Read A Greedy Shadow by Eric Shane Love @eshlove47 #DarkFantasy #Fantasy #Series
Title Of Book: A Greedy Shadow
Series: Glint & Shade Book 2
By: Eric Shane Love
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-Genre: Dark Fantasy, Coming of Age, Occult Horror
Blurb:
Milky light filtered through the skeletal limbs. The moist earth exhaled mist. The stone called. A boy answered. The boy always answered…but waiting there in the creek bed was a wet thing, vile and exposed. Open and hungry with lust.
Book two…
There was a season of Are You Scared? that presented some actual famous creepypasta (pasta? pastas?), and I was so giddy about it. I love creepypasta and Weird Internet Fiction, and I recognized all the famous ones right off the bat; the moment there was a season preview and a cave was mentioned, I KNEW. So the episode with "Ted the Caver" instantly became one of my favorites ("GET IN THE FUCKING CAVE, TEDDY!!"). But it also kills me that the show presents the final installment as if it's the whole story: just one spooked, caveless guy wandering around meebling about his spelunking obsession. Buddy, there is SO MUCH caving in the full version, you don't even know. There is NONE MORE CAVING:
[Note: The original Angelfire site still works, but while I was researching this, I started running into malware. As such, I'm going to also link you to an unofficial mirror of the site at a creepypasta wiki.]
But I get it: there's no way to read the entire story aloud for a half-hour show. It was originally published as an unassuming hobbyist blog in 2001, and "Ted the Caver" is partly so effective because it is genuinely just an amateur caving blog for about 10,000 words. My understanding is that the author really is a caving enthusiast—I mean, he'd have to be, because the story is filled with actual photos of him and a friend chipping their way through a hole the size of a baseball into a cave they dub "Floyd's Tomb." So this was a real expedition... that the author wrote a delightful little spoop around.
Honestly, the real horror for me isn't even the Descent-style Something that seems to be living down there; it's the genuine terror of these fools squeezing themselves through eight-inch openings into the bowels of the earth, God bless. You can tell the mundane aspects are absolutely true to life, because the squeezing and the scraping and the panic—I'll just stop there, in case anyone has any phobias, claustro or otherwise. If I didn't before, I do now.
But it also has to be noted, "real horror" is what "Ted the Caver" is all about: the horror of a story backed up by reams of accurate detail and told through a really, really basic-ass Angelfire website. (I say this lovingly, as someone who had a shitty Geocities site herself.) It truly looks like it's just someone's blog—because that's mostly what it really is. Who wrote it? Well, an actual guy named Ted:
Well, I guess it’s time I add my two cents to the topic. My name is Ted and I am the author of the story you have been discussing. I am the original author. I created the story on my own and copied no one
...he wrote, in response to a plagiarism accusation (turns out the other guy copied him, and closely at that).
Between December 30, 1999 and February 24, 2000 Brad and I worked on a passage in Freeway cave. We made numerous trips, and spent many hours of hard work, before we were finally able to get through the opening and into the new section of cave. During the course of our adventure I kept a caving journal and documented our activities surrounding our attempts to be the first people to enter the new passage. Since we were giving friends and family members updates as we worked, I thought it would be a good idea to put my entire journal on a web page, along with our pictures, then we could simply refer people to the site.
The thought then occurred to me: It sure would be fun to embellish the story a little!
Ted hasn't given his full name, but he is an actual Ted, it seems. And honestly, as much as I would like him to be credited as openly as Eric Heisserer is for "The Dionaea House," it really works in the story's favor that it's so difficult to figure out who wrote it. Not to spoil you, but the story told by the blog, much to Shane and Ryan's frustration in the video above, ends in a single puff of irony:
See all of you soon, with a lot of answers!
Love,
Ted
Magnificent. Because, let's face it: if a cave monster really did eat trap and eat your friend, isn't this what it would look like? No silly explanation for how a video camera somehow made it back to his friends and family from, like, the center of the fucking earth through a hole the size of a cantaloupe. No, your man there is just gone. And he's given enough detail in previous entries for you to imagine that what he finally came face to face with down there is Not Good. That's enough.
aube_perrie: 2/2
@pascal_molina, @beatrik @currynneon @luigirossi.tv @christopher.c.ripley @gwenghelid @iamspark @pulsefilms what can I say, where should I start, you’re family, you’ve all given so much to this, insane talent, generosity and friendship, made it all feel like a never-ending fairytale. thank you for being my friend, love you! @patienceharding @lindseyhartman so so so glad we got to go back at it, once again it was an absolute treat. @joshgmontes killed it man, so happy to have you on board! thank you @ryan.heffington for your absolute kindness and generosity, what a treat to meet you, @kilianmartinsk8 you’re so humble yet so insanely talented, thanks for joining us without a blink. thank you legend @coxusa for giving your magical voice to our story. thank you @electric.theatre.collective @jasoncolourist @onegearconvert @750_mph @cinelabuk for handling our baby with care. warmest most gigantic thanks to the whole whole crew and cast, amazing people we shared the craziest moments with. you made it all! feel so lucky to get to work with so many great persons and talents. will share full credits in next posts! everyone was so kind to this project. thank you russell, adam, tori, ann, shane, mathias, lauren, roland, joseph, eric, james…last but certainly not least, thank you @thekiaforum @nationalparkservice for being the most amazing host to us, and thank you @nasa for inspiring this whole journey, for making us all dream, and for taking us in. curiosity, you’re in all our hearts. thank you for tweeting about us! also thank you to you all with all our hearts for giving stomper and its story the most emotional welcome, @harrystyles your fans are just as magical as you are. stomper, I love you. I hope that one day you finally get to meet curiosity. farewell my little friend.
@pascal_molina, @beatrik @currynneon @luigirossi.tv @christopher.c.ripley @gwenghelid @iamspark @pulsefilms what can I say, where should I start, you’re family, you’ve all given so much to this, insane talent, generosity and friendship, made it all feel like a never-ending fairytale. thank you for being my friend, love you! @patienceharding @lindseyhartman so so so glad we got to go back at it, once again it was an absolute treat. @joshgmontes killed it man, so happy to have you on board! thank you @ryan.heffington for your absolute kindness and generosity, what a treat to meet you, @kilianmartinsk8 you’re so humble yet so insanely talented, thanks for joining us without a blink. thank you legend @coxusa for giving your magical voice to our story. thank you @electric.theatre.collective @jasoncolourist @onegearconvert @750_mph @cinelabuk for handling our baby with care. warmest most gigantic thanks to the whole whole crew and cast, amazing people we shared the craziest moments with. you made it all! feel so lucky to get to work with so many great persons and talents. will share full credits in next posts! everyone was so kind to this project. thank you russell, dam, tori, ann, shane, mathias, lauren, roland, joseph, eric, james…last but certainly not least, thank you @thekiaforum @nationalparkservice for being the most amazing host to us, and thank you @nasa for inspiring this whole journey, for making us all dream, and for taking us in. curiosity, you’re in all our hearts. thank you for tweeting about us! also thank you to you all with all our hearts for giving stomper and its story the most emotional welcome, @harrystyles your fans are just as magical as you are. stomper, I love you. I hope that one day you finally get to meet curiosity. farewell my little friend.
i've been thinking of writing a stardew valley au of the magnus archives with martin as the farmer and jon as some misanthrope researcher living maybe on a flat above the library instead of gunther (perhaps he's researching the strange monsters that appear in the mines and you don't see nearly anywhere else in the world...)
if i were to write it, i think it would be fun to replace canon sdv characters with tma characters, wouldn't it? maybe sasha as maru, perhaps renting a room in the house in the mountains from robin (assuming i don't change her for, say, gertrude? eric and gerry could be there as well. perhaps the house is gertrude's but eric is her assistant– or her son and gerry her actual grandson– and has taken over some of the manual work with her aging, and gerry as sebastian?)
perhaps helen and michael could be there instead of emily and haley? trevor and daisy (julia is in a band now. good for her.) could run the adventurer's guild and daisy could be in shane's place (see: recovering from addiction/unhealthy habits as a parallel to the hunt) perhaps she'd be physically disabled in some way, that would be an explanation as to why the mines are not purged from monsters overnight (can you tell i love daisy)?? basira could be in marnie's place and helping daisy recover while she recovers herself? :)
tim and danny as sam and vincent, with danny as an older vincent but younger than canon danny, perhaps?? waiting for their father or mother or both to return from the war with the gotoro empire? (maybe he had always lived there, moved to a bigger city for a while and returned when the war started. maybe he, sasha and jon are working for the same long-term monster researching project. wouldn't it be nice if martin just came bumbling around one day and drastically started indirectly improving their research productivity with his sdv farmer endeavors?? the four of them engaging in shenanigans?? think about it.)
georgie could be kind of like sandy/visit from time to time from the city, make it a jon heart event first and then a melanie one. melanie could be an aggressive version of leah ("youtuber lives in charming yet spooky town in a cabin in the woods, has a successful channel and a podcast girlfriend. good for her.")
there would be different heart events suiting more the canon characters (maybe sasha's 8-heart could be her venting about how she moved to pelican town because someone tried to kill her and steal her identity, tim's about how a circus kidnapped his little brother as a kid like in that one statement, etc. and i'm vibrating like i'll break glass jusr by thinking of what to do with jon.)
at some point jon is sent by elias to the "my ex-husband took the furniture" quest and martin tags along for the fun of it.
i don't know what to do with harvey because he's my husband and i love him and i don't want him gone but i'll think about it. after all, i'm still missing caroline, pierre and abigail (although they could pretty well be mikaele salesa running the store with annabelle working and living there.) perhaps naomi herne should suit the harvey role?? she's peaceful enough to not make me angry for not getting to have my dearest harvey right there. she'd be a doctor, obviously, and perhaps michael could work with her as a part-time nurse? she's waiting for her husband to return from the war (evan herne was sent to the army by his family for abandoning the lukas jojamart family business and marrying naomi, but he'll come back, fear not.)
diego molina and agnes montague as pam and penny doesn't sound bad, and i'm seriously considering having elias be both lewis and the wizard. for the fun of it? perhaps everyone but jon (and later martin) wonders who the wizard is- he calls himself the wizard j. magnus because he's a pretentious bastard. (jon has been set in a position where if he reveals this he gets turned into a plant or something) and he's also the mayor of the town (his legal name is very much elias bouchard.) also, instead of the affair with marnie he has an affair with morris the jojamart guy (peter lukas.)
george, evelyn and alex could be replaced by julia and trevor– they could be softer, less hunt but still recovering from the same thing as daisy– and julia could have a petty feud with jon because, before she knew she was a lesbian, she fancied gerry and gerry used jon as an escape tactic. nothing came of it between gerry and jon but the incident stayed and it was very funny to everyone else.
jude perry could fit clint (and keep on her incel pining over agnes, have a petty feud with jon, because she burned his hand "accidentally" and also because jon is very good at creating petty feuds with people. martin and i both love that man), and krobus and the dwarf could stay like that, etc. and perhaps jas could be daisy's goddaughter that she's struggling to raise (it could be an event, her realising that she needs to pull herself together and stop letting basira raise her alone, just paying half the bills won't cut it– maybe they weren't even together before this and a year or two after her starting the path towards recovery they get together??)
perhaps for willy we could put oliver banks and mike crew there?? local lightning-scarred man is entranced by the vastness of the sea (+his goth not-yet-partner). local hot goth fisherman is so done with everything and just wants peace with the dead quiet of the sea (he rants about death to martin as a heart event, fight me). they should also be a little bit older, to balance the age range of people in town and also because yes.
also jojamart. i think it shoudl stay jojamart because i need someone to make a jmart pun somewhere.
if i should set elias as the wizard/lewis, peter lukas as morris jojamart, who could simon fairchild be?gus, maybe? god knows he's funny enough to be the owner of a saloon. it's funny to imagine his banter with helen while working busy nights there (helen i love you why does the fandom only care about michael.)
i don't know who else i could switch off but if anyone has any ideas both the comment section and my ask box are open :)
You know how Shane beat the Wizard in a poll by just a little when ConcernedApe asked who to make the next male bachelor?
Now, I love Shane but can you imagine what the fuck Eric would have cooked up for the Wizard route????? With the hints about Abigail already in the game?? I’m so curious
Every Record I Own - Day 795: The Pogues Rum, Sodomy, & the Lash
RIP Shane MacGowan.
I bought this LP in Camden Town, London back in 1999 when Botch was on our first European tour. I honestly don't remember much about the UK leg of the trip other than that we had a day off after the London show and we opted to stay at a promoter's house until some crazy late-night / early-morning hour before heading south to catch the ferry to France. Earlier in the day, I grabbed this LP for £8, along with a Belle & Sebastian EP. I stayed up while other people slept so that I could use the promoter's stereo to copy the records onto cassette tape for the rest of the tour.
I wasn't well versed in The Pogues, but the year prior I had gone on a road trip with some friends from Seattle to San Diego to see Unbroken play a show shortly after their guitarist Eric Allen passed away. We drove 24 hours straight, and one of the few tapes in my friend's car to keep us entertained was The Pogues' Waiting for Herb. I don't remember much about that trip, but I remember listening to "Smell of Petroleum" while everyone else was asleep and thinking I needed to listen to more of The Pogues at some point.
So I picked up Rum, Sodomy, & the Lash. The second "The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn" jumps from the somber opening bars to Shane MacGowan yelling "when you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne / and you heard the rattling death train as you lay there all alone," I was sold. I loved the duality of these accessible and anthemic folk songs mixed with the vulgar and profane rantings of MacGowan. It felt like hearing an Irish trad band just before a fight breaks out.
And yet there is something sentimental and moving behind Rum, Sodomy, & the Lash as well. "The Old Main Drag" might carry an air of irreverence and filth, but there's an endearing melancholy to it too.
I went to a Shane MacGowan show in downtown Seattle a few years later. Murder City Devils opened, and then there was a nearly two-hour gap before Shane took the stage. I learned later that he'd disappeared during the changeover, wandering the alleys of downtown looking for crack. When he finally got corralled back to the club, he was so hammered he could barely perform. But much like that night in London where I sat in a dark living room transferring this LP to a tape or that overnight drive down the coast to California, sometimes the unspectacular moments stay with you longer than the supposed highlights. And MacGowan, along with the rest of his bandmates, excelled at taking insignificant moments, failures, and tragedies and making them feel imbued with a defiant power.
There is NO Return-to-Sender on this one! Hallmark Mystery took to its Social Media last night to officially announce/deliver the exciting news ALL POstables (Signed, Sealed, Delivered fans) have been waiting for: "#POSTABLES, WE'RE BACK!" I captured the image above as soon as I saw it, and I may have squealed with excitement!
Hallmark shared this wonderful news with the image (above) of the main Signed, Sealed, Delivered cast - Eric Mabius, Crystal Lowe, Kristin Booth, and Geoff Gustafson - from the movie Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again, and I must say, the series truly is returning to its Hallmark home - once again!
The last Signed, Sealed, Delivered film, Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made, was released in 2021, so it's been a long hiatus. Will the cast pick up where they left off—immediately after Oliver and Shane were married—or will time have gone by since then? Ironically enough, only time will tell. Certainly, there will be some changes; even the channel SSD premieres on has changed, from Hallmark Movies & Mysteries to Hallmark Mystery!
Fans took to Social Media with the best enthusiastic responses to this news:
That is so exciting!!!! Love these movies!!!! ~melans4
Ohhh my goodness!! One of my favorite shows everrrr ~wildflowerlynn17
Yay! It’s my favorite show! ~caryhayes9
On Cloud 9 from hearing this news!! Thank you to all involved in making this dream a reality!! #POstables. Trust the timing and the time is now!! Woohoo! ~@TomaselloNat
This is great news! Thank you to seeing that fans and making this happen. Can hardly wait! ~@DarleneCoward
Better late than never! This is spectacular news! Best movie series on Hallmark! ~@BethP9999
Seeing all the happy #POstables fans on my timeline tonight makes me so happy!! 😁 #SSD #Hallmark ~@MarieP864248
This is such great news! Thank you to everyone for making it happen! ~@metallicangel1
BEST. NEWS. EVER!!! #POstables ~@ChicadeeB
Wahoo! The Best Cast & Crew Ever! The Best Fans Ever! #POstables Perseverance!!!📫❤️📫 ~@BellgalAnn
YAY!! We POstables have been waiting years for this news!! Thank you Hallmark, Ms. Williamson, & fab 4! Keep 'em coming!! ~@A_Plain_Janeite
#POstables #TheMasterpiece is coming back! We are excited about the announcement of more #SSD! We have missed @MarthaMoonWater @kristintbooth @Eric_Mabius @RealCrystalLowe and @geoffgustafson! Thank you, #LisaHamiltonDaly @hallmarkmystery ~@dcrittenden78
This gives a whole new meaning to March Madness! I cannot believe it - I'm SO grateful to @hallmarkmystery! @MarthaMoonWater & Oliver O'Toole taught us to always Trust The Timing! The DLO is officially open! Break out the Yoo-Hoo: Double Fudge! #POstables ~@TennisChik
OH HAPPY DAY!!!!! This is amazing! So exciting! Thank you, Hallmark Mystery, for this great news and for believing in this Emmy-worthy series, sublime writing, and stellar cast. It is a great day to be a #POstable, that's for sure!!! ~@wowbax
“It’s all good and it keeps getting better…” We trusted the timing and it paid off!! So excited that the DLO will be open once more and we get to see the Fab 4 [and Joe, Sharon and Ramon] #POstables ~@lynneaosborn
Wow!! This is knockout news! #Postables #SSD ~@RPopBox
BEST news ever 🥰 Cue the happy tears 🥹 Couldn’t be more excited to see this amazing cast back together solving more letter mysteries in 2024 👏🏻💌 Thank you @hallmarkmystery! ~@SwingMyHeartPod
I’m so thrilled with this announcement of an SSD movie for 2024! This @MarthaMoonWater creation is so special to me & the cast is beyond compare! May this be the beginning of a wheel of movies that will continue for years to come. Your viewers are thankful & I know more will come ~@TrevaCorke
#POstables are ecstatic! 🎉 It was hard to #TrustTheTiming, but it paid dividends! Can’t wait to see the best ensemble cast back to tell more unique & meaningful stories! Yay #POstables ❤️📬🎬🎉 ~@MarybethMkprudz
Signed sealed delivered miracles do happen #POstables so happy I am crying. Tears of joy ~@tvmoviesparks88
The moment we’ve long been waiting!!! Our prayers have finally been answered #POstables!! Thank you @hallmarkmystery for not giving up on us!! I’m literally in tears, HAPPY TEARS!! 🙏❤️ ~@FotoulaB
#POstables there’s a time to laugh and a time to love, there’s a time to dance and a time to celebrate. Today is that day! Our favourite show is coming back!! @Eric_Mabius @kristintbooth @RealCrystalLowe @geoffgustafson Woohoo!! ~@Discoqueen63
I just loved reading everyone's excitement over this news! Even though we sort of knew it was happening due to production notes and clues from the cast, it was still a huge thrill to see Hallmark's official announcement!
If you'd like to check out this wonderful series filled with moments of faith, love, drama, inspiration, humor, and more... please be sure to visit my Signed, Sealed, Delivered Series/Movies in Chronological Order page - here. DVDs for each film are also listed there.
Also, if you have the Hallmark Family channel, you can look forward to a 3-day SSD marathon next week, running from Monday, March 25th through Wednesday, March 27th!
Thank you to the incredible SSD cast and Hallmark for making these new Signed, Sealed, Delivered movies possible!
It was divine providence, I believe, that Hallmark chose the image from Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again to share this news because we POstables are absolutely ready to welcome Signed, Sealed, Delivered into our Homes Again!
Wondering what gay rare pairings do you have for PR, wanted to see if there was some I had in common👀?
Might write some one shots of them!
Oh what a lovely jar of worms to open up. As far as I'm concerned ALL of the PR characters are queer, but let's see what I can actually put down that has standing in any capacity.
MMPR/Boom! Comics/Shattered Grid/Beyond the Grid (they overlap so much):
Billy Cranston/Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch
Jason Scott/Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier
Kimberly Hart/Aisha Campbell
Tommy Oliver/Jason Scott
Violet Arias/Zack Taylor/Jason Scott/Trini
Stone Canyon OT3
Kiya/Trini
Matt Cook/Skull/Billy (in that order)
Bulk/Skull/Tommy (I have a friend whose fault this is)
David Trueheart/Stan Skullovitch (same friend)
Daniel O'Halloran/Trek
Daniel O'Halloran/Terona Washington
Jamie Gilmore/Nikolai Chukarin
1969 Rangers OT5
Grace Sterling/Andrea
Virgil | Red Psycho Ranger/Photon | Black Psycho Ranger
Nokrea | Pink Psycho Ranger/Yellow Psycho Ranger
Andros/T.J. Johnson
Andros/Zhane
Dhaza/Maavi
Remi/Ari
Goldar/Scorpina
Lord Drakkon & Omega Jason Scott (platonic)
Lord Drakkon & Red Sentry Skull (sexual)
Black Sentry Adam Park/Scorpina
Scorpina/Coinless Trini
Black Sentry Adam/Red Sentry Skull (they need someone in hell)
Coinless Zack/Coinless Trini/Coinless Bulk
Ranger Slayer Kimberly/Coinless Bulk
Heckyl & Cam & Kim (platonic friends)
T.J. Johnson & Kelsey Winslow & Karone & Mia Watanabe & Conner McKnight (background rangers UNITE as platonic babies)
J.J. Oliver/Anara
Turbo/In Space:
Andros/Zhane
Cassie/Ashley
Rangers OT6
Psycho Rangers OT5
Lost Galaxy:
Maya & Bulk (platonic, platonic, platonic--I just like the idea of her having a friend who isn't a ranger)
Damon/Leo
Lightspeed Rescue:
Chad/Joel
Kelsey/Dana
Chad/Marina
Carter/Ryan (queer-platonic)
Time Force:
Eric/Wes/Jen
Eric & Trip (opening up that circle of friends for Mr. Grumpy)
Katie/Nadira
Wild Force:
N/A
Ninja Storm:
Dustin/Shane/Tori/Cam
Tori/Kapri
Marah/Dustin
Dino Thunder:
Kira/Ethan/Conner
Cassidy/Trent/Devin
Elsa/Hayley
SPD:
Kat/Doggie (no, I DO NOT care about the wife)
A Squad OT5
B Squad OT5
Jack/Sky
Z/Sky
Mystic Force:
Leelee/Clare
Leelee/Clare/Phineas
Xander/Chip/Vida
Operation Overdrive:
N/A
Jungle Fury:
R.J./Fran
Fran/Lily/Camille
Jarrod & Casey (good for trauma healing)
RPM:
Ziggy/Dillon
Summer/Scott/Flynn
OT5
Gem/Dr. K/Gemma
Samurai:
Lauren/Mia/Emily
Antonio/Jayden
Mike/Kevin
Spike Skullovitch & Rangers (friend, friend, friend, pleeeease; I don't want them fucking him and he's too good for them)
Megaforce:
Emma/Jake (another friend got me into this, even though I have never watched anything from this series except for the Big Showdown)
Dino Charge:
Koda/Ivan/Heckyl
Ninja Steel:
Calvin/Preston
Victor/Monty
Hyperforce:
N/A
Beast Morphers:
Betty/Devon