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I talk about books and whatnot See more at https://youtube.com/@Vexrede

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You can tell she was 14 when she wrote it but that's part of the fun

06.07.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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people are sleeping on the Atlan series by Jane Gaskell ngl

06.07.2025 07:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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such violence

06.07.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It didn't really cross my mind, but there's definitely lots that could be said about it.
I realized while scripting out the video that a full survey of the most notable works would end up being way longer than I wanted, so I had to just keep to a handful of examples

28.06.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Cosmic horror isn't about tentacles
YouTube video by Orogeny Vexrede Cosmic horror isn't about tentacles

Cosmic Horror Isn't About Tentacles www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdV...

27.06.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They are doing Laura Palmer shit to the Deltarune Christmas Deergirl

12.06.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

True. I probably ought to read the Corpus Hermeticum to learn how to live virtuously

07.06.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've spent most of this weekend playing Deltarune, while also reading House of Leaves and Kill Six Billion Demons for the first time.
I feel like my mind is melting

07.06.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
YouTube video, with the title: "Madam Blavatsky's Occult Imprisonment by Rudolf Steiner"

YouTube video, with the title: "Madam Blavatsky's Occult Imprisonment by Rudolf Steiner"

rudolf steiner's reign of terror knows no limits

04.06.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

tbh my political science brain says Tolkien would be negatively polarized into supporting trans rights after Peter Thiel blew up Cambodia with a killer robot named the Isengard Hobbit Slayer 9000 because negative polarization is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.

02.06.2025 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 298    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

Though it's worth noting he didn't read it until 1964, after writing LOTR.
I have seen speculation that the Nameless Things might've been inspired by proto-Lovecraftian writers like Algernon Blackwood and William Hope Hodgson, or that they were based on NΓ­Γ°hΓΆggr from Norse mythology

17.05.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Letter sent from C.S. Lewis to E.R. Eddison on Nov 16th 1942.
The whole letter is beyond the character limit, but it's all written in comically archaic prose, beginning as follows: "Honour’d Sir, there is a sawe commonly vsed among our uplandish folk that yf a man pick up were it but a pibble stone or a straw and bestow it in his poke, lyghtlie it shall not fayle but before the yearsend it shall stande him in greter stede than the best treasure ever he ow’d.
"Of the which I have right good exaumple by a foolish book (on the novello) that came late to my hands, made by som poore seely wench that seeketh a B.Litt or a D.Phil, when God knows shad a better bestowed her tyme makynge sport for some goodman in his bed and bearing children for the stablishment of this reaulme or els to be at her beads in a religyous house."

Letter sent from C.S. Lewis to E.R. Eddison on Nov 16th 1942. The whole letter is beyond the character limit, but it's all written in comically archaic prose, beginning as follows: "Honour’d Sir, there is a sawe commonly vsed among our uplandish folk that yf a man pick up were it but a pibble stone or a straw and bestow it in his poke, lyghtlie it shall not fayle but before the yearsend it shall stande him in greter stede than the best treasure ever he ow’d. "Of the which I have right good exaumple by a foolish book (on the novello) that came late to my hands, made by som poore seely wench that seeketh a B.Litt or a D.Phil, when God knows shad a better bestowed her tyme makynge sport for some goodman in his bed and bearing children for the stablishment of this reaulme or els to be at her beads in a religyous house."

Reading through C.S. Lewis's letters is great because he corresponded with E.R. Eddison for years and every single one of their letters is written like this

17.05.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For motherfuckers obsessed with secret ineffable knowledge the gnostics sure fuckin wrote a lot

12.05.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Toxic yuri

10.05.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 374    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

The big difference between Thedas and FaerΓ»n is that Ed Greenwood would tell you that for free

06.05.2025 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An Interview with Michael Moorcock Hoi and Jeff have the supreme pleasure of interviewing Michael Moorcock, author of the Elric and Hawkmoon stories among many others, and the youngest and only living author from the Appendix N list…

I know he's given at least one recent interview where he downplays itβ€”around the 17:00 point, he says he doesn't like LOTR but that it's just a matter of personal preference appendixnbookclub.com/2019/12/02/a...

05.05.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You may not like it but this is what peak dove performance looks like

04.05.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(the actual book is only about 20% as homoerotic as the back cover blurb)

03.05.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just got through Kothar, a book with a delightfully homoerotic back cover blurb

03.05.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

books

03.05.2025 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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