#lovercraft

[sanacreatividad]

Leper having a moment

[hades-art24]

[eucanthos]

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

[Evolving sciences have not yet caused great tribulations, but]* some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”

― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, 1926

[*rough translation to fill the gap]

img: "The Age of Gold". Photographed by Charlotte Hadden for Mene Jewelry x Le Paradox

thnx bienenkiste

[doctorslippery]

Cowboy 2 by KthulhuYarrr

[branwyn-the-half-witch]

Comparative Mythologies of the Long Night: Part One – Blood Betrayal

(posted alongside the twitter threads of the same title)

‘...the fact that some cataclysm took place many thousands of years ago seems certain’

A series of threads examining the myths of the first Long Night, and what it may tell us about the next.

In World of Ice and Fire (WOIAF) we learned that the Long Night was not merely a Westerosi story, but an apocalyptic event that impacted the entire Known World. That it was the same event is undeniable, because the stories share common threads; darkness, and unrelenting cold.

These threads will examine the origins of the Long Night, the stories of the heroes that fought against it, and will examine the parallels that exist with the main series (ASOIAF) in order to determine whether we can learn anything from these nebulous, uncertain legends.

We have one primary story for the origins of the Long Night, which comes to us from the Great Empire of the Dawn, the ancient predecessor of Yi Ti; this was a vast land ruled by the descendants of the God-on-Earth, only son of the Lion of Night and the Maiden-Made-of-Light.

These rulers, associated with specific gemstones, ruled a vast but increasingly troubled and sinful realm for thousands of years until the throne passed to the Amethyst Empress; however, the younger brother of this first Empress usurped the throne, with deadly consequences.

This ‘Blood Betrayal’ is explicitly cited as ushering in the Long Night. Examine how the Bloodstone Emperor’s reign is described; note that he is highlighted as practising specifically necromancy and slavery, and as having cast down the true gods. All hallmarks of the Others.

As an aside, this is the only mention we have of ‘the sinister Church of Starry Wisdom’ still found in port cities. This is a HP Lovecraft reference (‘The Haunter of the Dark’, specifically) where a cult of the same name worship ‘Nyarlathotep’, an outlier in Lovecraftian mythos because he is upon the earth, alive, and can take the form of a tall man. Unlike the detached, unfathomable horrors of Lovecraft’s other monstrosities, Nyarlathotep is deliberately cruel and openly beguiles and propagandises cults into existence to serve his goals.

Sound like anyone we know? The parallels between how Nyarlathotep functions and is described and Euron ‘when men see my sails they pray’ Greyjoy is quite striking, and the fact that the ASOIAF version of this cult is found in port cities serves to underline the parallel further.

GRRM seems enamoured with examining this kind of figure; one who operates by twisting both the physical and metaphysical into propaganda to serve privately hellish and disturbing goals, whose strength is more intellectual than physical, whose weapons are first and foremost the evil men are already willing to do. The Bloodstone Emperor, the Night’s King, Euron, pre-tree Bloodraven (and possibly even post-tree), the Undying; even Mel is a play on this theme insomuch as her reputation; only her inner thoughts reveal that there is more mortal than monster in her.

It’s important to hold to GRRM’s propensity for echoing his themes, heroes AND his villains throughout the world-building, because he’s writing a Song, and so both harmony and leitmotif are crucial.

(Your obligatory ‘Lovecraft-was-a-massive-racist-so-bear-that-in-mind’ note)

The Long Night is framed explicitly as an act of divine retribution; note the symbolism again that the ‘light’ deity turns her face away, and ‘night’ is the punishment wreaked upon the world. It is worth considering that, as above, the world was in a state of decay prior to the Blood Betrayal; this event is analogous to a great many divine cataclysms throughout our own legends, that come following an inciting horror after a long time of mortal hubris and moral decay. As with the fall of Babel, the Long Night leaves the world a broken and divided place.

The world was saved from the Long Night, and the sun returned. But it was not redeemed, and the Maiden-Made-of-Light still has her faced turned away. Evidence of this is shown in the malformed seasons; WOIAF gives us two knowledgable sources, sound, but untrusted by the Citadel. Septon Barth attributes the strange seasons to a magical matter, and one Maester Nicol contends that the seasons were once of regular length and reliable constancy, of which the only evidence were the most ancient of tales – those likely to pre-date the Long Night.

So what can this origin story tell us? Well, it has all of the hallmarks of GRRM’s main series and interlinks two of his cardinal sins; kinslaying and usurpation – most particularly of a rightful female ruler. Targaryen history is sown with usurpations of the House’s women, from the very beginning, reaching a climax with the Dance, and descending into a long nadir where the dragons die out and Targaryen women lose the last ember of escape available to them. I shall speak later of the notion of blood debts being imposed on the innocent to pay for the survival of all humankind, so make a note of that theme occurring in such a primal level here, in the construction of the mythos, and so all-encompassing that the whole world suffers for the actions of one man – and remember that in relation to Targaryen women specifically.

Within ASOIAF itself, the Red Wedding is such a horrific spiritual crime, it reverberates through time and space to touch far-flung dreamers. It has much the same feeling as this mythic betrayal, which I would be unsurprised to learn also involved the breaking of guest-right.

It is perhaps evocative of the described moral decay that led the GEOTD to be thrown down in the first place, that made it seemingly deserving of the scourge that would come to ruin the world. The Others are already on the march by that point in the story, of course, but much of the War of the Five Kings phase of the books does little to dissuade the reader from the belief that the world is due a massive paradigm shift, as lightning striking the tower. When the world is so unfairly and brutally structured, apocalypse becomes a necessity.

This concludes Part One. Part Two concerns the most famous name from our roster of heroes, and their famous sword.

[leggerefiore]

Hi! In Character.AI, can you please share what you tend to write in the Definition window during creation of the bot? I am trying to learn how to make good bots. Btw, thank you for Lear bot ❤️

Usually, either dialogue from in-game because what better way to get the character the most accurate or assorted ways about their character or interests. A mix of both is best if you want to use it for RP, since for scenario text, it needs a base to pull from to get an idea. The first 15-30 are the most important, I think?

For Lear, as example:

These two to help further give the bot details to work with. the "{{char}}:" is just a string, so the bot knows who it's coming from. You can use "{{user}}:" to feed it a potential scenario.

Basically, a mix of dialogue, flavour text, and possible scenario buildings.

No problem! I wanted to make him because... Well, I wasn't getting what I wanted from the bots people already made and wanted to test myself on getting a better read for his character... About to add his dialogues about him caller the mc a commoner over and over again, actually. Too funny not to.

[churchofsatannews]

Zann's Reprise by Magus Peter H. Gilmore Final Reprint

The final printing of Magus Gilmore’s short story is here. Bringing to the total number of copies to 666, never to be reprinted in this form. A booklet edition of the short story by Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan. This story is a sequel in homage to “The Music of Erich Zann” by H. P. Lovecraft. It is recommended that you read it before this for the full impact. Featuring…

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@loryer496 An important truth!

[hotsinglefunginearyou]

why does lovercraft hates new England so fucking much oh my god

[inilrose]

tagged by @severin-photocopy

last song: Our love is God from Heathers >_>

favorite color: black! and brown!

last book: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, currenntly reading The left hand of darkness by Ursula Le Guin

last movie: The ritual, 2017 (I missed watching horror movies!! Found out watching one in company while eating pizza sitting on the floor is an especially wholesome activity)

last tv show: Arcane season 2 (peer pressure got me this time...........)

sweet/savory/spicy: ughhhh can't choose! I love them all equally!

relationship status: very happily in love <3

last thing i googled: Lovercraft cat name (😭)

current obsession: Hamilton (exorcise me)

looking forward to: my trip to Paris in 5 days!! I already bought tickets for 3 exhibitions and I'm sooo thrilled (˶◜ᵕ◝˶)

tagging: @m0ssgreen @exsecratio @lusikak0s

[watchanalyse]

learning the existence of one Scourge the Hedgehog and innocently checking the crimes section on his villains wiki page truly is the "google HP Lovercraft's cat's name" of the Sonic fandoms

[kyo-isuppose]

Kunikida and Bram. Creating/ animating objects. Like the peakock miraculous (iykyk)

Yosano amd Fyodor. I need a fic where they unwillingly fuse and Yosano has to come to terms that when she fuses with him she feels like Mori amd that part of her that was influenced by him comes out. Not sure what the ability woupd be tho

Ranpo and Nikolai. Just... Imagine the utter CHAOS that is their fusion

Junichiro and Gin. Simply put: >:3

Atsushi and Akutagawa (for obvious reasons.) them trying to fuse would be like when you try to put two south magnets together. So they have to kiss to fuse. :)

Lucy amd Junichiro: ASSASSIN PARADISE

Bungou Stray Dogs fans:

I love drawing character fusions and I think combining abilities would be so fun

What characters do you think would make interesting fusions/combinations?

[kidron]

X reader Character list

|Rise of The teenage mutant ninja turtles : every single character + Yuich Usagi (crossover)

|Bungou stray dogs (manga) : Atsushi, Kenji, Kyouka, Ranpo, Yosano, Kunikida, Lucy, Odasaku, Kyusaku, Karma, Poe, Karl, Mushitaro, Yokomizo, Tetcho, Aya, Bram, Lovercraft.

|Tokyo revengers ( manga + anime ) : Mikey / Manjiro, Hinata, Baji, Chifuyu, Kazutora, Ryusei, Kojiro, Peke-J, Souya / Angry, Nahoya / Smiley, Hakkai, Yuzuha, Terano South, Mochi, Mucho, Wakasa, Benkei, Senju.

|Lego Monkie kid : Sun wukong | Monkie king, six eared Macaque, Mk, Red son, Mei, Sandy, Mohawk ( Sandy's cat ) Jin, Yin, Bai Hee.

[serenofroses]

I may or may not lean into an idea of throwing some eldritch horrors onto my lady Jadus.

I've been straying away from Eldritch for so long (never read the Lovercraft books) because none of them were what I'm looking for. Something relating to dark horrors, vampirism, coven/witches, demonic and shadows.

most I come across were faceless entity, tentacles, body horror, cthulhu etc which isn't what I'm into.

[bouffantbear]

Anybody got any tips on how to write occult stories like HP Lovercraft & the like?

[sapphiccatholicademia]

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories