Fabulous Friday Feature 13: H.P. Lovecraft

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Greetings, all, and welcome to my (appropriately, I think) THIRTEENTH

FABULOUS FRIDAY FEATURE

This week's theme is the creator of my favorite horror mythos: H.P. Lovecraft.  Next week, I'd like to show you all some of my favorite pieces of all time, whether they come from someone well-known or someone with almost no watchers at all! If you've got someone you think should be featured in next Friday's Feature, send me a note with a link to their gallery and I'll take a peek I'd also love to hear about other features, particularly themed ones. I'll list those in the bottom section to help spread the word! The same goes for contests or news articles!

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Pay-It-Forward Project:new:Update: Unfortunately, due to a number of factors, I will not be continuing this project. However, I strongly encourage you all to pay it forward yourselves! Deviants so far who have received premium memberships as part of this project: :iconkinachuku::iconhillsofmyst::iconcelestialmemories::iconai-sanura::iconsurrealcachinnation:Thank you sososososo much to :devnamenotrequired: for helping me to promote this project!Greetings! I am posting this to let you all know I have decided I want to try to pay the premium membership love forward, and so I am looking for donations to go toward buying premium memberships for other people :) You c...

And now, without any further ado: THE FEATURES!



Visual Art

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Need more? Might I suggest

Literature

Under A Gibbous MoonIt was a dark evening, the light of a starkly gibbous moon shone ominously onto a lone Arkham building. A place rooted firmly into one of the more undesirable districts of that cursed city. The light trickled through into its Georgian interior, as if afraid of the dancing shadows it threw forward like devilish spectres. The pointed ears and peaked form of something alien to the world were cast darkly onto Howard Phillip Lovecraft by the softly tortured light. He sat reading the "The Cask of Amontillado", muttering to himself, strange musings punctuated by the curling of his lips. The cat's shadow disappeared and the scene seemed twisted fo... A Lovecraft Pastiche Lovecraft in Villanelle:thumb337027059: Innsmouth FolkThem’s queer folk up in Innsmouth, As men do ‘ear it tell’ Them’s not much for outsiders, Nor for decent folk as well.Tis a queer place up in Innsmouth, ‘neath smokey clouded skies. With many a decrepit building, With board o’er its eyes.There’s queer things up in Innsmouth, Wot chatter an ‘a bark. And queerer things that leap and hop, In Innsmouth after dark.There’s queer fish up in Innsmouth, As come in with the tide. An’ pagan gods, an’ demons too, An’ worser things beside.Them’s queer folk up in Innsmouth, A’ spoutin’ heathen rites. To evil things, up from the sea, Out on the reef at night.So don’t you go to Innsmouth, ... speak no more of marble glories.Sometimes I dream the ground is falling from beneath my feet And I have to run to stay upon the firmament More often I float in gravitationally weak leaps Grabbing at lampposts in a desperate bid to change direction Other times I clutch at strawsthere's one street I'm travelling down From the town of my birth or my last misadventure I can never tell It's filled with everyone I've ever met And every awkward moment and miscommunication That ever passed between us I feel their eyes bore into the back of my skull And know them for my ownSometimes, silently, we nod at each other. BenevolenceYour bones are sharp chips of obsidian, lacing the marrow. and we swallow fish scales, searching for sad pierrots with silk tears. desperate hands clamber for the scars of youth; a childish whisper wrapped in the cloth of moth-eaten raincoats. We curled in the cold light of the letterbox drinking in the weight of unmarked stamps from the Dead Sea. I held broken satellites to your lips so you could kiss the stars and you whispered prayer to Botticelli and the colours of Lovecraft tissue-papered with gold. We trip over the wings of bluebird cries as snow melts our teeth like wax and blood the colour of crushed red velvet that we hold close t... AzathothQuiet horror, Cosmic mind older than the earth, A vestige of ancient madness Seething through the cracks of space, Amorphous blasphemy bubbling and frothing In the silence outside darkness,Immortal chaos, the harbinger of dissolution Is hungry. His existence trembles with lust and death.Entropy fills his belly And he vomits forth the end. Madness and violence fill the universe And the end times are finally upon us.After all is settled and done, Azathoth sated and the crawling chaos abated, Silence reigns again And the circle begins anew.:thumb193176140: Bayou DreamsThunder rolls ancient drums across the sky deep in the swamp water Bayou priests chant their voices linger far across the hills where the rains darken in electric skies charged with spirits called up from dreamland sleep where dead they long awaited in slumber awakened by forbidden rituals beneath the midnight's cyclopean eye ever watching dancers deep in the bog painted in the deep earthen rich dark mud to play among their old bitter bones summoning the Old Ones from their mire to once again reclaim their enthroned place it is the distant whisper Cthulhu Elegy from the UndeadMy soul sings an elegy to yours, bends and twists, fills every void, a spiritual pornography of explicit bliss, an ebb and flow of our pulses kept close by embrace. there will never be daylight in my dreams, love only the perpetual midnight of our bodies tangled and content awkward and perfect at once You are the neverending echelons of my heart, infinitesmal bliss and euphoria and lust, All-in-One, bound in trinity amid the celestial womb of space and time, which begets every longing fantasy and punctuates every moment aching to hold you still. purpureous in purpose, with purest passion You are that beast devouring me, wild, impassioned p...

Community News, Features, and Fun(ny) Things

Winners of the Write and Revise ContestPart One 1. :thumb331807711: 2. :thumb330476239: Part Two 1: :thumb340551856: 2: :thumb335257153: 3: :thumb341647600:Thank you to everyone who entered. Prizes will be delivered shortly.Stay tuned for our next contest. The Literature Community ExperimentThis is a typical example of a :devbeccalicious: shower pondering! The idea of this is to try and bring together as many people as possible all in one journal, but not for the sake of making a big number, but to encourage interaction and share useful tidbits. We often say the "literature community" has drifted apart over the past few years and this is just one attempt to try get people to come back together. It's a little hippy, perhaps a far-fetched idea, which is why I am calling it an "experiment". This could be successful and could be a complete fail- only you guys and your efforts can decide its fate! :new: Wow! The response for t... Community Portal: December 23rdNews Love dA Lit: Issue 108 :note: If you'd like to have something added/mentioned in this journal or the article please comment or send me a note!:heart: :devirrevocablefate:About Love dA LitLove dA Lit aims to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed. Love dA Lit is published every Sunday, by :devirrevocablefate: via news article, and the Community portal will be updated in accompa...
Fantastic Feature Tuesday #24This is a weekly feature of amazing literature that I come by during my travels across deviantART. This is only a small sample of a vast amount of wonderful pieces of literature written by absolutely fantastic writers. Each deviation was carefully selected from a writer's gallery based on structure, impact and word usage. I will never feature the same person twice, so check out these wonderful writers now while you can! Please this news article so it will reach a larger audience!:thumb342652458: :thumb303440335: :thumb246041512: :thumb91487373: :thumb217070267: :thumb339180118: :thumb207903486:Merry Christmas and happy reading! :santa: :thumb338688692: Love dA Lit: Issue 108Welcome to the one-hundred eighth issue of Love dA Lit! :rudolph: Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed. :star: This week’s group spotlight is :devOrdinary-Writing:! :star: :devlitplease:'s Community Portal Navigation Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin...
What did you do last November? The Pick'N'Mix contest!It's finally here, ladies and gentlemen. After announcing it last week , we're officially releasing our latest contest today. UPDATE: Once you're done, submit your entries to this Favourites gallery here http://thewrittenrevolution.deviantart.com/favourites/53144079 , or note us with a link to your submission and we'll do it for you! What you have to do is go to the folder we linked just now, click on "suggest a Favourite", then select the deviation from your gallery. Remember to include your dice numbers in your Artist's Comments! Wooho, I know, right?We already said in the blog linked above what this contest is about, but we'll do a q... Critmas is here! (Last Day!):new: Today is the LAST DAY for you to get your 12 critiques in! Make sure you leave a comment in this journal linking all your pieces. There's plenty of prizes up for grabs :) Remember you have until  11:59 PM pst TODAY to complete your critiques! :holly: On the first day of Critmas, a deviant gave to me. :holly: Back by popular demand, I bring you... The 12 days of CRITMAS challenge! "CRITMAS IS COMING, THE PROSE IS GETTING FAT. OUT COMES THE RED PEN TO GET RID OF THAT!" (:devmemnalar:)Now most of you are relaxing and chilling out on your Christmas vacations; some of you have time off work/school and will be staying at home in t...
Traditional Tuesdays #47***WARNING: Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!*** Now with the warming out of the way, Hi, and welcome to edition number forty-seven of Traditional Tuesdays. This week, like all  of the other weeks, I'll be featuring fifteen works of art from the Traditional Gallery . Any more than that might and you might loss interest or it could cause your monitor to fail in an explosion of awesomeness.  I would feel guilty if that were to happen, so I'm keeping it at fifteen! The Traditional gallery is a vast storeroom of work that co... Prompt: December 24, 2012Feature:thumb340012867: Santa Fe de Bogota by :devAzizrianDaoXrak:. "I know that in your swelling city heart you long por el mar, por la sal del mar,but instead you straddle the roads, hunker down over your landscape and breathe" This poem by :devAzizrianDaoXrak: is a gorgeously bilingual piece that uses the word, monachopsis (noun, the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place), from our last prompt to jump off into a cityscape that's at once urban and poetic. The way the speaker of the poem effortlessly slips from Spanish to English and vice versa creates a beautifully musical sound, as well as giving the poem a remarkably pe...:thumb344556577:
Merry Christmas: A Feature!:icongood-intention:Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and your's this holiday season! I want to wish you all days filled with happy memories and partaking in the small acts of kindness that can really pay off on this big holiday.Group Updates::devgood-intention: has an incredible 400 members in just over a week! I am absolutely amazed at the momentum this group has gained in such a short amount of time, it's incredible the kind of support we've received from the deviantART community.As a result of our growth, and suggestions from our members, changes will be made, such as these below::bulletpink: :devdanimi: suggested a folder ca... DD Suggestion Guidelines RevampedRevamped Christmas 2012 Why should I suggest literature to you? Oh for any number of reasons, the most logical of them being that I (and all of us Lit ^CV's) cannot be everywhere on the site at any given time. There is literature going gravely unnoticed right now that deserves attention and you may be the only one aware of that writer and their work. You should suggest literature because it helps represent the literature community as a whole. It helps us understand what is impacting writers and what is capturing readers' interest when we receive suggestions-- of similar topics, genres, or forms. It helps keep our view of the community in p... Colors ContestThis was the hardest contest I have ever judged. All the entries were outstanding. I read, re-read, re-read again and had them read to me while I closed my eyes and let the images enthrall me. Every poem submitted was a gem...a treasure, so making a decision was incredibly difficult. My thanks to all of you for the enjoyable reading - every piece inspired me. I am pleased to announce the winners:1st place: Color Wheel: One by :iconTheGlassIris:  :thumb329733085:2nd place:  The Other Girl's Eyes by :iconTheLastSongbird:   :thumb332876166:3rd Place:  other shades by  :iconnicolemonique:   :thumb330537102:Honorable Mentions:Supernova  ...



100 Poem Project Update!
Current progress: 67/100
journal: azizriandaoxrak.deviantart.com…
blog: 100-poem-project.blogspot.com/
Also note that the terribly sweet SayaStarshine took a look at my list and decided she wanted to do it, too! She is using the same topics as me, and you can find the link to her stuff here.