Couple things about this story:
RT @mocost: Newly discovered octopus-like microbes named after HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu science.ubc.ca/news/697
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 4, 2013
- Cool.
- Cthylla? …Um. Yeah. That’s kind of, well. Look, I’m not going to say anything bad about Brian Lumley, OK? And God knows that nobody should be too high and mighty to say that only certain people can play in the Mythos sandbox… so, yeah, I should shut up now. Nevermind.
- …Again: cool.
Harry Freaking Potter gets a dinosaur, and all Cthulhu gets is a termite parasite?!
A species of spider, and not one but two termite parasites.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulu#Legacy
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(quibble: Cthylla is Cthulu’s daughter.. and eventually will be his mother..)
Why *not* say anything bad about Lumley? (Let me be the first to proclaim myself “not a fan”.)
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That, of course, doesn’t preclude him from playing in the Mythos sandbox. It gets bigger whenever someone adds to it, their enjoyment doesn’t detract from mine.
😉 The rest of us will just avoid the corners that Derleth (about whom I have many conflicting emotions) and Lumley used as their litterbox.
Hey! One of my favorite Eva/Lovecraft fanfics has Cthylla in it.