Collision of two LJ discussions

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docbrite mentions an idea that she and Chris have been bouncing around for a while:

Shaq must be the next James Bond.

(Poppy's discussion of the reasons for the perfect, obvious sensibility of this perfectly obvious, sensible choice comprises several excellent points but conveniently overlooks the fact that Shaq's film career comprises several films widely considered to be among the worst ever made, including both Kazamm and Steel.)

And crowleycrow has been discussing one of his brushes with magical things from a past time--specifically, how HPL actually pronounced the name of his most famous topic:

Cthulhu. Well of COURSE you want to know how it sounded as passed from Lovecraft to de Camp. Unfortunately, though the sound he made lingers in my haunted brain unerasably, the sound itself was... was... indescribable. It was not merely a matter of accent or what letters were silent. It was a sound like no other. Would to God I had not heard it!

What made these two things collide in my head, besides the fact that I am generally sleep-deprived, is the conclusion of Poppy's post:

If you like Shaq or James Bond, I think you'll see the beauty of it. If so, spread the word. You never know ... like Tinkerbell or that giant oyster-thing in Robert Arthur's "Do You Believe In Ghosts?",if enough people have faith in it, maybe it will come true.

What if the Lovecraftian horrors were not true, but are becoming true because of our belief in them? That would make the opening sentence of "The Call of Cthulhu" even more dreadful, and would help explain why his protagonists are so often desperate to keep other people from learning more.