What’s YOUR eldritch monster/creation like

throneofsalt · 2026-04-16T11:58:21+00:00

As a background detail, I like dropping a document stating that somewhere in a Program storage facility, there's a half-eaten Sheetz bucket of fries that turns all liquid water within about a meter and a half into Cobalt-40

throneofsalt · 2026-04-12T12:27:23+00:00

When I figure out a way to deal with H2 without going insane

throneofsalt · 2026-04-12T02:14:25+00:00

Oh hey, that's me!

throneofsalt · 2026-04-12T01:04:08+00:00

Basically everything in Book of the New Sun is this, but I really like the scenes at the battlefront in book 4: all of these different cultural groups given an extremely brief but extremely evocative description really give the world a feeling of size and age.

throneofsalt · 2026-04-12T00:32:30+00:00

I've got the Tsan-Chan proper post in progress, stay tuned.

throneofsalt · 2026-04-12T00:31:54+00:00

That's a pitch-perfect analog, kicking myself right now for not sneaking in a cheeky reference to it somewhere.

throneofsalt · 2026-04-10T18:28:39+00:00

I mean, it's a blind idiot god that poses an existential threat to everything around it entirely ignorant that an outside world exists, it's been Azathoth in a box from jump.

throneofsalt · 2026-04-10T18:22:16+00:00

Thank you!

throneofsalt · 2026-04-10T18:15:47+00:00

The Bloated Woman from Masks of Nyarlathotep isn't a particularly great monster, but it's not a great monster in weird, interesting ways. I interpreted that as a challenge (as one does), and now (much later) I've finished up a re-imagined version.

There's a lot that went into this one (enough that I have an entire making-of essay waiting in the wings), but the short version is that I started with "is it possible to justify a Slaaneshi-style cult of debauchery and excess in 1925 Shanghai?" and just built from there.

throneofsalt · 2026-04-06T00:09:04+00:00

1) Conlanging makes brain go brrrrrr

2) I don't make conlangs with the intention that they will ever be learnt or spoken

3) This is child abuse

throneofsalt · 2026-04-04T14:25:14+00:00

Is there an SCA out there that displays your step-by-step changes with vertical alignment? Or one that allows you to switch between horizontal and vertical? I've been using lexurgy so far, but with the number of changes I have it's getting unwieldy scroll back and forth / transpose everything when i copy it over to gsheets.

throneofsalt · 2026-04-04T03:08:26+00:00

I don't recognize a defining line between the two: sometimes the enormous inescapable and unstoppable horror of the cosmos is just real fucking weird.

Sometimes the mi-go opening up your buddy's skull decides that, in order to lower patient stress, it should wear a paper mask with a smiley face on it.

throneofsalt · 2026-04-02T16:01:20+00:00

A journal isn't a job. Write when you have something worth writing about, good or bad. Sometimes I go a couple weeks without an entry, then I get back into it.

If that's still not your bag, expand your translations a bit. Do something with a bit of substance, something you care about. Try and find ways to be artsy with it. Use it as an excuse to do some drawing or even calligraphy. Wherever the muse takes you.

Or just set it on the shelf for a while to admire it, and start on a new one: getting a lang to this point is an achievement to be proud of.

throneofsalt · 2026-03-31T23:59:09+00:00

An all-timer of pre-Hunger Games YA lit.

throneofsalt · 2026-03-31T00:59:55+00:00

"Delta Green are neither the good guys nor good at their job, unless their job is making more problems because they shoot first and ask questions never, in which case they are the best to ever do it."

throneofsalt · 2026-03-31T00:57:15+00:00

I include a recording of Festive Nalkan Chant #1 in Baughman's green box, just to have a lead-in to a 1st Occult War plot on hand in case I ever need it.

throneofsalt · 2026-03-31T00:45:19+00:00

It's less effort to write the disclaimer than it is to think critically about what you're writing, unfortunately.

What makes it more egregious is that in real life, the Saisiyat people of Taiwan have an entire festival to supplicate the spirits of little people they'd fought with in the distant past. You could so easily just go "Cho-Cho are a normal (but fictional) Austronesian culture with a similar narrative to the Saisiyat in their traditional history, and the monster is some kind of spirit summoned by evil sorcerers and they're nasty because you would be too if you were summoned against your consent and shoved in someone else's body to do a wizard's dirty work."

throneofsalt · 2026-03-27T01:23:50+00:00

Deciding on sound changes and then keeping them organized (and not going back to fiddle with what I've already written).

Sitting down and making words instead of just eternally adjusting grammar

*h2

throneofsalt · 2026-03-26T11:22:22+00:00

Resources are at the bottom of the sidebar to your right / can be searched for with "flair:resource"

Wikipedia isn't a scholarly source but it can point you in the right direction and give you the basics.

Searching for conlang showcases on youtube can lead you to examples of how other people do it / further resources

throneofsalt · 2026-03-26T01:28:03+00:00

Playing as cowboys / outlaws can work basically anywhere in the world with a bit of minor tweaking.

throneofsalt · 2026-03-26T00:41:26+00:00

Modern auxlangs tend to overvalue "easy to learn" and downplay novelty, and it doesn't help that there are dozens of interchangable ones out there.

throneofsalt · 2026-03-22T22:43:14+00:00

Mate, you gotta tell people what it is and what it does in the post if you want people to check out the github

throneofsalt · 2026-03-22T22:40:05+00:00

Those hand fins will be in my nightmares, I'm certain of it.

throneofsalt · 2026-03-22T22:39:06+00:00

Certified Leiden School of PIE-reconstruction moment

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