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
@Maenad an extra tidbit for why I recommend Pugmire: a lot of his characters are implicitly or explicitly LGBTQ
@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. 💖
@Maenad he also has a youtube channel and is quite delightful
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrWilum