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Citizens of “Lion dad?” queries Claudius Atwood, grasping his young son under one arm, while feeding a ferocious shoggoth from the other. There's someone who's very likely to lose at least one limb. What is he feeding that shoggoth anyway? Another son? It wouldn't surprise me! A Cat and Ancient Panther |
In celebration of Christmas, our sovereign Nyarlathoggua the Grotesque has decreed that all newborns be thrown to the shoggoths, just in case. And It reminds you of its first Commandment, that you shall have no gods before It. Don't forget: attendance at tomorrow's worship ceremony is MANDATORY. Be there, or don't be. Salvation and/or dissolution - the choice is up to you, though Dark Young will be dispatched throughout the land, to help you make the right choice. Other than that, everyone have a Great Holiday! A Cat and Ancient Panther |
Yeah, Sufjan is somewhat known for using interesting instruments. I think it was a common trait of indie rock in the early-2000s. That guitalin looks like a lot of fun, didn't know about it either. Makes sense he would play it, as his banjo plucking is prevalent throughout much of his music and I bet the technique would help there. I think those blending strings you're hearing are either a violin or a cello, depending on the moment, as those two instruments are credited on the song. I love hearing them in popular music. |
"Be there, or don't be" - that is a good line. Our own populace, on this holiday, has now been suitably overfed to the point of glutton and lethargy. Soon, the true feasting will begin... |
Happy holidays to all you reigns of terror. Gluttony and lethargy in front of the fireplace. And prowling... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfWUorR8D60 |
Greetings to you, Prowler in Darkness. *Offers And welcome back, A Cat and Ancient Panther |
At first, I thought that PBS video was a kind of joke. But no, the giant yule cat is a real tradition... https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/art/2008/12/10/the-christmas-cat/ Fascinating... |
Oh no! My poll misspelled the holy name of Cthulhu. Boy, am I in trouble! |
It's ok, I think Lovecraft himself often used alternative spellings. I think in an attempt to represent a word passed between different cultures and altered in the process. I almost always have to look up the "correct" spelling, when using the word. My most common mistake is wanting to put an "h" after the "C" - Chthulhu - because of the word "chthonic". "Bhuugy'shbop, Lord of the Dance" :P The dora milaje and Nyarlathoggua Triumphant |
Lovecraft explained the spelling difficulties as being due to the named beings having extremely alien organs of articulation, leading to sounds that could not actually be produced by human beings, at least without exquisitely painful surgeries. |
Rather chthonic than catatonic. I'd rather dance with the Pharaoh than with Hnggghss'hhrin'hshhyyyuu, Our Dread Lady of the Sneezes. That Icelandic entity Grýla with multiple everythings would fit right in. |
Accepts treats This poll is full of difficult choices! I shall defer to my daughter. Speaking of scary traditions, I also like the horse skull Mari Lwyd. |
ᵇᵉᶦⁿᵍ ᵈʳᶦᵛᵉⁿ ᵐᵃᵈ ᵇʸ ᵍᶦᵃⁿᵗ ᵉʸᵉᵇᵃˡˡ ⁼ ᵇᵉˢᵗ ᶜᵃᵗ ᵗᵒʸ ʰᵃᵈ ᵗᵒ ᶜᵗᵉ ᵃᵗ ˡᵉᵃˢᵗ ᵒⁿᶜᵉ ᵗᵒ ᶠᵒˡˡᵒʷ ᵗʰᵉ ᶜᵃᵗˢ ᵒᶠ ᵘˡᵗʰᵃʳ ˡᵒʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉⁿ ᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵗᵒʳʸ, ᶦⁿˢᵗᵉᵃᵈ ᵒᶠ ʳᵉᵐᵃᶦⁿᶦⁿᵍ ᵍᵒⁿᵉ, ʳᵉᵗᵘʳⁿ ᶜʰᵖʳʳʳ'ʳʳʳʳʰᵘ ˢᵘᵐᵐᵒⁿᵉʳ ᵒᶠ ᵖᵘʳʳˢ |
Fear me, all rodentine residents of the region :P Highly unsettling. Love this bit: The men would carry the Mari Lwyd to local houses, where they would request entry through song. The householders would be expected to deny them entry, again through song, and the two sides would continue their responses to one another in this manner. If the householders eventually relented, the team would be permitted entry and given food and drink. More holidays should have roving bands of extortion-minded ne'er-do-wells. Ohh, that's a fun explanation, too. You actually see that sort of thing sometimes in normal cultural exchanges, simply between human societies, when the sounds being used are unlike one another. |
poll -> existential crisis Already between species it's difficult: How can humans tell what the blackbird sings, what the whale says, what the octopus thinks... |
John Vanderslice - Up Above the Sea Everyday the bluebird comes down ----- Even though I voted for one of the joke answers, "Azathoth" has always been my favorite of the Lovecraftian gods. The image has always stayed with me, of some great, omnipotent entity slumbering in the deepest reaches of outer space, being lulled by the steady beating of drums and piping of flutes, until that day when they cease and the god wakens once again, to the detriment of the universe... |
ᴬ ˡᵘˡˡᵃᵇʸ ᵗᵒ ᵏᵉᵉᵖ ᴬᶻᵃᵗʰᵒᵗʰ ᵃˢˡᵉᵉᵖˀ |
This is beautiful. Many hollow-eyed parents with a newborn baby have lived through this trepidation. |
Ha! Indeed. This would actually make a pretty great comic or something, where the experience of raising a newborn is expressed metaphorically through the capricious presence of an eldritch horror lurking in their nursery. |
From the issue on changing the national currency (#1358): "Just put happy little trees, or a shoggoth, celebrating the nature of our beautiful country. Wouldn’t that just be lovely to have cute, little shoggoths smiling back at you every time you go to pay for your morning tea and porridge?” They left off the part about "and wanting to know just exactly what you were doing with its eggs". |
Made me curious if anyone had designed Lovecraftian money: https://i.imgur.com/6kUsa7v.jpg Quite pretty, if you ask me. Also, apparently someone made a cryptocurrency called "Cthulhu Offerings": https://ico.li/ia-ia-cthulhu-fhtagn/ "The final goal of OFF is to bring Cthulhu back to earth ... It was not released to make money or even to be profitable—it was released because Cthulhu deserves a way for people to waste electricity in his name." |
If anyone is interested in a Lovecraft podcast: https://www.hppodcraft.com/ This is one of the earliest podcasts I really got into. Just two friends going story by story, doing background and some light analysis. Includes lots of pretty good dramatic readings, as well as some interesting interviews. After they exhaust the catalog, they begin to tackle other related supernatural fiction, and much of that goes behind a paywall, but the first ~120 episodes are free and covers every Lovecraft story. I'm about to begin re-listening to them, since it's been nearly a decade since my first listen-through, so it came to mind and I thought I'd share. |
Come back, |
*begins picking through the remains for anything useful* My people use all of the parts of the kitten. |
The region is shrinking! Was it something I said? |
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