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cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/20/2006 7:46:05 PM

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Do you know of Cthulhu? My plushy cthulhu sits at my computer desk! I take it to scifi cons,senario paintball games and other event for the heck of it!
if you do not know of Cthulhu go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/20/2006 7:48:56 PM

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There's far too much sci-fi/fantasy overlapping in the scene :)

And far too many geek boys who think being dominant is an easy way to get chicks without having social skills.

That being said, I am unable to resist them.

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/20/2006 7:52:49 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

There's far too much sci-fi/fantasy overlapping in the scene :)

And far too many geek boys who think being dominant is an easy way to get chicks without having social skills.

That being said, I am unable to resist them.

I agree. Going to Arisia one week.. then the Fetish Fair Fleamarket the next in Boston, one sees almost 50% of the same people. LOL

I agree.

Unable to resist cthulhu or geek boys?

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/20/2006 7:55:30 PM

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No. Of course I do not know of such abomination. What are you implying? Do you think I am insane, is that it? Mad, you think me? I sit in a room with far too many right angles, recalling the unspeakable night when I stumbled upon that many-tentacled Idol which the savage Th'nglak peoples were worshipping, singing sweet and high their thin piping melodies that echoed in the Outer Darkness and in the ears of the Elder Gods. Ia! Ia! Shub-Niggrauth is the Goat of a Thousand Young, and....but wait, I digress. It is foul memory that overcomes me. He is dead but dreaming in the depths of unholy R'lyeh...

Yeah, I run a Call of Cthulhu game online. We're just a bunch of fun guys from Yuggoth. Wanna join us and lose all your SAN points?

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/20/2006 8:10:24 PM

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http://www.locksley.com/cthulhu/

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/20/2006 8:18:18 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

There's far too much sci-fi/fantasy overlapping in the scene :)

And far too many geek boys who think being dominant is an easy way to get chicks without having social skills.

That being said, I am unable to resist them.

Ygnailh... ygnaiih... thflthkh'ngha.... Yog-Sothoth ... 'Y'bthnk... h'ehye - n'grkdl'lh...

Translation: naw, yer tellin' me that geeky is in? Shit, I draw comic books, reading SF since I was 8, Lovecraft when I was like 12 - collected Creepie, Eerie, Heavy Metal - I'm OG, original geek, I've kept it a secret all these years...

This is just too depressing.

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/20/2006 8:21:55 PM

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Cthulu.... wasn't that a great instrumental before Metallica started to suck?

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/21/2006 2:15:18 AM

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I remember reading Lovecraft as a young teen. That's thirty + years ago. Then seeing the fiction morph into marketing and cult semi reality.
At that time in My life I guess I could have been on the edge of some proto Gothism. But I got better.

Not a bad example of making the best of a bad situation though. Lovecraft apparently wrote out his recurring nightmares and made a cultish name for himself and an industry of second hand writers making a nonexistent book a reality ( Necronomicon ) Some very fancy editions out there.

Luckily I continued to read better books. Now I look back and see the Lovecraft novels as true examples of nightmares. Muddy, without any true form or sensible path, seldom having an end. But lately......it sometimes seems I am in a nightmare like that.....if I try to actually make sense of things.

Fun to be dumb.

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/21/2006 2:18:58 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

There's far too much sci-fi/fantasy overlapping in the scene :)

And far too many geek boys who think being dominant is an easy way to get chicks without having social skills.

That being said, I am unable to resist them.

I'm a manly geek into the fantasy that is the current reality.
Give Me a call sometime :)

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/21/2006 2:21:06 AM

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Excellent song by Metallica. mmm

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/21/2006 4:33:52 AM

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"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

In the House of Ryleh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming.

I loved this Lovecraft story and all the stuff that developed around it.

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/21/2006 5:16:16 AM

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...oooh this brought back memories.....i used to run an old pen'n'paper RPG Call of Cthulhu.........wonderful fun.......and the books are pretty good too :)

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/21/2006 5:30:40 AM

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Bah! Cthulhu, what a lightweight...

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/21/2006 9:05:27 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Kedicat

I remember reading Lovecraft as a young teen. That's thirty + years ago. Then seeing the fiction morph into marketing and cult semi reality.
At that time in My life I guess I could have been on the edge of some proto Gothism. But I got better.

Not a bad example of making the best of a bad situation though. Lovecraft apparently wrote out his recurring nightmares and made a cultish name for himself and an industry of second hand writers making a nonexistent book a reality ( Necronomicon ) Some very fancy editions out there.

Luckily I continued to read better books. Now I look back and see the Lovecraft novels as true examples of nightmares. Muddy, without any true form or sensible path, seldom having an end. But lately......it sometimes seems I am in a nightmare like that.....if I try to actually make sense of things.

Fun to be dumb.

He's still one of the best wordsmiths in the genre, after Poe of course - Stephen King rips him off regularly. I really like Bierce too, although his war stories are better, and more horrifying than his horror. Manley Wade Wellman is pretty good, and of course Robert E. Howard, as well as the usual suspects, Burroughs, etc.

More into cyberpunk these days, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, Gregg Bear - horror appears to be a lost art mostly.

Re: comix - I'm always hunting short stories for submission to anthologies, SF/Fantasy oriented preferably, but considering anything - also porn or erotica, particularly BDSM themed, and particularly more psychological stuff - include plenty of sex (it sells!), but I'm looking for something a little deeper than just the old in-out if you can dig.

Just message me here if you have anything along those lines - I can adapt prose, prefer it actually. May not be a lot of money in it, but you might get published.

P.S. - if you have goth leanings, and haven't read Samuel R. Delany, do so, you'll probobly like his later stuff - the original cyberpunk. Nova and Dhalgren are suggested.

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RE: cthulhu do you know of it? - 9/21/2006 9:34:53 AM

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hmmmmmmmm... never heard of it but it reminded me (somehow) of "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" mentioned by Midori here: http://eros-guide.com/articles/2005-09-27/divas_debauchery0927/

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