[Transcribed from a spore-dream of an unidentified, evaporating Moth Priest that reached zero sum.]
The Aedroth Aka, who goes by so many names as to perhaps already suggest what I'm about to commit to memospore, is completely insane. His mind broke when his "perch from Eternity allowed the day" and we of all the Aurbis live on through its fragments, ensnared in the temporal writings and erasures of the acausal whim that he begat by saying "I AM". In the aetheric thunder of self-applause that followed (nay, rippled until convention, that is, amnesia), is it any wonder that the Time God would hate the same-twin on the other end of the aurbrilical cord, the Space God? That any Creation would become so utterly dangerous because of that singular fear of a singular word's addition: "I AM NOT"?
That all the Interplay is one flea of assertion on a wolf of naught, and that every experience (that is, everything) born from that primal wail would cascade unto the echo-need of hologram, each slice the same except for scale, and all the magic that would need to spring forth just to hold it together at living, divine cross-purpose, support struts made from the need to exist (axial, along its two-headed fighting rays, each refusing their origin point, that is, Tower), terrestons versus chronocules, and in the end (an end that ever refuses to hold) it all becomes a lobotomized (for what is not lobal if not the dracochoreography made flesh?), reptilian (coiled), and massive map-god (holding a compass, holding a timepiece), drooling (the water from which we dragged ourselves out of to say, mirror-like, autochthonic, automatic, "WE ARE, TOO") on his countless knees, dementia given dimension, dimension dementia...
[At this point all transcription becomes impossible, except by way of sheet music, an orchestration of which was attempted during the reign of [NUMINIT], who, along with everyone else in the symphony's radial madness, was vaporized by adjacentia. The requisite adachimelic holding-tendrils activated, preventing Imperial collapse. Imposthumously, the Amulet of Kings granted to the "Coccoon Council" that the spore-dream "et'Ada, Eight Aedra, Eat the Dreamer" be immediately stored in the one thousand and eight Cyrodilic weapons of rapture.]
I started N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy a couple days ago. I finished up the first book and am on to the second; I've been enjoying them immensely. I figured I'd check out some of her short stories, as well.
So, Joel Lane totally wrote a story in Clark Aston Smith's world of Zothique. It's called "The Hunger of the Leaves" and I haven't read it yet but it has to be awesome.
It is a Conan story and the first of its kind I've ever read. I liked it a good deal. Takes an unusual turn in the last chapter (there are just three, all of which are not very long) as well.
I wish there was more to read about Yag-kosha, it(?) is an interesting character. Not many elephant-headed alien wizards in fantasy these days.
I guess Mr. Howard was, well, a white man in the early 20th century ie. a racist, but at one point Conan is briefly described as "brown-skinned" so my mind kind of went from there. I guess Howard meant he had a tan?
And like less....body builder-y, slightly leaner than all these illustrations I'm seeing of muscly Nordic men.
The historical Cimmerians were from what is now Iran, so it's entirely possible Conan is supposed to be brown/olive-skinned naturally rather than tanned.
The story is supposed to take place in some weird Pangaea landscape in the 100 thousand years of unrecorded human history that happened before the Sumerians came around.
Marvel used to own the rights to Conan comics, and at some point they said that, unless it would be impossible, every Marvel hero and villain is descended from Conan.
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Maybe I will try to this time, idk.
The Aedroth Aka, who goes by so many names as to perhaps already suggest what I'm about to commit to memospore, is completely insane. His mind broke when his "perch from Eternity allowed the day" and we of all the Aurbis live on through its fragments, ensnared in the temporal writings and erasures of the acausal whim that he begat by saying "I AM". In the aetheric thunder of self-applause that followed (nay, rippled until convention, that is, amnesia), is it any wonder that the Time God would hate the same-twin on the other end of the aurbrilical cord, the Space God? That any Creation would become so utterly dangerous because of that singular fear of a singular word's addition: "I AM NOT"?
That all the Interplay is one flea of assertion on a wolf of naught, and that every experience (that is, everything) born from that primal wail would cascade unto the echo-need of hologram, each slice the same except for scale, and all the magic that would need to spring forth just to hold it together at living, divine cross-purpose, support struts made from the need to exist (axial, along its two-headed fighting rays, each refusing their origin point, that is, Tower), terrestons versus chronocules, and in the end (an end that ever refuses to hold) it all becomes a lobotomized (for what is not lobal if not the dracochoreography made flesh?), reptilian (coiled), and massive map-god (holding a compass, holding a timepiece), drooling (the water from which we dragged ourselves out of to say, mirror-like, autochthonic, automatic, "WE ARE, TOO") on his countless knees, dementia given dimension, dimension dementia...
[At this point all transcription becomes impossible, except by way of sheet music, an orchestration of which was attempted during the reign of [NUMINIT], who, along with everyone else in the symphony's radial madness, was vaporized by adjacentia. The requisite adachimelic holding-tendrils activated, preventing Imperial collapse. Imposthumously, the Amulet of Kings granted to the "Coccoon Council" that the spore-dream "et'Ada, Eight Aedra, Eat the Dreamer" be immediately stored in the one thousand and eight Cyrodilic weapons of rapture.]
here is something that will fuck you up
This one was in The Weird but I had to return it before I could get to it. Thank you.
On that note: This story is a good introduction to what Steve Rasnic Tem is all about.
Be warned, though, that this story is not with out uncomfortable visceral elements. I mean, look at the title.
Two stories by Karel Capek who lived in Czechoslovakia as fascism in Europe grew ever more powerful.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead