Cthulhu Cthursday: Gnomethulhu
Posted by Qais Fulton
Apparently this latest plastic creation from Italian designer Plust is a modern take on the garden gnome. Which I probably wouldn’t have guessed had they ruined my dreams of Lovecraftian lawn adornments and squid-like kitsch. But this, my friends, is gnome in name only, especially when it comes to the sickly green shade in which these glow-in-the-dark dwarves come. Perhaps with a bit of chthonic elbow grease these pint-sized Godlings will be just the thing we need to spruce up the dirt and dead animals that currently constitutes the Ectomo HQ garden.
Plust [Trends Now : NotCot]
Categories: Dwarves, Ecthomo, Cthulhu Cthursday
Posted at 4:17 pm on August 21, 2008
11 Comments -
It looks like a gnome-shaped buttplug.
The dog seems to enjoy it.
Comment by Dr Nautilus — August 21, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Dr Nautilus: You are mistaken. This is a squid-shaped butt plug.
Comment by Andreas — August 21, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
It looks as if a squid and a gnome had a baby. A beautiful, streamlined, deep ocean lurking baby. I WANT ONE.
Comment by Strixus — August 21, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
You know, Andreas, you’re right. Suddenly tentacle porn becomes so much more ethical!
Comment by Dr Nautilus — August 21, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
” Totally separate and apart, its very material was a mystery; for the soapy, greenish-black stone with its golden or iridescent flecks and striations resembled nothing familiar to geology or mineralogy. The characters along the base were equally baffling; and no member present, despite a representation of half the world’s expert learning in this field, could form the least notion of even their remotest linguistic kinship. They, like the subject and material, belonged to something horribly remote and distinct from mankind as we know it; something frightfully suggestive of old and unhallowed cycles of life in which our world and our conceptions have no part.”
Comment by Hlaode — August 21, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
I await for someone to sequester one of these and, months later, return it to their owners along with a photo album. Candid snapshots of good old little Gnomsquidthulu in places like Iraq, Ossetia, Lebanon, North korea, Mogadishu, Khartoum, Yemen….
Comment by Optical — August 22, 2008 @ 12:31 am
gnome? what gnome?
looks like an effing squid to me, lol.
or a butt-plug, as they say…not that i’ve seen a butt-plug before or that i know what it’s for…but i imagine it to look somewhat like this.
Comment by eva — August 22, 2008 @ 10:51 am
Yep, eva, you tell us you wouldn’t know a buttplug from Adam….
Comment by Optical — August 23, 2008 @ 1:52 am
Optical, eva -
Or would it perhaps be, the UrPlug, the great and holy relic used by Adam himself?
Comment by Strixus — August 23, 2008 @ 4:46 am
It looks like our dear squiddy is the younger cousin of a much earlier design http://populationpaste.com/img/2006/04/zeta/tentacle.jpg
Not safe for work, or your eyes.
Comment by Dr Nautilus — August 23, 2008 @ 10:24 am
Optical & Strixus,
I am insulted!
Comment by eva — August 25, 2008 @ 7:59 am