Why the Rethink

 

Not Quite a Stream

I have been beavering away at some dialog and working on the plot hook for the overall story.

Lately I have been thinking about the overall story arc of the original books written in the twenties and thirties that defined the entire Cthulhu mythos.  I am also re-examining the story arc and hooks of the Haliverse.  Makes for some interesting pondering let me add.  

Mostly I have been thinking about the ending of the overall series in “Arkham” and realizing how the whole drum-circle hippie love-in nature of the ending kinda pissed me off.  

So right now I am reading some of the off-flavors of stories set in “Lovecraft Country” and getting a feel for the “horror” aspect of the characters and storylines of the original stories.  I think that (other than the last page or two in Arkham) JMG did a wonderful thing by telling a story and turning a mythos on its head.  But I am starting to think that I maybe want to tell a story about what happens when the gods that JMG turned into a set of benevolent plush toys turn out to be less “friendly” than those portrayed by JMG in his series.

I suppose that I am pondering that maybe a book about being careful of what you ask for might be in the cards.  

Just to make certain that everyone is certain, I have a very fond place in my heart for the Haliverse.  JMG did a great job with it and I am fond of it.  But real-world events here in the land o’ the free have led me to believe that belief systems have both good and bad attached to them.  

I think that several times in the books, JMG had characters state that the Gods really don’t care that much for humans and that they pursue their own goals for their own purposes.   I suppose that I am quite aware of that state of mind in the real world.