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MalakiaLaGatta In reply to Alice-Lovecraft [2017-09-13 15:16:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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Alice-Lovecraft In reply to MalakiaLaGatta [2017-09-13 23:51:33 +0000 UTC]

you´re welcome nwn

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MalakiaLaGatta In reply to Test-account-123 [2016-07-16 14:13:23 +0000 UTC]

The idea here is that there is not a 'right' and a 'wrong' way to be a dreamer. Carter and Castaigne obviously have very different aspirations and temperament but their dreams are equally strong.
It's all about being detatched from their earthly existence and willing to accept the dream-world as a reality not different from the Waking World. They are 'outsiders' in the real world but the places they visit and the people they meet in their sleep are so familiar and welcoming that they cherish their oneiric life far more than the real one.
We know from 'The Silver Key' that Carter was so bored and disappointed by daily modern life that he even considered suicide ("He thought it rather silly that he bothered to keep on living at all, and got from a South American acquaintance a very curious liquid to take him to oblivion without suffering. Inertia and force of habit, however, caused him to defer action(...)"), Hildred probably let himself die, or somehow killled himself in the asylum once his dreams of greatness were crushed, Kuranes gives away his life in 'Celephais' and Iranon does the same at the end of his story. By saying this, I don't mean that you HAVE to be suicidal to be a 'good' dreamer (both Carter and Castaigne are and will remain alive in my comic. Hildred may even get out of the sanitarium at some point. Wait, is this a spoiler) but the two things walk hand in hand because finding and accepting your own place is a subtle yet pretty common theme in Lovecraft. Pickman is torned between his artistic talent and the beast-like instincts of the Ghouls, something that he probably carried inside him from birth as some of his paintings seem to suggest. Same goes for the protagonist of Shadow over Innsmouth which embraces his fishy heritage in the end. Carter is a really interesting exception because though his journey is long and scary, it brings him back to the Waking World, for what he really seeked for all this time was the Boston of his childhood. I mean, it's really Wizard of Oz-esque... "there's no place like home"

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MalakiaLaGatta In reply to ScorpioRisingSD [2016-07-16 13:17:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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