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[void-acolyte]

I have an actual email address now.

It is cassian@void-acolyte.com , and you may message me with any queries or submissions for me to add onto the site.

If you know of any resources I have not gotten ahold of (I even have a few Chaosium anthologies), I would very much appreciate it.

I am on a sabbatical of sorts, but I have not forgotten my work and I plan to get back to things as soon as I am ready to.

[void-acolyte]

Normally I would not suggest this, but I can also post random thoughts I had had concerning the Mythos and the nature of some of its deities later.

Have resumed my research as of recently. There is nothing of special note. I have not been on Tumblr as of late, but correspondence and requests of any kind will be answered to the best and quickest of my ability.

Would you all like a "conjectured correspondences" post on Yidhra (like I did with Gloon), and my very brief opinions on a couple of Mythos stories?

[void-acolyte]

Have resumed my research as of recently. There is nothing of special note. I have not been on Tumblr as of late, but correspondence and requests of any kind will be answered to the best and quickest of my ability.

Would you all like a "conjectured correspondences" post on Yidhra (like I did with Gloon), and my very brief opinions on a couple of Mythos stories?

[void-acolyte]

I am currently drowning in obsessive thoughts of which books I wish to obtain for further research purposes, and to further my own collection.

Send help. My wallet shall suffer soon.

[void-acolyte]

Merry Spring Equinox. Hapoy Ostara.

[void-acolyte]

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on godshards.

It is essentially that sharding imparts much more of a parental-child or "kin" relationship as opposed to an exchange where one is indebted to the deity they are a shard of for the rest of their life.

[void-acolyte]

How did you become attuned with your energy? Do you have an astral form?

I think I have always been attuned to it. I assume I do have a dedicated astral form, but the one time I actually traveled I had my physical form and appearance.

[void-acolyte]

What do I do when it no longer resonates and I desire for it to? It is DOA currently, and has been for months.

I have been... busy... but I despise the wait. I know I must maintain my spirituality in the interim, but the desire is simply... dead.

[void-acolyte]

Ibis

[void-acolyte]

“The promise of the King [in Yellow] is that reality can be made to have the properties of stories. That you can look at your own life and feel the same magical sense of yes-this-has-meaning that you feel when you consume your favorite media. That you can make a mask of The Person You Want To Be, and put it on, and it will be the truth… The King is a cruel King. He likes melancholy, tragedy, irony. He’s not necessarily going to make you happy. But if the thing you really want is meaning, well, it may be worth sacrificing some happiness on that altar.”

— Exploring Egregores: Hastur, The Unspeakable (via void-acolyte)

[void-acolyte]

Relating to myself.

I am starting to rethink the concept of sharding. Intensely.

[void-acolyte]

The Yellow Gnosis: Bare Basics

Hastur, Lord of Shepherds.

Abode: The Valley (where Haita lives)

Animals: Sheep, flock animals.

Associated Spirits: Sylvan, Riparian (rivers and streams).

Symbols: The shepherds cane, The Hermit.

Domain(s): Shepherds, water, sea, lakes, mountains, caves, and valleys.

Offerings: Milk, oats or oat cake, berries, reeds, music.

Hastur, The King in Yellow.

Abode: Carcosa

Animals: None (officially).*

Associated Spirits: The Fates.

Other Associations: Royalty, masquerades, masks, marble, gold, visions, Truth.

Symbols: The Yellow Sign**, the Pallid Mask.

Domain(s): Lakes, arts, artists, Truth.

Offerings: Masks, scrolls, tattered cloth (usually pale in color), marble.

Other Texts: The Masque of Red Death, Carcassonne.

*Animals like cats, butterflies, rabbits, and fish make appearances in the stories, but nothing so consistent as to be properly associated. Lilies, too, as one is also turned into marble.

**The common image of the Yellow Sign is a product of Delta Green's Lovecraftian campaigns, but has since been associated with The King In Yellow in pop culture.

Disclaimer: All of this information is directly lifted from the texts.

[void-acolyte]

A shard is basically a piece of a larger spiritual entity that has separated from the original being, either deliberately or accidentally, and continues to live. The shard may be smaller and less powerful, but it still contains the spiritual “DNA” of the original.

The thing I want to emphasize here is that in this context a shard can be a fully functioning individual in its own right.

Shards | Dawn of the Two Feathers

[void-acolyte]

I am starting to rethink the concept of sharding. Intensely.

[void-acolyte]

"That feeling when" you sin and it has a favorable result.

[void-acolyte]

Gives me some... food for thought.

day 281 - energy field

[void-acolyte]

God of what remains

When the air is poor

And light, a faded dream

When the finest luxury

Is but one memory to keep

When dust covers all

And the last sound has ceased

You will hear me calling

As I've always been.

When the sun fades like a flame

Smothered by Fenrir

When time loses its meaning,

With seconds and centuries the same

When all bones crumble to ash

In dunes that fill the place of seas

You will find me

Where I've always been.

When the chains of flesh rust off

The mind is stranded at the veil

Among the husks of stars gone cold,

Hoarding scraps and ghosts of old.

As the ageless static grows

And engulfs their very souls

You will want me

Like you never did.

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