tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533573536330092840.post342471280183425234..comments2024-03-07T16:20:50.007+00:00Comments on Librarians & Leviathans: AftergreenShimmin Beghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10350037986748679919noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533573536330092840.post-35781542672013100422013-12-05T10:12:25.834+00:002013-12-05T10:12:25.834+00:00Glad you like it. I get these weird ideas out wal...Glad you like it. I get these weird ideas out walking.<br /><br />It's really obvious when you look into stories like Arthur Jermyn, that things he used for horror-fodder just aren't that disturbing. Descended from apes? Yes, we know. Even the Rats in the Walls would be cause for archaeology shows these days, and you'd be shouted down if you thought about blowing up such an interesting place.<br /><br />Weirdly (or not) there's quite a good Swamp Thing collection (Earth to Earth, I think) which goes into this kind of thing: some enemy or other brings up bestiality charges against his girlfriend on the grounds that he isn't human, which eventually leads to a load of supers turning up going "hey, what about us?".Shimmin Beghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10350037986748679919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533573536330092840.post-37176285091412967722013-12-04T23:01:05.096+00:002013-12-04T23:01:05.096+00:00Cute.
It occurs to me that - and this shouldn'...Cute.<br /><br />It occurs to me that - and this shouldn't be particularly surprising given what a big ol' racist Lovecraft was - that there's something staggeringly privileged and imperialistic about the idea that it is *incomprehensibly terrible and mind shattering* to be confronted with the idea that the entire universe might *not* revolve entirely around you and people who look like you.Dan Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05711867728179306264noreply@blogger.com