#hp book review

[transman-badass]

Okay y'all, I need your input!

I want to take my lifelong Cthulhu Mythos special interest to the next level. I want to expand my own horizons and introduce people to what I find. So, I want to start reviewing Cthulhu Mythos stuff. Mostly books, since that's my wheelhouse but also anything else I can get my hands on, especially more obscure stuff. I've got a lot of ideas, including stuff for my Kofi, a cartoon persona, maybe even YouTube or podcast stuff later on?

I'm gonna do this for a year to see how it goes. Give it a good solid try because the time is gonna pass anyway and I'd rather be full of knowledge than regrets. But first... I gotta decide where to put it.

Please, if you're interested, reblog this! I want to have some idea of what I'm getting into with a theoretical audience 😅.

[ilovecoralineandotherbooks]

The world can burn for all I care if you are not in it.

CDLynn - perfectly in pieces

[gambit-blogs]

This just dropped 😯😯😯

But I definitely think this is the last book of the series.

Because the first book is The Inheritance Games

Games as in plural meaning the series continues and the next book is The Grandest Game

Singular meaning the one last book

Totally going to be sad when this series is over but at least us team Grayson girls get more content. Looking forward to his happy ending.🫶🏻

[kittyghoul751]

You know what

Happy birthday, Wilbur Whatley 

He turned 111 :)

[book-coffee-stormy]

Accio coffee 🪄 ☕

What is your favorite Harry Potter book?

[pandorasboxofhorrors]

Today’s theme are the writings of Clark Ashton Smith, a Lovecraftian writer who added to Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Clark Ashton Smith wrote many short stories and I have read them all. He is a fun and creative writer and not particularly dark or nasty. All of his short stories have been reissued in the last twenty years in nice volumes, but the question is where to start. Hyberborea is an excellent starting point for reading this author, a book of short stories from his Lovecraftian mythos. The best first story to read by Clark Ashton Smith is The Seven Geases, about a hunting party that descends into problems. Below are helpful links:

Hyperborea pdf:

The Seven Geases html:

The Seven Geases YouTube reading:

Hyperborea Goodreads review:

[radashes]

Magic Unveiled: Harry Potter Books vs. Movies

Grab your broomsticks, folks, 'cause we're diving into the enchanted world of why Harry Potter books are the real deal, leaving the movies in the dust like a sad Sorting Hat rejected from Hogwarts.

Let's talk about characters – the heart and soul of any magical escapade. In the movies, they're like magical mannequins parading around with a script. Ginny, my dear, in the books, she's got more personality than a room full of poltergeists. The movies just turned her into Harry's background dancer. Bravo.

And scenes? Oh, the movies have this knack for taking a scenic route straight through Cluelessville. Remember the Quidditch World Cup in "Goblet of Fire"? Nah, the movies were like, "Who needs magical sports? Let's focus on Harry's angst instead." Because nothing screams magical world-building like ignoring magical sports!

Now, Peeves, our favorite mischievous poltergeist. Books? Check. Movies? Nope. They tossed him out like a bad Quidditch player. Probably figured they had too much magic and mischief already – who needs a cheeky ghost causing chaos?

Let's not forget the brilliance of S.P.E.W. - Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare. The books gave us Hermione's crusade for house-elf rights. The movies? Well, they were like, "Eh, too much plot. Let's cut that and throw in another shot of Harry dramatically staring into the distance."

The movies' idea of "detail" is like serving a feast with only pumpkin juice and a chocolate frog. The books, my friend, are the full banquet. You're not just watching the story; you're dining with the characters, experiencing the full magical buffet of Rowling's imagination.

So, while the movies were busy with their cinematic flair, the books were casually dropping wisdom like Dumbledore at the end of each school year. Here's to the true Hogwarts experience – where the pages are the real magic, and the movies are just a quick spell that fades away.

[gem-isreading]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban // J.K. Rowling ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My review: I think so far this has been my favourite of the series. I like the characters of Sirius Black and Professor Lupin. The ending of this book made me smile.

My other thoughts: I really enjoyed this book the most of the three I have read so far in the series. I also think of the ones I have read so far, this one is the least 'children's book' like. I can definitely see how the series is changing and progressing. I have some favourite characters from this book and some of the storylines and plots within it made me feel... things. So I think I am starting to get a slight bit of attachment to the characters and what is going to happen to them going forward.

[the-kestrels-feather]

Dominic Noble hot

[mushroomteacher]

Reading H.P. Lovecraft's tales

It's quite upsetting how Lovecraft is a little too much racist in his works. The descriptions of the rituals always got to involve black or indigenous aspects and he calls them diabolic. I'm currently reading 'Dunwich Horror' and its constant associations of the main character - described as dark-skinned - to animals like goats is one of the most disgusting things in this piece. Even so, the entire plot is very intriguing and meets Cthullhu's Universe. Anyways, I'm open to discussion, I love to talk about whatever I'm reading 'cause helps me to remember it.

[autumn2may]

Today Richard Marpole reviews Chaosium's Cults of Cthulhu supplement for the Call of Cthulhu tabletop rpg, written by Christopher Lackey & Mike Mason! 🐉

"This is a well-crafted, thoughtful, and very useful guide to adding Cthulhu cults to your games."

[ilovecoralineandotherbooks]

No, the difference between you and I is that, yes, I am the villain; I am the villain to everyone and anyone else. I will gladly be the villain to the rest of the world, if it means I get to be her hero.

CDLynn- perfectly in pieces

[gambit-blogs]

The Grandest Game

Small the Brothers Hawthorn spoiler

I think phone girl from (tbh) who was talking to Grayson is going to be participating in the game to get answers about her father.

The B&N overview of the book says *Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power. Some for reasons all their own.*

Then it begins to say that Grayson has a vital role in this year's game right after that statement.

I honestly think she will be Graysons love interest .

[kittyghoul751]

Designs for Wilbur and Helen for web comic. I’m thinking of doing Wilbur from the Dunwich horror and Helen from the Greek god pan.

[localoceanqueer]

I don't usually go on blocking sprees but I went through the h*gwarts legacy tag bc I thought everyone would be shitting on it and realized that far too many people try to find reasons for it to be okay to buy and/or play that piece of shit game, so on a blocking spree I went <3

srsly though, is it so hard to not play one (1) game? and it's not even good 😭

[blank-reads]

Ok so you’re telling me that after several generations of people dying in this house before they were 32 no one thought to move away? No one? They’re just fine with being killed by the wizard under the fucking floor boards?

3/5

Couldn’t be me