#Who the hell is lovecraft when this bastard of a story exists

[hamletslilkid-blog]

- No grief -

- No grief - It's an awful feeling to love someone so much that you absolutely hate them for leaving you. Even before they've gone. . . I had the same nightmare again last night, the whole day it kept my mind spinning , the reason behind these nightmares remains a perturbing mystery. I saw her again, wearing the same dress , the same sad smile on her tiny, little radiating face. I saw her again turn her back on me and jump straight into the abyss. I ran after her trying to save her, only to find that she is standing right behind me. Tears running down her tired face, and her slim, long ,bony fingers trying to cover it up . I saw her falling down on her knees , her blank eyes staring at me. Her delicate hands rising up to her face again... If only I didn't know the ending of the dream, only if I didn't have to see the only thing I love , the only thing I have left in such a condition... Her beautiful hands rising up to her face again, peeling the skin off her face , then swallowing it as a whole, not satisfied, she bites her pruney fingers off. More tears falling down her face , and changing colour , turning dark, until it fills her up on the inside as well , spilling out of her perfectly shaped mouth. I don't understand, why is this happening... My nightmares of losing her again burn my soul up in fire that I cannot let out. Last month she ran away but I found her , I brought her back to me. In whatever manner that might be... I brought her back. This time I won't let the same thing happen again, I will hold on to her, hold on to her harder this time because, I know in a world without her I would be lost , it would be the wrong world for me . I am damn sure that a place with her absence is a place deserving of being burned down. My strong emotions for her might scare her off sometimes or all the time, but I cannot control myself , no one can control a mad man , no one can alter a mad man's feelings . You cannot save a mad man, cause the mad man doesn't want to be saved , a mad man rarely ever sees himself all that he can see is her. I try to keep those thoughts away while looking down at her. She is just as beautiful as the first day I saw her , I believe that if anyone else saw her before I did, they would call her art and they would be asking her to become a top model, but I am a lucky man , I found her before they did. My beauty is still asleep on the rose filled bed I made her. Her lifeless body still gives me hope , for I know she is owned by me and only by me. The minutiae of her finely created glass box allows me to array her demure beauty. If I didn't accidentally choke her while I had another one of my episodes , I would still be holding her shaky body against my chest but she would find a way out again , and I cannot risk it , because I would rather have one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth , one touch of her hand than enternity without it. One.

#my story #short story #original fiction #People are sometimes so crazy that I decided to make it a sweet love story #Who the hell is lovecraft when this bastard of a story exists #yeah i said it #And I'm fucking crying so be happy #14-12-2019

[shannygoatgruff]

Lovecraft Country - yet another great book fucked up by being turned into a TV show!

- Rant ahead, be warned: Spoiler alert!

Bitch, I’m spitting fire, right now! So, I finally finished episode 2 of Lovecraft Country and I just need to know whose ass do I need to kick? 

Okay, so I know that if you’re going to turn a book into a movie or a TV show you have to take some creative license, but if you rewrite the whole damn thing just to put it on the screen then why not change the fucking name, slap some new shit in it and claim it to be an original project? Don’t gas me up and tell me it’s the TV show of a book I fucking love, you lying bastards, not without a disclaimer that this shit was fan-fucking-fiction!

HBO is singlehandedly doing to Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, what Starz did to American Gods by Neil Gaiman, rewriting one of my favorite books for a piss-poor TV rendition! I’m used to everyone doing this shit with Stephen King’s work, but I won’t stand for this shit, HBO & Jordan Peele & that mark-ass J.J. Abrams (I don’t trust him)...not with this gem of a novel! I can’t sleep on that.

To start, who the fuck is Dee? Uncle George and Hippolyta have a 12-year-old SON named Horrace who writes comic books. Not a girl - but I’ll let that slide, cause girl power and all. But, what the hell do you mean that Hippolyta doesn’t travel and write for the Safe Negro Travel Guide? She has a MAJOR plotline later in the book in one of her travels! How the fuck is she supposed to do it, if this Uncle George won’t let her travel? Who the fuck was going to stop her? Not Uncle George’s bitch ass!

Then, since when is Ruby a singer? Ruby is a stuck up, goodie-two-shoes bitch, that’s about it. Who the fuck this is woman jamming on stage? And judging from what they’ve shown of her in the beginning I don’t see this Ruby taking the deal that she’s offered later in the book... 

When did Leticia get so hyper-sexualized? Leticia was a hard-working woman who had big dreams, but she wasn’t this vixen that they’ve made her out to be. Granted, she could hold her own and she didn’t take much shit, but this version? How Sway? When did Marvin (the brother) get cured of Polio? I’d really like to fucking know!

And that whole scene in the woods with the Sheriff - that’s NOT how that happened! OMG, I know what it’s like when you want to insert your vision into story canon when you’re writing fan fiction, but not on my watch HBO, you schmucks! I would leave it alone except they killed the fucking sheriff; so now he can’t come back.  

Um, Hello - Caller? Who the fuck is Christina Braithwhite? This bitch doesn’t exist! Samuel Braithwhite has a son, named CALEB BRAITHWHITE, who is the main antagonist! How you gonna write out the antagonist? And he’s a bad motherfucker! Is Caleb supposed to be Jordan Patrick Smith’s character or is he supposed to be the light-skinned butler that greets them when they get to the mansion, cause William doesn’t exist either? It would be kinda cool if Jordan was Caleb, I won’t lie, though. 

And while we’re at it, why didn’t Christina/fake Caleb tell Atticus (I don’t who the hell Tic is) tell them how to defeat Samuel? What happened to the really cool magic scene on the bridge? How & why did Leticia AND Uncle George gets shot? It was Pop that got shot, not them! And Uncle George dies? Get the fuck out of here! He plays an intricate role at the end of the book!  

OMG, HBO, Peele & Abrams you suck and you’re seriously chapping my ass here! What the fuck are you doing? It is only 2 episodes in and I’m already having a stroke on how much you have fucked up this book! At this point, just stop! Stop! Just take the wig off of Jordan and have him walk around with no shirt on and sit with Jurnee by the pool and let them give me gardening tips. That’s all the eye candy I need, not this foolishness and shenanigans that you’re doing a great piece of American literature!

I have to say the actors are making the most out of what they were given, but Jesus wept!

I might have 1 more episode in me before I completely give up on it. I need to see what they are going to do with the Winthrope story-line before I completely blow a gasket! I’m trying to stick it out to support Jordan, but they are fucking with my emotions here! I stopped watching American Gods for the same reason - they completely ruined a book a love. 

But, I will tell you this...if anyone EVER thinks about adapting Clive Barker’s The Abarat for the screen, they better run that shit by me first, or there’s gonna be smoke in the city...cause I’m fucking them up on sight! 

Thank you for joining my Ted Talk!

@xbellaxcarolinax​

#Lovecraft Country #WTF is really going on #Jordan I don't even know if you can save this trainwreck #I wanted to love this show so bad #shannyland

[paulsebert]

A Brief Guide to 2010s Marvel Crossovers (so far)

Previously

Marvel Crossovers: 80s, 90s. 00s

DC Crossovers: 80s, 90s, 00s

Siege: Running on pure unchecked ego Norman Osborn starts a senseless war with Asgard that winds up bringing an end to the “Dark Reign” era.  Osborn acting like a obvious psychotic villain while acquiring a government position in “Dark Reign” was criticized as ridiculous at the time of publication but now the whole thing seems chillingly timely.  Check out the Thunderbolts tie-in which features Quicksilver's finest hour.

Doomwar: Dr. Doom invades Wakanda so he can take their vibranium and.... you guessed it Take over the world!  Naturally the Wakandan royal family doesn't care for this. A well regarded story that got overlooked because Marvel was hyping Seige so heavily at the time.

Realm of the Kings: After War of the Kings it turns out that Black Bolt's accidentally torn open a hole in the universe that leads to “The Cancerverse” a dimension of pure body horror and diet Lovecraft.

Second Coming: Cable and Bishop are STILL fighting over Hope Summers.  Leads into the launch of the short-lived (though loved by some) Generation Hope.

The Thanos Imperative: An alternate version of Mar-Vell emerges from that body-horror universe from Realm of the Kings and wants to fight Thanos leading to a rare situation where Thanos is the lesser evil.

Curse of the Mutants:  Marvel's Dracula is killed by his son who becomes lord of the vampires. Dracula Jr. leads an invasion of San Fransico.  Cyclops has the bright idea  to resurrect the original Dracula who gets  a TERRIBLE redesign.  Somewhere along the way Jubilee becomes a vampire a change that surprisingly stuck.

Shadowland: Daredevil becomes addicted to evil magic ninjas and the superheroes stage an intervention. One long, dumb fight-scene.

Chaos War: Greek and Norse gods team up with Earth's heroes to fight an evil being that existed before time and space. Hercules returns from the dead in time to save the day.

Fear Itself: This book was hyped as being about Marvel heroes facing their deepest darkest fear, but was actually about Odin's brother handing out hammers that turn people into evil Thors.  This one has some pretty rad fight-scenes.

Schism: The X-Men split into Team Cyclops and Team Wolverine each with their own spin-off books.

Spider-Island: The Jackal gives everyone in New York Spider-Man style powers.  Then everyone starts turning into spider-monsters!

Avengers vs X-Men: The Phoenix Force is headed towards earth.  The Avengers want to prevent it from coming because “holy shit! That stuff destroys planets!” Cyclops wants it to come to earth because “I just want it.  I don't have to tell you why” and his team all act like major assholes. Then an attempt at diverting the Phoenix Force results in Team Cyclops (plus Namor for some reason) to all get Phoenix powers and they act like the biggest assholes ever!  A Phoenix possessed Cyclops kills professor X.  The Avengers win but it turns out that Cyclops was right because... uh... stuff.  One of the dumbest crossovers Marvel's done but at least it undoes some of the damage of House of M/Decimation.  So thankfully Marvel won't screw up the X-Men again... right?

Avengers Arena: So Marvel basically a series that was essentially an ongoing Runaways/Avengers Arena/Sentinel crossover and it was basically on of the worst things they've ever published. Fuck this book.

Age of Ultron: In an alternate future Ultron takes over the world.  Wolverine and Invisible Woman go back in time to stop this from happening but somehow create an alternate future where Morgan LeFey and Doctor Doom are married. Why wasn't there a crossover about that?

Infinity: At least the Mighty Avengers tie-ins to this were rad.  While the Avengers are away fighting an alien race called The Builders, Thanos returns with a whole new team of villains.  Wait what's this?  Here come the Inhumans!

Battle of the Atom: A team of X-Men from the Future travel back to our time to try and send the equally time-displaced Silver Age X-Men back to their proper time.  Only it's not the future X-Men it's the Future Brotherhood. Then the Silver Age X-Men can't go home because wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey ... stuff.  A breeze fun read that... wait after 30 years we finally got a good X-Men crossover? And it's a good Bendis book that's not a solo title?  What planet am I on?!

Original Sin: Uatu the Watcher is murdered and various heroes investigate.  This one has a hell of a set-up and some fun weird hero-team ups (such as The Punisher working with Dr. Strange) but the pay-off just doesn't work at all.

AXIS: Heroes get turned into villainous versions of themselves and villains get turns into heroes in a mini-series with a gimmicky silly premise that's a lot less fun than it should be.  At least the Hobgoblin mini-series was great.  I want more magnificent bastard anti-hero Hobgoblin dammit!

Inhumanity: Here come the Inhumans!  Look at how exciting the Inhumans are.  You sure want to buy some Inhumans tie-ins. Right?!

Spider-Verse: Morlun and his messed up family go around the multiverse killing off alternate versions of Spider-Man.  Spidey teams up with an army of Spider-People to fight back.  A fun time though fans of MC2 Spider-Girl were kinda unhappy with the fate of that book's version of Spider-Man.

The Black Vortex: Various factions including the Guardians of the Galaxy and the All New (but actually Silver Age) X-Men look for a cosmic Maguffin that looks like a floor mirror.

Secret Wars: The multiverse is destroyed and all that remains is Battleworld, a bizarre patchwork reality where Doctor Doom rules with an iron hand.  Jonathan Hickman's magnum opus may actually be Marvel's best crossover ever! There's gorgeous art by Esad Ribić there's a sweeping epic story, and a vast imaginative story to explore.  Hell most of the tie-ins stand up well on their own and are a lot of fun.  

Avengers: Standoff!: S.H.I.E.L.D has a secret prison where villains are brainwashed into thinking they are civilians by a sentient cosmic cube. The heroes and an army of villains lead by Baron Zemo are mad about this but for different reasons.  Oh and this indirectly leads to Hydra Cap.  

Civil War II: A new Inhuman shows up with the power to see visions of the future and both Iron Man and Captain Marvel act like major assholes about it. One year after Secret Wars blew our minds Marvel releases one of their most over-hyped, over padded slogs that in some ways is better than the original but feels PAINFULLY dated.  Production delays made it feel even longer.

Death of X: Cylops dies stopping a Terrigin Mist cloud which was killing people which uh somehow makes people hate him?  Then it turns out he didn't die in such a heroic fashion it was Alchemy.  Because when a X-Men writer runs out of good ideas they always kill one of the New Mutants or one of the Weir/DeFilippis-era New Mutants. Oh and Cyclops is still dead and uuuuugh!

Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy: A mystery figure offers to revive the fallen and... gee could the Jackel and Ben Reilly have something to do with a story called The Clone Conspiracy?  I mean it can't be... that title would be too on the head.

Inhumans vs X-Men: 

Monsters Unleashed: Cullen Bunn and Steve McNiven's homage to Marvel's pre-Superhero Silver Age Giant monster books looks to be off to a great start. A teenager artist's drawings somehow cause giant Kirby monsters to appear and superheros have to fight them.

#Marvel Comics #Crossovers #Shorter Comics #Seige #Doomwar #Shadow War #Fear Itself #Avengers Vs X-Men #Avengers Arena Ruins Everything #Axis #Civil War II' #Spiderverse #Curse of the Mutants #Realm of the Kings #Age of Ultron #Original Sin #Monster Unleashed #Here Come the Inumans