#The City In The Sea

[weirdlookindog]

"While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down"- Edgar Allan Poe

Frederick Simpson Coburn (1871–1960) - The City in the Sea, 1901

[darkness-and-books]

Reading Edgar Allan Poe while listening to Iron Maiden goes hard

[oakendesk]

book cover - The City In The Sea - 1952

Edmund Emshwiller

[rahafmah]

🚨URGENT DISTRESS CALL

I am a mother of 5 children from Gaza. I lost my husband, my home, and everything I own in the war. I am writing to you with full pain and hope that you will heed my call and save my family.📍🍉🍉💔😭😭

This is my family of 6 people and we now live in a tent💔💔🍉

This is our house that was destroyed by the occupation😭😭😭💔💔🍉

This is our source of livelihood, but the occupation burned and destroyed it and we became without income😭😭💔🍉📍

This tent we live in is not fit for human habitation.🍉🍉📍💔💔😭

“Help me survive and go home 🏠💔”

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[ngh-studios]

The City in the Sea (fan-made concept for an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation)

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[zman80]

Miami Postcard

[gothamcitycentral]

Spoilers, but I think in a lot of ways Creature Commandos is intentionally unsatisfying. Eric will never die, and the Bride will never be free of him. Nina will never have a life of normalcy nor of peace as she attempted her whole life to have. Dr Phosphorus will be never able to fill the whole in his heart from the death of his wife and child. G.I. Robot will never reunite with the boys of easy company, nor will he ever be allowed his deserved rest. Weasel will never be able to save those children, and, ultimately, not the woman he saw as equivalent to them either. A crucial difference between The Suicide Squad and the Commandos is that working in the SS awards them with time off their sentence, but the reward of the Commandos’ efforts (and deaths) is a more comfortable prison cell and a promise they will be continued to be used as soldiers, as bodies, until their usefulness expires upon their deaths.

[zonaperdida]

"Lo! Death has reared himself a throne

In a strange city lying alone

Far down within the dim West,

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best

Have gone to their eternal rest.

There shrines and palaces and towers

(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)

Resemble nothing that is ours."

Edgar Allan Poe, The City in the Sea.

🖌️ Julius Dietz, Jugend #3, 1910.

[sciencefictiongallery]

City Beneath the Sea, 1971

[honourablejester]

I’m realising as I browse around that I really love lore when it comes to ttrpgs, games and game worlds. And by that I don’t mean I like to obsessively learn lists of dates and wars, and the names of leaders of factions, I mean …

I like learning weird, juicy details about the worlds of games. I like finding little nuggets that say things about the set-up and culture and assumptions of the world. I like finding fragments of ideas to hang whole story and character concepts off.

I love that in D&D 5e’s Spelljammer, the Astral Sea is full of the corpses of dead gods that you can fully sail up to in your ship. Just. Floating out there. Waiting for you to rock up to them.

I love that in Sunless Sea, the king of the drowned is the way he is because he fell in love with an eldritch sea urchin from space, and successfully married it. His niece is an angry sentient floating mountain whose mother is a goddess-mountain and whose father is a face-stealing humanoid abomination. This is fine and normal.

I love that in Starfinder, there are mysterious bubble cities in the surface of the sun that the church of the sun goddess discovered and cheerfully occupied despite having no idea who the hell built them or for what purpose.

I love that in Dishonored, the entire industrial revolution that has built the empire we’re in the midst of saving or destroying was built on the properties of whale oil harvested from eldritch tentacled whales that live half in the oceans and half in an eldritch void personified in the form of a weird-ass black-eyed shit-stirrer of a deity who was formed from a murdered and sacrificed child. And this is largely a background detail.

I love in the Elder Scrolls that the dwarves up and fucking vanished, as a race, at some point in history and absolutely nobody has any clue what happened to them or where they went, but their technology is so insane that ideas like ‘they time-travelled’ or ‘they erased themselves from existence’ are absolutely on the table.

I love that in Numenera, so many incredibly advanced civilisations have risen and fallen on this world that it’s absolutely littered with bonkers science fiction artefacts that have caused the current medieval-esque society built over top of them to develop in bizarre ways, and also you can find a mysterious artefact that absolutely baffles and delights your character, but that you the player will fully recognise as a slightly-more-advanced thermos flask.

I love that in Fallout, an irradiated post-nuclear apolocalypic hellscape, there’s a cult that worships the god of radiation as they have come to understand it, and they are mysteriously immune to radiation with absolutely no explanation whatsoever. They’re not ghouls, the usual result of fatally irradiated humans with some resistance, they’re perfectly normal humans who can somehow just tank rads all damn day. It could be a mutation, but Lovecraftian gods apparently do also fully exist in this setting, so it’s also possible that maybe they were on to something with this Atom thing.

I love that in Heart The City Beneath, there’s a mass transit train system that they tried to hook up to the eldritch beating god-thing buried under the city so that they could metaphysically chain the stations together more easily, which went horrifically and metaphysically wrong in entirely predictable fashion, and now there’s a whole order of train-knights who have to keep people safe from the extradimensional weirdness magnet the network has become.

That, and all the fantastic little details you can stumble across. There’s a biotech augmentation in Starfinder called an angler’s light that gives you a little angler-fish bioluminescent antenna on your forehead, and it was developed by asteroid miners who needed light but also both hands free for work. In Dishonored there’s a festival that everyone pretends is outside of time so nothing you do during it can be held against you. There’s a god of snuffed candles mentioned in a single line from Heart The City Beneath who has pacifist cannibal priests, and that is literally all the information you get on him.

While things like the history and geography and timeline of a world do also fascinate me, I’m not really here to memorise stuff like that. I’m here to find weird little nuggets of information and worldbuilding and delight in them. Give me funerary customs and weird myths and oddly specific circumstances and baffling little objects and absolutely bonkers cosmological implications. Give me the corpses of dead gods, and aesthetic movements with highly specific backstories, and bureaucratic fuck-ups of titanic scale, and mysterious things that seem to break all other rules of your setting with absolutely no explanation because people in-universe have no fucking clue how they work either. Why are the Children of Atom immune to radiation without ghoulifying? Not a clue, but Confessor Cromwell has been cheerfully standing in that irradiated pond that kills the player character with about 10 minutes of exposure for the last year and he’s still absolutely fine.

I just. I really love lore. I like my settings to have some meat in them, some juicy details to dig into, some inexplicable elements to have fun trying to explain. Particularly that last bit. I feel like a lot of people when building worlds feel like the rules have to be absolute and everything has to have an explanation, but nah. Putting some weird shit in makes everything immediately feel bigger, more real, because we don’t have even half an idea of how our world truly works, there’s always something we just don’t fully understand yet, and you can put that in a fictional world too. Some mysteries, some contradictions, some randomness, some weirdness. There’s a line, obviously, this depends on execution, but a little bit of mystery really does help.

Lore is awesome. And weird lore is even more so. Heh.

[seaslugdisco]

I WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN THE GLOBAL STRIKE ON FRIDAY 10TH OF MAY. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL TOO.

IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE:

DO NOT ATTEND WORK OR SCHOOL

DO NOT PURCHASE GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND

DO NOT MAKE ANY TRANSACTIONS ON YOUR DEBIT OR CREDIT CARD

SPREAD THE MESSAGE ON ALL PLATFORMS YOU CAN, WITH A PHOTO OR VIDEO IF YOU ARE COMFORTABLE

ISREALI FORCES ARE ENTERING RAFAH. ANY PEOPLE, EVEN THOSE WITH PERMISSION TO LEAVE FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO GET OUT.

RAFAH IS TRAPPED.

WE MUST CALL FOR AN IMMIDIATE CEASEFIRE. RISE FOR RAFAH.

[northgazaupdates]

Tahseen owned and operated a school for training new drivers in Tal al-Hawa, Gaza City. He made a good life for himself, providing for his wife, their three small children, and Tahseen’s parents. Unfortunately, everything was lost. His home and his business were destroyed by IOF bombing, and he and his family were displaced.

Since then, they have been forced to flee multiple places of shelter. Currently Tahseen and his entire family are crammed into a tiny apartment with multiple other families. They have no electricity, no running water, and no food. Right now, the only way to survive famine in north Gaza is to pay outrageously high prices for the limited available food.

Tahseen is asking for your support so that he can find food and basic necessities for his family. Please support Tahseen’s campaign, reblog this post, repost the link (https://gofund.me/ac834bda) to the campaign, and share it across all your social media accounts.

Thank you

Tahseen’s case is verified by northgazaupdates

[bonesashesglass]

Protestor waves Palestine and Sudan flag during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance

NFL didn’t air it on TV, but people at the game caught it on video:

https://en.as.com/nfl/the-controversy-about-the-palestinian-flag-at-kendrick-lamars-super-bowl-halftime-heres-what-happened-n/

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