#people are more than welcome to suggest edits and rephrasements! some of these are weird ones and i dunno how to warn for em

[rjalker]

Wow that is just a whole truckload of information. Okay.

Too much to put in indented quotes.

Note: the word "niggardly" means something along the lines of "greedy" and has no relation to the racial slur. I managed to edit them out of astounding stories of super science so far, but didn't think to check the Tarzan compilation for it, so I'll edit that in the file tomorrow. I'll just have to figure out how to rephrase that sentence so it still makes sense since it's not a one-to-one synonym for greedy....

Suggestions for editing the sentence are welcome.

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Book 13: Tarzan at the Earth’s Core By Edgar Rice Borroughs, published 1930

Forward:

Pellucidar, as every schoolboy knows, is a world within a world, lying, as it does, upon the inner surface of the hollow sphere, which is the Earth.

It was discovered by David Innes and Abner Perry upon the occasion when they made the trial trip upon the mechanical prospector invented by Perry, wherewith they hoped to locate new beds of anthracite coal. Owing, however, to their inability to deflect the nose of the prospector, after it had started downward into the Earth's crust, they bored straight through for five hundred miles, and upon the third day, when Perry was already unconscious owing to the consumption of their stock of oxygen, and David was fast losing consciousness, the nose of the prospector broke through the crust of the inner world and the cabin was filled with fresh air. In the years that have intervened, weird adventures have befallen these two explorers. Perry has never returned to the outer crust, and Innes but once—upon that occasion when he made the difficult and dangerous return trip in the prospector for the purpose of bringing back to the empire he had founded in the inner world the means to bestow upon his primitive people of the stone age the civilization of the twentieth century.

But what with battles with primitive men and still more primitive beasts and reptiles, the advance of the empire of Pellucidar toward civilization has been small; and in so far as the great area of the inner world is concerned, or the countless millions of its teeming life of another age than ours, David Innes and Abner Perry might never have existed.

When one considers that these land and water areas upon the surface of Pellucidar are in opposite relationship to the same areas upon the outer crust, some slight conception of the vast extent of this mighty world within a world may be dreamed.

The land area of the outer world comprises some fifty-three million square miles, or one-quarter of the total area of the earth's surface; while within Pellucidar three-quarters of the surface is land, so that jungle, mountain, forest and plain stretch interminably over 124,110,000 square miles; nor are the oceans with their area of 41,370,000 square miles of any mean or niggardly extent.

Thus, considering the land area only, we have the strange anomaly of a larger world within a smaller one, but then Pellucidar is a world of deviation from what we of the outer crust have come to accept as unalterable laws of nature. In the exact center of the earth hangs Pellucidar's sun, a tiny orb compared with ours, but sufficient to illuminate Pellucidar and flood her teeming jungles with warmth and life-giving rays. Her sun hanging thus perpetually at zenith, there is no night upon Pellucidar, but always an endless eternity of noon.

There being no stars and no apparent movement of the sun, Pellucidar has no points of compass; nor has she any horizon since her surface curves always upward in all directions from the observer, so that far above one's line of vision, plain or sea or distant mountain range go onward and upward until lost in the haze of the distance. And again, in a world where there is no sun, no stars and no moon, such as we know, there can be no such thing as time, as we know it. And so, in Pellucidar, we have a timeless world which must necessarily be free from those pests who are constantly calling our attention to "the busy little bee" and to the fact that "time is money." While time may be "the soul of this world" and the "essence of contracts," in the beatific existence of Pellucidar it is nothing and less than nothing. Thrice in the past have we of the outer world received communication from Pellucidar. We know that Perry's first great gift of civilization to the stone age was gunpowder. We know that he followed this with repeating rifles, small ships of war upon which were mounted guns of no great caliber, and finally we know that he perfected a radio.

Knowing Perry as something of an empiric, we were not surprised to learn that his radio could not be tuned in upon any known wave or wave length of the outer world, and it remained for young Jason Gridley of Tarzana, experimenting with his newly discovered Gridley Wave, to pick up the first message from Pellucidar.

The last word that we received from Perry before his messages faltered and died out was to the effect that David Innes, first Emperor of Pellucidar, was languishing in a dark dungeon in the land of the Korsars, far across continent and ocean from his beloved land of Sari, which lies upon a great plateau not far inland from the Lural Az.

[lightkrets312]

Rusty Lake Series - Content Warnings

Games Included:

Cube Escape: Seasons - 12 Warnings

Cube Escape: The Lake - 5 Warnings

Cube Escape: Arles - 7 Warnings

Cube Escape: Harvey’s Box - 5 Warnings

Cube Escape: Case 23 - 16 Warnings

Cube Escape: The Mill - 14 Warnings

Cube Escape: Birthday - 17 Warnings

Cube Escape: Theater - 10 Warnings

Cube Escape: The Cave - 9 Warnings

Warnings listed beneath the cut! (List created Oct.31.2020; edited Nov.03.2020; edits/suggestions welcome!)

Major Warnings include (but not limited to): Several human AND animal deaths, suicide, self-harm and dismemberment, guns and gun violence, alcohol, drugs (presciption and not), loud noises, possible epilepsy triggers, and more. (Death in general is a theme.) Sickness, pestilence, insects, murder, poison, literal shit, fire, and more are also included, especially in the purchaseable games!

Cube Escape: Seasons

On-Screen Character Death (violent)

Animals (Bird; Parrot.)

Animal Death (bird)

Blood (several times)

Flashing Lights (minor but present; fireplace effects and outline in a frame. Some flashing images over the screen when interacting with items (Mushroom))

Screen Distortions (”old footage” filter as a map transition and some screen visuals)

Jumpscares, all minor but include sudden noises. (Character Death on the moon, egg possibly included)

Sharp Things (knife, axe, broken glass)

Drugs, only shown (Prescription (Prozac) and mushrooms (implied effects; see screen distortions))

Insects (black moths(?))

Disembodied Limbs (An eye on the ceiling; a hand in a pot; not explicitly bloodied but not connected to a body.)

Loud Noises (Screaming, avoidable)

Cube Escape: The Lake

Fishing as a core mechanic

Dead body (Not sure how to summarize this one. You find a corpse.)

Animal Death (shrimp, fish)

Jumpscare; minor but includes sudden noises (Corpse moves/twitches.)

Cube Escape: Arles

Disembodied Limbs (eyeball; no blood, just no body)

Animals (shrimp, fish)

Blood

Self Harm/Dismemberment (Ear gets cut off)

Death(?) (shooting (cut to black effect so not entirely onscreen), but no blood. Not sure if what’s shot counts as human, but it gets shot and then it’s gone, so it counts as dead.)

Weird Eye Stuff (eyes roll back in head)

Key Hidden in Mouth (i don't know how to describe this one...)

Highly-Detailed Ear Closeup

Gun (which is used later on)

Cube Escape: Harvey’s Box

Screen Distortions

Jumpscares, minor but includes sudden noises (creature reaching towards you)

Animals (Fish; Regular and with human limbs. Birds; Pigeon, Crow-man, and the player (Parrot).)

Insects (Maggots and Flies, Fireflies(?))

Cube Escape: Case 23

Flashing Lights (box outlines in a TV screen)

Screen Distortions (TV static on a TV, if it counts; some distorted wallpaper in part 4)

Jumpscares, most minor but includes sudden noises (someone’s head turns real weird; creature hits window; everything in part 4)

Two Character Death (offscreen deaths, onscreen bodies; one corpse at a murder scene, one is hanged)

Animal Death (bird is fed to a cat; deer befuckery, can avoid viewing it.)

Blood (Corpse at the crime scene; deer?)

Bugs in mouth, twice. (One pinchy bug thing; moths(?))

Disfigurement (mouth stitched shut)

...Bird head in mouth?? (I have no idea how to describe this one)

Human fetus in a jar.

Disembodied Limbs (finger; heart; eye)

Animals (Cat. Bird; picture of a parrot, baby crow. Deer.)

Insects (see Bugs in mouth; flies (non-moving/dead))

Animal Poop

Timed Puzzle (all of part 4)

Cube Escape: The Mill

Flashing Lights

Character Death (offscreen; body in a grandfather clock; murder in the cupboard)

Jumpscares (body falls out of clock; owl man appears)

Loud Noises (screaming)

Animal Death (cooked duck and fish; cow loses its head)

Disfigurement (mouth stitching)

Violent Imagery (bloody knife; murder)

Sharp Things (Knife; axe)

Teeth (part of a puzzle, also unhealthy)

Animals (Bird; Parrot, Owl-man, Duck, Crow (optional). Cow.)

Insects (moths(?); spider web, no spider)

Blood

Animal Poop

Cube Escape: Birthday

Screen Distortions as transitions

Character Death (four times)

Animal Death (feed fish to bird)

Gun Violence (there's a shooting or two )

Blood

Possibly Disconnected Hand

Loud Noises (screaming, gun shots, explosion, tea kettle)

Sharp Things (knife, needle, broken flower pot, broken vase)

Needle in a cake

Alcohol

Animals (Cat. Fish. Rabbit-man.)

Animal Poop

Cube Escape: Theater

Jumpscares, with accompanying Loud Noises (mirror puzzle)

Loud Noises (Screaming)

Three Character Deaths (Two Throat openings (spontaneous); One suicide (gun-to-head, death isn't instant))

Blood (several instances)

Self-Harm and Suicide (Banging head into countertop; gun)

Alcohol (Several mixed drinks; there's a bar)

Items Hidden In Mouth (Screwdriver)

Disembodied Limbs (Heart; Hand in a piano (maybe counts?))

Human Fetus (in a toilet)

Animals (Bird; Parrot, Crow mask, Owl mask. Fish.)

Cube Escape: The Cave

Jumpscare (Big fish suddenly appears; shark suddenly appears; shadow creature suddenly appears.)

Character Death (Death elixir (cartoon on wall); implied suicide.)

Animal Death (Cooking fish as a mechanic)

Suicide, implied (Black Cube Minigame)

Self-Harm/Dismemberment (someone in a wall cuts their arm off)

You grind up an arm and feed it to a dog. I don't know how to warn for this one.

Insects (Moths, Spiders, Fireflies, Beetles. Unknown creature in the background, but it's big.)

Animals (Dog; bulldog. Bat. Bird; Crow-man, Owl-man, Parrot. Fish; Assorted, shark, anglerfish. Crab.)

Animal Poop

[elfwreck]

Hello, finding a lot of interesting posts on your blog and hope you are doing well! Anyway, i had some questions about fanlore and was wondering if i could ask you or get pointed to someone else. Mostly about like, what to post, like notoriety, if that changes based on if it's the "right" vs. the "wrong" type of fandom to be associated with fanlore. And also some stuff about adding or quoting stuff you're involved in but that's less of a big deal and more fiddly.

Adding stuff you're involved in is fine. Just be aware that other people might edit later, and if there are controversies, that might include editing in ways that don't put your participation in a good light. We encourage people to add stuff they know, and in fandom, that's often "stuff I'm directly involved in." The biggest issue here is privacy - we've got some complicated rules about maintaining privacy; we discourage connecting people's usernames with real names unless it's directly relevant (and sometimes not even then). And sometimes we separate usernames on one platform from usernames on another one. (If you have permission from the people involved, then multiple names are fine.)

Post EVERYTHING we want it ALL anYtHinG iS GoOd. Don't care how good the language is. We have a regular editor whose native language is not English and she translates with Google Translate and posts that way and someone goes through later and cleans up the phrasing AND WE LOVE THIS.

We don't have a "notability" standard like Wikipedia. We don't have a "citation needed" thing, although info without sources may wind up being rephrased into "some fans claim that..." instead of phrased like an absolute fact.

If you and two friends made an 8-page zine that you printed on the school printer and handed out to about 12 people... that's worth a Fanlore page. If you planned to make a zine, and had a name and a template and two volunteer artists and a theme and you got some comments, but it never happened... that is also worth a page.

There's some weirdness around "what kind of fandom do we cover?" Theoretically, anything is welcome; in practice, we're not covering mainstream sports fandoms (y'know, the guys who dress up in blue & yellow facepaint and wear giant foam fingers) and we're edging around classic sci-fi convention-ish literary fandom. (We have some of that. But we're not trying to recreate or override Fancyclopedia's work.) We're also not trying to overlap tvtropes, which gets more complicated to sort out, because we do cover a lot of the same topics, but we have a different focus for them.

For myself, I'd love to see

More video game fandom coverage, esp related to mods, controversies/dramas, and the screaming that happens every time a company releases a remake on a new platform for more than the original. Also speedrunning info.

More conventions, especially media-fandom/fanfic-ish conventions

Fannish trends on TikTok

Cosplay. Lots of cosplay. We are missing so much info on the history & trends of cosplay.

Pages for modern zines and pages for the processes involved in making them. (When I got into fandom, there were no "interest check/ mod applications/ contributor applications" etc. phases.)

Everything that's going on in Discord OMG we are missing SO DAMN MUCH FANDOM that is only happening in closed communities that you can't even search the names of and they're all gonna fuckin' VANISH when Discord does some weird fannish purge thing.

Updating older/early pages with new info for those fandoms, or new ways their common tropes connect to new fandoms.

Also, we always need submissions and voting on the Featured Article Nominations. Anyone can suggest. Anyone can vote.

...as you might be able to tell, I can talk about this AT LENGTH IN GREAT DETAIL.