The King in Yellow by Deimos-Remus
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hastur with a tiny version of my thesis on lovecraftian audio drama
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Hypothetical question:
There is a book that is 200 pages long. If you read the entire book, you will 100% get a neurodegenerative disease and die in 1-5 years. Everybody knows this. There are studies. Every reputable organization, even very pro-free-speech ones, are like "no this specific book WILL literally kill you."
There are no consequences to reading the first page of the book. There are studies. The only risk is that you might be interested enough that you'd like to read the rest (especially if you didn't know about the effect.)
(More details: The effects of reading past Page 1 are hotly debated - you do need to read all 200 pages to get the disease, but some kind of compulsion kicks in over time and makes you much more inclined to finish the book. Reading to page 10 is a little dangerous, reading to page 50 or past is very dangerous, but it's kind of unclear how much. The compulsion is NOT measurably present from the first page.)
Every government has banned this book, but it's pretty easy to find copies online or (with a bit more work) in person. By all accounts, the writing is quite beautiful. It is even easier to find copies of the first page, since everyone agrees it's not dangerous.
(this is curiosity / idle research for a fiction project)
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Arthur Lester's suitors. Choose wisely, darling, or it may end badly!
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woa guys have you heard about this cool new book about eldrich horrors beyond your comprehension or whatever :0
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i think it’d be really cool if the King in Yellow looked like one of those giant puppets they use in stage plays. the ones that have very obvious visible puppeteers moving them, but still seem so alive. i imagine that the main body seems to be controlled by the dancers, but the tentacles move on their own.
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Day 2: The King, The Dreamlands & Desperation (sort of)
Day 3: Larson Family, Guilt & Addison
Day 4: New York (sort of) & Trust (sort of)
Annddd here’s the rest of my pieces for Malevoversary! I don’t have much free time to do the last two prompts but 5 is a nice number to end off on. Happy Anniversary o/
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Ok, I completely missed the reveal of Yellow being the real king in yellow in the S4 finale and caught up with the fact only when it was confirmed in the last Harlan's interview AND GOTTA SAY this situation is peak comedy to me
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