tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post1640877626938037357..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: Intellects Vast and Cool and Unsymapthetic: Mind-Flayer SpeculationsTreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-72116826448048034862012-01-25T21:25:37.514-05:002012-01-25T21:25:37.514-05:00Thanks! I hadn't seen that. Problematica, in...Thanks! I hadn't seen that. Problematica, indeed. A lot of possibilities, there!Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-79342917279232259912012-01-25T09:29:35.821-05:002012-01-25T09:29:35.821-05:00I try to stay upbeat in the face of soulless annih...I try to stay upbeat in the face of soulless annihilation. <br /><br />Did you see this "tulip thing"?<br />http://io9.com/5879021/this-bizarre-tulip+shaped-creature-is-related-to-nothing-else-on-earth<br /><br />From the Cambrian, no less: that's some serious time-jumping. I like to think that when biotech really takes off we'll be leaving all kinds of mysterious stuff around the place for distant future civilisations to pick through - these might be alientech phones or snack wrappers.richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-85693776065650967572012-01-25T07:59:17.937-05:002012-01-25T07:59:17.937-05:00@Richard - Perhaps those crafty crabs are both?
I...@Richard - Perhaps those crafty crabs are both?<br /><br />It's good to know you can find an upside in man's inhumanity. ;)Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-55836600149998633662012-01-25T04:49:35.237-05:002012-01-25T04:49:35.237-05:00I'm also contemplating a post or two about inv...I'm also contemplating a post or two about inventing horrific plots by adapting stuff we do to other species, all based on a brilliant comment I got on my Carcosan Pokemon chart. Really, since we can't adequately imagine anything truly alien, it's a good thing for horror writers that we humans are so weird and heartless.richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-90257103481322156582012-01-25T02:50:41.613-05:002012-01-25T02:50:41.613-05:00were the horseshoe crabs left behind when everythi...were the horseshoe crabs left behind when everything else moved away (like characters in rapturist scifi novels) or are they trans-temporal spies, sent by their Ordovician masters to keep an eye on the future?richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-71657782721835438802012-01-24T16:23:38.913-05:002012-01-24T16:23:38.913-05:00Good thoughts, Richard, and thanks. What if the P...Good thoughts, Richard, and thanks. What if the Permian extinct was a pivot point around which different versions of history revolve? Illithids, the triumph of mollusca, might view humanity as a horror out of a history that should have never been.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-91036275697065742632012-01-24T15:22:20.473-05:002012-01-24T15:22:20.473-05:00I love thoughtforms. Somehow, then, the fault lies...I love thoughtforms. Somehow, then, the fault lies within the observer. What is it in us that conjures up the image of the psychic threat in the form of the most intelligent of mollusca? Why do our brains resemble hives of tentacles, packed into our skulls? What deep concordance, what cipher is there linking cephalopods and our own cephalia? What happened at the end of the Permian, that wiped out almost all life, leaving the mollusca, the nautiloids, the limulidae, and the seeds that would become reprilia, and us? Are we the aliens?<br /><br />All of these are great. I particularly like the idea that the Puppet Masters might themselves be remote-controlled.richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-3012787850719866222010-12-28T11:14:48.861-05:002010-12-28T11:14:48.861-05:00I've always liked the 'back from an Empire...I've always liked the 'back from an Empire at the end of the universe' explanation myself, though that could just be because it was the first one I read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-10646746165046947402010-05-01T20:02:29.919-04:002010-05-01T20:02:29.919-04:00I don't know about the comparison, but thanks....I don't know about the comparison, but thanks.<br /><br />Yeah, nothing quite gets to visceral fear like "body horror."Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-30181643501528319432010-05-01T09:21:17.834-04:002010-05-01T09:21:17.834-04:00i like it! nice fic, puts my stuff to shame
I...i like it! nice fic, puts my stuff to shame <br /><br />I've always followed the fourth version, adds another element of fear - that one might become a mindflayer should they choose you as a 'host'. def a fave dnd monster, not much else is quite as inhumanly chilling.Fran Terminiellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02506269178716477521noreply@blogger.com