The Do's and Don'ts broken with magnificent effect.

[Jennifer Stone]

All this talk of burning books has me passing into a dainty lady swoon. Or perhaps my corsets are laced too tightly again.

 

[Chase Gamwell]

@Chase Gamwell ok, you convinced me, I'me gona look at the X-Wing trillogy, partly because I love the lego x-wing, and my boy might get into them if I can wrench him away from minecraft.

No one got my 'game of thongs' joke?

Trilogy? It's ten books total. HAVE FUN!

Also...

 

[Carol Rose]

All this talk of burning books has me passing into a dainty lady swoon. Or perhaps my corsets are laced too tightly again.

Well I'm not wearing a corset and I hardly ever swoon, but I get cold chills reading about books burnings. Crazy ass people...

 

[Jay Aitch]

Fair point Lex.

 

[Jason Byrne]

I am aware of that. I was only referencing a historical fact. I'm sure you're also aware that Tolkien came to hate his fanship, as he had hippies calling him long distance and waking him un in the middle of the night to tell him what they thought about the "weed".

My point had been, yes, Tolkien broke the hell out of the rules, and now we stand in awe of the success of his work despite that, but at the time, it was drop-kicked into bargain bins and largely forgotten about for a generation.

Huh. You know what — H.P. Lovecraft in all his kitschy, unimaginably-nightmarishly-mind-bending verbosity languored in obscurity until a good thirty years after his death, as well.

 

[Chase Gamwell]

Huh. You know what — H.P. Lovecraft in all his kitschy, unimaginably-nightmarishly-mind-bending verbosity languored in obscurity until a good thirty years after his death, as well.

And is now a pop culture icon...imagine that...

 

[Jay Aitch]

I am not sure that says a great deal about the Human Race.

 

[Jason Byrne]

I am not sure that says a great deal about the Human Race.

Perhaps it says more about the patient insistence of the insidious tendrils of the Other Gods, for wending into the minds of mere mortals.
Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath!

 

[Jay Aitch]

Eek tentacle heads here we come

 

[Jason Byrne]

More just about trends and tastes, I think? And the mercurial nature of the zeitgeist?

After all, it took that long for a sort of cultural momentum to build into fanship around these guys, forgiving Tolkien's "broken rules (really just glaring mistakes made by a rank amateur) and Lovecraft's reams of purple prose and horrid, horrid arrogance and racism for the genius ideas hidden within.

YOU'RE racist!

Sorry. Yes, that's exactly right. Like how the 70's-style is coming back into vogue. It takes a while for "bad" to become "cute."


Ever heard "cute" used in the context of Cthulhu?

That just happened.

 

[Jason Byrne]

rank amateur.

Also, you might want to duck.

 

[Chase Gamwell]

Ever heard "cute" used in the context of Cthulhu?

Did someone say cute?

 

[Jay Aitch]

Okay the planet has left the race behind

 

[Jason Byrne]

Did someone say cute?

Awww.... Wga nagl....

Oo shoo Cthulhu booboo... yes you is...

 

[Jason Byrne]

Okay the planet has left the race behind

Hmm? Oh — sorry.

 

[Jason Byrne]

*Activates Frustrated Writer Powers*

Bring it on.

"Lord of the Rings fans!"
"They have a cave troll..."

 

[Jay Aitch]

Hmm? Oh — sorry.

A mad paraphrase of "Elvis has left the building"

I've lost whatever plot was going on here.

 

[Chase Gamwell]

A mad paraphrase of "Elvis has left the building"

I've lost whatever plot was going on here.

"One of us! One of us!"

 

[Jason Byrne]

A mad paraphrase of "Elvis has left the building"

I've lost whatever plot was going on here.

"One of us! One of us!"

So say we all?

 

[Jay Aitch]

All for one, and no, wait ... what was it Dumb-ass? Dumas!

 

[Jason Byrne]

Only one dragon, meself. Well, no, there's a few... but only cameos.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Only one dragon, meself. Well, no, there's a few... but only cameos.

I have a nest of serpentine hatchlings, ready and waiting for my command! Hundreds of them!

 

[Jason Byrne]

I have a nest of serpentine hatchlings, ready and waiting for my command! Hundreds of them!

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Ha! Dragons are nothing. I've got four billion mosquitoes, some bad-ass golden orb weaver spiders, and one cool cockroach. Your dragons don't stand a chance!

And I did get the game of thongs joke, by the way, @KG Christopher

 

[Jason Byrne]

Ha! Dragons are nothing. I've got four billion mosquitoes, some bad-ass golden orb weaver spiders, and one cool cockroach.

How many liters of blood in them, I wonder...

 

[Robinne Weiss]

How many liters of blood in them, I wonder...

Oh, a lot...they've been primed to kill the human race! Mwahahaha! Move over, vampires! You ain't seen nothin' till you've seen my girls in action!