- Hitomi: Hmpf!
- Richard: Did you not like the book?
- Hitomi: That H.P. Lovecraft didn’t include cat girls in At the Mountains of Madness is biggest blunder in history of literature!
- Richard: A common lament…
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[1287] At The Mountains Of Madness
└ posted on Monday, 16 August 2021, by Novil
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Greetings to @Patrick Ohm @maravilla and @Cromm.
Very goods teams all of them (only why didn’t make it mixed?.)
But the important is the important. When we can see this new teams playing with the others?
PD: Sorry, At the mountain of maddness is a very important slice on the literature but i can’t read more of the first page at the moment (same i happened when i try to read the Silmarillion) and i remember enough readers comment marble’s teams how i can’t don’t greet the choosen.
Even if I didn’t get a full team unit, I’m most joyful to receive an honorable mention for the Eidolons’ concept. And Matze’s logos look amazing, a perfect blend of simplicity and detail.
…So is Hitomi an American now?
Did she legit marry Richard? What’s up with her living condition now?
Good to see those two are still doing well!
@ MassEffectFan1:
Pretty sure something like that would have warranted at least a comic or two. She’s probably visiting on extended vacation for now.
@ MassEffectFan1:
I don’t remember wedding and I don’t think Novil will loose the opportunity to make it…
I’m not sure if HP Lovecraft is quite the reading I’d suggest to someone whose English is still a bit shaky… ^_^;
That said, I wonder if she’d like the CthulhuTech roleplaying game, then? It… uhm… fixes that particular oversight.
…hmmm, not quite sure how the Stoics will ever win a race, if Zeno is their coach — after all, they will never reach the finish line
@ Baeraad:
At least until it, Cthulhutech books, discussing about The Rapine Storm. Which existence is somethong along the line of Garth Ennis’ The Crossed, Mutant Enemy Productions’ Miranda Reavers, and Rob Zombies Firefly Family.
“Cthulhu” was only ever a bad transcription of “Catgirl.”
@ Chris:
LOL
That would truly render a different kind of madness… A more horrible one…
…Ok, I think you might of milked this joke a fair bit now.
Uuh, I think it migth’ve been better that ol’ Howard didn’t include cat girls in his books: names aside I can only shiver thinking of descriptions of the “Feline trollops of the Orient”.
@ MassEffectFan1:
She’s currently stranded in the United States due to the closing of the borders last year, but I presume that once the wedding pushes through, that’s not gonna be a problem.
I– will try hard to remember that. Cthulhu is just a bad spelling/misspeaking of cat girl; that is lovely. That’ll come in handy when/if I met an Elder God. “Oh please, monster from beyond the dimensions? You’re a kitty-girl, purr purr.’
Glad to see my team is one of the highlights. =) Also, congrats to Patrick and maravilla and all the other participants. Matze Rauch, you’re a great logo designer!
Given what Lovecraft named his cat, this is prolly for the best.
Lovecraft’s in public domain. Find it online, copy it into your word processor program, and insert cat girls wherever necessary.
Someone needs to tell Hitomi about “The Catgirls of Ulthur”.
I like the Cthulhu translates to catgirl line, that was good. But more truly Lovecraft, yeah, mixed bag, at best, for the author, but I’m surprised that Richard didn’t at least point out more of what are categorized as the Dream Cycle stories to Hitomi. No catgirls, but for all his faults, Lovecraft loved cats and portrayed them heroically. So no Catgirls of Ulthar, but there should be some stories of interest for Hitomi.
And come on, 1) if Mountains of Madness is the story he had her read, really?!, and 2) and if not, the story in Antarctica is the one she thinks needs a catgirl?!
Sphere and Loathing is such a good marble team name, super props to whoever put that one forward
I think when The Mountain of Maddness was written, catgirls were less possible than the content of the novel.
And it’s good to see Hitomi again, but what happened to her and Richard. (I don’t know if I didn’t get the wedding invitation, if they had one.)
CommonMarble wrote:
But by the same reasoning, no one could ever beat them.
Now picture other classic with Catgirl. Just add ‘ and catgirls’ to the title, looks better don’t they ?
– Dangerous liaisons
– Wuthering heights
– 20000 miles under the sea
– Crime and punishment
– Animal farm
– The Odyssey
– Romance of the three kingdoms
– Book of the five rings
– Romeow and Purriet….
@ Swedish Chef:
Catgirls and Punishment? Oh, my.
You missed out Prrrrrrrrride and Prrrrrrrrejudice.
How about the Catgirl of the Rings, in its three volumes, the Femeowship of the Ring, the Two Sleeping Towers and the Return of the Tins of Salmon?
If they’re wearing those little tinkly collars, we get the BellgarrrRRRrrriad and the MeowlorrrRRRrrrean.
Ursula K leGuin’s A Catgirl Of Earthsea trilogy is pretty good.
Let’s not forget Susan Cooper’s books, The Dark Catgirl Is Rising, Greencatgirlwitch, The Grey King’s Catgirl and Silver Catgirl On The Tree or Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriding Catgirls of Pern series.
Of course, I must mention Jo Harris’ Chat-damoiselles au Chocolat.
Wilpurr Smith wrote a lot of books about one particular family, starting with When the Liongirl Feeds, but they get a bit repetitive if you read too many.
Robert Ludlum really milked it, with The Catgirl Identity, The Catgirl Supremacy, The Catgirl Ultimatum, The Catgirl Legacy and on and on and on.
Best of all, though, superior to all of them, is Terry Moore’s Stranger Catgirls in Purradise.
@ Chris:
We can apply this to other genres. Think
Nieztche’qs The UberKatze
The Catma Sutra
Plato’s Repurrrblic
Hawking’s Brief History of Catgirls
endless, endless I say.
@ Yakumo:
Well, it IS one of his better works, though I might have started her out with Dreamquest.
@ Cromm:
Congrats to you too n.n
Was so happy to see my team made it n.n
Yours is also qiet innovative n.n yay
CommonMarble wrote:
Perhaps Zeno has learned Calculus?
There was the “Catgirls of Ulthar”. Ol’ HP for all his faults appears to have been a cat lover. Usually his cats are playing on the good guys team or at least chaotic neutral. I could see a story where he had the protagonist mind swap his favorite cat into the body of an arrogant but beautiful woman. Body horror would ensue with her eating him in the end.
He did put Slug Girls on the Moon
Chris wrote:
As R.K. Milholland proved in one of his story arcs.. 😉
@ Chris:
You missed:
Orson Scott Card’s Catgirl’s Game
Douglas Adam’s Catgirl’s Guide to the Galaxy
Isaac Asimov’s I, Catgirl
Ernest Cline’s Ready Catgirl One
And who could forget J.K. Rowling’s seven book series:
Harry Potter and the Catgirl’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Catgirls
Harry Potter and the Catgirl of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Catgirls
Harry Potter and the Order of the Catgirl
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Catgirl
Harry Potter and the Deathly Catgirls
And of course the Fantastic Catgirls and Where To Find Them spinoff film series.
Just a small note, there’s a typo in ‘friendship’ in maravilla’s team.
Swedish Chef wrote:
“20000 -miles- under the sea”?? Purrhaps you meant “20,000 Meows Under the Sea?” Otherwise you’ve tripled the length of their voyage! 😉 🙂
@ Ryan:
Ryan wrote:
sorta.. you still have to fill out a ton of paperwork. (as my brother found out when he got married)
Reverend Henderson wrote:
sadly true.. alternatively it would end up like the “Innsmouth look” and used for body horror of someone turning into a cat-person before running off to live as a cat worshipping some cosmic horror and plotting earth’s demise. while he actually seems to have liked cats, the idea of catgirls would probably have triggered his racism and used as an example of ‘dirty foreigners polluting pure european bloodlines’ or some such. though i suspect that if you’d said “catgirl” to him he’d have misunderstood it to mean something more like a furry.. just like he misunderstood the idea of the electromagnetic spectrum and made “the color out of space” and misunderstood mathmatics and treated non-euclidian geometry to mean impossible angles instead of “geometry on a curved surface”
So happy you picked my team to showcase it in the comic. Thanks a bunch! Was a fun competition. Congrats to the other winners and honorable mentions as well!
To be be fair Hitomi, that’s probably a good thing. If there were cat girls in that book, they’d probably be horrific abominations that shouldn’t exist in our universe and not at all cute, given that the story was written by H.P. Lovecraft who is famous for his horror stories about extra dimensional alien demons that have no right to exist in our universe as they defy all laws of physics and sanity.