journal in progress

So I recently finished catching up to Time for Chaos, a Call of Cthulhu actual play pod (which I will add to my actual play podcast list later) and I absolutely fell in love with the story (and the cast, they are soooo good dear god i have major actor crushes on all of them) hahaha. I've never really been into Lovecraft (I'm more of a Poe girlie if I'm being honest) but catching that glimpse of the horrible eldritch monstrosities that come from beyond human understanding has really made me want to get into it, so I started reading (i.e. listening to the audiobooks) some of the more popular Lovecraft works, so far I've gotten through Call of Cthulhu, the Dunwich Horror, The Color out of Space, and I'm right in the middle of The Shadow Over Insmouth. It's actually been super interesting and I'm enjoying the stories far more than I thought I would, they're not really scary in the same way the horror I usually consume is scary, more like they're... unsettling? Like, its about eldritch beings coming from a place beyond human understanding, it's not horror from within, it's horror from without, if that makes sense. So far, I think the story that I've liked most is actually the Color out of Space, the narrative about the family slowly going mad and the sickness spreading without reason is more akin to the horror I like, just pervasive and corrosive and no one can do anything to stop it. Call of Cthulhu wasn't scary as much as it was a mystery you had to piece together to figure out the source of the nightmares, I'm going to be perfectly honest and say I was much more invested in the first part about the shared nightmares and the weird clay statue than I was about the seaman's chronicles and his stint in the impossible city where he met Cthulhu, but that might have just been because it was my first Lovecraft story and I didn't really know what to expect. The Dunwich Horror was just... fuckin weird if I'm being perfectly honest, but an unsettling sort of weird that made me keep want to listen to see wtf was up with the goat dude, and I don't yet have an opinion on Insmouth other than it's another mystery I want to get to the bottom of.

Which brings me to... Call of Cthulhu the RPG. Man, before hearing about CoC (hehe, cock) I was really getting into the idea of playing some Delta Green, but now I really want to play CoC!!! So much so that I already asked my friends if they'd be down for me to run something for them, and they said yes!!! I don't know why I pivoted so hard from DG to CoC, they're both really similar but something about classic 20s CoC just really grabbed me, which is weird bc I don't really like modern historical stuff so much? Honestly it's probably because I saw the massive potential it had from the marvelous cast of Time for Chaos and I want to do that!!! (Don't worry, I know it's not going to be the same as a professional production, my standards are realistic). I'm already fleshing out what I want to do, I'm going to set the story in the mining city of Pachuca de Soto, the capital of Hidalgo (yes this is set in my sort-of-second-home city in mexico because I do what I want) back then the Cornish entrepreneurs were running the silver mines. Obviously there's a monster in the mines, but I'm trying to figure out exactly what kind and what its doing. Part of me wants to just grab something from the Cthulhu lore but another part of me wants to Cthulhify the Aztec gods lmao (and lets be honest some of those fuckers were Cthulhian enough already) so I'm still hammering out the details, but it's enough to say planning for this has consumed my thoughts lately. I also started doing more research in the story of the region because, even though I have general knowledge about it (learned through cultural osmosis and that one historical tour of the mines I did a couple of years ago) it's always super interesting to do deep dives into stuff and find out just how much is just beyond the surface.

I still have yet to read the Core Rulebook from cover to cover, but I've been jumping in between the sections when I have questions and gotten a pretty solid handle on the system, not to mention that hearing it in action from the TfC guys was a really good way to figuring out how it works in actual play. I will keep hammering away at my little campaign and hopefully have something my friends and I will have fun with ^^

Challenge #4

In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I don't usually hold headcannons that go too contrary to the established cannon, but I can think of a few minor things that are part of my personal imaginings at the moment:
( Spoilers for some stuff )
That was fun! I might start writing more of these when they pop back into my mind.