A Cat And a Horse
Another collaborative poem by the discord server sonnet team about a cat and a horse.
Tossing Grenades At Windmills
A podcast about poetry and fiction.
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100 Reeds
A collaborative poem by Swirling Leaf, Take a Breath, Swagtastic and Emmit Other about martial arts, pirates, samurai and Japanese Gods.
The Queen in Blue - The Five Face of the Dreamer
Opening Hook "Welcome back, fellow travelers of the weird. Today we're diving into the final three stanzas of the poem 'I, Hastur' - arguably the most dangerous piece in the entire Emerson Portfolio. This is where everything comes together: the Shepherd, the Darkness, and the Yellow King converge in a dance that literally shaped reality itself." Segment 1: "The Yellow King Speaks" (Stanza 3) The…
The Queen in Blue - I Hastur - The Unspeakable
The shepherd's quiet guardianship meets its first true resistance as the ancient dark stirs—and what creeps within it becomes the Unspeakable . The shift is gradual: things "crept into the Darkness / and became something Unspeakable," until the shepherd realizes the void is awake and fighting back. The Queen in Blue - Deployed The clash rips the spirit-realm's middle lands—especially the…
The Queen in Blue - The First Shepard (I Hastur)
In this opening stanza, the story pulls us back to a primordial time— before the moon cast its shadow, before Carcosa, even before humanity's discovery of fire . We meet the figure who would become known as the First Shepherd , a good man who loved his sheep so deeply that their bond transcended the physical. Together they dreamed, and in those dreams, he stood guard. When nightmares threatened…
The Queen in Blue - The Case of the Quotidian Man
In this latest installment from the "5th Letter from Rhombus Ticks to E.P. Blingermeyer" series, detective Quiescence Prow — a rationalist legend who has debunked the paranormal for decades — stumbles into something he can't dismiss: real magic. It begins with a spitting cuckoo clock in a retro bowling alley, a snake-skinned man visible only in mirrors, and a masked woman under some unseen…
The Queen in Blue - Queen to Rook Black
his isn't just a poem. This is the spine-crack heard across the dreamlands. In this episode of Queen to Rook Black , we go deep— deep —into the metaphysical engine room of the Queen in Blue mythos. Rhombus Ticks uncovers a poem so saturated with cosmic implication it rewrites the board: not just who's playing the game, but what pieces mean what . The Black Rook stands revealed—not as a mere chess…
The Queen in Blue - Destiny's Belfry
In this pulse-pounding solo episode, Rhombus Ticks cracks open a sealed folio containing what appears to be a redacted police report crossed with a metaphysical vigilante tale. What follows is the story of Manfred , a techno-vigilante from another dimension stranded in noir-era Los Angeles, navigating Nazi infiltration, occult conspiracies, and something far, far worse. Manfred uses ultratech gear…
The Queen in Blue - Le Manse Du Baton
In this deliriously mythic second entry, Rhombus Ticks delivers another letter to his elusive patron EP Blingermeyer — this time uncovering a poem so anachronistic it might just make the Smithsonian implode. Found on American-lined paper carbon-dated over a thousand years old, the poem by Emmit Other, Le Manse Du Baton , tells of a forgotten noble line tied to Carcosa, erased from history, and…
The Queen in Blue - The Lost Story
In this haunting and intoxicating episode of The Queen in Blue , Rhombus Ticks unearths a hidden chapter of American myth: the fate of famed writer Ambrose Bierce , whose mysterious disappearance becomes the gateway to cosmic horror. When a dogged investigator named Janice tracks Bierce's trail to a dusty Laredo bar, she's drawn into a surreal and increasingly terrifying narrative involving a lost…