@Background Pony #B127  

 
Oh great this is just fantastic, it’s Azathoth.

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How can he listen when he’s too busy dreaming you

xD

@ThePhilosopony  
You put too much significant on humanity. At best, we’re gnats. At worst, parasites.

@Meanlucario  
Yeah that’s very true.  
Personally I like it because the juxtaposition of recognising our insignificance whilst also recognising just how great and almost eldritch Humanity is in our actions and even just in contrast to other species, it gives me this odd sense of…placement in the cosmos.
 
We are not big by any stretch of the imagination but neither are we small. We are the halfway point between Animal and God and I can see more and more in media and art that people are beginning to realise this and struggle with the responsibility such a recognition comes with. As Sartre himself coined it
 
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

@ThePhilosopony  
That’s neat, but doesn’t sound like Lovecraft, where the idea is to make humanity a meaningless passing speck in the universe.

@Meanlucario  
I heard one theory that Azathoth was meant to represent the reader who by entering a dream like state where they imagine the universe in the story they in fact bring that universe into existence and as soon as they stop and “wake up” that universe ceases to be.

@FlonnesIkramant  
Ah, I got him mixed with Yog-Sothoth somehow. Funny enough, you can argue that Azathoth represents the heat-death of the universe, something that is much more real, and people think about much less.

@Meanlucario  
Azathoth is the highest of the Lovecraftian gods mainly because everything else in existence is merely a dream he’s having. If he wakes up that dream will disappear and all the gods no matter how high and mighty they are will simply vanish which is why they are trying to keep him asleep. That is the scary thing about him.

@ThePhilosopony  

the true madness comes in realizing that azathoth is not there, and instead in his place, there is nothing. nothing at all.

Azathoth is scary because when you carry the argument for God needing to be created by a God etc. to its logical conclusion which is an infinite end which in itself is all prior existences and Gods by itself both being them and not being them you essentially get Azathoth.
 
A great dreamer so far and above anything we know that to make any judgements on their nature would be inherently false, a being so unhuman and full of chaos and order that just thinking about it as an actual possibility for the answer to all things is enough to start driving you mad…or maybe I’m already mad?

I put name and the DeviantArt of the original creator.

I really need a name, blog or other such detail about this artist.
 
Like REALLY need it.

oh this will end well.

This concept is great.  
The “dream pony’s first day on the job” thing I mean.

@Background Pony #6C7F  
No no, that guy’s at the exact center of the universe and is made entirely of flame.

Dream quest of unknown kadath, I should really read it again it’s great :D

He’s listening to cosmic musicians, I think? Also Luna, be careful you don’t end all of existence.

Does it look like he has anything to listen with, Luna?