#lafcadio

[tourneys-by-me]

Multiple Elements Character Tournament - Round 1 (A) 2/12

Propaganda under the cut (spoilers for The Sexy Brutale)

Cure Magical: None :(

Lafcadio Boon: Heavy spoilers in this. He goes through so much. He has to watch his friends get murdered horribly over and over again over the course of a single day. He can't even warn them that they're going to die because he gets chased by their masks and the masks of the staff members who are going to murder them. He has to save them by interacting with the loop outside of their view. The only time he gets to talk to his friends is after he saves them when they take their masks off, but even then, the loop resets afterwards, and they go back to dying again. The big reveal of the game is that he is actually Lucas Bondes, the Marquis of the mansion. Forty years ago, he blew up the mansion to get the insurance money to give his wife and unborn child a new life, but the timers on the bombs went off too early, when all of his friends, his wife, and himself were all still inside. He was the only survivor, and since then, he has tormented himself with the time loop of his friends being murdered inside his mind as a way of remembering them. Lafcadio was one of his friends, a priest, and a father figure to him. He took his form inside the mansion in his mind because he was representative of the fact that he was finally reaching a point where he could forgive himself for what happened.

[kerlhau]

Jour 3 • Fantôme

[rhodolitequeen]

Avast matey!

Okay but seriously we need more Ayakashi pirates here! 😍

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Fandom

Alan Moore: [appearing in a clap of thunder] BEHOLD! King: the arch magus! Barker: the arch magus! Poe: the arch magus! Lovecraft: the arch magus! Koontz: the grand nagus! Poe: no dean Poe: that's not right Poe: that's star trek Moore: and that is exactly what i came to talk to you all about today

Moore: i have come down from the mountain to share the wisdom imparted to me by the cosmos King: guys! the arch magus is going to share some wisdom! King: everyone be quiet, we gotta hear this! Moore: fandom Moore: is crap King: King: oh well i don't care much for that wisdom at all

Moore: your fannish obsessions have blinded you to the truth! Moore: fandom is bad Diane Duane: even star trek? Moore: even star trek! Chuck Wendig: even star wars? Moore: even star wars! Lafcadio Hearn: even anime? Moore: ESPECIALLY anime!

Moore: fools! can you not see how your fannish obsessions choke art & culture? Moore: it will make it so that you throw a halloween party & play an anime theme song playlist bc you believe halloween songs don't exist! King: that seems like an awful specific complaint King: did that happen to you?

Moore: fandom makes you obsessed with cataloging and blinds you to the truths of this world! Moore: so that you feel no shame when you write really really stupid letters asking 'could dr manhattan beat up the flash?' King: now that you bring that up that's a really good question Moore: NO ITS NOT!!!

King: so could dr manhattan beat up the flash? Poe: he could but he'd have to catch him first Lovecraft: yeah but dr manhattan exists in all realities so it would be really easy for him to catch the flash King: UNLESS King: we're in one of the realities where he FAILS to catch the flash Moore: UGH

Moore: first of all, foolish mortals! Moore: THERE IS NO REALITY IN THE MULTIVERSE IN WHICH DR MANHATTAN WOULD FAIL TO CATCH THE FLASH!! Moore: SO SPEAKETH THE ARCH MAGUS! King: the arch magus! Poe: the arch magus! Lovecraft: the arch magus! Barker: the arch magus! Koontz: the grand nagus!

Moore: and secondly your obsession has blinded you to the real questions of our times Moore: why ask foolish questions about superheroes Moore: when you could be asking the deep questions of life? Moore: like what if dorothy gale fucked the wizard of oz? Moore: and also the wizard was a very old man

Moore: i mean like really old Moore: since a man hits is sexual peak around, oh, 85-100 Moore: you might not like it but that's just science Moore: so speaketh the arch magus! [vanishes in clap of thunder]

[uispeccoll]

#MiniatureMonday

Sketches of New Orleans // by Lafcadio Hearn

Sketches of New Orleans is a wonderful miniature read for those interested in the Louisiana city. Filled with beautiful drawings and satirical information about the city and its culture, this miniature is a fun read!

Come explore New Orleans in a new way with this miniature book!

--Adair J.

[karmacaiman]

the party never ends

[gemsofgreece]

I was reading a collection of Japanese legends and discovered that their author, Lafcadio Hearn, was part Greek by mother and was born in Greece, although he didn't remain there and was raised mostly in Ireland. At some point, he moved to Japan and married Koizumi Setsuko, a Japanese woman. He wrote books inspired by Japanese folklore with the help of his wife, who is said to have been passionate about legends and who apparently helped him both with writing in Japanese and with information about legends she knew. When he became a Japanese citizen, he took her surname and his Japanese name was Yakumo Koizumi. Both of his marriages were controversial by the standards of the time, as his first wife Alethea Foley was a Black American woman and this violated Ohio's anti-miscegenation law at the time and his second wife Koizumi Setsuko was Japanese and at the time Japan was also not open-minded about marriage with foreigners. Apparently, he had some importance in popularizing Japanese stories in Europe and the Americas. My question is: is he known in Greece? It's said that he had a great interest in Greek culture. I admit I hadn't heard of him before reading this collection, so I was curious if he was known in his mother's country. His mother, Rosa Cassimati, at one point annulled her marriage to his father and returned to Greece, as she was suffering from xenophobia in Ireland and missed home.

Incidentally, I found out about him recently in some article about little known influential Greeks. As this already implies, no he is not known in Greece. The attempts to make him known to the wide public, which I have noticed, are very recent and scarce. I have made a mental note to read his works, it will be so refreshing to read a Greek exploring a foreign culture instead of the opposite all the time. (Semi related fun fact: A LOT of the information we have about Wallachian Vlad Tepes, commonly known as Dracula, and especially his father and grandfather, come from his contemporary Greek historian named Laónikos Chalkokondýles. Does this have anything to do with Lafcadio? Well no, except the similarity that the vast majority of Greeks do not know him and I did not either until I made the peculiar decision to read a Romanian historian’s book about Dracula who was citing Chalkokondyles all the time!) Unfortunately Greeks nowadays only appreciate the popularisedTM by the West parts of our history, with few exceptions. A tragedy to be honest with you.

To turn back to him, can we appreciate how the Cassimatis mindset was so ahead of its time?

Lafcadio went against the law to marry a Black American.

He fully embraced his second wife’s culture and adjusted completely to it, to not make their marriage and her situation amongst fellow Japanese people difficult.

He took her surname, so non-typical for a man of his time.

His mom was not having it with the racism, said fook this, dumped the dad and returned to Greece. (Okay basically the marriage was awful in general and she couldn’t tolerate it so much she had to leave the children behind - the children were treated well by the father’s family)

There are museums both in Greece, in Lefkada island (his birthplace - hence his name) and in Japan about him. The town of Lefkada and Matsue city in Japan have become sister cities. So he is well known on an academic and statutory level in Greece but people on average do not know about him and his interesting life, no.

[creativespark]

Fred W. McDarrah (American, 1926-2007), Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Lafcadio Orlovsky, 1960

[tristanrambles]

My heart cringes at this poor man in my old art! I swear if given the chance I would update him so hard haha. But I'm glad you still have and enjoy that piece, it's still dear to me even if i also go "oh no" a little xD

Also I'm glad you like Connor! And I'm pouring one out for you and all the other inquisitive rogues we've lost along the way lol

sketch doodle my bg3 character Connor, with a few tweaks ovo

Closeup under the cut of his face because his eyes are hard to see at a distance lol

[jei-rifni]

Lafcadio Boone

[mossgloam]

here lies my autumn reading recommendations 🍂🪦📕

I. slewfoot by brom

II. hex by thomas olde heuvelt

III. of ghosts and goblins by lafcadio hearn

IV. the first three of the vampire chronicles (interview with the vampire, the vampire lestat, and queen of the damned) by anne rice

V. the witching hour by anne rice

VI. the vampyre by john william polidori

VII. carmilla by sheridan le fanu

VIII. the legend of sleepy hollow by washington irving

IX. raising the horseman by serena valentino

X. young goodman brown by nathaniel hawthorne

other favs not pictured that you may enjoy this season:

-rosemary’s baby by ira levin

-american psycho by brett easton ellis

-the monkey’s paw by w.w. jacobs

-the amityville horror by jay anson

-long live the pumpkin queen by shea ernshaw

-you by caroline kepnis (i’ve not yet read the follow-ups to this series but intend to)

-frankenstein by mary shelley

-the silence of the lambs by thomas harris (my personal opinion is that you should read all four of the hannibal series in chronological order of their published release dates as it promotes interest in his backstory)

- the wolf gift by anne rice (i’d honestly suggest most of her other work if you find yourself intrigued by vampires, witches, werewolves, mummies, and/or the occasional ghost)

- the string of pearls: sweeney todd, the demon barber of fleet street by james malcolm rhymer (or thomas peckett prest, depending on who you ask)

- the shining & pet sematary by stephen king (many good ones by king but those two are my favs for the record)

- my best friend’s exorcism by grady hendrix

- the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

- darkly dreaming dexter by jeff lindsay (read them all if you like the first, and rest assured, they differ greatly from the show, beginning with the conclusion of the first book)

- dracula by bram stoker

- the cask of amontillado by edgar allan poe (there are countless more but there’s something really unnerving about this one)

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feel free to send me your horror or horror-adjacent favorites and I’ll look into them. 🕯️

[laplaces-lovecraftian-dick]

what if the reason no one can ever get マエリべリ―・ハ―ン right is because she's the equivalent of a futuristic "kaitleighnn" type name.

[cinemaobscura]

Kwaidan | 怪談 (1964) dir. Masaki Kobayashi

[melaelettrica]

'Portrait with Kitsune,' digital collage. Another Halloween extravaganza, this one featuring Ron Mael as Lafcadio Hearn.

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Kitsunes in love

Neil Gaiman: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the kitsune in love Kij Johnson: oh this sounds great Lafcadio Hearn: AHEM Hearn: i'll be the judge of that Hearn: you baka gaijin Gaiman: this is a tale of that ineffable madness that seizes the young and emboldens the old, cruel in its kindness and kind in its cruelty Gaiman: beautiful in its ugliness and ugly in its beauty Gaiman: i speak, my friends Gaiman: of love Gaiman: simply love

Gaiman: i speak of love as a singular force spiraling through the cosmos, unemcumbered by modular time Gaiman: love which speaks in gentle tones but will not be denied Gaiman: so powerful as to make a pauper of a king and a king of a pauper

Gaiman: to understand my story, you must remember the feelings of love Gaiman: to feel in the depths of that frenzy, unable to breathe for feelings too big to contain Gaiman: do you understand? can you feel it? King: Poe: Barker: Lovecraft: Koontz: Gaiman: then i'll begin

Gaiman: so it came to pass in the mysterious cloudlands of the distant east that a kitsune and a badger made a bet- Hearn: IT'S NOT A BADGER YOU BAKA GAIJIN Hearn: IT'S CALLED A TANUKI Hearn: GET IT RIGHT! Hearn: GET IT RIGHT!!!

Yoshitaka Amano: hey i illustrated your story, what do you think? Gaiman: huh, good but Gaiman: could you make the figures more wan? Amano: which ones? Gaiman: oh you know Gaiman: all of them Amano: ok how's this Gaiman: no no Gaiman: more wan