial horrors, for he was the only creature that could bear and produce flame: and the light of this flame forced all the other monsters to see themselves what they truly were.
Ormagöden himself was not described as doing anything particularly significant in the histories: he was chilling in the world.
All the other creatures wanted him dead. The worst of them kidnapped and imprisoned a harmless, beautiful singing creature named Aetulia and become the other monsters' first and most terrible king.
Aetulia was used as bait to lure Ormagöden into a trap, where all the monsters would try to douse his flame with mud and preferably kill him.
But rather than letting his light be extinguished. Ormagöden chose to make an end to his own life-- which would grant a more bountiful future for the world.
Ormagöden, the Great Fire Beast, exploded himself.
His steel flesh veined the earth, making it rich with ores of all kinds.
His fire shot into the heavens, where it became the sun.
His blood flooded the world, drowning all the hateful creatures, to finally form the oceans.
And his death cry rings on to this very day, an anthem to spirit and power, a defiance of hatred and ignorance that dances with death and life alike, seeing beauty in both.
An energy that has the power to reach and connect all. For his voice... is Heavy Metal.
I'd love to see more benevolent monster creatures of great power.
Reminds me of that "Top 10 molpeople" meme. I just love the idea of these dark and scary monster looking creatures living in sewers and catacombs only for them to be really chill and cool. Good food, great company, amazing parties and the best damn bookclub this side of Ter Apel. And the only people who know about this are the couple weirdos and outcasts who've found and befriended them, like homeless people who were taken in by them and live comfortably amongst them!
This is how I run basically every entity in Call of Cthulhu, they all just chillin' or doing they own things. 9/10 times horror happens because Humans are too curious, or someone tries to get power that they should not have.
You might be interested in checking out "The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast" by Lovecraft and Barlow then. Not the main point of the (very short) story, but there's a being/deity that accidentally wanders in from another dimension, is set up as an oracle by priests, and then just lives contentedly hanging out and munching on snacks. This video very much made me think of that one.
like some humans squash the bugs with utmost contempt when they come into their home, or (well, rightfully in this case) sanitize the house of the most bacteria they can muster, meanwhile others study, keep and love bugs and bacteria, and in the former case even help bugs out if the house with a cup, while in the latter, they might purposefully make the best enviroment for some to grow, be it in a lab or even just one's own kombucha.
6:20 snug as a bug in a rug with a mug
Video: “Would you worship The Gezelligeon?”
Me, already in the middle of furiously building an altar out of quilts, fallen leaves, cinnamon sticks, mittens, knitting needles, old paperbacks, pumpkin candle wax, miniature gourds and tea cozies: “…maybe.”
I always liked the idea of some eldritch beings regarding us very, very small humans with a sense of curiosity or wonder compared to the indifference or even contempt most of Lovecraftian beings have for us. An eldritch being who thinks humans are the cutest little creatures and could talk about them for aeons the way an entomologist can gush for hours about their favorite bugs. :)
That sounds really fun for a story or as a concept in general
That can go very well or very horrible for any protagonist, depending on the human fanatic Eldritch God.
It honestly reminds me a lot of Bloodborne. Spoilers I suppose, but this game is almost a decade old.
In Bloodborne, the eldritch Great Ones and their Cosmic Kin are described as "sympathetic," and often answer people who call upon them. Indeed, there are uncountable carved reliefs and opulent statues depicting their glory and majesty, and even still that depict the mortal people of Yharnam looking up in awe at their salvation. Their defining motivation is parenthood, so they have seemingly taken humanity itself under their wing as surrogate children.
Even when you meet them, most of them have rather benign intentions. The grub-like Rom eats arcane energy and hides the eldritch truth from humanity to keep them from going mad. The spider-like Amygdalae seemingly occupy the role of high-ranking angels carrying out the judgement and will of greater beings. Ebrietas is directly involved with the local clergy, however misguided they are. The Moon Presence only intervened with the city's lycanthropy plague after being directly asked. Mother Kos provided guidance to an entire village, and her newborn Orphan only lashes out at the player in anger at their mother being killed.
Actually horror movies exist on this concept
That show is called Doctor Who, the doctor is completely infatuated with the human race
"If there can be cultists doing unspeakable horrors to seek favour from cthulhu & Co., why couldn't there be others who light a candle for the Cabin keeper, or making pumpkin soup in honour of the Soup hag?"
Also my brain: I put little dirt under my pillow for the Dirt Maaaan ~
It scanned a little too well in my mins and I make no apologies
in case he comes to town 🎉
Blanket buggo.
YES
The Scuttling Hug is a much cozier name than what i initially guessed it would be, which was Snug-Buggeroff.
The Snug-Buggeroff sounds like a grumpy version of this, but only because it has to get out of its comfy blanket shell and be productive for a bit. That one adds a lot of coffee to their hot chocolate.
I too have been working on my own spin on a pantheon of eldritch gods for a creative project. However, many of the cultists are the antithesis of Cosmic Horror, they are "Cosmic Wonder", they are absurdists, mad but not in a dreary way.
I like that, i like that a lot!
Have you ever heard of the Zeno Clash series? They don't delve into cosmic horror, but there is a lot of color, wonder and imagination despite being set in a rather violent land. There's so many wonderful, bizarre, off-putting and weird creatures and environment that may prove inspiring.
Had a prequel in 2023 called Clash: Artifacts of Chaos.
To quote Brandy's Cinderella's fairy godmother,
"But the world is full of zanies and fools, who don't believe in sensible rules, and won't believe what sensible people say. And because these daft and dewey eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes, Impossible things are happening every day."
So Bachanalia and Dionyseia?
Mad parties and artsy theatre plays sound great!
Cosmic wonder is something I like as a concept, like the monolith from 2001 a space oddysey
I like how the soup hag has a second mouth for blowing and cooling soups. It just adds something unique to the character.
i heard an old myth of, idk, a satyr, or whatevs, didn't trust man, because one was blowing on their hands to keep 'em warm and their soup to cool it and couldn't trust a creature that blows hot and cold
I love this. As someone who likes the aesthetic of spookiness but can’t stand anything actually frightening or distressing, cozy Eldritch critters are right up my alley 😅
There's a game being worked on by the developers of crush crush. It's sort of like that, but you're more or less trying to date them. Have a look.
@@jamesiewalters2360 omg I will, thanks for the recommendation 😊
theres a small and rather cute cryptid dating visual novel called cryptid crush as well. it has fellas such as mothmans and the jersey devil in it
Same here
I think an apple or pastry themed deity whose whole deal is based around baking and cider pressing would fit well into Gezelligeon. My favorite family holiday growing up was cider pressing day. We'd go up to Grandpa's house, shake down all the apples from his trees and press gallons and gallons and gallons of fresh cider. It was the most that home ever felt like home.
The Scuttling Hug is a whole vibe tbh.
Soup-hag may be the creepiest one but I ain't turning down a good soup, no sir.
Cabin-keeper? How nice of em.
Leaf Reader is just enjoying himself and his leaves, can't be against that.
Now that I got that outta my system, I'll say this, I love the concept of doing something new with that genre and making it cozy. Just makes me think of the cozy mystery book sub genre. Yeah, murder and other crimes could happen but its done in a way that sits right and let's ya have fun with the characters along the way.
I also like to think these are the kind of entities that could be comforting to those already insane. I mean think about it, we already have eldritch beings that cause insanity, these could be the ones that help the humans calm down after. You'll still be nutty but now ya got soup & blankets.
"Be not afraid. I brought snacks."
- Soup Hag (probably)
A paranormal entity that cures insanity? Damn it! I imagine this is a crystal spider that loves puzzles, and what is more difficult and interesting than a madman?
Imagine a thriller comedy where they try to drive the victim crazy so that, for example, she goes out of business, and this spider levels all mental debuffs + tells how to avoid them on her own. As a result, the only one who goes crazy is the villains >=3
@@ZinychDev lol
I love when an artists has a fully colored drawing and at the last minute they're like "these are some great colors I picked, you know what would be even better is if I changed all of them"
I tend to forget that some nice wobbly lines can go a long way for creating patterns and detail. Lovely drawings, and fun characters, and I like the idea of cosy-fying horror.
I’m waiting for an analog horror where the main character eats while listening to true crime, then falls asleep.
A monster appears and starts quietly munching while watching the protagonist snore curiously.
I love the concept although i think it would be fun to make some things more cosmicly comforting rather than reminders of our material symbols/means of coziness but this has inspired me to make some of my own
@@claytongriffith8323 nice, please share them if you do 👍🏻
I actually really like these guys, kind of reminds me of what I did in my story.
If I had to point something out I think this is an opportunity to cover more... vague ideas of comfort less specific to humanity, It would tap into the more cosmic horror side of things while still keeping things... cozy, but with a tad more alien.
like an entity based around harvesting, maybe they dont make soup or a specific meal but they make things grow faster in general, making crops ready to harvest, making the forests thicker. but on the other hand they can cause food to spoil, make people age faster, they dont need to be malicious, but when calling upon them you just... need to be careful, its comforting to think that you can call upon such a creature to help you with no strings attached, but if you play your cards wrong there will be consequences, maybe not the worst consequences but the creature itself wont notice.
Comforting, but still kind of scary.
absolutely love The Cabin Keepers whole M.O and the Soup Hags design is very clever, I like it.
This fertility deity idea is actually amazing. Works for normal agricultural deities, who are often described as both responsable for a harvest rotting or being bountiful too
What you speak of makes me think of the Grievous Miracle from Blasphemous and some theories that people have of it.
The Grievous Miracle is a force, rather than a sapient entity. We never see what it looks like, if anything at all. It's more of a force as natural to the world as gravity, the tides, the cycle of night and day. It blesses and curses in equal measure and it can be hard to find a distinguishing line.
Both the heretical and devoted turn into monsters, from seated bishops rooted into their flying chairs and young men that have to wander with candlesticks until death, to brass bull-headed pike throwers and corpses carrying breaking wheels.
Within Blasphemous, the land of Cvstodia where the game takes place, is a very strict, theocratic Martyrdom culture. The people believe that penance of various forms is warranted to all of its citizens and various orders have sprung up for different, always painful and often bizarre forms of penance.
Here's the theory in question that i've read:
- Some have said that the Grievous Miracle is a benevolent force that does want to help out the mortal people of Cvstodia, or anyone who prays to it. We don't know anything about the outside world to lay claim to their faiths, so i leave those out of this consideration.
As said, Cvstodia is a very strict and extreme martyrdom culture. It is all asking for punishment and pain to cleanse away our sins and shortcomings.
And that would be exactly what the Miracle offers. The pain that the people ask for.
Who knows if it would have granted kinder, softer and warmer boons, if the people only asked for it?
Within Blasphemous there is an order called the Kissers of Wounds, and they seem to be the only group of people that have a benevolent kind of power without a hideous or painful twist to them. They kiss people on their bodies and it helps them heal faster.
Blasphemous 1 and 2 are fascinating games.
3:45 "The leaf rrrrreader 🧐"
We have that non-translatable word in Norwegian/Scandinavian too! It's called "Hygge" here. Love your concept here, this deserves all the attention it can get.
Imagine a other worldly creature whose job is to observe us and take notes because the big wigs decided its not "human" to kill and destroy such creatures during the research as they are lives too
I like this idea cuz it fits with old mythology, which is what cosmic horror is based on. Cosmic horror is supposed to be a medium where gods are the opposite of what they are portrayed in the myths, as most gids in myths are either neutral or good, so cosmic horror dieties are mostly evil. But people forget that there are plenty of evil gods in mythology, and that it would only make sense if some good cosmic dieties exist. If they didn't, wouldn't everyone and everything be destroyed by now?
Logically.
Gods in mythology can be more complex than simply neutral or good. For example, Perun and Veles of Slavic mythology.
From what i know, Perun is a god of Fire and Air. A powerful top god of the pantheon, mainly called upon by the more rich and notable people. He resides more in the skies, above us.
Veles is a more monstrous trickster of the ground and water, but also closer to the forest and common man, who are more likely to call upon him than Perun.
Moreover, Veles tends to try and steal Perun's cattle, which leads to a fight between them. From what i understand, this is a story to speak of how rain and storms come to be.
Veles always loses, and always tries again.
While these descriptions do place them within "Neutral/good" with beef towards one another, it is worth noting that both of them can still be destructive if they so choose.
Or even not at all: if their fights continue for a long time, the ensuing rains can lead to storm, affecting people that had nothing to do with their quarrel.
(Disclaimer that my knowledge on this subject comes from enthousiasm instead of experties).
The Greek Gods are especially noteworthy for being less on the line of divine perfection, and more "normal people in an exceptional position". By now, knowledge has spread quite a bit of how stories of the Greek gods could be particularly messed up.
A thing with Cosmic Horror deities is that they don't have to be consciously evil or malicious as such either, but that they and their followers operate on such a grand, cosmic scale, that they may not even take notice of entire civilizations.
How i view it, is that their mere presence could perhaps distort time and space as we know it. Stuff like turning trees into liquid, or making buildings and gravity fold in on themselves to become an Escher painting.
If we're talking Lovecraft, then that wasn't really the point. The point was that morality, as we know it, is a safety blanket that we created. The gods aren't evil, per se, but they're not representative of human morality. They just happen to exist and contradict the idea that humanity is on an upward trend of progress.
That's part of why humanity isn't made by gods in his work. They're made by aliens with an extremely advanced civilization that just died out. Because that's, ultimately, what happens even to great civilizations.
@@muntu1221 What does that have to do with Lovecraft being based on mythology?
I experienced cosmic horror watching you work directly on _Background_ layer. Incredible illustration work.
@@cl114c0777498d sorry 😅 and thank you, it’s just another one of my unholy rituals
I think another good idea for a Gezelligeon is one base on a jigsaw puzzle. To me, there's nothing more relaxing than sitting on the couch, wrapped in a nice comfy sweater with a cup of tea in hand while working on a jigsaw puzzle on a nice, October weekend.
The realm they reside in could be one gigantic puzzle or maze, maddening to those who try to rush to the destination, solution, or answer but rather safe and understandable to someone who take their time to figure out how to navigate to and from. Like a world made out of TED-ed riddles.
as someone whose current project treats Biopunk as a perfectly normal (and potentially even cozy) sci-fi setting, I fully understand the desire to take genres and tropes near-exclusively used in horror and explore what they can be outside of that. Great art btw!
Is there anything out on your project right now? I’m a fan of the style, but I’d like to see more done with it
Sounds interesting
Love the vibe of this video! The art, the music the idea, your presentation of it all. SO GOOD! Just subscribed and am excited to see/hear more!
Thank you so much!
I’ve been thinking of something like this myself, I like the mystery and surreal aspects of cosmic horror but I don’t like the utterly depressing aspects of it. Mainly because I try and be anti-nihilist about existence and lovecraftian stuff is almost always about how utterly irrelevant humanity is.
On a related note there’s a comic called ‘Eldritch Benevolence’ which is based on the same idea you’ve discussed here, would recommend checking it out.
This actually makes me think what other gods could come from this.
Like a deity that lurks in liminal spaces or vast forests that ensures the safty of individuals on walks at night, while the stars or electric lights guide them to where they need to be. That was just one that came to the top of my head.
10/10 would share drinks in honor of Madame Hug
Would ritualistically kill for a slice of life comic about these 4 sharing a cabin in the woods
This concept is fantastic, as someone who enjoys eldritch horrors. But i CANNOT get over how good your art style is. I aspire for something similar in my own.
These are lovely. But the real eldritch magic at work here is the filling tool actually filling spaces up to the linework :0
@@janthummler3548 it took a lot of tinkering and arcane rituals to get it to do that 😉
These wholesome comfy cthulhus are amazing! I love it =3
Just looking at the Gezelligeon members gives of the feeling of a bunch of friends huddled around a campfire. Enjoying each others company.
Imagine tjinming you found your doom in the craws of a unknown being, only for them to offer you a hug and a shoulder to cry on.
Is a beautiful transfer of the unknown.
You seem like a creative and good soul.
im terrified of creepy crawlies but i may hav been "prayin" to The Scuttling Hug becuz i hav a big duvet blanket and i often hide in it up to my head
I love this concept.
If I had to make one I'd definitely make "The Dweller on the Couch." This dude just sits on a couch fashioned from an old clump of moss and tree barks. It just keeps itself wrapped in a warm blanket made knitted by itself. It spends its time watching humans play strange "games" and "video essays" on a strange glass.
But then his favourite character is killed and he decides to find the writers.
"my creatires dont necessarily cause madness"
Ill accept that, but also mention that it brings to mind a flavor text from an MTG card: "not every mind touched by [the entity] turned to raging psychosis. Some minds simply withdrew from the world, lost in memories of better days"
In short, cozy can still be of altered mind as well.
more of a cosmic delight than a horror, how lovely :3
I love everything about this, including how you've narrated and talked about them, I'd already want to hear more about all of them 😊
Oh I love the Scuttling Hug!! I like making blankets, so they have an open invitation to come hang out under all the ones I've made while I make more🥰
This is a very fun Idea! The Scuttling Hug is my favourite
I'm sure she hates tile, wonder if you put barefoot on it =3
(ancient deity doesn't know what floor heating is hehe)
I suggest a secondary or minor deity: The Soa-king.
A being content in their watery plane of existence of eternally comfortably warm water, with floating plates of foods or books or candles. Their exposed skin is wrinkly (obviously), but their lower body is invisible, almost as if it's part of the planar bath. The air is filled with scents of lavender, or patchoulli or jasmin, and they offer bath towels to those that must leave his warm and relaxing realm once again.
A blessing from this minor deity gives you a slightly more productive day if you spend the evening/morning before in a bath relaxing.
I absolutely love this.
Is anyone else up for bringing this cult to life? I, for one, am absolutely ready to worship them under cozy blankets, reading by candlelight while enjoying a hearty stew. 🥰
The cult now has two members! We shall slowly and comfortingly conquer the world!
The Scuttling Hug ended up being such a fabulous design! .^.^ I would completely hug that, especially if she brought me a hot cup of mulled cider on a bitterly cold night.
I love the idea of an uncomprihendible monster who’s just a friend. Big things that see us as we see insects: Little cutiepies who are fun to watch and give little treats :3
I want to hang out on a stormy night with these fellas and read fun books
I love this idea so much, here's an idea. The Snow carver... they carry blocks of ice and start carving soft fluffy snowflakes from the ice
Hey, I just wrote something that I think might be helpful to this idea of yours. "Perhaps when the nightmare ends it isn't the end of everything but the begining of the dream?" Cosy cosmic horror is just what happens when you start at the end of regular cosmic horror and continue forward.
Love it, keep up the amazing work!!
This is such a amazing and comforting concept!! I'd honestly love a hug from the Scuttling Hug, she seems so warm. Really love your linework, it looks so clean
I absolutely love what youre doing with the designs of you rcozy eldritch creatures, the palletes are great and the mix of wintery, autumnal themes with nastiness and obscurity of eldritch gods hits my artistic spot just right. Great content! May the algorithm be on your side.
This pantheon is actually quite lovely I love them💖
I love your process of inking the lines on paper and coloring digitally. I've always struggled with digital linework, so I will be trying this method :)
I've had a "lie on the floor overwhelmed and crying into my own hair" kind of evening and the vibe of your eldritch critters just scooped me up and made me feel a bit more okay even with my dark thoughts. Thank you and keep drawing your incredible little guys
I think that your exploring of this subject facilitated some sort of catharsis in me, so thank you for your efforts.
Hearing what these creatures are and watching them being created is a hit of dopamine and inspiration I desperately needed. Thank you for sharing your art with us ❤
Absolutely wonderful. I'll be stealing the Cabin Dweller
My favourite is the scuttling hug, or as I like to call her, the Snuggle Bug! Her design is so cool and I would totally worship her - if I don’t already! I love tea and blankets and cozy rainy days
This is absolutely perfect! I’ve always loved you creating a series that have a shared narrative. Whether it’s recreating the Justice League, swapping Spider-Man and Green Goblin, your Doctor Who series, the DnD-but-animals range, the Superbuddies MoM and little-squidgy-guys-collecting-burly-protectors, you are at your very best when developing a shared universe. Of course you ended up designing ttrpgs lol
I think the scuttling hug would visit their followers completely and absolutely covered in blankets to keep them from from going mad
I dont have anywhere else to say this, i think the biggest problem with Call of Cthullu and Lovecraftian horror in general is that the fear of the unknown is always confirmed.
Especially in Call of Cthullu but even in fiction, you the reader always know the weird, the strange etc is evil. Wich , especially in Call of Cthullu incentivizes carefullness, and disincentivizes exploration, wich is sad because theres so much interesting stuff to explore.
I reallised this while playing the Horror on the Orient Express campaign, specifically, the Dreamlands express bits, where you have to solve a murder mystery on a train in dreams, and it was SO good, like we got to talk to random ass weird creatures, or see strange cities and meet the trains conductor who litterally just wanted to run a train. And it still makes me sad we never really got a chance to get out and see the various stops the train made because we were too afraid. And dont ge me wrong, there was still fear of the unknown, everyone of the other passangers could kill us, but they didn t and it was nice. For once our fear of the unknown was somewhat missplaced.
And I wish we d see more of that in Lovecraftian stories, not necceserily good entities, but entities minding their own buisness wich we can lear about or no. Abd good entities have a role in that! Wich this project really helps.
I think a cool project you could take up is desiging your own small pokemon game, your style would be so cool to see your own pokemon in
Y'know how in sheer scope we are but insects to these grandiose beings? I imagine these beings are like when you move a worm drying on the sidewalk to soil, or when you crunch up a chip to feed to ants.
The soup lady looks so much like the design I have in mind for my dwarves of my fantasy world, its almost uncanny. Guess it's time to change the design so they look less eldritch.
I absolutely love your art, oh my goodness! And I love the coziness and more positive look on cosmic horror entities. Your characters are very comforting as well! :D
The scuttling hug should have the starry night sky but some of the stars looks like a sock, pillow or a marshmallow.
I'm absolutely OBSESSED with the Soup hag's design
Upon seeing a bug scuttle into their house, a member of the Gezelligeon would reach for a cup and paper instead of a flyswatter
"We are to them what insects are to us!" sounds a lot less scary when I avoid stepping on bugs in the street and generally try to let the ones I find at work outside, where they'll be safer. Generally, I find that the cosmos is what we make of it. Why wouldn't unfathomably ancient and strange beings also decide the same?
These guys definitely love the Ritual of Reading, a tome-less practice that involves reading to the gods, as they love a good story. But their favorites are the ones you don't read and make up as you go
I think that out own smallness and a weirdness/comfort dichotomy is still compatible. Heck, synergistic even. Even in a weird, absurd world, where we are small as ants and can be snuffed out in an instant, we are still here, and yet still living, still finding beauty. Still finding comfort. Even in the great, dark forest, stretching for miles and alive with a million flickering kinds of darkness, the little flame in our cabin still burns - and we find coziness. Don't try to de-tooth your horrors, but rather try to make them scary but still beautiful. There can be no sense of safety if there's nothing to be safe from. Make them creatures of hope.
Still, though, this is a really cool take, and also can I just say how much I love this new-generation trope of relating with the weird and wild?
For the Scuttling Hug: My ritual would be wrapping myself up in my fluffiest and nicest blankets, have a drink (warm preferred) and a snack by me, while getting very cozy. I would have my tablet nearby, or some sketchbook and markers to sketch...while having everything prepared and ready, i would whisper a small "thank you", hug a stuffy maybe or just my blanket hull surrounding me...then proceed in getting warm and cozy on a cold day :)
Love the concepts, the drawings and the idea! I would def. include them in a pantheon of also "evil" gods...because there are always more shades to white and black
This sheer confidence of this man… didn’t even separate the line art from the colors, damn
scuttling hug is the comfiest critter i’ve ever seen. This is adorable! Love the idea. For every evil done for these creatures there’s good
This was very gezellig indeed. Absolutely amazing art, lovely worldbuilding and narration. Keep at it!
I like the idea of a unfathomable gorey being kinda just helping out without anyone knowing and when someone makes a sacrifice or something in their name they go like "no don't do that D:"
Love the concepts and the overall art! These will be fun to play with for sure.
This is the best thing someone has done with Cosmic Horror since Ramsey Campbell.
"Five more minutes."
-Comforts 16 : 10
Despite in my eyes having almost nothing to do with the Cthulhu Mythos, or Lovecraft's concept, I really like your art and creative approach to the subject.
Even in the world there are people who cares for ants, so I understand your themes, great video!
This is such a cool concept
i’m a huge fan of cosmic horror and this makes me insanely happy. it makes me want to lean more into themes of comfort even in the unknowable for my own future stories! i’m so glad i got recommended this video
This was my first video I’ve seen of yours, I absolutely love this concept! Cosmic horror is also one of my favorite genres and something about this concept of these eldritch beings bringing comforts to us is beautiful to me! I’m inspired to make some of my own cozy lil monsters now:)
I would LOVE a game like this! Being a massive fan of Eldritch horror, general horror, & cozy vibes this game would be PERFECT for me! I cant wait to see this game come to life! and I would even love if people could submit NPC/background characters that you can interact with and maybe get a chuckle out of some funny responses! Or even take inspiration from Spiritfaer where you can offer something to cheer up sad NPCs and receive gifts from them as thanks to boost/upgrade your magic/home/recipes or whatever you add to this game!
The Scuttling Hug feels like the perfect visual representation of the phrase, “snug as a bug in a rug”.
I'm doing a similar exercise; immortal beings that want to preserve and observe the universe. Cthulu would be one of them, but he's not a being of mass death and destruction; rather, he tries to learn and understand human culture and technology to the best of his ability, and considering he has all the time in the world, he will make great findings.
...If nobody destroys the universe.
I think of the cabin keeper like 1 of those yt channels where they make elaborate habitats for ants & other small creatures. So the cabin keeper really "likes" observing the little critters when they choose shelters in unusual places, & he likes to make sure they can always find their little huts. Because he knows the critters do the best when they shelter in their little habitats.
I also think the leaf reader would have a cult following of children, preschool teachers, & habitual campers.
This is more pagan horror than eldritch horror. It’s more creepy little critters, than unknowable monsters. I mean, I still love the idea🧡
Wouldn't call those comsic >horror
I approve
Saw a comic with this vibe a while back. It's called "Camping with an eldergod."
This world is fantastic! The concept of these great gods from the deep ancient and unknowable corners of space that have come to earth to give you some soup, or read a story. But I would like if there was a little more mistery, or like the world has two sides, there May be a cabin keeper protecting cabins and lighting the way, but what does it have to protect the cabins from, and what is so important that he will light the way in order for you to be able to see it. Either way it’s a great idea.
Kinda reminds me of stuff like spirited away in how creatures that seems too terrifying and unfathomable to comprehend can actually be kind, like the soup hag definitely reminded me of zeniba and yubaba. Also gave me some over the garden wall vibes too
I believe I speak for all of us when I say we wish for more.
Seeing your hands swiftly drawing these rich imaginations with such accuracy and results is a treat.
Ah, creativity! Such a rare thing to find these days. I'm glad this showed up in my homepage.
Also, I have a feeling you're making Youkai.
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The Scuttling Hug is as snug as a bug in a rug.
Your drawing style is so gorgeous, and I love the Geselligaeion (spelling?) idea! Delighted (and cozy) new subscriber!