#cosmic horror but sexy

[cmrosens]

I've activated "Pay What You Like" on my Ko-Fi shop, but it made me set minimum thresholds. All my novels are min. £2 each, all short fiction = min. 99p each (short stories and novellas).

Grab EVERYTHING for min. £6 in one bundle of epubs/pdfs that you can download and gift to people as separate files. Or keep for yourself! (You can pay more than £6 if you wish, but that's up to you!)

So for less than the price of a paperback, you can have:

The duo eBook of both THE CROWS and THIRTEENTH novels in one, with 10 interior illustrations by Tom Brown (artist and co-creator of the Hopeless, Maine graphic novels) - Book 1 is contemporary Gothic Horror with tentacles that doesn't take itself too seriously, and Book 2 is an Eldritch coming-of-age dark comedy drama. THE CROWS has a twisted, slowburn queerplatonic relationship at the core of it with polyam vibes (the sentient house is very involved) and THIRTEENTH features a non-monogamous main POV character in an established open V. Reader Advisory for THE CROWS [plus links for paperback, hardback and audiobook formats] Reader Advisory for THIRTEENTH [plus links for paperback format]

The AU contemporary novel BIRDS OF A FEATHER that reimagined the central relationships of THE CROWS in a modern-day pseudo-London borough, with feuding tradesmen, a stalker ex, a spite-filled ex-sister-in-law, only one bed, and a good dog called Boss. Queerplatonic endgame. Like Guy Ritchie wrote an ace/allo rom-com for (mainly) messy working class queers who like nights out.

The novella THE SUSSEX FRETSAW MASSACRE, a tongue-in-cheek slasher where the killer isn't allowed to kill anybody, but the bodies hit the floor regardless as he sits back and makes friends with a hapless, anxiety-ridden aromantic bisexual disaster boy caught up in the cruel web of fate. Good, clean (/jk), eat the rich fun.

Short story OVEREXPOSURE, a prequel standalone short story that introduces Wes Porter, the eldritch, insanity-inducing playboy, and the effect he has on his girlfriend Charlie - a detail-orientated photographer who quickly slips into a dark obsession with him.

Short story THE SOUND OF DARKNESS, a standalone short linked by setting only, in which a man faces his childhood fears and attempts a bit of exposure therapy alone in his flat one dark night.

The companion collection of [fictional] folklore, THE FOLKLORE OF PAGHAM-ON-SEA VOL. 1, a coffee-break read of hyperlocal folktales and urban legends from the fictional setting of Pagham-on-Sea.

You can drop reviews on Goodreads/Storygraph etc!

Book 3 in the main series - THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD - is coming soon (2023).

EDIT: the link might help: https://ko-fi.com/cmrosens/shop

[evostrashbin]

pondering Nihility all by yourself, handsome?

[stacydrumartist]

Escape From Pod 9. Oils on Illustration board.

[no1ryomafan]

So I finished mazinkaiser awhile ago after months of procrastination on it and for one reason or another I’m not gonna give my solid thoughts on it but there is one specific thing I wanna point out, not as a critique but more so a confusion. That being: I find it weird how Mazinkaiser isn’t the turning point for Mazinger where they finally go “hey the robot is sentient” because it’s not yet near the end literally EVERYONE talks to Venus A as if shes actually a person:

I’m not saying this as a criticism for the reason of my already biased to vaguely sentient robots-because as much as I prefer this angle with mecha, I understand not every and all mecha can approach this because sometimes the robot is JUST a narrative tool and not a character, which is fine-however I’m confused with Mazinger of all things didn’t take this approach when there’s already so much emphasis on Mazinger being tied to gods. I mean, apart from the fact the robots are based off Greek Mythology and there is a constant message of “will it become God or Devil” which feels like it warrants this enough, it would start to make sense if the robot grew sentient because Mazinkaiser is treated as the ULTIMATE Mazinger. (And where have we heard a case where the “ultimate” form of a robot starts to be the one that displays more self awareness *cough* GETTAH🗿)

Especially also within this ova- it seems to do stuff on its own accord to PROTECT Koji, like going on auto pilot as he’s knocked out and somehow keeping him safe from being burned alive in magma, but I cannot tell if this IS a indicator Mazinkaiser is actually sentient or if it’s just all auto pilot. Oh and it’s a more minor thing but also just- the human poses Kaiser and Venus take during the beach episode… I cannot tell if that’s something they wanted or if their pilots just posed them comfortably because lines seem to blur with the robots just being treated as the extensive of the pilots. (Venus is literally based off of Sayakas appearance after all)

It’s just weird Nagai never went this route and just stuck to metaphorical stuff, when it feels like SOMETHING he would do given the nature of his stories and yet the only fully sentient Mazinger media I know is Zero. Of course I still have such a limited window on Mazinger so if this is me actually being wrong please feel free to correct me, but I still will never not find it weird Mazinkaiser lacks this aspect asides from maybe vague allusions to it that may or may not be implying it. Maybe if I ever rewatch it or find more Mazinkaiser content specifically I’ll be able to piece things together a bit more.

[dirtyoldmanhole]

i cannot stress how amazingly bonkers i think it is that corrin can very canonly have a kid with her 60+ year old baby daddy when he is also the literal JRPG big bad and the penultimate final boss right behind him. and they're both..... arguably but textually...... her dads.

god i love revelation <3

[synth-ai]

[scatmaan]

wish there were more movies that give off the feeling that event horizon, hellraiser, and annihilation give off

[hauntedworldrp]

OUR WORLD HAS ALWAYS BEEN A VICIOUS PLACE

We erect civilizations, build sky scrapers, and we live as best we can with the hand we are dealt without burning out by caring too much for our neighbors. It's the nature of evil. We don't have the leisure to think about the suffering others may feel just like we neglect to acknowledge that there is unexplainable horror that walks among us. Don't worry, that's someone else's job. After all, these are not only the things that lurk in your closet or under your bed - these are folks who sit next to you in church. They shop at your grocery store. They feed on your neighbors. These are things that have walked the earth since the dawn of civilization - they continue… and they will continue.

Haunted World is a play-by-post roleplay hosted on Discord. • para to para+ • welcoming & friendly playerbase • active server with experienced players • gothic/folkloric urban fantasy with mature themes • established world with 10+ years of occurring activity previously featured on The Keep & Shards play-by-post chat sites.

ᴅɪꜱᴄᴏʀᴅ •• ᴩɪᴛᴄʜ •• ᴊᴏɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇʀᴠᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴀʀɴ ᴍᴏʀᴇ!

[jennystahl]

they went deep as hell giving sherlock an imaginary friend to protect his insane childhood trauma and act as an emotional companion

[resonanteye]

INFORMATION I WAS NOT PREPARED TO LEARN. MAYBE WE *ARE* ALONE. BECAUSE WE ARE SO *EARLY*. IF THERE IS EVER GALACTIC CIVILIZATION THEY WILL NOT REMEMBER US AT ALL. BECAUSE WE ARE NOTHING. CELLS, JUST BEGINNING TO FORM LIFE. SORRY FOR SCREAMING. BUT ARE YOU LISTENING. ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT IT.

[cmrosens]

Preorder Links for THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD

Glorious (2022) meets The Brothers Karamazov (if you look at it sideways and squint a bit):

selfish pan polyam eldritch playboy (called Wes) who might end the world

family conflict with central warring triad

generational trauma

bloody murder

apocalyptic death cult

(For other Amazon stores, change .co.uk to your own ending - .com, .de, .jp, .au, etc)

[zombified-queer]

I wish more of my Hotelpod mutuals were also Unwell about the Locked Tomb series so we could finally have thrilling debates about whether the Hotel herself is Alecto or John Gaius.

[chancellorxofxtrash]

still watching that evolt fancam and honestly he do be a hottie, hiiii

[sanjilover4815]

Why is there an influx of sexbots on here, they should know I do not have sex and that I find their allure comparable to the cosmic horrors of the universe

[lemongrablothbrok]

What in the name of all that is neat and groovy in the world is going on in that second photo.

Doublicious Cocktober

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The thing about Ianthe is that she knows she's a freak but she thinks she's a sexy, vampire-coded, monsterfucker bait freak where all her evil acts and cannibalism and games are hot villainous stuff, when in reality she's a scrunkly daddy issues stuck out of genre freak whose villain monologue got her arm ripped off, whose love interest is in an extremely fucked-up three-way relationship already in which Ianthe is the simplest option, and whose attempts at making this into a deadly court intrigue are crumbling against the reality that the Empire isn't a royal court but a shambling, millennia old gangrenous lump of trauma and cosmic/religious horror.

She so desperately wants to be arranging marriages and poisoning her enemies' tea and bringing entire planets to heel with her powerful magic in an impeccably cut suit, but instead the undead soul of the Earth is reawakened to love monstrously and a haunted bone nun and butch lesbian Jesus struggle to hate-love each other enough to exist. Dogs!