#Cassilda

[lovelaceace]

I am slowly descending to madness, it seems.

[redacted-metallum]

I like my voice enough for this

[they/them]

[tenebris-metallum]

I think I finished the lineart for this in like uhhhhh January?  And then I procrastinated on coloring it.  Oops.

Anyway!  A version of Cassilda!  In my mind she’s a similar or the same “type” of being as the King himself, but considerably weaker because she’s a much younger entity.  Where Hastur as the King is the God of Carcosa, she is the God of Ythil.  If that makes any sense.

If you spot True Detective influences: yeah :]

[dreamyard1]

[wackadoojibbering]

[talefoundryshow]

NEW IN STORE!

“Song of my soul, my voice is dead.”

Abbie has given us a beautiful glimpse into the lost, crumbling city of Carcosa and its tattered King. It won’t be around forever, so be sure to pick yours up before they’re gone!

[mordenandmerry]

I just found out that you can sing Cassilda’s song over Faroe’s song and I need people to know about this

[stelyos]

My three characters in varied romantic situations with @miss-goggles's one character. (over the span of different timelines/universes). Secret Santa 2023 (New Year Ver.)

[creekschaoscorner]

Malevoversary 2024 - Day 6

(Alternate Prompts)

Fave Villain • Poetry • Parallels

[solidwater05]

Oh my god it's finished

So! @interrobang-merchant!

I don't have much to say about this besides the fact that I got very carried away when I was designing the hand, as you can probably tell. And also that I'm very inconsistent with details. Oops

And also this was made before a few extra descriptions were made so it's not super accurate

[lovelaceace]

Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches

The last time I needed twenty stitches

To sew up the gash

That you made with your lash

As we danced to the Masochism Tango

[redacted-metallum]

Bitches will make it so that you cannot forget Carcosa, where black stars hang in the heavens, where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon when the twin suns sink into the Lake of Hali and be like "can't help being a Taurus ♉💫💛!"

[iampresent]

When I tell you this goddamn book has me in a chokehold

[carp-from-space]

Camilla, sister... I have a feeling we are close.

Cassilda, dear... Just enjoy your drink before the seagulls get to it and then we will continue to see to the missing sibling affair.

More OCs,more familly. Big sisters doing big sister things almost 3 decades after family youngest went missing.

[sadcypress]

New season of Nature of My Game starts up tomorrow, and the trailer is out now! This one ends in a very, very different place than it begins, but boy, it sure does begin with traumatized friends doing the 1895 Parisian equivalent of seeing your friend’s improv show and it goes about as well as you’d imagine.

We also have art showing off how cute our characters are, if you are into that sort of thing:

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[milfglupshitto]

Review: Cassilda's Song

Cassilda's Song: Tales Inspired by Robert W. Chambers King in Yellow Mythos was one of the anthologies on the further reading list in the back of my copy of The King in Yellow. Specifically, it's a collection of stories by women writers interacting with the concepts and beats from the foundational text. I got around to reading through it yesterday, so this is just going to be a quick review!

Overall: hits and misses. I categorically resent the fact that so many collections of fiction by women are entirely absent of stories that don't involve sexual abuse, or conflate womanhood with suffering or mystify the experience of women as entirely alien. My sister put it really well when we were talking about it: depictions of women's sexuality aren't subversive if they posit it as either 1) nonexistent without assault or 2) inherently abnormal, and a lot of stories in this collection do that. I was not surprised that many of the author bios mentioned dark fantasy. Outside of this trend, I enjoyed most of the stories when I considered them individually.

Spotlight on my favorites from this collection (in the order that they appear):

Nicole Cushing's "Yella": Checked every unsanitary box, very difficult for me to get through given my personal compulsions but mercifully very short. Absolutely fantastic character work in such a limited page count, really visceral and physically grounded.

Helen Marshall's "Exposure": Immediately grabbed me with its modern style and the vitality of its (bigoted, judgemental) narrator. Loved the way that it initially demystifies the cosmic locations before bringing all the incomprehensibility back in.

Maura McHugh's "Family": Really interesting weaving of interpersonal dynamics that hits on a lot of the unreliability of the original text. Very solid character voice and grounded set dressing.

Nadia Bulkin's "Pro Patria!": This story has no equal in the collection. Only author to really grapple with the colonial implications of the mythos, horror is frighteningly realistic and I'm fascinated by how the cosmic elements act only as a backlight for the mundane. I'm highly tempted to scan the whole thing in so that everyone can read it.

E. Catherine Tobler and Damien Angelica Walter's "Her Beginning is Her End is Her Beginning": Both authors contributed a story each to the collection on their own, but I didn't like either nearly as much as I liked this one. The jumping put me in mind of This is How You Lose the Time War, and its approach to the power-of-language idea that's so present in Chambers was excellent. Will say however that I was extremely thrown off by the inclusions of real historical figures- that did not work for me. The creation myth it establishes is a high point.