What's your gay agenda for the night? (My birdsite friends are sharing theirs)
@Maenad laundry, some reading
@gravezwave read anything exceptionally good lately?
@Maenad well I've been on a pretty big Lovecraft kick as of late and have been expanding my horizons to some of his contemporaries and more modern authors who take cues from the Lovecraft circle. W.H. Pugmire is a current writer that I'd recommend, he writes wonderfully weird stuff both in the Cthulhu Mythos canon and his own original setting.
@gravezwave I'll have to check it out. I read a lot of lovecraft- inspired comics and play a lot of lovecraft - inspired games...
@Maenad there are a lot fewer giant monsters in Lovecraft's actual writing than you might expect and there's uncomfortable racism that seeps into many of his earlier stories especially, but he does have beautiful prose
@gravezwave @amphetamine @Maenad racism is the most terrifying of the elder gods
@amsomniac @amphetamine @gravezwave a lot of lovecraft - inspired modern stories are set in the south featuring inbred white supremacists as the cultists
@Maenad @amphetamine @amsomniac they lend themselves well to it. somewhat ironically, Lovecraft hated what he considered white degeneracy as much as he did non-white people.