Yay, BPAL!
Mar. 4th, 2009 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vulgarweedI may be sleeping at a bus stop before long, but I'll smell much better than the average bum.
Remember, a couple years ago I asked if anyone in the fic world had written or knew of a Lovecraft/Kerouac pastiche? (I mean a mashup of the two writers' styles and themes, not a slash fic. But I'd read that too!)
IT EXISTS! But it's not a fic, it's a book!
Move Under Ground, by Nick Mamatas (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nihilistic_kid, and so far it is EVERYTHING I hoped it'd be.
Kerouac and Lovecraft are two writers it's incredibly easy to parody, and incredibly difficult to pastiche well with not-entirely-parodic intent, and Mamatas is rocking both my all-embracing beatnik heart and the part of my soul chilled black by the idiot void.
(Which BPAL am I wearing now? R'lyeh, of course!)
In other news, prompt-grabbing is open at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lgbtfest: these prompts are made of 100% grass-fed free-range fair-trade win! (6 of them in 3 fandoms are mine - can you guess?) I'm looking for something really challenging to snag, and I think I see at least one that seems made for me that I doubt anyone else is likely to...
Remember, a couple years ago I asked if anyone in the fic world had written or knew of a Lovecraft/Kerouac pastiche? (I mean a mashup of the two writers' styles and themes, not a slash fic. But I'd read that too!)
IT EXISTS! But it's not a fic, it's a book!
Move Under Ground, by Nick Mamatas (
nihilistic_kid, and so far it is EVERYTHING I hoped it'd be.Kerouac and Lovecraft are two writers it's incredibly easy to parody, and incredibly difficult to pastiche well with not-entirely-parodic intent, and Mamatas is rocking both my all-embracing beatnik heart and the part of my soul chilled black by the idiot void.
(Which BPAL am I wearing now? R'lyeh, of course!)
In other news, prompt-grabbing is open at
lgbtfest: these prompts are made of 100% grass-fed free-range fair-trade win! (6 of them in 3 fandoms are mine - can you guess?) I'm looking for something really challenging to snag, and I think I see at least one that seems made for me that I doubt anyone else is likely to...
