my Ligotti parody would be "the story turned out to be the terminal dream in the snowglobe of a man dying of alcohol poisoning because he spent every waking moment drinking scotch".
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Big Mad Drongo posted:I would pay very good money for a Ligotti commentary track for any Muppet movie/Muppet Show episode. It would be an hour and a half of existential screaming punctuated with body-heaving sobs
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# ? Mar 6, 2020 18:05 |
Apsyrtes posted:OP, in the past few pages you have asked for recommendations for: maldoror is one of my favorite books. its wild. the narrator turns in an octopus and fights God and the author died irl under mysterious circumstances during napoleon III's siege of paris.
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# ? Mar 6, 2020 19:24 |
uber_stoat posted:"Then in a great new darkness Lmao yeah it's a completely wrong take because mere shooting plans don't go far enough I have not been able to get into anything else by current tho, just doesn't seem to work. Special plan is really tight and well done.
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# ? Mar 6, 2020 19:40 |
Psravenkult posted:gonna need one of those tags Extremely same, but I sorta think the secret message should be some tiny snippet of something instead of just the name
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# ? Mar 6, 2020 19:42 |
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COOL CORN posted:It would be an hour and a half of existential screaming punctuated with body-heaving sobs I feel like listening to
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Lmao yeah it's a completely wrong take because mere shooting plans don't go far enough Yeah I tried to explain Ligotti's world view and IHASPFTW to my fiancee last night Me: "So he's like... somewhere between a pessimist and a nihilist" Her: "So he thinks you should kill yourself" Me: "Well... yes, and no. That's not far enough." Her: "So he thinks you should kill everyone else" Me: "Well... again, not quite, that's not far enough." Her: Me: "It's like... the only reasonable solution is to undo everything that has existed and return to a state of nothingness because even death and depression are states of being where emotion can be found, and emotion is itself horrible" Her: "Have fun with that"
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MockingQuantum posted:I want to read a parody of Ligotti where it's just about a social malcontent dreaming inside a dream about a beautiful woman who turned out to be a puppet, but then he turned out to be a puppet too, and in fact the dream was a puppet
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# ? Mar 6, 2020 23:03 |
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Big Mad Drongo posted:I would pay very good money for a Ligotti commentary track for any Muppet movie/Muppet Show episode.
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# ? Mar 6, 2020 23:04 |
SniperWoreConverse posted:Lmao yeah it's a completely wrong take because mere shooting plans don't go far enough you have to be in the right head space for it. like, for example, do not get really drunk and listen to The Seahorse Rears To Oblivion on a loop. it is bad for you. God lectures them with a whip
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# ? Mar 6, 2020 23:30 |
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Big Mad Drongo posted:I would pay very good money for a Ligotti commentary track for any Muppet movie/Muppet Show episode. The Mummenschanz episode of the Muppet Show is the correct subject for this
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 01:04 |
decent odds that ligotti converts to shia islam or some extreme trad version of catholicism like sedevacantism when he hits his 70sAntivehicular posted:The Mummenschanz episode of the Muppet Show is the correct subject for this the what
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 05:16 |
changed my mind, he will assuredly join the mystic ranks of the hasidim
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 05:17 |
uber_stoat posted:you have to be in the right head space for it. like, for example, do not get really drunk and listen to The Seahorse Rears To Oblivion on a loop. it is bad for you. I'm gonna try it. My no booze experiment ends in one week and if nobody wants to hang out I'm gonna sit in the dark and get strunted. Will report back.
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:09 |
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Found a gift card to a bookstore from a year ago in the bottom of my bag and picked up Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 06:37 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:decent odds that ligotti converts to shia islam or some extreme trad version of catholicism like sedevacantism when he hits his 70s
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realtalk though, it'll be sufism, it always is
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 08:14 |
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John Dies at the End was dumb. It had moments of humor but ended up being like one long Family Guy bit. The timeline jumps were jarring and the prose was so-so at the best of times. The kayfaybe was really annoying too- I cannot believe this generated a movie and three books.
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 19:41 |
hell yeah I'm a Ligotti Lad now
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 19:49 |
Mods, please I cannot feel the emotion of joy, I'm standing in the doorway looking out into infinite empty blackness irl
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 19:58 |
sephiRoth IRA posted:John Dies at the End was dumb. It had moments of humor but ended up being like one long Family Guy bit. The timeline jumps were jarring and the prose was so-so at the best of times. The kayfaybe was really annoying too- I cannot believe this generated a movie and three books. That's kind of how I felt about it honestly. I think it would have been one of my favorite books if I'd read it when it came out, since I would have still been in my teens at the time and would have eaten that poo poo up, but I think I missed the window where I really could have enjoyed it.
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MockingQuantum posted:That's kind of how I felt about it honestly. I think it would have been one of my favorite books if I'd read it when it came out, since I would have still been in my teens at the time and would have eaten that poo poo up, but I think I missed the window where I really could have enjoyed it. For sure- hit me at that 18-20 window, right about when Tucker Max was cool, and it’d be awesome.
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sephiRoth IRA posted:John Dies at the End was dumb. It had moments of humor but ended up being like one long Family Guy bit. The timeline jumps were jarring and the prose was so-so at the best of times. The kayfaybe was really annoying too- I cannot believe this generated a movie and three books. Hey now, it also lead to Jason Pargin pretending to be a Chinese-American man for like ten years
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 21:50 |
Black Griffon posted:hell yeah I'm a Ligotti Lad now
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 21:50 |
I did it through the Great Thunderdome Bonus Programme (see my earlier post), but we might want to DM Hieronymous Alloy again if Skyscraper doesn't get a reply, to facilitate fair and free gang tags for all.
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 23:41 |
I also desire to be a Ligotti Lad, although perhaps that is a bad choice of word, because nothing is desirable or undesirable, or anything else except that it is made so by laboratories inside us producing the emotions on which we live. Related to Ligotti, a while back I think I saw some discussion in this thread about how he has made changes to some stories in newer publications, and possibly for the worse? I'm curious how substantial these changes were, and whether it's worth trying to track down which versions can be found where.
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 01:35 |
dihaploidy posted:I also desire to be a Ligotti Lad, although perhaps that is a bad choice of word, because nothing is desirable or undesirable, or anything else except that it is made so by laboratories inside us producing the emotions on which we live. My understanding is that the changes ranged from pretty minimal to extensive enough to alter the story. You can probably find out more if you want to delve into the official Ligotti forum, but that place is...different. Also I'm down for a gang tag if/when they are given out.
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 02:50 |
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I also want a gang tag - and as far as the changes go, I think it's mostly to the new Penguin edition of Grimscribe?
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 04:00 |
COOL CORN posted:I also want a gang tag - and as far as the changes go, I think it's mostly to the new Penguin edition of Grimscribe? poo poo, that's the one I have I think, if it's the Songs/Grimscribe one?
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 04:23 |
deffo in for a gang tag
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 05:18 |
Plz bless me with ligotti tag, oh mods. I am not the most prolific poster, but to compensate have some more Ligotti music: Aside from the much vaunted Special Plan, he did two other collabs with Current 93: In A Foreign Town, In A Foreign Land (ambient pieces meant to accompany the Ligotti stories) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uo2IHa1hME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMj1VC0FVIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crpxFv48wJ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk2_TEbfN0Y and This Degenerate Little Town, featuring Tom himself reading another long poem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBca33v8oGM Finally, Tom did his own solo album! The Unholy City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJsV69bQhYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNDNOEV45-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAa9wKKyvSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SOUOROSqYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClSb04HPrbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fetSoZFyBw Jeremiah Flintwick fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 08:14 |
Mods, hit me with that Ligotti gang tag too & I'll be whatever kind of withered-husk marionette you want me to be.
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 08:32 |
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Give me that 'gotti gang tag, mods.
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 09:24 |
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Same.
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MockingQuantum posted:First, I'm looking for some poetry that's horror-adjacent. I'm not thinking stuff like Lovecraft's space mushrooms or Poe's scary birds, but more poetry that captures a sense of the macabre, dread, or darker side of human existence. Someone on SA (chernobyl, possibly?) recommended The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded and I'm basically looking for more like that. I like Stephen Dobyns, haven't read a ton of his poems but the ones I have I'd definitely call macabre. Cemetery Nights was the first collection of his I read and I enjoyed Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides too.
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 14:06 |
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Mods, please gimme dat Gotti.
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 14:17 |
Unfortunately my eyes have been burned out by the horrors I've seen from too many years on SA so I can't see the gang tag right now (Read: I'll look I to this for y'all later to ight when I'm off work)
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 15:21 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Unfortunately my eyes have been burned out by the horrors I've seen from too many years on SA so I can't see the gang tag right now thank you HA I love you hell, remove all my gang tags but the ligotti one if you want
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 15:25 |
Hieronymous Alloy posted:Unfortunately my eyes have been burned out by the horrors I've seen from too many years on SA so I can't see the gang tag right now Thank you! I'd also appreciate one, kind and benevolent
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 15:32 |
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I got the Ligott'... Now I just need to round it out with the gang tag
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