Stark wrote:Or halfway down the page he starts up again 'ahhhk... hekkkk... phew, that was rough... need... medical attention... crawling towards phone... vision, blurring... must write stream of consciousness with broken, bloodied fingers...' etc. Ah, the 20's.
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." -Ozzy
"Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone retarded." - Sparky Polastri
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum." - Frank Nada
Why use 'Fucking scary!! Arragh big claws & twenty arses!!'when you can use eldrich, macarbre, etc...
How many stream of consciousness writers pull out a thesarus when in a moment of peril?
Look, just because your toes are being nibbled by horrendous things from beyond time and space that the mind of man was never meant to comprehend is no reason to get sloppy. If a gent can't keep up the level of his prose, well, I don't know what the world would be coming to.
What is it with all the apocalyptic predictions? Shouldn't we as "good capitalists" be fighting over who gets to put up the first beach front hotel there?
"everytime a person is born the Earth weighs just a little more."--DMJ on StarTrek.com
"You see now you are using your thinking and that is not a good thing!" DMJay on StarTrek.com
"Watching Sarli argue with Vympel, Stas, Schatten and the others is as bizarre as the idea of the 40-year-old Virgin telling Hugh Hefner that Hef knows nothing about pussy, and that he is the expert."--Elfdart
Flagg wrote:Atlantis? Lemuria? Leshp?! It's Mu, you fools!
Ahem... Lemuria = Mu.
Get your lost continents straight, man.
According to the Encyclopedia Cthulhuiana...
The article on Lemuria wrote:Most of Howard, Lovecraft, and Carter's information on Lemuria came from writings of the Theosophists Madame Blavatsky and W. Scott-Elliot. They picked and chose what they took, and they omitted some of the Theosophists' more bizarre assertions--such as that the earliest humans on Lemuriawere beings of spirit which reproduced by budding. Lin Carter stated that the two continents of Lemuria and Mu were the same, but since this contradicts other sources on the Mythos, I have chosen to list them separately. Their relationship to each other and to the "lost continent" of R'lyeh is a matter I leave to future scholars to puzzle over.
Anybody know what, if any, is the generally accepted levels of canon for the Mythos?
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Oni Koneko Damien wrote:
Anybody know what, if any, is the generally accepted levels of canon for the Mythos?
Lovecraft's published writings, obviously, come first if it's specifically Cthulhu mythos. Then those of his peers; after that, Derleth's writings. I don't know much about this, mind you...
Oni Koneko Damien wrote:
Anybody know what, if any, is the generally accepted levels of canon for the Mythos?
Lovecraft's published writings, obviously, come first if it's specifically Cthulhu mythos. Then those of his peers; after that, Derleth's writings. I don't know much about this, mind you...
I figured each author would hold precedent in the part of the Mythos they created. Lovecraft's writings about Cthulhu, R'lyeh, the Mi-Go, etc., would be primary. Likewise, Ashton would be primary in regards to Tsathoggua, Atlantis, Hyperboria, etc. Derleth would hold precedence with Ithaqua and a few other things. Howard would get first dibs on anything related to Conan, Cimmeria, etc.
I don't know where subjects that were greatly covered by two or more would lie, like the Serpent Men of Valusia covered by Ashton and Howard.
Gaian Paradigm: Because not all fantasy has to be childish crap. Ephemeral Pie: Because not all role-playing has to be shallow. My art: Because not all DA users are talentless emo twits. "Phant, quit abusing the He-Wench before he turns you into a caged bitch at a Ren Fair and lets the tourists toss half munched turkey legs at your backside." -Mr. Coffee
