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.
@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
@Maenad an extra tidbit for why I recommend Pugmire: a lot of his characters are implicitly or explicitly LGBTQ
@Maenad he also has a youtube channel and is quite delightful
@gravezwave @Maenad Sorry to butt in, but thanked for this. I would love some Lovecraft-but-without-horrifying-racism by a modern author and queer representation is a cherry. I'll have to check it out. Do you have a recommended entry point?
@benhamill @Maenad https://lovecraftzine.com/magazine/issues/2015-2/issue-34-march-2015/to-kiss-your-canvas-by-w-h-pugmire/ this and some of his other stories are available for free on Lovecraft eZine, if you want to take a peek without committing to buying a book yet. He's got several collections of short stories set in the Sesqua Valley canon, which is his own creation but takes cues from the Lovecraftian style.
@gravezwave @Maenad Cool. Thanks. 💖
@gravezwave I've read a lot of lovecraft. I like the stories where the narrator never sees the evil because the evil is impossible to overcome and if he (invariably male with lovecraft) sees it he will go mad or die.
@Maenad yeah, those and his Dreamlands stories where he can go on for a full page just describing the landscape are probably where his writing really shines
@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.
@gravezwave I'll have to check it out. I read a lot of lovecraft- inspired comics and play a lot of lovecraft - inspired games...