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I've been a bit lazy lately. I haven't been updating lately either due to forgetting or the fact I don't have that many words in my head. I tend to think and worry too much. My apologies to the one reader I have. But this is mainly for practice, not for profit. Recently I've been diving into image boards on Pinterest to find drawings I can use to inspire me. Plenty of pics of the King in his tentacle form. It's strange, Hastur isn't a true character of Lovecraft, yet he's popular. Only behind Cthulhu. I've been working on a factions board which is difficult because the alignment chart doesn't seem to fit the characters. What do you do when two forces are chaotic neutral but both oppose each other. I say that because Lovecraft's gods are beyond our morality. It's naive to label them as "evil.' Is it evil to destroy a colony of ants, even if it's for scientific research? I recall reading about a colony that was so large it took three days of pouring liquid metal to fill it. Surely this want done to exterminate the species but to study the size of the colony. Probably will make an interesting piece in the museum to boot. I've researched Lovecraft fan art and there is an attraction to the mystical aspect rather than the scientific. It calls for more research.

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