#p: mythos

[doomreturn]

[peoplegettingreallymadatghosts]

[achilles-patroclus-comic]

Page 16, panel 3 from Achilles and Patroclus, written by James Washburn and illustrated by Chess Amadé Albaneze.

We skip ahead to their adult years and find that Patroclus is still Achilles' sense of reason and connection. Meanwhile the signs of an impending doom loom nearby, such as the Three Fates on the libation container. Painted in various inks, micron pen, and colored pencils. Digitally edited for some minor lighting effects.

If you'd like to see the full page, head to James's Ko-Fi or Chess's Patreon. The first 8 pages are available in full here on Tumblr.

James Washburn (he/him) is a gay, trans, and disabled Storyteller-Activist born and raised in Seattle. His work is predicated on the idea that a story is best told with many voices, and he is deeply influenced by his Queer, artistic, and Polish communities, and his experiences at the intersection of marginalized identities. He takes inspiration from folklore, mythology, and queer history. His work focuses on discovering queerness in traditional stories and reimagining familiar tropes and archetypes through a queer lens.

Washburn is the Founding Artistic Director of @magpieartistsensemble, an artistic collective focused on innovative cross-disciplinary storytelling.

Chess Amadé Albaneze (he/she/they) has been creating comics since 2009, and their current projects other than A&P include the comic @hooffellas and the queer paranormal DND-style podcast @dandiesindanger. They are an American genderfluid trans masc artist, composer, and performer whose music was performed in the SO Creation Lab and whose voice work can be heard in @janellefeng's short film La Mort de Robespierre.

[nemeyuko]

Tumblr if it existed in Lovecraft’s work would be a literal nightmare.

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💉 doctor-reanimator Follow

My assistant just came home from a trip to Illinois. I acquired a new specimen and tried out my new embalming fluid on it. My assistant will record the progress of reanimation.

🪦 reanimator-assistant Follow

West injected a compound into the specimen to counteract the embalming fluid.

🪦 reanimator-assistant Follow

West put a pillow over it. Afterwards, he injected the body with the reagent. It’s possible the specimen may tell us what’s on the other side of death!

🪦 reanimator-assistant Follow

West did what now?

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📐 math-folklore-gilman Follow

I keep having fucked up dreams about the witch that used to live in the house I rented for cheap. Especially since my rented room, the attic, was where she did her magic. I’m sure it’s nothing.

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That’s a weird giant rat! I hate these fucking dreams!

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🖋️ bostonnephew-deactivated02181928

I got this weird box full of documents from being the heir of my great uncle’s estate after he passed. It has this strange bas-relief and notes. I’ll read what’s in it.

🖋️ bostonnephew-deactivated02181928

Cthulhu still sleeps beneath the waves in his sunken city. I know the cult knows I know too much. They’ll take care of me like they did my great uncle. If you don’t see me on here anymore, that’s why.

🐙 cthulhu-cultist80008 Follow

lol idiot.

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🌙 carter-the-dreamer Follow

Why do people think I killed Harley Warren? I did not! I do not know what has become of my friend Harley Warren.

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Hey, I’m going to visit this weird seaport town while on the way to Arkham to do genealogical research. People in Newburyport don’t want me to visit, but it’s the cheapest route to Arkham. Wish me luck!

🐟 olmsteads-journal Follow

Year later… but…

I was related to someone from that town and something else.

After I fled the town, started to become like the people from the town. I shall join them in the sea with my cousin! :)

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Note to everyone: don’t try summon up your ancestors from the grave with essential salts.

If you see a Dr. Allen around Providence, Rhode Island. Please shoot him and dissolve his body in acid.

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Take no account of what I published. Dr. Allen is a grand man who meant no harm.

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I’m going to leave my house for the first time! Wish me luck!

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I went to a house full of people partying. They all screamed and fled. What was that about?

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Oh.

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(Inspired by @strangestcase)

[siryl]

"Azathoth" by Allosaure.

[themildestofwriters]

I have written an academic-style paper on the speculative etymology of 'Miskatonic,' an iconic name from the Cthulhu Mythos! It contains language construction, worldbuilding, and an exploration of Algonquian languages. For any language nerds out there, or anyone interested in the Cthulhu Mythos, please check it out! And, if you enjoyed, please tell me what you think in the comments!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64195174?view_full_work=true

[ballet-birds-and-books]

Rue and Kraehe being a system has been on my mind lately

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

When that search party was tracking Robert Olmstead through Innsmouth and speaking to each other in croaks, I have to assume that that croaking translated to an argument about whether they should tell Olmstead what he is or whether that would be violating the egg prime directive

[elizabethrobertajones]

Oooh I had the cause and effect of Venat appearing here backwards. I mean, like, obviously we didn't know as much pre-EW, so I was assuming she could manifest on the shore of the lake here because maybe aside from the ambient radioactivity of Mor Dhona in general, because she made a pact with Middy she had a stronger connection to him and therefore this location (he talks about drinking of the land's aether among other things sort of makes it sound like mutual aetheric cannibalism at times depending on who is weaker and needs the pick me up in this scenario I was imagining, which is fucked up and therefore I liked it :P)

And we saw with all the finding Minfilia stuff in HW it's also easier to travel back and forth in a Hydaelyn-wards direction along paths that were already made, so I thought that was why she found it easier to catch us along the shore here. If she'd specifically charged Middy with guarding the lake then she probably took him here and manifested in this spot before.

In hindsight this whole encounter takes place on top of the entrance to the Omphalos, which is turns out is why she even asked Midgardsormr to guard the lake in the first place (I HAD guessed pre-EW that this specific manifestation might be linked to why here and we'd find out the backstory, but then I forgot about this link once we were months later and unlocking alliances so I never put 2 and 2 together about this cutscene specifically :P).

THAT maybe even explains why Mor Dhona is SO radioactive with multiple calamity related nonsense all over the landscape - the area just draws stuff in like gravity because of how strong the ambient weirdness has always been since as far back as a week after the sundering, before a single calamity hit. Idk, like, the big chunk of Dalamud over thataways curved its fall magnetically towards the zone because it's so messed up here. Allagans just liked the vibe here when scouting for their big tower.

So Venat can manifest here not just because of all the other reasons she might be strengthened to appear here that accumulated over the years, and would have given her a reason to be tenuously connected to the land. She's STRONGLY connected to the land and been here many times.

It does rather amuse me that what amounts to the Official Religion of Hydaelyn (aka the Scions) ended up based literally up the road from all this just because the land was so radioactive no one else wanted to live out here except foolhardy adventurers, who are exactly also Venat's favourite sort of people :D In 100s of years time there might be quite the hub for people taking this a lot more seriously, since the whole Mothercrystal thing has only been known in a recent lifetime.

I mean, also, that might count as being magnetically drawn in like it's fate by the general ambient weirdness, so who can really say what came first.

[thefugitivesaint]

Michael Whelan, 'Lovecraft Mythos Diptych', 1980

While used for two different Lovecraft story collections, the painting to the left was also used by the Florida death metal band Obituary for the cover to their second album 'Cause of Death' from 1990 (which was originally intended to be the album cover for Sepultura's 'Beneath the Remains' but some shenanigans happened behind the scenes and that didn't happen). My go to song from COD is their cover of Celtic Frost's 'Circle of the Tyrants' (my second go to song is 'Turned Inside Out')

[jerry-the-leech]

so Imay or may not have gone down a rabbit hole by researching "lovecraftian being"

and I found it very interesting but the amount of information is overwhelming

I had an idea to draw each one of the great old ones and research them each day (I will be using this List of Great Old Ones - Wikipedia wiki list, purely because it is the easiest to understand (for the actual posts though i will be reaserching in more depth))

For each of each of the posts, i will also be including some interesting things i found in my research.

Would you all be interested in seeing that?

Also I will probably start a new blog for this so yeahh if i do end up doing it.

Tagging all my moots im sorry to bother you pls dont hate me (ik i dont talk to some of you much but here ya go anyways) (lmk if you want to be added or removed):

@daonedaonlysk @ember-child-of-hecate @lovely-rants-alot @i-am-always-tired-send-help @hellincarnation @urmumsfan @localburntoutkid @songs-of-the-hesperides @theraccoonprophet

@mona-prithey @unhinged-as-hell @akshi-the-nirmata @depressed-bi-twerking @im-on-crack-send-help @bat-fam-lover

@nowjumpinthewater @jeahreading @itsmylovedaydreamdreamdream @eldritchnonsensefromthevoid

@perseus-oh-my-perseus @gaygirldoodles

[achilles-patroclus-comic]

Page 15, panel 1 from Achilles and Patroclus, written by James Washburn and illustrated by Chess Amadé Albaneze.

Indeed, when do we ever hear of these two alone? Achilles is always accompanied by Patroclus, and Patroclus would not even be on our minds without his association with Achilles. Yet, in this innocent moment, it is clear neither boy understands that their names are inevitably to be locked together in tragedy, not the rosy future they both picture for one another. Painted in various inks, micron pen, and colored pencils.

If you'd like to see the full page, head to James's Ko-Fi or Chess's Patreon. The first 8 pages are available in full here on Tumblr.

James Washburn (he/him) is a gay, trans, and disabled Storyteller-Activist born and raised in Seattle. His work is predicated on the idea that a story is best told with many voices, and he is deeply influenced by his Queer, artistic, and Polish communities, and his experiences at the intersection of marginalized identities. He takes inspiration from folklore, mythology, and queer history. His work focuses on discovering queerness in traditional stories and reimagining familiar tropes and archetypes through a queer lens.

Washburn is the Founding Artistic Director of @magpieartistsensemble, an artistic collective focused on innovative cross-disciplinary storytelling.

Chess Amadé Albaneze (he/she/they) has been creating comics since 2009, and their current projects other than A&P include the comic @hooffellas and the queer paranormal DND-style podcast @dandiesindanger. They are an American genderfluid trans masc artist, composer, and performer whose music was performed in the SO Creation Lab and whose voice work can be heard in @janellefeng's short film La Mort de Robespierre.

[dgorringeart]

A captain of ghouls at the battle for the Jagged Rock, War of the Ghouls and Moon-beasts.

Ghouls amuse themselves by appropriating the martial pomp of mankind; they especially like gaudy pieces from armies they found to be delicious or funny.

Note the dessicated fingers and crystal decanter of liquefied bathtub-murder victim brought along as snacks.

A canteen fashioned from skull halves facilitates urine marking, an indispensable social activity for the well-to-do gentleghoul.

[lilypadpanda]

Tutu giving Mytho back the Heart Shards like:

[taxusbaccata6]