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convalescence. or something
May. 27th, 2022 09:32 pmWife and I were supposed to go picnicking in the woods today, but SOMEONE (me) managed to sprain her ankle playing Pokémon Go last night and have spent all day in bed trying to move as little as possible. Instead I have watched her clean our room, and spent a good couple of hours reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth out loud for her while she fiddled with her doll collection. Mawwiage, am I right?
The Shadow Over Innsmouth is quite fun also, barring the Egregious Racism and the narrator's insistence on describing EVERY DAMN STREET he runs down while pursued based solely on a map scribbled down by a 17-year-old for what at least FELT like 20 pages. It was nice to be able to talk about it with wife, who's Decidedly Not a fan of horror (Lovecraftian or otherwise) but happy to pick apart the # problematic qualities of the text as well as what makes it enjoyable. Does help that TSOI is one of those stories where everyone seems kinda shite, and The Horror is funnily enough also the only source of real community in the story? I think having your fish-frog relatives pop out of the ocean to check in on you once in a while seems rather sweet of them, actually.
That being said, the most distressing aspect of that novella is the inclusion of the word "tiaraed", a word I have no clue how to pronounce and honestly do not care to find out.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth is quite fun also, barring the Egregious Racism and the narrator's insistence on describing EVERY DAMN STREET he runs down while pursued based solely on a map scribbled down by a 17-year-old for what at least FELT like 20 pages. It was nice to be able to talk about it with wife, who's Decidedly Not a fan of horror (Lovecraftian or otherwise) but happy to pick apart the # problematic qualities of the text as well as what makes it enjoyable. Does help that TSOI is one of those stories where everyone seems kinda shite, and The Horror is funnily enough also the only source of real community in the story? I think having your fish-frog relatives pop out of the ocean to check in on you once in a while seems rather sweet of them, actually.
That being said, the most distressing aspect of that novella is the inclusion of the word "tiaraed", a word I have no clue how to pronounce and honestly do not care to find out.
