I'm increasingly struck by parallels between Lovecraftian "Eldritch" themes and fossil fuels:
- Something huge and monstrous has been living deep in the Earth;
- It's been there for geological time scales ("deep time")
- But now it's rising to the surface
- It intends to consume humanity
- We as individuals are utterly powerless to stop it

(The Lord of the Rings quote, "The dwarves dug too greedily and too deep," also touches these themes. Shiver!)

I've been kicking around ideas for a satirical bumper sticker for a petroleum company, "Eldritch Oil", whose logo features a stylized Cthullu and an oil drum or derrick, somehow. And a really cheeky slogan.

Ideas?

We've got to take away fossil fuel companies' social license to operate.

Please boost!

#fossilfuels #climate #eldritch #lovecraft

a snip from (technically) a #WIPSnips for “beach” I've sent this story for an anthology call, (this snip is from an earlier draft) and planning to rework the story if it gets rejected (at some point this month) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #AmWriting #CozyHorror #Eldritch

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This grand palace from a time before #history was recorded has been the source of a great many writings whose meaning remains mysterious. The most alarming of these is a sinister disc with #eldritch markings. #travel https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/greece/crete/south-central-crete/phaistos.html?s=mc
Phaistos / South-Central Crete

The Minoan palace of Phaistos was almost as prominent as Knossos, and has perhaps been more helpful for our understanding of Minoan civilization.

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#datocurioso

¿Sabían que la palabra "Eldritch" tiene raíces mucho más antiguas que los relatos de H.P. Lovecraft o los videojuegos actuales y que originalmente no tenía nada que ver con monstruos espaciales o cosas oscuras?

Aunque la cultura pop la vincula casi exclusivamente la palabra Eldritch con el terror cósmico del siglo XX, el término realmente proviene del inglés medio "elritch", que a su vez nace de la combinación de las palabras sajonas "elf" (elfo) y "rice" (reino o dominio).

Hacia el año 1500, en Escocia y el norte de Inglaterra, decir que algo era "eldritch" significaba literalmente que pertenecía al "reino de los elfos". En ese entonces, no se referían a los elfos modernos de las películas, sino a seres de la naturaleza que eran percibidos como extraños, ajenos y fuera de lo común. El significado original era "del otro mundo", " fuera de lo común", "extraño" o "sobrenatural", describiendo algo que simplemente no encajaba con las reglas de nuestra realidad cotidiana.

Fue hasta finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX cuando poetas como Robert Burns empezaron a usarla para darle un toque escalofriante a sus historias de fantasmas, lamentablemente desvirtuando el concepto original. Lovecraft simplemente tomó una palabra que ya era vieja y elegante para describir lo desconocido.

Pero, la esencia original del concepto "Eldritch" siempre ha sido ese puente entre nuestro mundo y lo que está más allá de lo que podemos ver, lo cual no significa que sea algo oscuro, simplemente es algo que pertenece a una naturaleza élfica, distinta a la humana, algo fuera de lo común, extraño, peculiar y extraordinario.

#Etimología #Historia #Eldritch #Palabras #elfo

If you're looking for a #cyoa with #poetry, #eldritch #horrors, #direEndings, and #mystery then I have a game for you: Here: Nothing Good Ever Happens Here

https://howtophil.itch.io/here

13 bad endings and with each discovered you learn a bit more; however, as with all eldritch horror, there are no clear answers, only madness, despair, and terror

Here by Phillip J Rhoades

Nothing good ever happens here...

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Y'all!
Get yourself over to @astronomerritt AO3 page and read her stories! They're damn good!

archiveofourown.org/works/78787056/chapters/206618866

Well developed characters.
Fascinating fundamental conceit.
Compelling world building.
Excellent descriptions!
Great dialog.
Fun to read!
Close to shops … Wait … no, not that one but whatever.

These are so well done! SO WELL DONE!

Okay, yeah some of the British colloquialisms take a little getting used to but IT'S WORTH IT!
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Why are you still reading this?! Go! Shoo! Get to the story!

#Paranormal #Horror #Eldritch #GoodRead #NoReallyItIsDangGood #Indie #UmThereHasToBeMore #JustGoReadIt