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[murderandcoffee]

(to the tune of hot to go) ✨K-I-N-G in YELLOW✨

[autumnalplague]

The King in Yellow fan art

[tatteredmantle]

Wishing a happy birthday to Robert W. Chambers.

Born on this day, May 26, 1865.

So long, and thanks for all the fin de siècle.

Blessed are the pure in heart.

[novustrad]

Is there controversy on the appearance of the true Yellow Sign?

Because the popular triskelion design came from the ttrpg Call Of Cthulhu 80 to 90+ years after the book. This is a Lovecraft interpretation and doesn't feel canon.

On Chambers' book, the spine has an upside-down torch. Apparently, this wasn't confirmed to be the Yellow Sign, but it feels likely that it is.

Or is the Yellow Sign anything that a victim of The King In Yellow interprets as the Sign and their belief is what gives TKIY further influence in their minds?

[cosmodia05]

Gartic Phone, the game where you can get from The King in Yellow to Star Wars but Worms... I put my prompt as King in Yellow because I was interested to see where it would end up... That is not where I expected it to go.

[frogshunnedshadows]

Love the featureless black nothingness inside the cloak, with just a clawed black hand coming out. Pallid mask looks great, as does the crown.

Happy Halloween! Spooky day seems like the best time to post my costest of John Doe from the horror podcast Malevolent!

This was a super fun cosplay to make, especially since this is a character from an audio-based medium who has no corporeal form in the story to begin with. Design-wise, I took inspiration from both the cover of the 1865 edition of Robert W. Chambers’ novel “The King in Yellow”, as well as various fandom interpretations of the character.

I can't wait to debut him at Anime Frontier alongside a friend of mine who will be cosplaying Arthur!

[feartoxinjelloshot]

The mask of self-deception was no longer a mask for me, it was a part of me.

[rosesofenvy]

I’m relistening to malevolent while packing and this interaction had me pausing because it feels like Arthur just failed an insight check in dnd

—

DM: John’s voice is dark, something not quite himself when you question him. Roll an insight check

Arthur: that’s a 3

DM: John’s totally fine :D just continues the conversation and you aren’t concerned in any way

[hildred-rex]

Hello, I love Hildred Castaigne! He’s such a fucked up unreliable narrator and he also reminds me so much of myself in middle school and I love him for it. What do you like about him?

First off, apologies for taking absolutely ages to answer this! Life happened and I promptly forgot tumblr existed for almost a month. Yay.

Anyhow, I think my love of Hildred is a combination of the factors you mentioned and the absolute state I got into shortly after I found The King in Yellow -- aaand here comes an essay. The last version of this got deleted, and apparently I've taken it upon myself to make its replacement even lengthier.

Hildred is a fascinating character to read and to write, and his opinions on things are (or would be) so different from mine that it's fun to try to puzzle them out. I keep a bevy of fictional characters that I can simulate reasonably well as a way to make myself consider how people get to opinions that differ from mine, and naturally he's among them.

Beyond that, I'm an absolute sucker for hints at a greater world, but only narrow viewpoints from which to try to figure out what's going on in that world.

The weird bits of The King in Yellow as a whole are superb at tantalizing you with smug allusions and tiny scraps of information about what, exactly, it is that the book is named for.

Is it a play? Is it an entity? What happened to the author? ...was the author Boris? (I don't think the author was Boris, but I won't lie that I've considered writing a fic where he was.)

I got hooked on Lovecraft for the same reason, and it's actually what put me on to Arthur Machen (favorite author) and The King in Yellow (favorite book).

Even with all that, I think my King in Yellow interest would have been a passing thing that returned occasionally, if it hadn't been the last thing I got into before my first set of high school final exams kicked my ass.

The tl;dr of freshman year is that I picked the wrong math class and it spent the semester wrecking my self-confidence (and my sleep schedule) before I finally managed to transfer to a better one. (Then I spent second semester picking myself back up.)

Hildred, notably, is self-confident to the point of it backfiring catastrophically on him. He absolutely should not have gloated to Louis, tactically speaking; in this essay I will-

Anyway. Stress is weird, so during finals season and its leadup I had quite a lot of unmarshalled energy that refused to work on what I actually needed it to do and that instead directed itself at my idle pokings at Hildred and his world.

Probably better than worrying about how my abysmal math grade was going to ruin my life.

It didn't, and I came out of the crucible with rather extensive additional worldbuilding. Since I essentially speedran getting invested in the project, I came away wanting to do more of it and... it just kind of stuck?

I mean, here we are several years later and my first impulse is still to name my tumblr blog for him. I've got a rough idea of his extended family back three generations. I have a design for that spring suit Hawberk had that was mentioned exactly once. I am the embodiment of

when it comes to this lol

_____

I couldn't find a good place to fit this in above, but Hildred was also the first time I encountered a story with an obviously intentional unreliable narrator after I'd encountered the term. Not sure how I missed it that long, lol. I spent probably half a decade looking askance at various authors and going "...do you know what you're writing there???"

I also couldn't integrate it anywhere, but I absolutely adore "The Mask." I have Thoughts on Chambers's ability to write romance more generally, the short version being that he writes Lovers™ and not characters and they're thus so wooden they're hard to read, but that he must have been in a position like the beginning of "The Mask" because holy god that is exactly how it feels.

[scarletwix]

Just checking in and uhh, yeah I'm still unwell about the way that Frank and Ambrose made a home for themselves at the edge of a crumbling universe, and the way that even though he STILL thought Ambrose wouldn't commit to him, Frank came back for him.

Screaming crying throwing up etc, I need to learn how to paint

[lady-inkyrius]

Once I've finished The King in Yellow I think I'm going to put what book I read next up to a poll because I can't decide. My book collection has grown too large, I've got like 15 books on the shortlist for reading next.

[melonisopod]

Hm okay okay toying with the concept of a King In Yellow-type Servant how TKIY is an entity outside of reality who ardently wishes to be made 'real' whose name when spoken signals doom for everyone else yet he so ardently begs for someone to utter his name.

He isn't malicious deep down he wants to be noticed and heard and recognized and made real.

[waterlogged-detective]

is one of the books Doe is made of the King in Yellow solely because it's my favorite book?

Mayhaps

[tatteredmantle]

[hildred-rex]

Interesting... It looks like something shattered when she shot him!

Also BATTLE HARKERS

and the center spike of the crown is glowing brighter than the others and making me nervous...

(it's grown significantly, too, even since the start of this scene -- he's starting to get a little halo thing.)

(this all used to be tags lol but then I went on a rant:)

also since analysis has been sidetracked by OH RIGHT IT'S TWO WEEKS TILL FINALS, here are some of my notes:

twin suns on the shoulderpads -- depending on how he angles himself, is he the lake? (in the original text they sink behind it; project gutenberg gives beneath.)

arguably kind of cloudy fluffy coat bits (although they've gotten rained on now)

also: note that he seems to have grown the sun shoulderpads and their attached little triangle thing at the back (I don't know what to call it lol), even though the rest of his outfit could have come from his life as a king

he's got a combination of beauty and decadence/decay that fits how "The Repairer of Reputations" (which is my favorite of the original stories and the one I'm most qualified to talk about offhand) and also the loosely-connected "The Demoiselle d'Ys" feel when you read them and how they portray their worlds

I'm saving the mask for later (because there's a lot I want to get right there and I'll have to talk about memory/how it works in him/"and my mind would bear forever the memory of the Pallid Mask")

the doll/porcelain look he's got is interesting too -- I can't think of anything in the original stories which would be a source for it

also comparing Hildred's regnal getup will be fun

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