


A core sample from the digital Mountains of Madness.
#Caprine deity archive#
Included in this archive is “The Fluff At The Threshold” by Simon Leo Barber…which can serve as an exemplar of Lovecraftian erotic fanfiction during this period. These were stories originally posted to the Usenet group in the mid-to-late 1990s…which is probably as far back as internet Lovecraftian erotica can go. Back around 1996, an archive site for was created at, and the Internet Archive has a copy of that. Google acquired the Usenet archives in 2001, and you can still visit Usenet groups like today-if you’re willing to dig through twenty-plus years of pornographic spam.įortunately, if you dig down far enough, you don’t have to. Bits and pieces still exist, in some form or another. Many of these early networks, and the world wide web they began to interact with, were poorly or incompletely archived, like the Grey Archive above. In the early days of computer networking, popular networks like Usenet fulfilled the function that forums and social media sites do today. While a number of fans have written adult-oriented Mythos fiction, much of it is by its very nature obscure to the casual user-or even the dedicated researcher. Erotic fiction on the internet faces additional challenges: site owners and administrators retire or pass away, copyright claims can deter downloading or hosting content, file formats go obsolete, changes in search engines make finding it harder. Erotica is an inherently disposable mode of fiction with rare exception the literary and artistic value of individual works doesn’t overcome the taboo nature of ownership. Which is a fate that has probably occurred to the bulk of erotic Lovecraftian fanfiction on the internet over the last twenty-plus years.

Nor did anyone else apparently think to preserve Winston Marrs’ erotic opus elsewhere on the internet. The archive didn’t try to capture “The Mother of Cthulu” until after the Grey Archive had changed its hosting service, and the old addresses all led to spam sites. Via the internet archive, you can revisit the Grey Archive just as it was on the day the story was posted-but you can’t read it. On 30 November 2001, a would-be erotic fanfiction writer under the pseudonym Winston Marrs (lifted from a character in the 1994 Shadowrun game for Sega Genesis) uploaded a story titled “The Mother of Cthulu” (sic) to an erotic fanfiction site called The Grey Archive. Nyar – now all I have to do is learn to summon one… (If you do meet its parents, lose 1d6/0 SAN.) Great for parties.)ġ0) It won’t insist on you meeting it’s parents.

At this point your shoggoth will get very confused, split into two shoggoths, and bits of both will keep commuting between the two masses.
#Caprine deity windows#
(They also make good secretaries.) They do have a slight problem with Microsoft Word for Windows though, no-one is quite sure why.ħ) It can hold the door shut so no-one can burst in on you.Ĩ) It never suffers from impotence or headaches.ĩ) It will respect you in the morning and will not leave you for someone else (unless they happen to know ‘bind shoggoth’ as well. Please remember to wash your shoggoth in an antiseptic if sharing between partners.Ħ) It can give you a back massage, answer the phone, open a beer, have sex with multiple people, change the CD _and_ take dictation all at the same time. Retyped in by: (so the typos are all my fault)ġ0 Reasons why a shoggoth is the perfect loverġ) It can form any pseudopod, and thus can form the perfect extrusion or cavity to suit your needs.Ģ) It will sleep on the wet patch, or on the floor, or even in the garage.ģ) It can keep going as long as you want it to.Ĥ) Since it has a different biological basis, it cannot give you any form of STD, and thus barrier methods are not required. There are many opinions, but shoggoths come well recommended for sheer versatility. WHICH ELDER BEING MAKES THE BEST SEX PARTNER?
