Cthulhu Kitten

This is one of my more complex pieces and deserves some explanation.

@Arsenijs as usual, provided me with some inspiration, drawing as usual on the rich culture present on HaD.

You guys... XD

I found Hello Cthulhu while browsing around, I'd seen this once before in HackChat not long after I joined among the memes and laughed. No idea who that was but the image remained, and when I found it again, something clicked. I sketched it quickly, and knew immediately I had to explore it.

To begin with there's a great pun on Love Craft, he's a hacker god lol. An ancient and powerful force in the palm of my hand - eldritch; neither good nor evil, but no more benign than the power of the Atom. Imagination, its a force all makers wield. ;-)

Then there's the juxtaposition in the imagery. Is that a baby? An artist's eye sees thing others do not unless they are shown them, and I've deliberately introduced a hint of chubby arms and blankets, gumming the back of a hand if you dont look too closely, and there's the cute kitten eyes ( thanks @monsieurh ) but look again and he's relaxing and has an air of confidence; thats no baby, and those eyes have seen things that scare mortals witless.

Speaking of which, I had a fucking horrible Christmas, and reached the end of my tether. Literally... I cracked off a doozy of a complaint to the local authority, and got a receipt for it assuring me a response within 14 days. Its now day 14, the day after my 51st Birthday, and the day I have set for unleashing hell - and they still have not bothered to respond. The day's not out yet though, and I am at heart an optimist.

Just not with these ponces...

I am aware of myself, few humans have managed to acquire a rack of skills like mine, but between them and greatness is a gulf called Autism, and a pack of bastards. This is what I got for Christmas. Hatred, for the first time in my life despite all that's gone before. Keep it up, and it will grow and feast upon their rotten carcasses.

I cant carry that around though, and one of my gifts is the ability to crystallise an idea and give it form, breath life into it and set it free.

So that is what I have done; created yet another monster to deal with monsters, and there's a lot of them around these days.