#Promethean Horror

[soysaucevictim]

I decided to be Silly and drew all four of my Remuses with a similar pose (3/4 of them are from a horror AU).

Don't know if I'll revisit this with more polish but, yeah, take it. :,D

[enddaysart]

Cigarette Spirit

Been working on this little dork for a bit. Not nice, not fun, not something you want to meet in a dark alley, but its oh so very friendly.

Instagram Patreon Writing and RPG Tumblr: @enddaysengine

[enddaysengine]

Sketch of a horrible little cigarette spirit I did the other day. While it is in no way polished, it is one of my favourite recents, not in the least because it went from idea to art in under an hour.

[bump-1n-the-night]

What Dark Creature are You?

[blueheartbookclub]

"Resurrecting Prometheus: Mary Shelley's Haunting Masterpiece, Frankenstein"

Mary W. Shelley's "Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus" stands as an immortal testament to the enduring power of gothic literature and its exploration of the human condition. In this haunting tale of scientific ambition gone awry, Shelley weaves a narrative that transcends time, challenging our notions of morality, creation, and the pursuit of knowledge.

Victor Frankenstein's reckless quest to defy the boundaries of life and death results in the birth of a creature both wretched and sublime. Shelley's evocative prose takes us on a journey through the icy landscapes of the Arctic and the darkest recesses of the human soul. The novel's layered narrative, framed within the letters of an ambitious explorer, adds depth to the overarching tragedy, creating a sense of impending doom.

As the creature grapples with his identity, rejected by society and his own creator, Shelley compels us to confront themes of isolation, prejudice, and the consequences of playing god. The moral ambiguity of Victor Frankenstein and the sympathetic portrayal of his creature blur the lines between good and evil, challenging readers to ponder the ethical implications of scientific innovation.

"Frankenstein" is more than a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific hubris; it is a profound exploration of the consequences of unchecked ambition and the responsibility that comes with creation. Shelley's narrative mastery, coupled with her intellectual depth, makes this novel a timeless classic that continues to resonate with readers, inviting them to ponder the boundaries of human knowledge and the price of playing with the forces of life and death.

"Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary W. Shelley is available in Amazon in paperback 12.99$ and hardcover 20.99$ editions.

Number of pages: 266

Language: English

Rating: 10/10                                           

Link of the book!

Review By: King's Cat

[anthropoetics]

readings: essays & articles

reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds

what people around the world dream about

poet and philosopher david whyte on anger, forgiveness, and what maturity really means

oranges are orange, salmon are salmon

how memories persist where bodies and even brains do not

the avant-garde musical legacy of the moomins

the weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperation

disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one?

after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back

on the igbo art of storytelling

what the caves are trying to tell us

promethean beasts — how animal uses of fire help illuminate human pyrocognition

the art of loving and losing female friends

on memorizing poetry

the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki

reading in the age of constant distraction

holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light

romancing the fig: what one fruit can tell us about love, life and human civilization

mystery and birds: 5 ways to practice poetry

can a plant remember? this one seems to — here's the evidence

why female cannibals frighten and fascinate

when you give a tree an email adress

fear not — horror movies build community and emotional resilience

[blueheartbooks]

"Resurrecting Prometheus: Mary Shelley's Haunting Masterpiece, Frankenstein"

Mary W. Shelley's "Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus" stands as an immortal testament to the enduring power of gothic literature and its exploration of the human condition. In this haunting tale of scientific ambition gone awry, Shelley weaves a narrative that transcends time, challenging our notions of morality, creation, and the pursuit of knowledge.

Victor Frankenstein's reckless quest to defy the boundaries of life and death results in the birth of a creature both wretched and sublime. Shelley's evocative prose takes us on a journey through the icy landscapes of the Arctic and the darkest recesses of the human soul. The novel's layered narrative, framed within the letters of an ambitious explorer, adds depth to the overarching tragedy, creating a sense of impending doom.

As the creature grapples with his identity, rejected by society and his own creator, Shelley compels us to confront themes of isolation, prejudice, and the consequences of playing god. The moral ambiguity of Victor Frankenstein and the sympathetic portrayal of his creature blur the lines between good and evil, challenging readers to ponder the ethical implications of scientific innovation.

"Frankenstein" is more than a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific hubris; it is a profound exploration of the consequences of unchecked ambition and the responsibility that comes with creation. Shelley's narrative mastery, coupled with her intellectual depth, makes this novel a timeless classic that continues to resonate with readers, inviting them to ponder the boundaries of human knowledge and the price of playing with the forces of life and death.

"Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary W. Shelley is available in Amazon in paperback 12.99$ and hardcover 20.99$ editions.

Number of pages: 266

Language: English

Rating: 10/10                                           

Link of the book!

Review By: King's Cat

[soysaucevictim]

Just thinking abt the Promethean!Twins.

Roman's a Muse/Galateid and Remus is a Wretched/Frankenstein, yeah?

Muses have an uncanny valley effect w/ their beauty and charm. Roman often leans into transmutations of the Deception variety (alongside Pat, another Muse, and Jan, a Hollow/Extempore.)

Quothe the Wiki:

It covers supernatural means of confusing or evading opponents, from changing one’s skin color to altering one’s facial features. Deception Transmutations are most commonly practiced by Mimics, who learn them easily as one of the classes taught on the Refinement of Gold; they use the Transmutations to better blend in with humanity.

The Wretched immediately provokes a sense of fear and anger in people. He doesn't have much aptitude in Deception, but he does have Metamorphosis, which he gleefully uses to freak people tf out.

It covers the transformation of the body into new shapes, from sprouting claws or fangs to creating a homunculus. It allows a Promethean to reshape their own body, stretching limbs or transforming their flesh into unnatural forms. It is used by those who follow or once followed the Cuprum Refinement.

Basically shape-changing is more illusory with Roman. It's extremely visceral with Remus~

[runin64]

Sa'kan's Priest

So I just had to write this after I found out that the Salamanders had this special chapter serf who is known as a brander-priest, who marks the Salamander whenever he leaves, and when he returns. And as Sa'kan has like no stories writing about him.. I had to! Cw: mentions of branding, otherwise fluff (I hope) You never regretted choosing to stay with the Salamanders after your lord saved you, he pulled you from your dying world surrounded by fire and death. And he gave you a new life, sure it was not easy at first, so many new things to learn nevertheless you shall also not regret becoming his brander-priest. Even now knowing exactly what horrors he faced whenever he leaves with his chapter and brothers. You much rather be able to give the respite of coming back - to someone he can be sure is here.

As you prepare the camber, you think back to what your angel has told you of the past mission he went to. How many were lost and yet he still made it out alive, vile beasts he and his brothers fight to keep the rest of you safe. You watch as the flames flare around the hot iron, nearly ready to place another brand. You turn as you hear the door open and your Lord enters, Sa’kan will leave soon. Not yet clad in his armor, he reaches out to you with his fingers brushing the side of your head. “Already a place in mind for this one?” He asks, his voice as soft as the touch he gave to you. “I thought to put it between your shoulder blades, to guard your back.” He gave you a small smile, nodded and turned to stand before the heating metal. “It is nearly time” The words of the Promethean Cult now fall easily from your lips, as you lift the now glowing branding tool leaving its mark on your Salamanders skin. It slots in perfectly next to all his others, never overlapping, never the same. No sound leaves Sa’kan’s lips as the flesh beneath the metal smolders, as you lift it away and say the protective words your lips touch the burned area. Your Salamander takes a deep breath, while you continue the rights knowing of their importance. In the newfound silence Sa’kan turns to you, once more his hand lifts brushing against your temple. You know what he means with no words spoken, he will return if he is able to. As you watch him leave you know that it may be the time you see him alive, but when he does return he shall tell you what happened as you place his return mark on his chest. And after, he may celebrate the victory with you in private. Off he goes, into the fires of battle, unto the anvil of war. You pray that he will return from Paradyce fast and whole again..

[hpowellsmith]

I play in a delightful monthly Hunter: the Vigil parlour LARP that my wife runs. Between games my cute paramedic monsterhunter Connor got bitten by a vampire, clawed by Pandorans, and found a horrible mangled attempt at creating a Promethean. And Connor's best friend hit Connor's Promethean boyfriend in the head with an axe (the boyfriend got better).

Today it is time for more Situations. Apparently there is badness at the hospital so what is a cell of paramedics to do but jump in and experience some horrors??

[thestuffedalligator]

Graft is fun. I like a few of the suggestions in the notes that have a similar energy as graft like “patchwork” from Girl Genius or “stitched” from Twig. Like the main thing that distinguishes a Frankenstein’s monster from your average reanimated corpse is the cobbledness. The stitches. The proof of being made.

There should be a new name for Frankenstein’s monsters as a species. I love Frankenstein’s monsters, I love mismatched flesh tones and visible stitches, but I can’t keep calling them Frankenstein’s monsters because A) most of them aren’t made by Frankensteins, and B) it’s a fucking mouthful every time. We need a generic no name brand Frankenstein’s monster.

[quinnred]

Halo 4 Reimagining - Perdition Visual concept for the Perditions, a reimagining of the Prometheans of Halo 4 based me and my brother's thought exercises.

The artificial Forerunner world of Requiem was a paradise to be enjoyed at leisure, an entirely modular geography and biosphere allowing it's three managerial AIs to please it's creators. Upon the true horrors of the Flood coming to light, Requiem's purpose was changed to one of experimentation. The managerial AIs were given the goal of discovering and exploring strategies that may make their creators immune or unappealing to the parasitic scourge. They were given near complete reign over any and all Forerunner's within Requiem and were locked within their shield world until their masters returned. The boldest and potentially successful operation was Perdition, a project involving a hybrid of sentinel robotics and engineer nanotechnology to create replacement bodies for subject Forerunners. Volunteers were not even considered, with random selection of the civilian populous for conversion. The process involved gradual cell-by-cell replacement of subject body matter with engineer materials, the sentinel mechanics acting as the exo and endoskeleton of the body and protected vital parts. Perdition subjects would be homed in the pleasure facility Idyll Halja, where the Trinity supplied them a glut of stimuli to occupy these immortals for millennia under observation. This only entertained a few hundred years, their technological processing information far faster than their original human bodies. What followed was an eternity of boredom and eventual madness, with suicide in these regenerating forms and true reproduction being impossible. The Perditions would devolve and shift culturally as they tore each other apart and remade themselves, bastardizing their forms into ghostly gravity manipulating monstrosities. Unable to develop into the Meta-Stability stage of their rampancy due to their confines, the Perditions had been tunneling into and hacking Idyll Halja in attempts to breakout into the rest of Requiem. The Trinity AIs were forced to quarantine Idyll Halja deep into the bowels of Requiem and have been in constant digital warfare with their experiments. The Perdition's aggression has been so overwhelming that many other managerial duties of the Trinity have been shunned. Lord help any who may find their way into the Perdition's den.

[glassamphibians]

[eromancery]

If it isn't rude to ask why do you dislike promethean the created's themes?

It's not rude at all! but this is going to be a bit of a long one, we think, and probably pretty rambly, so... apologies in advance!

So, first we have to establish what promethean's main themes are. Luckily, the book is kind enough to spell it out for us!

(Promethean the Created 2e, page 11) Now, we're going to get one thing out of the way first: We're a transhumanist. We fully believe that "humanity" as a category is, at most, a series of base pairs, and slavish obedience to them as some sort of arbiter of Goodness is absurd. Compassion is not stored in the hairless ape. Plenty of animals in real life display compassion! And for this to be in the Chronicles of fucking Darkness? The gameline where you play as a bunch of monsters, who are still very much capable of great good and great evil, despite not being human? It's kind of a weird pull. But hey, a game about pinocchio wanting to be a real boy. It makes sense for prometheans to want to be human - they have it pretty bad!

(Promethean the Created 2e, page 12) After all, they suffer from uh.... Chronic pain and dysphoria? Ok, let's be charitable here and assume that this isn't making a statement about people who actually have those in real life and their connection to humanity. Maybe it's just an obvious thread to pull, what with being created from dead people! But besides torment, Prometheans have one other big thing that makes their lives bad.

(Promethean the Created 2e, pages 172 and 173)

Being around humans too long makes them FUCKING HATE prometheans. Which is pretty bad! We can see why you'd want to stop this from happening to you! Great motivation to go on a quest to become a real boy and all that! So let's say you do it. You complete the pilgrimage and become a human!

(Promethean the Created 2e, pages 186 and 187)

You become a human and, depending on how many refinements you've completed, you may or may not remember your time as a teenage meat robot. Sounds great! Except, wait. Scroll back up to the disquiet section. Does anything pop out to you? Let us give you a hint.

(Promethean the Created 2e, page 173) Once you become human, you're no longer immune to disquiet. The end goal of every promethean is to become human, possibly forget their friends, and become just as dangerous to them as people used to be to you. Promethean is a game where the only way to stop the pain, the only way to get people to not hate you, the only way to stop being a potential face under a boot, is to become the boot itself. Promethean: The Created is a game about assimilation.

and this isn't some absurd hypothetical! Official fiction has identified this as a thing!

Family Reunion, a short story in The Primordial Feast, a fiction anthology for Beast: The Primordial, follows a throng of prometheans (and a beast) as they observe the life of a former member who achieved the new dawn. Here are some excerpts.

(The Primordial Feast, pages 102, 105 and 106)

Explicitly, Textually, the Good End for Prometheans is leaving their friends behind and becoming a potential threat to them. You must forget who you were, undergo a complete ego death so someone else who shares your flesh can live a "normal" life.

But what if you don't want to? What if, after being treated like shit by humans for so long, your character has decided that maybe they don't want to be human? You have two options, and the book is quite clear about how it feels about them both. Option one: You stay on the pilgrimage forever. Sure you have torment and disquiet to deal with, but what if you just treated your life as one big road trip, never staying in one place too long? That's discussed in the supplement Night Horrors: The Tormented, as the sinister goal of an entity known only as The Jovian.

(Night Horrors: The Tormented, pages 156 and 161)

Note how insistent the book is that the Jovian is an evil liar, a tempter, a real rat bastard who makes things worse for the players. The pilgrimage HAS to be good. it HAS to be worth it. Staying as a promethean forever is in fact, either misguided or just flat out evil. Why? Because Promethean is not only about how being human is good, it's about how not wanting to be human is evil. But more on that a bit later. For now, we need to talk about the other option when it comes to not wanting to be human: The Centimani.

(Promethean the Created 2e, page 249) The Centimani are what happens when a promethean decides to go "fuck it. They want to treat me like a monster? I'll be their monster" If the pilgrimage is about assimilation, becoming a centimani is about refusing to assimilate, and openly daring others to try and make you.

(Promethean the Created 2e, page 249) So then, are Centimani a sort of philosophical counter-argument for the created? An alternate option for those who think humanity isn't worth the meat it's printed on? Nope! They're ugly, insane, friendless monsters who don't feel any empathy, because that's what being human is (Nevermind the fact that humans in Promethean are just as likely to try and lynch you as they are to show you any compassion)

(Promethean the Created 2e, pages 249 and 250)

in Promethean, Not wanting to be human means Wanting to be a puppy-kicking monster. We've left the point of Humanism and entered the point of "Humanity is how nice you are. the nicer you are the more human" And oooooh boy, there's no better proof of that than the opposite of Monsters that want to be human, Alchemists.

(Promeathean the Created 2e, page 257) Look at the language here! Alchemists have "lost sight of love" , have "turned into something monstrous" because they "hate their humanity" (which, of course, the boundary where they stop being "sane and rational") Not Wanting to be Human is evil, and Insane, and Warps you. That is Textual. Which of course, makes you mentally ill and disabled.

(Promethean the Created 2e, page 262)

Like holy shit, they just out and say it! Alchemists, for the crime of not wanting to be human, become Disabled! That's fucking disgusting! And you can argue that what makes Alchemists truly bad is the fact that they capture and harvest prometheans, but if that was the case, why is the book so dead set on talking about how bad it is that they don't want to be human? Kidnapping and organ harvesting are bad when humans do it too! So what great evil desire warps alchemists so badly in Promethean? what could someone so badly desire that it would make them forsake their humanity, the greatest evil the book can imagine?

(Promethean the created 2e, page 263) Not wanting to die of cancer. Of course.

The worst part is they didn't even have to do this! Promethean could have easily been about the fact that you were created to serve the needs of someone else and have the main themes being about learning to identify your own desires and choose your own fate! But instead, all Prometheans have to become human. Or fucking else.

[victorsandvanquishers]

The Unchained Promethean Heart

Fandom: DC Comics

Ships: Bart Allen/Kon El

Ratings: M

Warnings: cosmic horror, mental illness on 9000, Fourth World fuckery, love between a god and his mortal clonebabe, Metron cameos, the Linear Men are here, somebody's going to jail, gay people rearranging reality to their liking

Summary: As Bart and Kon embark on their new life together in Manchester, Alabama, Bart reminisces on his forced institutionalization and the ten million crimes against reality that got him to this point. What’s a case of anxiety-fueled unreality compared to the bright future ahead of them? Not a damn thing. After all, everything's fair game when you're a multiversal anomaly like Bart and Kon.

[post-House of Brainiac; bastardizes Simon Spurrier's The Flash; direct sequel to 'The Deification of One Bartholomew Henry Allen II' & 'In Dreams Until My Death, I Will Wander On'; written for 2024 BartKon Week (Heart & Bones Edition), Day 7 - People of Manchester, Alabama + Nightmares]

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This was probably my most unhinged fic for the week. I figured since it was the last day, it was either go big or go home.

This fic heavily dissects the happenings of Young Justice #16, by Brian Michael Bendis. It will make more sense if you reread it. Feel free to also look up Jack Kirby's Fourth World concepts, as the story also incorporates a lot of his sci-fi horror. :'>

Hope y'all enjoyed 2024 BartKon Week! Thank you for celebrating with me, and don't forget to leave a review! ( •̀ .̫ •́ )✧

[aen-hen-ichaer]

just saw romulus im so so normal about it NO IM NOT. GOD IM NOT IM GNAWING AT THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE GAAAUUGH

my thoughts + spoilers under the cut :3

• giger would be so proud of this film. so yonic. so phallic. my god. Every vagina shaped thing gave way to the most sinister form of life. Every penis shaped thing was violently penetrating. Super duper leans into the original underlying themes of SA. got under my skin like crazy

• this film combined all my favourite elements of alien (slow burn immersive horror), aliens (great action) and resurrection (human/xeno hybrid) I literally cannot fault it at all

•the offspring (babymorph as me and my bf dubbed it) BAD BAD SO BAD THROWING UP IN MY MOUTH I was legit shaking and had tears in my eyes I have never been so close to screaming in a cinema. 1000/10 creature design. I knew something horrific and fucked up was gonna happen after the pregnancy reveal but JESUS

• Andy's actor was AMAZZINNNGG. The way he played "regular" Andy vs "evil fuckass weyland-yutani synth" was seamless and perfect and he was my fav character

• Ian Holm's cameo felt...... weird. I generally don't like dead actors being reanimated in cgi anyway even with the consent of the family yadda yadda but... blegh. The cgi felt a little dodgy on his face as well but tbh the glitchy jilted nature of it really added to him being a damaged synth LOL

• references were v cute. might be ott to some but I liked it

•PRACTICAL EFFECTS MY BELOVED. BIG SCARY ASS PUPPETS MY BELOVED. GOO AND SLIME MY BELOVED

• the whole birth scene shook me to my coooorrree. As someone who wants to be pregnant and give birth nothing has gotten so under my skin like that before. The ides of doing your best to nurture what will be your child only for this fucking horror to come out of you.... oh my god......... AND LACTATING THE GOO?? ARE YOU FR????????

• mostly smart characters in this movie which I appreciate! the whole zero g acid blood vortex scene was very funsies

• great score. Calls back to the original but not too much

• PERFECT set design. Felt like watching alien isolation as a movie

• I love that they went back to a more analog clicky buttons/flicky switches aesthetic, the holograms and touchscreens of prometheus and covenant never felt right

• the black goo as an almost intelligent substance is so so fun. It "speeds up evolution" but it's smart enough not to destroy its host outright. The offspring was gestated in an egg sac containing fucking acid BUT it didn't hurt kay (until she birthed it and it no longer needed her)

• also the offspring not growing its xeno tail until it consumed the last of the goo from kay? Very nice touch

• JUST. PREGNANCY AS A GROUNDWORK FOR HORROR. SO UNDERUTILISED. SO EFFECTIVE.

• this films chest burster scene... dare I say....scarier than the original. Watching her ribs crack with the xray machine.... YUCKY

• me and my bf has settled to calling the black goo Promethean Fire. This isn't part of the review I just like that hehe

• when I heard the name Romulus I mentioned to my bf about Romulus and Remus being raised by wolves and I was like "what if this is the start of the crossbreeds like in resurrection?" AND I WAS FUCKING RIGHT BITCH!!!!!!!!!!

•Sound design was excellent, the thumping huge heavy footprints of the xeno felt sososososososo good with the cinema surround sound auugghhg

ANYWAY I FUCKING LOVED THIS MOVIE. If u wanna share any thoughts pls do in insane about this :)