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Samuel Peterson
is on page 237 of 352
"Destiny - in Lovecraftian terms - really means genetics, you're a slave to your genetic code and there's no way you can escape what you're going to become. A lot of people have already commented on this, but it is probably based on Lovecraft's fear that he had inherited the genes for insanity from his parents and was doomed to end up in an insane asylum like them." Given his upbringing & mental disorders, I'd say so
— Nov 11, 2025 08:25AM
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Samuel Peterson
is on page 334 of 352
I wish that they put the pictures of the short films next to their corresponding names so I could identify them.
— Nov 13, 2025 10:00AM
Samuel Peterson
is on page 325 of 352
The final section is "Short Films" and then I'll be done with this book today!
Which, I'm happy about because I've got one more Redwall book I need to read from the library and I just got the manga version of Frankenstein that I want to read after seeing the movie.
— Nov 13, 2025 09:51AM
Which, I'm happy about because I've got one more Redwall book I need to read from the library and I just got the manga version of Frankenstein that I want to read after seeing the movie.
Samuel Peterson
is on page 309 of 352
And another example of Hollywood scamming people. This is why I'm staying away from Hollywood. Or, at the very least, do some research on companies there that are more equitable before sending in a résumé.
— Nov 13, 2025 08:27AM
Samuel Peterson
is on page 306 of 352
Bernie Writghtson is another artist I will have to check. His sketches here of the Deep Ones look cool.
— Nov 13, 2025 08:22AM
Samuel Peterson
is on page 301 of 352
[Tom Sullivan]"A Nazi bitch named Ilse Koch enjoyed skinning the prisoners of her husband's concentration camp. She made lamp shades, curtains, and book covers, and other items with the human tissue."
Of all of the Holocaust information that I've read up on, how did this slip by me all this time?! Fuck!
— Nov 13, 2025 08:15AM
Of all of the Holocaust information that I've read up on, how did this slip by me all this time?! Fuck!
Samuel Peterson
is on page 300 of 352
FUCK HOLLYWOOD ACCOUNTING!!!!!!!!! This was in the 70s too, so just before the court case that brought this sort of thing to the public eye. The thing is, it didn't stop it from happening in the future. The shady, unethical bookkeeping that Hollywood does is still happening in all major studios.
— Nov 13, 2025 08:12AM
Samuel Peterson
is on page 299 of 352
So, Tom Sullivan was an artist who did a lot of Cthulhu-inspired artwork including a game. I have a book that is a collection of various artwork like this, so I'll have to check it to see if he's in there and what he did.
— Nov 13, 2025 08:08AM
Samuel Peterson
is on page 296 of 352
[Stephen Parsons]"People love characters that are amoral, unethical, sweaty villains; they always love these characters. Yet the people who give the green light to this stuff go, 'Well, we must have likable.'"
I do get this. But I do think it's a little bit of both. The distributors tend to look at marketability of films and characters, especially outside of American culture. They also look at trends.
— Nov 13, 2025 05:44AM
I do get this. But I do think it's a little bit of both. The distributors tend to look at marketability of films and characters, especially outside of American culture. They also look at trends.
Samuel Peterson
is on page 260 of 352
That's pre-Internet Hollywood for you. You do any independent work, and if you want to make money off of the overseas market, you have to go through a Hollywood distributor, and they don't honor any agreements to give money back to the actual creator unless it's in writing.
— Nov 12, 2025 05:47AM
