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Raymond H on Alan Moore's Yuggoth Pastiches
at 12:47 on 18-06-2018 - link
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I don't know if I want to read Neonomicon anymore. Like, you mentioned the awkward rape moment, and this just...sort of tipped it over the edge...
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Arthur B on Alan Moore's Yuggoth Pastiches
at 11:55 on 18-06-2018 - link
1) It is.
The context: the Dagon cultists have locked the woman in with the Deep One, with the expectation that the Deep One will rape her a whole bunch because that largely seems to be what their deal is about. The woman gives the Deep One a handjob to keep it docile.
It's extremely silly even in context.
2) William Burroughs might perhaps be your dude. Look to the Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, Nova Express), though since all those derive from the same word hoard that yielded Naked Lunch some find it's worth reading that to ease into the rest of the trilogy.
Oh, and the short film Ah Pook Is Here touches on some of that. -
Raymond H on Alan Moore's Yuggoth Pastiches
at 11:07 on 18-06-2018 - link
2 Questions, one silly and one serious.
1) Is Neonomicon where that meme of the Deep One ejaculating from a human woman's handjob comes from, and if so, could you please give me context? Because I was seriously lost after I first saw that image.
2) Considering how weird and out-there Aztec religion is compared to a lot of its contemporaries, I've always found a potential Lovecraftian bent to Aztec mythology fascinating, which is one of the reasons I'm so enamored by R. H. Barlow. However, I'm interested to know if you have any particular works, either by him or by other authors, with that bent that you'd recommend. - Raymond H on Starry Wisdom, Vapid Songs at 12:52 on 14-06-2018 - link Ah, I still remember the first time I ever encountered Price. He seemed nice enough, and then he used the term "Islamofascism" unironically, and I just sort of stared at the television screen like "Wait...what?"
- Arthur B on Starry Wisdom, Vapid Songs at 11:41 on 14-06-2018 - link I absolutely would not put it past Price to get an author's name wrong on a promoted table of contents.
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Raymond H on Starry Wisdom, Vapid Songs
at 11:25 on 14-06-2018 - link
...I never expected to see Ken Akamatsu and Charles R. Saunders in the same anthology, let alone one edited by Robert M. Price.
I'm legitimately wondering if that name isn't a typo, because the Ken Akamatsu I know doesn't seem at all like the sort who would write thrilling tales of thewful barbarians thrusting about with their swords and their fists. Apparently a Ken Asamatsu exists, and he writes Lovecraftian horror, which, I guess kinda fits with the theme? - Ichneumon on Starry Wisdom, Vapid Songs at 06:52 on 14-06-2018 - link (Incidentally, Gira’s “The Great Annihilator” does have a very clear cosmicist angle if you’re familiar with the background of the vignette and the song it’s tied to, but I can understand not immediately making that connection and being put off by the style and general excess of those pieces. Funnily enough, reading about that anthology was my first real introduction to Gira as a young boy, and everything about him *terrified* me. Now, fifteen years later, I’m a diehard fan of Swans and Angels of Light, so... I have no idea.)
- Ichneumon on Starry Wisdom, Vapid Songs at 06:28 on 14-06-2018 - link ...I never expected to see Ken Akamatsu and Charles R. Saunders in the same anthology, let alone one edited by Robert M. Price.