tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post2604591588391850209..comments2024-01-19T08:23:25.128-05:00Comments on thrall (a. regina cantatis): MC by earwormthrallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01228794853493421326noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-5750831815661541062013-11-14T06:25:57.884-05:002013-11-14T06:25:57.884-05:00I've heard about the Neomonicon and keep meani...I've heard about the Neomonicon and keep meaning to buy it, but somehow I never get around to it.<br /><br />The thing about the sigil is hilarious.thrallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228794853493421326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-509359754739175772013-11-14T04:33:26.169-05:002013-11-14T04:33:26.169-05:00Have you read Alan Moore's The Courtyard (and ...Have you read Alan Moore's The Courtyard (and the sequel Neonomicon)? The story deals with exactly the topic you are talking about; transforming people mentally through a language they don't understand (possibly through some genetically programmed MK-Ultra device). Most of the time those affected end up killing people instead of having sex with them, but the ideas are interesting.<br /><br />I havn't read the sequel yet, but this is is what Moore had to say about it: "Lovecraft was sexually squeamish; would only talk of ‘certain nameless rituals.’ Or he’d use some euphemism: ‘blasphemous rites.’ It was pretty obvious, given that a lot of his stories detailed the inhuman offspring of these ‘blasphemous rituals’ that sex was probably involved somewhere along the line. But that never used to feature in Lovecraft’s stories, except as a kind of suggested undercurrent. So I thought, let’s put all of the unpleasant racial stuff back in, let’s put sex back in. Let’s come up with some genuinely ‘nameless rituals’: let’s give them a name."<br /><br />More of the same ideas in other comics:<br /><br />"The Anti-Life Equation is a string of symbols that represents that darker impulse, symbols that brings it to life inside other people. That idea that the “right words” have the power to transform both human beings and the world is central not only to Anti-Life, but also to the fundamental concept of writing. And of course to magic, which is a practice that Morrison engages in a very real way in his own life. When circulation dipped on his run on the comic The Invisibles in the mid-’90s, he created a symbol called a sigil that he imbued with a request for sales to increase, and asked his readers to help charge it with their energy by masturbating to it collectively on Thanksgiving evening. They did, and circulation went up."<br />http://comicsalliance.com/flex-mentallo-final-crisis-morrison/<br /><br />In Flex Mentally, two heroes are able to alter the reality by becoming so small they become a part of its fabric, destined to respond to a certain word that is said and felt, but that's probably not entirely related to the main topic here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-22222678138884878272013-05-15T06:46:04.706-04:002013-05-15T06:46:04.706-04:00That definitely sounds interesting! And now that y...That definitely sounds interesting! And now that you've got me thinking about books, I remember that the MC in Snow Crash is also based on language. I can't believe I forgot that when I wrote the post.thrallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228794853493421326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-28033643077116458752013-05-14T08:07:05.868-04:002013-05-14T08:07:05.868-04:00I would draw your attention to Herr Doktor Pandemo...I would draw your attention to Herr Doktor Pandemonium, a villain the DEMON sourcebook of the Hero System. He's a German linguist who discovered the language used by eldritch horrors to make humanity obey. Exposure to "that which man was not meant to know" awakened ancient racial memories of that time, in which his ancestor was a kapo, an overseer. He uses a specially made voice box to allow him to speak the language.<br /><br />It's always struck me as a wonderful idea, although considerable tweaking would be needed as it's currently horror themed, but it would be fun :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04092602298803696286noreply@blogger.com