The Unpublishable

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 6:10 pm

I was going for spies, but that works too.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:12 pm

What might Howard have answered to Lovecraft's letter from the other week? Discover for yourself on The Unpublishable with "Dear HPL, Cordially REH": http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2012/1 ... y-reh.html

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:39 am

Today on The Unpublishable, a warning: "Elf Cup." NSFW. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2012/12/elf-cup.html

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:35 pm

Vizard?
Could not decide between a vizier and a wizard? O.o

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:39 pm

Old Dutch spelling.

But while I have you hear, I would like to say, Stahlseele, that I really do appreciate all the feedback you give me on these stories. I don't say it nearly often enough. It's a rare thing, and I thank you for it.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:11 pm

i enjoy them, for the most part, so why not comment on it ^^
i'd comment on more stuff i find around the intarwebbernets, if it did not mean that i have to register on hundreds of pages <.<

Korgan0 · Post by **Korgan0** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 9:09 pm

So, she's a designated handmaiden/prostitute?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:27 pm

For visiting elves, yeah.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 2:48 pm

Mythology remix time on The Unpublishable; it's after Christmas but imagine what must have surrounded another portentous birth in "A Cow of Sin": http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2012/1 ... f-sin.html

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:01 pm

The legend of the Minotaur, a classic theme. Nice for a short story too.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:18 pm

Weird South fiction today on The Unpublishable with "Not in My Father's House": http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2013/0 ... house.html

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 9:25 pm

not very weird to me, but a nice southern feeling and a quite below the waist line jab at the end.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:14 pm

It's easy to romantasize the old south in a couple ways, but one of the most insidious horrors of slavery (to my mind) was the dependency it created.

Booker T Washington wrote:For some minutes there was great rejoicing, and thanksgiving, and wild scenes of ecstasy. But there was no feeling of bitterness. In fact, there was pity among the slaves for our former owners. The wild rejoicing on the part of the emancipated coloured people lasted but for a brief period, for I noticed that by the time they returned to their cabins there was a change in their feelings. The great responsibility of being free, of having charge of themselves, of having to think and plan for themselves and their children, seemed to take possession of them. It was very much like suddenly turning a youth of ten or twelve years out into the world to provide for himself. In a few hours the great questions with which the Anglo-Saxon race had been grappling for centuries had been thrown upon these people to be solved. These were the questions of a home, a living, the rearing of children, education, citizenship, and the establishment and support of churches. Was it any wonder that within a few hours the wild rejoicing ceased and a feeling of deep gloom seemed to pervade the slave quarters? To some it seemed that, now that they were in actual possession of it, freedom was a more serious thing than they had expected to find it. Some of the slaves were seventy or eighty years old; their best days were gone. They had no strength with which to earn a living in a strange place and among strange people, even if they had been sure where to find a new place of abode. To this class the problem seemed especially hard. Besides, deep down in their hearts there was a strange and peculiar attachment to "old Marster" and "old Missus," and to their children, which they found it hard to think of breaking off. With these they had spent in some cases nearly a half-century, and it was no light thing to think of parting. Gradually, one by one, stealthily at first, the older slaves began to wander from the slave quarters back to the "big house" to have a whispered conversation with their former owners as to the future.

If you want to really capture the Old South, you need to capture that attitude.

Also, on names:

Booker T Washington wrote:In some way a feeling got among the coloured people that it was far from proper for them to bear the surname of their former owners, and a great many of them took other surnames. This was one of the first signs of freedom. When they were slaves, a coloured person was simply called "John" or "Susan." There was seldom occasion for more than the use of the one name. If "John" or "Susan" belonged to a white man by the name of "Hatcher," sometimes he was called "John Hatcher," or as often "Hatcher's John." But there was a feeling that "John Hatcher" or "Hatcher's John" was not the proper title by which to denote a freeman; and so in many cases "John Hatcher" was changed to "John S. Lincoln" or "John S. Sherman," the initial "S" standing for no name, it being simply a part of what the coloured man proudly called his "entitles."

Either way, the writing is good enough that it's worth quibbling over details this trivial. Very nice.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:20 pm

Yeah, it's a fluffy little piece. One of those strange things that come in dreams and I wrote it down quick-like before it escaped.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:28 pm

Stahlseele wrote:not very weird to me, but a nice southern feeling and a quite below the waist line jab at the end.

Exactly what jab is that supposed to be? The whole last paragraph leaves me feeling like I've missed something really important, and I don't think it's that there is apparently a Hellmouth located in one of Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, or Florida.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 11:20 pm

Then I crossed a rickety log bridge, and saw the rotted hemp hanging from the old tree, and I was in Alabama once again.

that one.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:14 am

Yeah, I suspected as much, I just don't get it (the states I mentioned are the ones that border Alabama).

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:22 am

realtalk, alabama does terrible bridge maintenance.

Or maybe it's just a lynching reference.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:45 am

i suspect the latter

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:57 pm

Not everything in a comic is comedic. Read on about one of the darker episodes on The Unpublishable with "My Name is Hank": http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2013/0 ... -hank.html

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:20 pm

Strange journeys may be inwards as well as away. Find out what the fuck that means by reading "Pathworking" on The Unpublishable. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2013/0 ... rking.html

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:45 pm

ok, so, Hank Pym - Ant Man, Giant Man and some smaller personae, Janette - the Wasp, Dr. Samson, a wanna-be-hulk and traitor. Matt Murdock - Daredevil? O.o
Scarred Ape-Face does not really ring a bell for me . .

And no, most of these comics are quite serious. The Authors often use them as a way to talk about certain issues. Tony Stark - Iron Man, the Alcoholic/Workaholic for example. Hank Pym as a case study of Paranoia and shizophreny and other such things.

Pink Sand?
RLY?
ORLY?
Oh Rl'ye?

i don't really get that second one.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:49 pm

This might help: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/10/0 ... ned-comic/

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:54 pm

Ancient History wrote:This might help: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/10/0 ... ned-comic/

yeah that helped tremendously! . . not!
especially not the last panel x.x

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:04 am

Today on the Unpublishable: "Bastard to the Crown" http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2013/0 ... crown.html