gods from my own entrails

the radio play format took a little getting used to since i’m more used to narrator-centric podcasts like old gods of appalachia, i am in eschew, and death of an artist.

i can’t believe all the voices are done by one guy! the range!

arthur lester is the most wet noodle of a man i’ve ever encountered, this show should just be called “Arthur Lester’s No Good Very Bad Night(s)”

john is piloting arthur like that one alien from men in black.

i love how rl’yehian sounds in this show, genuinely a beautiful and terrifying language.

whyyyyyy are we getting involved with aunty shub?? leave her and her kids alone!

(i do appreciate them avoiding the more obvious and sketchy pronunciation of her name. that’s why i renamed her in my canon to shub-gorgoroth, after the first black metal band i ever listened to in high school.)

kellin gives major errol childress and dewall from true detective season 1 vibes.

(episode 4 in general has big true detective season 1 energy.)

there’s fucking dice rolls and coin tosses, i can HEAR them.

OHHHHH he calls himself john bc that’s what the nurses called arthur while he was in a coma, john doe, i get it.

HOUND OF TINDALOS? MY FAVORITE PUPPY? BEST PUPPY??

“i don’t know, arthur” -john, every single episode.

love the trumpet leitmotif that happens whenever arthur takes a hit to his sanity. like he has any left.

every time something new is introduced, john goes “ARTHUR, there are SOUNDS and THINGS and CREATURES.”

survivor: malevolent edition (arthur and john stuck on an island with fog that will kill them.)

literally stopped doing my laundry and gasped when i heard the line “I have seen his eyes in the heads of others.”

me, saying “THE PALLID MASK” and “THE KING IN YELLOW” the same way stilgar says “LISAN AL-GAIB” in dune pt. 2.

“he used the portal because it was there” is very on brand for hastur lmao

arthur is cold blooded also now he and john are divorced what the hell. (i’ve been told this is the first of many divorces they go through.)

oh my god arthur don’t talk to the cops.

GHOST SHIP

arthur and john are no longer divorced.

there was a description of the smell of a room full of rotting bodies getting into arthur's mouth and i had to pause making salsa because i suddenly felt queasy. good job, harlan, this rarely happens to me.

i know this takes place in massachusetts, but the hotel? this is clearly the hotel california, arthur. you’re never getting out.

arthur managed to not blow his cover as a cultist.* good job. (*the cult knew who he was.)

DREAMLANDS? UNKNOWN KADATH?

CASSILDA?! THE LAST SCION OF THE HOUSE OF YHITLL AND BELOVED OF HASTUR AND QUEEN OF CARCOSA, CASSILDA??? CASSILDA!!!!

(I’ve been told this is the only mention of her in the podcast. Wahhh.)

THE SLEEPING CITY?!?!?!?! YESSSSSSSSSS YESSSSSSSSS!!!

“YOU SIR SHOULD UNMASK. WE HAVE ALL LAID ASIDE DISGUISE BUT YOU.” YYYYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

BECOME WHOLE AGAIN. (I KNOW YOU’RE A DEAD SPACE ENJOYER, HARLAN.)

STANDING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE HALI, HASTUR!!!!! HASTURRRRRR!!!!!!

THE SEASON ENDS IN THE DREAMLANDS??? DREAM-QUEST OF UKNOWN KADATH NEXT SEASON??????