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Feedback 038 - Paint Me Like One of Your Vans (Patreon)

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Rick Hound

Yet another thing I learned about early Christian communities are stories of groups of believers going into caves and ending up traveling through time via Van Winkle style. These types of stories are even mentioned in later Islamic accounts. Stories like “How Jesus trained his Dragon”, are something that since I was a kid at a private Christian school would do, specifically pick strange anecdotes in the Bible to ask my teacher about, to their annoyance. I would end up in a stern conversation with a teacher after asking why did the writer talk about describing a woman’s boobs like a mountain? That’s probably why I’ve been drawn to Weird fiction.

Mandy Reznor (She/It)

Since you're recommending Stephen King tales in this one, I'll say folks should check out his stories "I am the Doorway" and "1408." (The tale, not the film.) They're two of King's most well-executed Lovecraftian affairs and they're great.

The Spider Incident

Regarding sick van art: I have a friend who used to live in a van (by choice--think "van life," not "down by the river"). The van was a sort of dark grey. He painted a wizard on the hood and called it Vandalf the Grey.

Avlin Starfall

Even if it is similar, I for one wouldn't mind hearing you all cover Interview with a Vampire, especially if you decide to cover some of the later books as I know nothing about them other than what you have said about them in previous episodes. Also, I can't believe Chris hadn't seen Sinners yet! It's probably my favorite vampire movie, I love all the ways they explain and don't entirely explain the vampires lore and tricks to deal with their weaknesses or rules. Not to mention how incredibly well the characters are written, so much is spent on just making you care about the people involved. I hope to hear an extra credit episode on it once Chris gets a chance to watch it.

Ann Knight

Also "N." from his Just After Sunset anthology, among others.

Alan Ricks

I grew up with a mom who went and played D&D on weekends and then came home and converted that nights game into a bedtime story for me. This jumpstarted my fascination with fantasy and for a birthday one year she got me the blu box with some modules and a bag of dice/miniatures from the early 80s. I would read the modules and play with the pewter miniatures everyday. I found a friend that was into it and we started to use our allowance and buy then new 2nd edition AD&D stuff including a world building kit and a box of random encounter cards. Not cheap for a little kid. When I was in 5th grade around 1994/5, I got a teacher who asked what I liked doing and I said playing D&D and she took me aside and told me how it was a game created by Satan designed to trick children into worshiping the devil so we would go to Hell. My mother was very Episcopalian (not Protestant or Catholic) and we went to the high Church every Sunday and I was shaken by this authority figure’s conviction that I was going to hell for playing this game. I asked my mom if D&D was Satanic and I don’t think she grasped the gravity of my turmoil. She said it was just a game but some people can’t tell fantasy from reality and they take things too far. Which made me panic more because how do I know what is too far? So after a guilt/fear attack I threw all my gamebooks, modules, and miniatures away. I still remember fretfully watching the trash cans get picked up the next day. A few years later I was kicked out of my confirmation by the priest because he said I had missed too many confirmation classes (even though I honesty didn’t, I just didn’t sign in most of the time) and he screamed at me that I was liar and God would punish me when I said I hadn’t. This caused my mother to side with me and was a turning point in her distancing herself a bit from organized religion. She sent me home and I was never forced to go to Church again. That Priest was later removed for stealing funds.

Alan Ricks

Patreon says this is your 1,000th post. Congrats!

It's a Ghost.

I watched Sinners this past weekend and absolutely loved it! I can't recommend it enough.

It's a Ghost.

I loved Sinners! And I also loved the development of the human characters in the movie.

Wulf Mungus

I love how Chad will never not mention the fact that Dracula had to make a Chicken dinner... Castlevainia was came up again in a recent episode as well (so forgive me if this has been mentioned already).. But, is Dracula's chicken dinner the origin of the "wall chicken" you find thru out that game series?

Jason Thompson

You guys rule as always. Beachworld and Gray Matter are also incredible disturbing early Stephen King stories. King impresses me with how he is able to channel such “love of humanity” folksiness on one hand, and bleak horror on the other, and doesnt always feel the need to water the horror down.

Jason Thompson

That’s horrible! I was born in 1974, my Elementary School self was also aware people thought D&D was Satanic and that I had to sorta conceal it. But I never had a personal encounter with pushback like that.

Steve

We've been playing a lot of Swords of the Serpentine recently. Our GM, who is half my age, has folded in Planescape material and it's been great fun.

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

Hey, I heard it somewhere else, now I’ve heard it here, so that’s two references! Makes the sacrifice for the continuation of the species that much more badass 💪

Therewolf

Been playing a lot of Darkest Dungeon 2 lately and I was so sad to hear about Wayne June passing. 😢 Every time I make a blunder I shall forever hear his voice in my head saying, "A miscalculation, perhaps?" What a voice we've lost.

Christian Huffman

So I have been a long time supporter, but on my commute I listen to audio books a lot. So when a book ends I go back and catch up. When I saw you were covering dungeon crawls on an extra credit I jumped right to that. I was extremely disappointed no litrpg titles were covered. Specifically Dungeon Crawler Carl. A lot of litrpg can get bogged down in just listing stats, but Dungeon Crawler Carl is a jewel, the audio book is also an experience, the reader is very impressive. On top of that there was no mention of isekai. A whole set of anime, manga, and novels that cover dungeon crawls. Entire stories built around leveling up, exploring dungeons. Things like Sword Art Online where people get trapped in a VR MMO. Not a mention of any of those things, I was surprised. Still enjoyed the show

Jim Cannon

So "The Vale of Lost Women" doesn't have anything about taxes in it, just good old fashioned American racism. I once got into an argument (online, of course) with someone who claimed REH was not a racist like HPL and... yeah. Which just reminds me that Voluminous was a great show and I still harbor hopes that Andrew and Sean will return to it some day.

Levi Krain

I want to put a plug in for you guys to cover some Leiber and do a Fafhrd and Gray Mouser month. Specifically, I want to suggest that you cover the stories collected in Swords against Deviltry. It has three stories in it (well, it starts with a vignette and then has 3 stories). Together they constitute an arc I think you would appreciate. The first story is Fafhrd's origin story. The second story is Gray Mouser's origin story. The third story is the origin story of how Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser became a duo. All three are great stories and the arc itself is quite awesome. Maybe I suggested this before? Well, after listening for 15 years -- and being 15 years older! -- maybe you can forgive me if I have.

Jesse David Young

I've been waiting for them to cover more. The Sunken Land is cool and all but Ill Met in Lankhmar gets the ball rolling for loving what Leiber did with what Howard started. You get humor, action, sorcery, and sadly a bit of fridging. The duo however sit rent free in my mind as much as Conan, Elric, Kane, or any other "hero". (How the hell did you make paragrapghs? I am such a neanderthal.)

Levi Krain

Yes! Agree with all you say (including, sadly, the fridging). I think the first three stories set the stage for all the other stories, too. Oh, and I make paragaphs, if I'm sitting at a computer, by holding down SHIFT and pressing ENTER. :-) I have no idea how to do it if I'm on my phone!

Jesse David Young

Howard was as racist as they come AND also in some ways more sad to me than Lovecraft. Howard was obviously smart, well read, and physically a gifted person. You don't go from boxing to soda jerking(herp derp), then writing fantastic action that stemmed from his own physicality. He could have been the type of person many of us hope to be, creative, aware, and physically capable. When you read his letters you know he's not an idiot, he's stuck in a tiny backward corner of the world having an outsized impact (generations later not at the time). He really makes me sad,

Mooncubus

The past year or so I've been working through all the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches books, so I'd be super excited for you to cover more Anne Rice. If you don't want to do Interview with the Vampire, might I suggest one of the later books that people don't know as well? I'm thinking either Tale of the Body Thief or Memnoch the Devil. The latter is a very strange story and take on creation, and would fit well with all the crazy Apocryphal stuff you mention in this episode.