The Radical Origins of Spiritualism - Revolutionary Communication with the Dead YouTube video by ESOTERICA

A real banger from Dr. Sledge here. Makes perfect sense that the dead would push for reform of the living world - they've all been through the wringer

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The man's name is literally "dout that"

Starting up a new project / post series: putting all those games I will never play to good use by making a bunch of characters for them.

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"We cannot go back to monke, only onward towards crab."

I find it deeply satisfying on a personal level that I found "Meditations on Moloch" at the right time and place to be life-changing in the entirely opposite direction from where Mr. Alexander there intended it. Awkward to explain, //extremely// satisfying.

This is mostly a joke: Machen lived and died well before we knew what those fellas were like.

The Good Friends of Jackson Elias, however, kinda just went along with "racist depictions of prehistoric humans are good horror" in the episode I was listening to, and that's bugged me all day.

Arthur Machen really just thought that relict populations of homo erectus were the worst thing imaginable, didn't he?

"Oh no! It's the most successful hominid species! They're so scary! Cower in fear at their shortness, and brownness, and their Acheulean stone tools!

This is excellent news.

I don't but I remember it.

Hard-science alternate universe.

Vulcans now methane-breathing ice-shelled land squids. Klingons are Alex Ries style alien hippos. Ferengi are collectives of centipedes wearing skin suits that talk like crypto-bros. Centrifugal gravity, delta-V budgets, interspecies cooperation in the death void

It really has!

60/60 Years in Space done, ending with a brutal nuclear war against a faction of posthuman slavemasters and moving on to a dyson sphere future.

I can't guarantee when there'll be a full writeup, but it's too good to not share.

I have no idea what I'm looking at (positive)

I swear half the authors of that period and before were just completely allergic to including specific details.

"A certain individual-" YOU ARE THE AUTHOR TELL US WHO

The more I work on compiling and collageing public domain works, the greater my disappointment with modern fantasy grows.

You can just have Queen Calafia show up with her honor guard of griffon-riding amazons, that's free, you can just do that! She can fight Dracula and also King Arthur!

The only class solidarity, alas, is among obnoxious leaf-blowers.

The Seance of Blake Manor: it's good! Highly recommended if you want some very Irish sleuthing.

60 Years in Space playthrough has hit year 47 of 60, we're coming in for the home stretch.

I actually like the "we thought it was like this, but it isn't" - gives me two different versions of the cosmos.

The Beauty of Ecosystemic Horror YouTube video by Curious Archive

This is the good stuff, right here. Anyone doing Cthulhu Mythos stuff should be taking notes

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I have never met Bruce before this moment and I, too, miss Bruce

Oh this is //extremely// good

We certainly haven't seen the last of her.

She Sings at the End crocutable [Heads up: this one goes a bit harder than usual, enough so that I'd rather be safe than sorry and stick a warning up front. Go...

Tonight's post: I swing for the fences in an attempt to make a good version of one of the worst RPG monsters I've ever encountered.

This took me //3+ years// to get out of drafts.

Warning for a whole gamut of nastiness and a big ol' tastefully nude butt.

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That's where you bring out the Conan rebuttal: "I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me."

Update: PHM is the quoted tweet, based on a book written by a man who calls himself apolitical and gripes about Star Trek being socially-cognizant.

This explains some things.

That certainly tracks with the "huh, this movie's lionization of Grace feels weird and unearned" feeling I was getting

SMART goals are were invented to torture people with ADHD

Project Hail Mary is enjoyable shlock with a light M&M coating of hard science, and is a solid 45 minutes longer than a reasonable human being would allow for a movie.

Picked up Mignola's Bowling with Corpses: it feels like all of Hellboy was preparation for this comic and it's going right on the top tier.