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Dec. 5th, 2009 @ 02:33 am The Shub-Niggurath Solstice Sacrifice is Back!
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This holiday season, do something meaningful - help us summon Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of a Thousand Young, so that She can smite and devour every living thing on earth.




I did this two years ago and raised three twelfths of a goat. Then last year [info]lindenfoxcub went and got married on the solstice so I couldn't rightly run a cult sacrifice *and* be her bridesmaid (I hoped Shub-Niggurath would understand, but the nightmares indicate She did not approve). And I have been so disorganized lately that I woke up this afternoon and went "Crap. I was supposed to start that December first." So I am starting it now, on the fifth. Hopefully that isn't too late to get people organized.

I was considering not doing it because I don't have time to write daily Shub-Niggurath stories this year (I private-locked all the previous posts so it isn't confusing) but even if we don't get a whole goat, and even if the writing isn't wild and crazy like I want it to be, any little bit is still helping people who genuinely need help.

I will be posting "bulletins" from the cult and anything else that I have time to cobble together. If anyone else would like to write "eyewitness reports" of cult activities and/or sightings of increased badness (or anything else you think might be cool), I would love to post them (with credit, of course - I cannot pay you, but it is for charity). If anyone is artistic and would like to make something cool/horrific (icons, banners, background, whatnot) I would love to stick it up (you do be, and/or have permission from, the artist - the pic I currently have came from wikipedia - I've crossed my fingers that they aren't violating any copyright).

If the spirit moves you, please pass the word and/or lj-friend [info]goatsacrifice - people see things on other people's journals and click on them going "hey, what's this?" and it might generate random traffic, which might, in turn, generate assistance with the sacrifice itself.

And yes, if you were wondering "Oh, I'd like to get some little gift for the turtle this holiday season, but I just don't know what," a donation to the Shub-Niggurath Solstice Sacrifice (which is actually a donation to heiffer.org) in the turtle-honour would be awesome.

If we make it (a whole goat by the solstice), I will make a goat effigy (from the sparkliest most obnoxious wrapping paper I can find) and burn it in the fire pit with pictures for all to see the joyousness of the community effort fulfilled.

And really, when someone asks you at work "what did you do for the holidays" being able to answer "I helped sacrifice a goat to a Lovecraftian eldritch horror" does have a certain level of personal satisfaction to it.

Let the ritual begin!
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Dec. 4th, 2009 @ 11:23 pm stuff!
My man is in Texas. He's gone there for SMOFcon. He is more nerdy than me.

While xmas shopping, I found the coolest kitchen implement on the face of the earth and I bought it for myself. It is more than supremely awesome. I found a picture of it online (mine is metal and dark blue - not white) but you have to use it to understand the mindblowing power of it.



I went through a 5lb bag of apples in about 15 minutes with that thing. (oh yes, there will be crumble) That 15 mins included setup and cleanup. When I was done I had a nice freezer bag of peeled and chopped apple chunks ready to be baked. The fact that the thing looks like a torture device from the inquisition just gives it more goth points.

I am still not done my final paper for my ethical lit crit course, but the prof was fine with me handing it in late seen as I'm not technically in the course any more. (As for why I'm still doing the paper, well, the whole reason I dropped the course was that I wasn't good enough to do well in it and didn't want to lose my fellowship - you can't get better if you don't get feedback - so I'm still doing all the coursework - term paper, final exam, etc. - and he's still going to mark me on them and give me comments to improve, the marks just won't count.) The stress relief of being able to not only have enough time to do the paper, but (hopefully) do it well, is awesome. I'd really like it done by Monday though and I'm still not yet at the writing stage, so we'll see how that goes.

I'm pretty excited about it (the paper). I'm looking at places where language breaks down and individuals are unable to speak/communicate in Roadside Picnic (this is in large part so I can speak extensively to the ending). I'm still identifying the different areas where this happens, but then I'm probably diving off into a bit of psychoanalytical criticism to examine why the silences happened and what they might mean, especially from the point of view of the ethical choices characters make within the story. I'll be posting some new questions about that in the next day or so to ask people who have read (or who want to read) the novella what they think. It is considered by many to be one of the best SF stories of all time, albeit somewhat obscure (that whole behind-the-iron-curtain-thing and writing-in-Russian-thing has caused some accessibility issues for English-speaking readers in the past - go figure - this stuff makes me want to learn Russian) so if you haven't read it and are looking for something that will blow your mind, I highly recommend it. I've posted links to it before and will do so again with my next set of questions.

My final comp sci assignment is due on the 9th and I haven't looked at it yet. I should probably do that. But there is a major impediment to both compsci and my paper.

I started playing Kingdom of Loathing. I love it. It's beautiful - not in the sense of graphics, but in the sense of humour and general awesome. You have to prove your literacy to be able to use the chat... One of the classes available is "turtle tamer" and the entire game is a giant pun-orgy. People who know me have been trying to get me to play it for years. I will admit... I think it's better than urban dead. That's how awesome it is.

Turtle-life is good right now, but I'm hermiting and getting shit done. Beyond the occasional KOL playing I'm pretty much doing school and housework continuously right now. All apologies to everyone who keeps trying to drag me out to be social. School is officially over December 15th (the same day Neil Gaiman comes to Winnipeg) and I'll be much more free after then (although at least part of my "holidays" are being devoted to an ubuntu install with the new kernel in the hopes that it will finally admit my sound card has a headphone jack).
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Dec. 3rd, 2009 @ 03:46 am Awesome Story: Brass Canaries
I found this awesome flash story today and I think everyone should read it.

http://www.flashfictiononline.com/f20091201-brass-canaries-gwendolyn-clare.html

This is another one that came to me via Flash Fiction Online. It is beautiful, slightly creepy, a bit sad in a way I find charming, has a faint Christmas flavour to it and contains no dead babies at all.

But it does contain clockwork birds.

I liked it enough to give the author money. That should tell you the level of awesome it contains.
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Dec. 1st, 2009 @ 01:50 am (no subject)
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