Do you have a favorite Monster?

[ParkCungHee]

The King of All Monsters.

Spoiler :

 

[Kyriakos]

^Given that the very first thing i thought while looking at that pic was "martial arts", i guess it is not very scary :/

 

[Josu]

When I was a kid (6 years old) I attended to a summer camp where the instructors had the tradition of scaring children the night before they have to left.

They first year I went, the instructors dressed themselve up in order to pretend to be witches in an "Akelarre" (a kind of basque Witches' Sabbath). There was even an Akerbeltz!! A black goat that as per basque mithology use to get out from the ground during the Akelarres. I returned home totally scared and had problems for some days to sleep properly due to nightmares.

Today I remember this happening with an smile and can not avoid laughing when it comes to my mind. So I suppose that I can consider Akerbeltz is my favourite monster. The Spanish inquisition related Akerbeltz with the devil so there is no too much info about which were really Akerbeltz's superpowers

There is a painting by Goya in which an Akelarre is shown with an Akerbeltz


I have found a photo that is similar to what the instructors tried to do but it was much more scruffy

 

[Kyriakos]

Goya painted a number of ominous forms One of the greatest painters of recent aeons.

 

[Mouthwash]

I like some people's conception of Cthulhu, but have found the original source material a bit disappointing.

So... you would or would not recommend Lovecraft? I also have found multiple classic works boring or unreadable.

 

[NetGear]

My favorite monster is the sugar free version.

 

[schlaufuchs]

So... you would or would not recommend Lovecraft? I also have found multiple classic works boring or unreadable.

lol, I wouldn't deign to call anything by Lovecraft a "classic", by any stretch of the imagination.

Which of these "multiple classic works" are you pooh-poohing so I can tell you why you are wrong?

 

[Mouthwash]

lol, I wouldn't deign to call anything by Lovecraft a "classic", by any stretch of the imagination.

Which of these "multiple classic works" are you pooh-poohing so I can tell you why you are wrong?

The Fellowship of the Ring: snooze city.

A Tale of Two Cities: incomprehensible.

 

[cybrxkhan]

The Fellowship of the Ring: snooze city.

I thought that was Tolkien? Lovecraft wrote something titled that too? (I'm not too familiar with nor interested about Lovecraft, in case anyone's wondering)

Never mind, misread that.

 

[bhsup]

Basement cat is pretty friggin' cool. Still hope he loses to ceiling cat in the battle for our souls, but that doesn't mean he isn't cool.

Seriously, have you ever seen a cooler supreme prince of darkness?

 

[schlaufuchs]

The Fellowship of the Ring: snooze city.

A Tale of Two Cities: incomprehensible.

To the first: Well yeah, Tolkien isn't notable for his readability or...story. He's known for crafting a number of distinct and highly intricate conlangs with very deep linguistic-based foundations. Which is understandable considering he was a linguist.

As to the second...that novel is an absolute classic, though Dickens certainly isn't for the faint of heart.

 

[cybrxkhan]

To the first: Well yeah, Tolkien isn't notable for his readability or...story. He's known for crafting a number of distinct and highly intricate conlangs with very deep linguistic-based foundations. Which is understandable considering he was a linguist.

I did sort of read through Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King, but I always spent more time reading the appendices. Those were very interesting, and it probably was the reason I got into conworlding in the first place. So I guess when I say I think LotR is one of the greatest things ever, I'm probably just referring to the appendices I was reading and all the deep background Tolkien had for his stories.

 

[Mouthwash]

I thought that was Tolkien? Lovecraft wrote something titled that too? (I'm not too familiar with nor interested about Lovecraft, in case anyone's wondering)

Read what the post responds to before responding yourself.

To the first: Well yeah, Tolkien isn't notable for his readability or...story. He's known for crafting a number of distinct and highly intricate conlangs with very deep linguistic-based foundations. Which is understandable considering he was a linguist.

As to the second...that novel is an absolute classic, though Dickens certainly isn't for the faint of heart.

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers’ warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellow tradesman whom he stopped in his character of ‘the Captain,’ gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, ‘in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:’ after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord Mayor of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles’s, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way. In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; today, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and tomorrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer’s boy of sixpence.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Read what the post responds to before responding yourself.

You know, I corrected myself a while back, but I apologize for my hasty reading.

 

[schlaufuchs]

[Passage from Tale of Two Cities]

I did say it wasn't for the faint of heart, didn't I?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Venomoth has always been a beast and an integral part of my team.

 

[Kyriakos]

I always was amazed by this image, ever since i first saw it a couple of years ago:



Made by Ngjas (originally posted by him on DeviantArt)

Sadly i cannot say i am keen on his other works, but this one i certainly like

 

[Mouthwash]

You know, I corrected myself a while back, but I apologize for my hasty reading.

I didn't see that earlier.

I did say it wasn't for the faint of heart, didn't I?

No, it's for the dead of mind and soul.

 

[El_Machinae]

So... you would or would not recommend Lovecraft? I also have found multiple classic works boring or unreadable.

I didn't really enjoy it, tbh.
Of the classics, I quite enjoyed War of the Worlds. I thought it was really good!

 

[cybrxkhan]

I didn't see that earlier.

That's okay, now we're even.