#Fungi from Yuggoth

[valhahazred]

The Fungi are trying.

[tomoleary]

Dan Day “Fungi from Yuggoth” Lovecraft game (1985) Source

[virovac]

I think the Fungi From yuggoth ( and beyond) are best portrayed as religious in. the mix of it being a diplomacy thing, giving homage to local powers and traditions as they travel… and in the way computer engineers are with their superstitions.

[bluejohnhook56]

Fungi from Yuggoth

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

XXXVI. Continuity

There is in certain ancient things a trace

Of some dim essence—more than form or weight;

A tenuous aether, indeterminate,

Yet linked with all the laws of time and space.

A faint, veiled sign of continuities

That outward eyes can never quite descry;

Of locked dimensions harbouring years gone by,

And out of reach except for hidden keys.

It moves me most when slanting sunbeams glow

On old farm buildings set against a hill,

And paint with life the shapes which linger still

From centuries less a dream than this we know.

In that strange light I feel I am not far

From the fixt mass whose sides the ages are.

[hoodedfigure-no99]

This has been in my head for ages, it’s finally crawled (chaos) it’s way out

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Part 3 Lovecraft and animals: Unicorns - A white unicorn is featured with the heraldric shield of the royal family of England. Lovecraft fancied himself a loyal citizen of England his whole life. His father may have had actual English citizenship and was supposedly chided occasionally for his English accent. HPL himself did not affect the English accent and by his own admission spoke in a typical refined New England mode. ( by all accounts he had a very high, almost falsetto voice, however) As to unicorns: grotesque creatures with a single horn at the top of their heads are featured in Lovecraft's ghost written tale THE MOUND (unpublished during his lifetime). These lumbering beasts which are used for transportation and as a food source are called, gyaa-yoth by the proto- Indians living beneath the surface. Their pre-human civilization is called, K'n-yan. The gyaa-yoth are furry, and generally white except for a patch of black fur where a saddle would normally be. They are able to communicate with their decadent proto-human masters to some degree. If these creatures were meant to be the racial memories for unicorns then the human mind has certainly imagined them as far more delicate and graceful creatures as unicorns! Yeti, Abominable Snowman, Mi-go, - in Lovecraft's tale, THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS, we learn that the Fungi From Yuggoth creatures who now inhabit the remote hills of Vermont here on earth as well as the Himalayas of Tibet are the the true original source of all Yeti legends. Pink, crab-like, with multiple legs and crab-like claws, these alien entities also wear wings in some cases and have heads that are essentially formed from grotesque fungi. They are able to communicate with their own kind by displaying changing color patterns on the heads? Furry white or brown apes/ pink multi- limbed crabs with mushroom heads? Yeah, apparently human 'racial memory' is pretty sketchy! (Exhibit 411)

[vintagerpg]

What Happened at Wyvern Rock? (2020, I think) feels like a companion to Other Magic. Perhaps that’s just because I bought them at the same time as part of the same collection. Perhaps because they are both illustrated with lovely woodcuts (though with very different styles). But I think thematically, too. Where Other Magick imports folk magic to RPGs, the stated intention of Wyvern Rock is to bring Strangeness to D&D.

Drew Meger defines Strangeness as an experience or encounter that seems to challenge or defy our underlying understanding of the real world. That seems a touch broad to me, but in practice, Meger is essentially talking about the specific sense of strangeness attached to UFO sightings, cryptids and the fog of mystical and quasi-scientific oddness that tends to surround both. UFOs and Grey Aliens and the Moth Man are concepts that feel very much rooted in the 20th century, but in a weird way, they work extremely well in the context of D&D.

The zine is mostly interested in the Greys and in portraying these aliens and building adventures around them, I can’t help but be reminded of Delta Green, where they, and the Fungi from Yuggoth that control them, work in a similar way. I would not have thought that recontextualizing alien abduction folkore into D&D would work so well, but then I was kind of dubious about Call of Cthulhu meets X-Files, and I love that game now, so really, what do I know?

The main zine is accompanied by a bit of fiction called On Tattered Wings. It’s a fun little bit of cryptids meet D&D cotton candy with some fantastic art. I love Meger’s fusion of UFOs, Lovecraftiana and D&D imagery generally, but it really comes together for me in the fiction zine.

[howlingdemon13]

Betelgeuse I was hugely inspired by a bunch of artists and fic writers in the fandom, as well as a few monster artists who specialize in combining different creatures into beasts that actually look cohesive. I’m not sure how well I was able to execute the vision here, but I’m really proud of it regardless! DiamondZ, nonbinary-arsonist, stinkyhorsebitch, and arbuzyansky were the main catalysts for this, so definitely take a peek at their work or give them a follow. I was initially going to submit this guy for a staff art show, but I don't want to rush the rest of it, so I'm just going to post what I have finished here. Design notes are under the cut.

In earlier drafts, I was looking into more serpentine-looking designs since Beetlejuice turns into a snake in the film. Some of the concepts I was leaning towards looked like either a lindworm or centipede, but I think mammalian fits Musicaljuice since he’s “softer” in a lot of aspects compared to his film counterpart. I may look into playing with a more snake/bug-like design in the future. Beetlejuice’s overall look is heavily inspired by Chalicotherium goldfussi, which were huge Miocene ungulates that are distantly related to things like rhinos and tapirs. Given that Beetlejuice is super old, I felt like an extinct animal was a proper fit. On a more personal level, I really like the way these guys look and it was easier to rework their body plan into something that looks carnivorous. That, and I wasn’t really vibing with other mammalian body plans, especially because I wanted something that was close in shape to a human without being apelike. Huge herbivores also have larger stomachs, which I feel is a better analogue to Beetlejuice’s body type. You’ll have to pry that man’s curves from my cold, dead hands. All his forms are chubby and soft, and I’ll fight you over it in the Denny’s parking lot. I also added some hyaenid traits, especially for the head shape and teeth. Hyenas are very social animals (like Beej, except no one can see him), and striped hyenas and aardwolves specifically have these tall crests of fur that run down their backs and back legs that they can raise and lower to communicate. I’d argue it’s fitting since Beetlejuice’s hair sticks up at odd angles and communicates his mood (intentional or not). And hyenas laugh. Granted they giggle when they’re stressed, but it still fits. I modeled his stripes off of both species as well. His hind paws, ears, and tail are all based off of those of opossums. Beej is very “trash animal”-coded, and I felt like the opossum traits would fit better with the Chalicotherium body than something like a raccoon or skunk. I felt a little bad about not giving him a ton of bug traits, so I tried to add mandibles, but they just weren’t looking right in earlier design drafts. I gave him a bunch of small eyes to compensate, but making him look buggy wasn’t the only reason for the extra eyes. We know from early drafts of the musical script that Beetlejuice’s last name is Shoggoth. These creatures are mentioned by Lovecraft in Fungi from Yuggoth and At the Mountains of Madness, but I’m not sure if this implies that Beej is a shoggoth, or if it more so refers to him being able to manifest multiple limbs/shapeshift/warp reality like one. In that same vein, the mouth in his chest is mostly to look scary and is just another fun little Lovecraftian trait that I felt was needed. Same to the tendrils, but that’s also a common fandom trait that is pretty much canon (to me) at this point. I might rb this with headcanons later on.

[chronivore]

Illustration by Toren Atkinson portraying a man encountering the Fungi from Yuggoth, in the style of Edward Gorey.

It's called "Hugo Worried by Mi-Go".

Pen on paper.

[knight-princess]

Elora making some wildly questionable choices when panicked and/or under pressure is honestly one of my favourite things about her characterisation. Gotta stop the cauldron from boiling uncontrollably? Let’s try the spell that blew shit up last time. A vision of the crone threateningly incanting “fungi yuggoth” at her? Let’s repeat it back at her. What could possibly go wrong?

[riotatthemovies]

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[visually-corrupted]

"Night-Gaunts" from "The Fungi from Yuggoth" by H.P. Lovecraft. #spookyart #poetry #lovecraft

[shellyseashell]

ALL WILLOW SPELLS

so. i may have gone a bit insane. when i was rewatching the show, i decided to make a list of all the spells and what they did. the spells are a bit confusing, since they seem to have multiple uses, and willow uses a different spell each time he tries to turn raziel back into a human. so i think the spells are partially about what they inherently do, and partially about intention. also, at first i assumed all spells were pnakotic, and only the dark ones were cursed pnakotic. but whenever a pnakotic spell is used, it’s specifically pointed out as just pnakotic. so i thing most spells are in some other language, dark spells are in pnakotic, and downright evil spells are cursed pnakotic.

so with all that out of the way, here’s my best idea of what a willow spell book could look like. (some of these can be found in the wiki, since they’re from the movie, if my explanations aren’t clear)

- bescu, berebescu, bazagra - words that add more power to a spell (this is entirely a headcanon. in ancient rome, people would often curse others by writing a curse on a tablet dedicated to the gods and placing it someplace sacred. this are nonsense words they’d add to give a curse more power. i thought it fit in the willow universe)

- tuatha lokathrok tuatha - transformation charm for simple objects

- tuatha authrock mora hoatha - transformation spell part 2

- locktwarr - pleads for change (i also thing tuatha could be one of these change spells, given most of the transformation spells have tuatha)

- hither greenan bairn kleideb lunanockt - transformation charm for living things

- bellanockt - turns something into a monster, usually an eborsisk

- avaggdu luatha bairn off haivemore - shelter chant, protects from other magic

- tuatha grin chnox liomfo danu - undoes a transformation spell

- och vath bordak stira - cursed pnakotic, used in blood magic rituals

- avaggdu strokt - levitation spell

- fyurock flarem - fire spell

- kleideb claimain - summoning spell

- finonacci hex (i think graydon brings this up, but i don’t think it’s every explained what it is)

- avaggdu - was used to explode the cage kit and elora were in, but given its use in other spells, i think this is another word that makes spells more powerful, just to the extreme. so when used alone, it just blows stuff up

- lochtor tuatha - mixes things

- vantage abhor turmach - either breaks through things or summon things, since this was the spell that elora used to save kit when she was drowning.

- furrochk lithrak - okay i have no idea why i didn’t write down a meaning for this. gonna assume i just genuinely had no idea what it does.

- va-nu expartre - pnakotic, blows things up

- hither tuatha - buckler spell, repels hexes

- fungi yuggoth - pnakotic spell meant to severely injure

- danu danu greenan luatha - messaging spell

- locktwarr suporium danthu - pnakotic spell that breaks through strong magic

- kathoth lunanore - dispels bad magic

- y’gha’g shoggog y’eah zenot luuthrock - pnakotic spells that kills (this is the spell that graydon tried to use on the crone, and while it didn’t work, i’m going to assume it’s a really powerful killing spell

[another-rpg-sideblog]

From the Cthulhu Mythos chapter of the 1st edition AD&D Deities & Demigods manual (TSR, 1980).

The Fungi from Yuggoth first appeared in HP Lovecraft's novella The Whisperer in Darkness (1931).

[grayrazor]

Before the potential of rocketry became widely known, spaceships in science fiction were either fired out of cannons like in From the Earth to the Moon and War of the Worlds, or were spheres propelled by some kind of repulsion like in First Men in the Moon and The Skylark of Space (and nostalgically homaged in Out of the Silent Planet).

It was also common to feature space travel stories without spaceships at all. The fungi from Yuggoth, Elder Things, and Yag-Kosha flew through space on leathery wings (solar sails? luminiferous aetherium?). John Carter just astral projected from planet to planet. The King in Yellow and Nyarlathotep too, probably.

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Lovecraft and animals, Part 11: Crabs - Crabs or alien beings with crab features appear most clearly with The Fungi From Yuggoth. These 'space crabs' resemble crustaceans in that they are multi- limbed with legs that end in clippers or claws. Usually, they have heads formed of a mass of fungi-type material. The "Fungi' communicate with their own kind by displaying a variety of shifting colors on the toadstool cranial structure. They are capable of mimicking the voices of humans but the result often resembles a sort of buzzing insect tone. Al-Azif, the origional Arabic title of The Necronomicon, supposedly represents the droning sound of insects buzzing in the desert - flies buzzing around a corpse perhaps? The "Great Race" creatures featured in THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME have a large pair of crab-like claws at the ends of their extendable arms. Clicking these claws together in somewhat 'Morse Code' style is how they communicate with each other normally. Back to our mushroom/ crab friends: The Fungi from Yuggoth entities hail from Yuggoth (the 'planet' Pluto) which was first discovered around the time Lovecraft wrote THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS in which they appear. Ultimately, however, they come from some place in time and space far more distant. How these alien monsters made it to earth is a real puzzler. Lovecraft suggests that they fly from planet to planet on 'aether resisting wings', wings that only serve them clumsily here on earth? Considering the speed that they would need to travel at to reach something even so close as our own moon anytime in the near future renders that idea as pretty rediculous! Lovecraft was a dedicated Astrologer as a youth. He wrote articles on the subject for a local newspaper when he was a teen. HPL was also a welcome visitor to the Ladd Observatory near his home in Providence RI. Even he must have understood how preposterous the idea of flying on wings through space was. Still, Lovecraft disliked machines generally, so spaceships never really make a defined showing in his fiction. As a fiction writer Lovecraft frequently toyed with concepts that he would have found utterly absurd in real life. (Exhibit 419)