The hoodie is from the Miskatonic University department of biology. Shirt's imaginary, though.

[napoleonherself]

I created a tumblr recently to serve mainly as a holding tank for things on tumblr that I like, and I finally decided I needed an avatar that wasn't a default blue person.



I have excellent posture.

(If not for the very small size it needed to be at, the shirt would have had, instead of a graphic, the words "STAR OR TREE?" Nobody but me would get it, but it would have been hilarious.)

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[darnn.livejournal.com]

well come on what's star or tree

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

:D

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Okay, well. It's actually extremely difficult to explain without cornering you and talking to you about things that don't exist, very earnestly, and at such lengths that you begin to fear for your safety and start looking around for someone to rescue you from the crazy person. But if you google image search "elder sign" you should at least kind of get it.

[darnn.livejournal.com]

Uh... huh. Okay, then, I retract my earlier comment about you being dethpicable.

Also, LJ only notified me of your comment to my comment, so I only saw this by chance. It seems natural to me now from years of Facebook use that you should automatically get notified about any comments to your own comment, but oh well.

Also also, I don't know much about HPL, but I bought this on a whim and it was pretty nice: www.amazon.com/dp/B00EWZCTD0/

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Huh. I posted a reply from my phone, and it was anonymous because I didn't feel like logging in, but then it screened my reply so I had to log in to unscreen it, except after three tries it wouldn't leave me logged in through enough pageviews to get from the login screen to unscreening the comment, and finally it just deleted the screened comment entirely. LIVEJOURNAL WHY ARE YOU SUCH A BUTT.

Anyway, yes, the Laundry is a thing that is pretty clearly Lovecraft-adjacent. I might have to buy that novella... I've read The Infinity Archives, and The Jennifer Morgue, and I liked both of those. Stross is a p cool writer.

If you liked it, you might also like A Colder War, which is also Lovecraft-adjacent, although not Laundry and not silly like the Laundry is. You can read it for free on eye-searing teal: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

The thing about Lovecraft is that a lot of what he wrote is kind of bad. But some of the concepts he came up with are fantastic, and a lot of writers -- including him, near the end of his life, since he was starting to get more consistently not bad before the cancer had to go and cut things short -- have built off it to produce things that are nifty, and scary or awe-inspiring or sometimes just a tad silly.

Plus I have high tolerance for reading crappy fiction. As evidenced by the fact that I will pretty much buy any mythos-inspired short fiction collection, no matter how asleep at the wheel the line editor was. I'm actually reading through one on my Kindle during my lunches right now, and oh my god if I see "it's" used as a possessive one more time I'm going to stab something.

Man. My replies get way longer when I have a real keyboard instead of a phone.

...edit after I submitted all that: okay, fine, NOW the screened comment is back again, now that I gave up and typed up a whole new thing. I WILL STAB EVERYTHING

[darnn.livejournal.com]

Ha. Well, I opened that teal monstrosity in a new tab, hopefully I'll get to it before the end of my life.

Have you read Events at Poroth Farm? Again, I haven't read enough Lovecraft to know how direct a connection there is, but it's just really very good on its own merits.

I was reminded of it because it's included in at least one of those Kindle Mythos anthologies.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I have indeed read it! It's in the collection I'm reading right now. T.E.D. Klein is another one of those authors I like pretty well. His first story I ever read was "Petey", from a general-horror collection I got back in high school, and it's stuck with me lo these many years.

Apparently the E is short for Eibon. That is heck of funny to me. Also kind of weird I would have just found that out now, because I JUST read the Clark Ashton Smith story that that comes from today.

[darnn.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty funny way to make a pseudonym. Just adding stuff until the initials spell out what you want.

I wish he was more prolific, though. He's got some kind of really protracted writer's block. He's still alive, too, but nothing much has changed recently, he's only had four stories published in the nineties, and only one after that.

Since there are so few of them, though, I went and bought all the anthologies that contain stories of his not found in his one collection or here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/645489/books/Collected%20Stories%20-%20T.E.D.%20Klein.epub

I've OCRed all but one and will eventually put them all somewhere, but if you're interested, what I have so far is here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/645489/ted%20klein.htm
(The last one is not my OCR, and I have yet to fix it up.)

I assume you have epub/mobi/whatever conversion down, and everything.

Also, the guy who introduced me to Poroth Farm recently put up his "spooky tale" for Halloween, and you should really check out both the one from the previous year and the one from this one:
http://correlatedcontents.com/?p=1337
http://correlatedcontents.com/?p=1593

And he also made these two Twines, the latter of which is basically a horror story:
http://correlatedcontents.com/?p=1507
http://correlatedcontents.com/?p=1545

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

You are my favorite of all the Victors, because you give me things to read.

I just read the OCR'd set, and I totally laughed when I finished Ladder and then went back and skimmed it again. Mr. Klein is too clever by half.

[darnn.livejournal.com]

Pshaw. Let me know what you think of the Halloween stories!

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I liked the scarecrow one; some of the OP's later posts made me laugh. The maze one confused me because I couldn't tell whether I was reading it backwards or not.

I didn't really pay attention to the game things. Too much work.

[darnn.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. Although if you think that's too much work, you should see some non-linear Twines!

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

YOUR FACE IS NON-LINEAR

[darnn.livejournal.com]

I duly acknowledge the burn.

[darnn.livejournal.com]

you're dethpicable