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Suffering from a bad case of cosmic dread? Have you voyaged too far into the midst of the black seas of infinity? Concerned about invisible abominations stalking you in the dead of night? Fortunately, there's help. (SLYT).
While it is just now starting to gain public attention, Elder Sign abuse is a serious problem that may lead to accidental over-warding and possibly even death that is not death but an eternal sleep of nightmares. It is a long-documented issue that has torn many families apart - including my own. Often, young cultists get involved in illicit Elder Sign usage by way of Yog-Sothoth, who is both the Key and the Gateway Drug. Parents, talk to your spawn today about the dangers inherent to Elder Sign abuse.
posted by FatherDagon at 11:52 AM on March 17, 2009 [12 favorites]
posted by FatherDagon at 11:52 AM on March 17, 2009 [12 favorites]
This is your brain on fungi from Yuggoth.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 12:18 PM on March 17, 2009
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 12:18 PM on March 17, 2009
Consult your physician immediately if you experience an erection lasting more than 4 million years.
posted by jbickers at 1:51 PM on March 17, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by jbickers at 1:51 PM on March 17, 2009 [1 favorite]
Artw: Derlethism.
It's been ages since I've read Lovecraft and he's a bit hard to return to as a writer so my memory for what's Lovecraft and what's Derleth is a bit frayed but nothing in the video struck me as not from Lovecraft.
Also, one day I need to figure out if anything of Derleth's is worth reading. His reputation as a writer is rather poor but it would be interesting to sift for gems, at least in his Cthulhu Mythos stuff. Though I've heard that of the early adopters of the Mythos Fritz Leiber was the only one who wrote anything of worth.
posted by Kattullus at 5:40 PM on March 17, 2009
It's been ages since I've read Lovecraft and he's a bit hard to return to as a writer so my memory for what's Lovecraft and what's Derleth is a bit frayed but nothing in the video struck me as not from Lovecraft.
Also, one day I need to figure out if anything of Derleth's is worth reading. His reputation as a writer is rather poor but it would be interesting to sift for gems, at least in his Cthulhu Mythos stuff. Though I've heard that of the early adopters of the Mythos Fritz Leiber was the only one who wrote anything of worth.
posted by Kattullus at 5:40 PM on March 17, 2009
Uh-huh. You're going to take advice from a Yithian?
What, you didn't know?
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 8:20 PM on March 17, 2009
What, you didn't know?
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 8:20 PM on March 17, 2009
They have a natural - OK, sort of... - enemy: "When they attempted to colonize the oceans, the polyps were driven back by the Elder Things."* Well, maybe it's a good thing that their eldritch foes, which seem to have survived to this day after a fashion, are not as formidable as they once were....
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 9:49 PM on March 17, 2009
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 9:49 PM on March 17, 2009
It's been ages since I've read Lovecraft and he's a bit hard to return to as a writer...
You know, I've never been really sure why the "Lovecraft is racist" trope is so persistent. Yes, frequently the non-white people in his fiction are primitive, inbred, and monstrous ... but then, so are the white fishermen from New England. Seems obvious to me that the commentary is on secluded communities of all types, not minorities.
posted by Amanojaku at 3:02 PM on March 18, 2009
You know, I've never been really sure why the "Lovecraft is racist" trope is so persistent. Yes, frequently the non-white people in his fiction are primitive, inbred, and monstrous ... but then, so are the white fishermen from New England. Seems obvious to me that the commentary is on secluded communities of all types, not minorities.
posted by Amanojaku at 3:02 PM on March 18, 2009
It's been ages since I've read Lovecraft and he's a bit hard to return to as a writer so my memory for what's Lovecraft and what's Derleth is a bit frayed but nothing in the video struck me as not from Lovecraft.
Elder Signs first cropped up in Shadow over Innsmouth, and so are from Lovecraft, but IIRC it was Derleth who picked up the idea and had his characters running around waving them about like characters waving crucifixes in a Hammer horror film.
posted by Artw at 3:36 PM on March 18, 2009
Elder Signs first cropped up in Shadow over Innsmouth, and so are from Lovecraft, but IIRC it was Derleth who picked up the idea and had his characters running around waving them about like characters waving crucifixes in a Hammer horror film.
posted by Artw at 3:36 PM on March 18, 2009
You know, I've never been really sure why the "Lovecraft is racist" trope is so persistent.
Well, there's this.
However I suspect that a big part of it is that he's often the only writer people have read from that long ago.
posted by Artw at 3:39 PM on March 18, 2009
Well, there's this.
However I suspect that a big part of it is that he's often the only writer people have read from that long ago.
posted by Artw at 3:39 PM on March 18, 2009
Nice. Thanks, clockworkjoe.
posted by homunculus at 12:18 PM on March 20, 2009
posted by homunculus at 12:18 PM on March 20, 2009
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