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HP Lovecraft was a very racist and reactionary man whose stories often reflected his actual beliefs about certain groups of people and new technology, but sometimes I see people talking about that who act like everything in his stories must have been things he was actually terrified of in real life. And it feels maybe a little bit extremely infantilizing to assume that this mentally ill man must have been cowering under his bedsheets for fear of colours outside of the normal human perception all day instead of that he just like. Made it up. As an expression of the unknown in his story about how things you don’t understand and aren’t even aware of can be killing you and you don’t realize until too late. You know, like an author would.

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women should be allowed to manifest tendrils

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I will not put Megalopolis (2024) on my Call of Cthulhu campaign recommended reading I will not put Megalopolis (2024) on my Call of Cthulhu campaign recommended reading I will not pu-

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The King in Yellow | R. W. Chambers

[ID: Seven pictures of a hand-bound copy of The King in Yellow, photographed from different angles and from different portions of the book. The first picture shows the front cover, which has painted-style artwork of the King in Yellow on it, along with the author name, R. W. Chambers, and title, The King in Yellow, in black in a serif font. The color scheme is red, yellow, and black. The second picture shows the back cover, bound in red printed paper with a black crown in the middle of it, the binder logo on the bottom left, and a barcode on the bottom right. The third picture shows the spine, bound in black faux leather, with the title, author's last name, and a crown on the top in gold foil and the binder name, Blue Skies Books, on the bottom in gold foil. There is also a swirling design foiled in the middle. The fourth picture shows the top of the book, highlighting a black, red, and gold sewn endband. The fifth picture shows the endpapers, which are gold with a gold foil art deco pattern on them. The sixth picture shows the title page, which has black-and-white artwork of the King in Yellow on it as well as the title and author name in a yellow art deco font. The seventh picture shows a chapter title page midway through the book. There is an ornament with a crown in the middle of it beneath the chapter title, then a snippet of poetry, and then the chapter text begins. /End ID]

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Finally dusted off my half-finished typeset of Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow and bound it! This bind features stunning artwork by @linas-artstuff (cover) and @fadesinthelight (title page), and I think both pieces really elevated the bind to another level! I'm hugely fond of the red/black/gold color scheme, and the faux leather on the spine paired really well with the printed covers. I tackled the three-piece bradel binding style yet again, as I like it the best for featuring printed covers (even though it's kind of a hassle to work with 😂), and while it also led to my covers being about a millimeter thicker than I'd intended for them to be, I actually like the extra heft it gives this bind. Overall, I'm pleased with this bind (despite the not one but two typos on the cover--can you spot them?), and I look forward to (finally) reading this book!

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The King in Yellow | R. W. Chambers

[ID: Seven pictures of a hand-bound copy of The King in Yellow, photographed from different angles and from different portions of the book. The first picture shows the front cover, which has painted-style artwork of the King in Yellow on it, along with the author name, R. W. Chambers, and title, The King in Yellow, in black in a serif font. The color scheme is red, yellow, and black. The second picture shows the back cover, bound in red printed paper with a black crown in the middle of it, the binder logo on the bottom left, and a barcode on the bottom right. The third picture shows the spine, bound in black faux leather, with the title, author's last name, and a crown on the top in gold foil and the binder name, Blue Skies Books, on the bottom in gold foil. There is also a swirling design foiled in the middle. The fourth picture shows the top of the book, highlighting a black, red, and gold sewn endband. The fifth picture shows the endpapers, which are gold with a gold foil art deco pattern on them. The sixth picture shows the title page, which has black-and-white artwork of the King in Yellow on it as well as the title and author name in a yellow art deco font. The seventh picture shows a chapter title page midway through the book. There is an ornament with a crown in the middle of it beneath the chapter title, then a snippet of poetry, and then the chapter text begins. /End ID]

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Finally dusted off my half-finished typeset of Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow and bound it! This bind features stunning artwork by @linas-artstuff (cover) and @fadesinthelight (title page), and I think both pieces really elevated the bind to another level! I'm hugely fond of the red/black/gold color scheme, and the faux leather on the spine paired really well with the printed covers. I tackled the three-piece bradel binding style yet again, as I like it the best for featuring printed covers (even though it's kind of a hassle to work with 😂), and while it also led to my covers being about a millimeter thicker than I'd intended for them to be, I actually like the extra heft it gives this bind. Overall, I'm pleased with this bind (despite the not one but two typos on the cover--can you spot them?), and I look forward to (finally) reading this book!

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“It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.”

— At the Mountains of Madness, H.P Lovecraft

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*Posts this for the Jarthur monster frickers*

*leaves with no explanations*

John be like:

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I blame @fleshpark for violently reminding me about the Italian horror/fetish comic, Necron drawn by Magnus, that ran from 1981-1985. The "nymphomaniac and necrophiliac" mad scientist Frieda Boher is just domme Herbert West. Look at this bitch I'm in love.

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I just remembered I have this blog and I can use it to bitch about Cool Air misinterpretations

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the SCP vending machine does not get nearly enough love and it’s my absolute favorite

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Hello, everyone!

The gates have brought the party to a place of horror and dismay. The very walls of this horrific plane are hungry and they want the heroes for breakfast.

Yet the group has to go on, further than ever before. They will have to tread very carefully and be very resilient or this place will swallow them whole.

The creature tokens for this map are a Rampaging Devil Lord, a Reanimated Flesh Abomination and a Slithering Devil Lord. Emerald tier gets the Reanimated Flesh Abomination while Diamond tier gets all three. In addition, Sapphire tier gets extra creature token variants.

You can see a preview of all of this week’s Patreon content here.

Thank you very much for taking a look and be sure to check out my Patreon where you can pledge for gridless version, alternate map versions as well as the tokens pertaining to this map.

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I wouldn't say I'm a lapsed cultist. I still accept the basic worldview--I believe that Cthulhu lies in R'lyeh in a deathlike sleep, I believe his Star-spawn shall one day cleanse the earth and usher in an age of shouting and killing and reveling in joy, yada yada--but I'm not, y'know, religious about it. Cthulhu has lied sleeping for, like, countless aeons, he's probably not waking up in my lifetime. I doubt giving up my Friday nights to chant "Cthulhu fhtagn" with a bunch of naked old guys in a basement is gonna wake him up any faster. I mean, if I ever have kids, I'll probably start going again, but that's more about teaching good morals.

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"When randolph carter was thirty he lost the key to the gate of dreams."

this is still one of my favorite openers to a story ever, and one of the first Lovecraft stories i ever read, i don't love his writing from a like, narrative standpoint, but the style of the writing and the landscapes described are super inspiring and evocative. I started to imagine what the gate of dreams might look like, and what sort of key might be required, and these are some sketched out ideas of that.

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I think people know Lovecraft is a good horror author but they don't know what artistic choices made him a good horror author. Many aspiring horror authors are (understandably) distracted by how dope the miskatonic mythos is, and come away thinking "tentacles = lovecraftian = good horror."

This is compounded by how many of the best Lovecraftian works are not written by Lovecraft at all. Imo, King in Yellow is good, but for very different reasons than why Color Out of Space is good. Lovecraft and Chambers have different strengths and styles as authors!

Also! It suffers from its own success! You can only read so many stories about a young scholar travelling to an anonynous small american town, only to get got by a cult, before it becomes predictable. It's why imo Nethescurial is one of Ligotti's weaker stories. Not to say Ligotti doesn't understand Lovecraft. He does, but Nethescurial suffers from the sheer popularity of Miskatonic themes.

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i'm sorry i don't know the source of this because it was posted on reddit without credit but i'm obsessed with this