The King in Yellow - Stories Explained

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Flawed Peacock

Flawed Peacock

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@thesalsaguy4395
@thesalsaguy4395 19 күн бұрын
>”Bite sized prelude to Signalis” >Look inside >9 hour video Yeah, it’s time to get floppy
@conq1273
@conq1273 19 күн бұрын
You wont even feel time has passed!
@Axe064
@Axe064 18 күн бұрын
Holy shit I love Signalis can't believe he is finally making a signalis vid, can barely wait for it to be released.
@jonesy279
@jonesy279 18 күн бұрын
I would like to begin a campaign to assert that when we’re getting floppy with it we should write it as “flaw-pea” because that’s how it appears in my brain when I hear it. Although, I think my cognition may have already been hazarded.
@thesalsaguy4395
@thesalsaguy4395 18 күн бұрын
@@Axe064I LOVE THE SESBIANS
@zaikolebolsh5724
@zaikolebolsh5724 17 күн бұрын
*flop*
@Wendigoon
@Wendigoon 17 күн бұрын
Bro let’s go
@DanielHernandez-sg9sg
@DanielHernandez-sg9sg 17 күн бұрын
It’s good that Flawedpeacock notices small channels. Lol love both of you.
@Octopodes
@Octopodes 17 күн бұрын
I've been watching flawed peacock ever since you reccomended him from the faith video!! love both of yalls content god bless, thank you iceberg boy!!!!
@EldritchNerd98
@EldritchNerd98 17 күн бұрын
broooooooooooooo
@nardoritardeau2291
@nardoritardeau2291 16 күн бұрын
​@@Octopodes same, and now i've watched every flawedpeacock video multiple times
@deniskshivanskiy297
@deniskshivanskiy297 16 күн бұрын
Who up gooning they wendi?
@Spacewitchofthelittledancer
@Spacewitchofthelittledancer 18 күн бұрын
People be like "The King and Yellow" is a book about a play it can't actually hurt you. People who have read The King in Yellow: "Here is my video essay on the yellow king it is longer than the novel the yellow king. Hail the yellow king, praise him, describe for me the taste of teeth, it is time to remove our masks..."
@conq1273
@conq1273 17 күн бұрын
Call the SCP. We got another victim!😢
@Spacewitchofthelittledancer
@Spacewitchofthelittledancer 17 күн бұрын
@@conq1273 SCP: PUT YOUR HANDS UP AND TAKE OFF THE MASK!!! Flawed Peacock: I wear no mask... SCP: No mask? NO MASK!
@purplecat4977
@purplecat4977 17 күн бұрын
As per the comment I just left... I binged the book in a night. It can hurt you. Oh my god, it can hurt you.
@MasonShmason
@MasonShmason 15 күн бұрын
I wear no mask.
@NEIGH6699
@NEIGH6699 11 күн бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 us
@SuperSoundtracksEX
@SuperSoundtracksEX 18 күн бұрын
I understand the need to state this isn’t comprehensive or a well done understanding of the character because you’re a modest guy with a good heart but…buddy, it’s a 10 hour video on a fictional entity that, let’s face it, is vaguely described only through the hushed tones of other fictional characters *sparingly.* Give yourself some credit my large bearded friend, this *IS* probably the end all-be all, most comprehensive and well done video on it. This is a monstrous task. This is so ridiculously well done that it’s going to be sourced in Literature classes in universities if they have half the sense to do so.
@StonedHunter
@StonedHunter 18 күн бұрын
Beautifully stated
@maximillian1109
@maximillian1109 17 күн бұрын
Oh, I would have LOVED it if teachers had been better with tech when I was growing up. Imagine getting assigned video essays done by a great creator that truly is interested in the topic spoken about?
@garbearfar1394
@garbearfar1394 16 күн бұрын
I was gonna say I love flawp, I’m used to the insane run times on his vids and I love them all the more for it but having read the books I was really confused when I saw a 9hr runtime 😂 I’d argue there’s barely enough concrete storytelling across the 4 books for even a 2 hr vid over just the king in yellow. I’m glad flawp is tackling it tho I’m hyped to see where he takes all of it.
@TryinaD
@TryinaD 15 күн бұрын
Legit, like I’ve actually read this book and I gotta say this is some real top shelf analysis on the King in Yellow (the character) as well as the book’s overall mystery
@alexandriabrooks2544
@alexandriabrooks2544 14 күн бұрын
Yes this is put together so well.
@kaygirl10101
@kaygirl10101 16 күн бұрын
For me, the horror of Lovecraft isn't just the insignificance in size, but the esoteric knowledge forced onto the protagonists. For the ant example, if we were to somehow force the knowledge of 'tax systems', 'sports entertainment', and 'slang words in ASL' into an ant's brain, then set them back to live like a normal ant. The ant has no reference for the esoteric knowledge that is so far beyond their normal life that it would break its mind.
@Bre14562
@Bre14562 13 күн бұрын
That reminds me of a post I saw somewhere about the Lego movie being a cosmic horror movie 😭 like the legos seeing a giant hand made out of flesh - something they have never seen or comprehended before
@cybelli80
@cybelli80 7 күн бұрын
Not only that, but barring the ant's mental breakdown the ant has to live with the understanding that these things exists. It can't tell other ants about it, the ants will not understand. The giants that walk around? Yeah of course. Taxes? Society? What do you mean? How do you explain to your fellow man that the stars are enigmatic dreaming gods who wish hatred and barely know you exist? You are, barring the complete mental collapse, stuck with a horrible cosmic secret. It sits on the back of your tongue and demands you go and tell people about it, to shake them and try to get them to realize what you know. Then you wind up in a padded room.
@llewelynshingler2173
@llewelynshingler2173 18 күн бұрын
34:57 "I knew him to be as Sane as I was" That may not be the Ringing Endorsement our protagonist thinks it is.
@notsae66
@notsae66 16 күн бұрын
I thought the exact same when Trent said his destination was as safe as his home.
@CarlTheSpud
@CarlTheSpud 3 күн бұрын
"We're all mad here Alice"
@soupsoup376
@soupsoup376 19 күн бұрын
How dare youtube keep this from me for one whole minute
@sea9flost935
@sea9flost935 19 күн бұрын
Hell ya those bastards holding back true art!
@jeremytitus9519
@jeremytitus9519 18 күн бұрын
This a dystopia for sure. We truly live in darkness.
@Rowan7131
@Rowan7131 18 күн бұрын
4 hours for me, I’m enraged 😭
@TheDecentt
@TheDecentt 18 күн бұрын
5 hours this was torture
@speedkingoz5879
@speedkingoz5879 18 күн бұрын
11 for me I’m mad if already be done with the vid thanks KZbin
@Eilavamp
@Eilavamp 18 күн бұрын
I just got to part 2 where you speak about the way the stranger reveals they wear no mask. I always read it in a quiet calm voice, because the strangers previous line of dialogue is "indeed?". Granted we have so little to go on, but that one line alone implies amusement to me. Like "sir, it is time to remove your mask" "oh, is that so? :)" "yes, we all have, and now so must you" ":) what if I told you I wore no mask at all?" this kind of quiet, amused reading at an entity finally able to reveal their identity is far scarier to me than someone realising in the moment that they cannot remove a mask. I think this is further implied by the way they are called the stranger. Modern sensibilities would assume stranger means someone who looks weird or is somehow menacing, but I think it is supposed to imply that this is someone who has done such a good job at pretending to fit in, without revealing their identity, that the idea that they are far more alien, maybe far less human, than they first appear, begins to completely unravel the sanity of the two other speakers.
@MezraNoon
@MezraNoon 18 күн бұрын
I'm so glad someone else feels the same on that!! That's always been my interpretation as well
@BearlyAwake13
@BearlyAwake13 16 күн бұрын
Fully agree about this! It especially comes across that way to me because the Stranger's dialogue is so short and factual, compared to Camilla's dialogue that seems to have much more emotion laced in it (ie her not just saying that the stranger should remove the mask, but also stressing that everyone else already has, thus making the request seem more insistent. Also both the question and then exclamation mark upon hearing that the stranger isn't actually wearing one)
@42isEverywhere
@42isEverywhere 17 күн бұрын
On the topic of why "Sylvia" gets reused as a name, it could be related to the theme of nature. Sylvia comes from Sylvan, which means "related to the woods." Think about how "Silvan Elves" is synonymous with "Wood Elves." I forget the story but one I read for an English class, written in the late 1800's, used the name Sylvia specifically to denote innocence untouched by industrialization. So all of these artists longing for Sylvia probably relates to the longing for a return to nature and woodlands, with the plot twist being that trees too can get sick, wither, die, rot, and fester. Not sure exactly what this adds to the analysis, but thought I'd throw in the context.
@jeremysmith4620
@jeremysmith4620 18 күн бұрын
You know when everything has tentacles, tentacles are no longer creepy. There are more tentacles in horror these days than Mattress Firms located in the same town.
@quokkappy504
@quokkappy504 17 күн бұрын
Tentacles are just sexy now
@slivaroth3833
@slivaroth3833 17 күн бұрын
Goddamn we have so many mattress stores
@jeremysmith4620
@jeremysmith4620 17 күн бұрын
@@slivaroth3833 That is the 10 hour cosmic horror deep dive we really need, "why are there so many of the exact same mattress store?" Somewhere in a giant black void outside of time and space a giant mattress god sleeps. It is being being kept in thrall by a collection of bunk beds, race car beds, and waterbeds all playing alien mattress inspired instruments to keep the beast mattress docile and lulled into eternal slumber. While in that slumber, the great mattress abomination dreams our reality where there are 4 Mattress Firm locations within one mile of each other in every small American town. Should he ever wake our reality and the mattress verse would blink out of existence once and forever, but for now the mattress sleeps.
@benalor1973
@benalor1973 12 күн бұрын
​@@slivaroth3833, Who do you think keeps the tentacles employed/busy?
@elvingearmasterirma7241
@elvingearmasterirma7241 11 күн бұрын
@@quokkappy504 i wish i was jared 19
@captainpompadour9190
@captainpompadour9190 18 күн бұрын
As The King in Yellow acts as one of the primary antagonists in this book I'm writing, I find it pretty convenient that I get a 9 hour video essay about the fuckin guy just popped up on my feed. Guess this is how I'll be spending the day.
@coreyrachar9694
@coreyrachar9694 18 күн бұрын
Al Gore's Rhythm is our heads! So many times I'll read a book or learn some thing totally unrelated to youtube or internet usage in general and have it start popping up everywhere on youtube, or even creators/podcasts I listen to are suddenly bring it up too... It's def. a gov't conspiracy instantiated by the oligarchy and propagated by the people to subjugate us and grind us down under their bootheels of oppression. ... or something like that.
@SamuraiMujuru
@SamuraiMujuru 18 күн бұрын
If you want even more high quality insight I can recommend two fantastic sources. First is The King in Yellow Role-playing Game by Robin D Laws, a TTRPG that focuses solely on Chambers' work. Second is The Annotated King in Yellow, annotated by Kenneth Hite. Not only is the included art breathtaking, the annotations are EXTENSIVE.
@SamuraiMujuru
@SamuraiMujuru 18 күн бұрын
LOL, Floppy actually brings up the Hite annotations.
@aliceiscalling
@aliceiscalling 17 күн бұрын
Woah, spoilers for the upcoming Captain Pompadour book, dude
@BlackReaper0
@BlackReaper0 15 күн бұрын
If you want some more inspiration, you could look up Delta Green: Countdown.
@sharoo_draws
@sharoo_draws 17 күн бұрын
Around 2:22:30 the reason for the fabrication was likely so that Boris could be buried in a cemetery. For quite a long time in history, victims of suicide were not allowed to be buried within the cemetery grounds, as suicide was considered a grave sin ("thou shall not kill" after all). So the doctor really did him a solid by concealing it.
@kMegalonyx
@kMegalonyx 12 күн бұрын
And to preserve his reputation in general, ofc, not _just_ the cemetery thing.
@Bolero451
@Bolero451 18 күн бұрын
3:52:12 wow I had assumed that the artwork was officially made for the book, learning that you commissioned it is crazy and I’m definitely gonna follow the artist now
@rogerith7905
@rogerith7905 18 күн бұрын
>sees an 9 hr >the topic is incredible >the youtuber is genuinely funny Well shit I have to sub now.
@ErikaCartet
@ErikaCartet 8 күн бұрын
welcome, you’re in for a treat
@Tencelas
@Tencelas 19 күн бұрын
The building I'm living in was built 5 years before The King in Yellow came out, weird. Also, don't sell yourself short on not being able to read books well. You've been practicing the skill of "Close Reading" throughout your entire youtube career, just applying it to video games instead of books. At the end of the day, what is a video game but a text of a different kind that you interact with differently? I graduated college with a BA in English and a minor in literature, and from where I stand you've been doing top-notch analysis the entire time. Keep up the great work.
@FelisImpurrator
@FelisImpurrator 18 күн бұрын
Finally, someone else has the background to say it. Peacock just drops multi-hour essays every month that are at least as in-depth as an academic paper (or several, considering the length), and he's still saying he's "not good" with books... Wild. I'm pretty sure that if they were more accepting of mixed media in academia, at least one of these would qualify as a defensible thesis in English Lit. I majored in creative writing with enough electives crammed in to make up an unofficial minor in literature (spending an extra four years unable to get prerequisite classes during a time when all the professors are out on sabbatical is a rough ride), and you're right, he's pretty much doing what we were taught. With a bit more improvisational sketch comedy.
@LucasOberg
@LucasOberg 16 күн бұрын
3:45:11 Fun fact! The word for when something is full of/oozing pus is called “Purulent”. It was my older brother’s (he’s a nurse) favorite thing to tease people on, “When something is covered in blood, it’s called bloody. What about when something is covered in pus?”. I only made that mistake once a long, long time ago before purulent was burned into memory lol. He tried it once again a few years ago, but I got it, so I’m free forever of that teasing test :b
@catg4343
@catg4343 19 күн бұрын
genuinely how do you manage to make high quality multi-hour long videos an average of every single month??? by the time I finally manage to work through one of your videos you've released another one. it's absolutely incredible and honestly I'm kind of concerned you're overworking yourself.
@franmanlemon
@franmanlemon 18 күн бұрын
it's likely the minimal editing. also hiiiiiiiiiiii teto
@jeremytitus9519
@jeremytitus9519 18 күн бұрын
He is an engram. He dwells in the machine. Sleep is a memory to him-the production of quality content his only reality.
@Doodlebug_drawing
@Doodlebug_drawing 18 күн бұрын
I hope he is sleeping and taking care of himself, we want more videos, but not at the cost of no more videos on the future
@catg4343
@catg4343 18 күн бұрын
@@franmanlemon it's me, kasane teto. stream hito mania
@Krumplebumble
@Krumplebumble 15 күн бұрын
Omg teto-chan 🥺💗💗💗
@Charlemagne7272
@Charlemagne7272 19 күн бұрын
I am a professional flawpeacock glazer!!!
@jeremytitus9519
@jeremytitus9519 18 күн бұрын
“Squawk-Tuah”
@HeChemicalFe
@HeChemicalFe 18 күн бұрын
Top .1 percent baby
@MiguelRomines
@MiguelRomines 17 күн бұрын
Time to get floppy with it
@benny_lemon5123
@benny_lemon5123 17 күн бұрын
These comments are gooold 😂
@benny_lemon5123
@benny_lemon5123 17 күн бұрын
​@@jeremytitus9519 google translates this to "squawk-luck" 😂
@Beardmo
@Beardmo 16 күн бұрын
I'm only about 2 and a half hours into this video, but I am now more certain than I ever have been that I need you to cover House of Leaves. You're gonna need about 10 whiteboards though.
@flawedpeacock
@flawedpeacock 16 күн бұрын
The book has arrived, but I wont be doing a video on it for some time. That's going to definitely be a heavy hitter for sure.
@Beardmo
@Beardmo 16 күн бұрын
@@flawedpeacock Be sure to pre-book your therapist.🤣
@ShennaTheShinyEevee
@ShennaTheShinyEevee 14 күн бұрын
@@flawedpeacock wait wait wait give it some time, mine still hasn't arrived.
@ceryskies
@ceryskies 14 күн бұрын
@@flawedpeacock oh my GOD im actually so excited 😭
@RoseIsAsleep
@RoseIsAsleep 12 күн бұрын
Yay!!! ​@@flawedpeacock
@elvingearmasterirma7241
@elvingearmasterirma7241 18 күн бұрын
Hildred: Im sane! Everyone with a lick of sense, slowly slidling to the door to leave the room: Suuuuuure buddy! Totally sane! Youre so sane!
@NEIGH6699
@NEIGH6699 11 күн бұрын
Hildred be so sane pilled and normalcore fr
@emmawinsor7091
@emmawinsor7091 16 күн бұрын
2:20:57 An interesting point with Cupid (if I’m remembering correctly) is that the Greeks falling in love or being struck by Cupid’s arrow was not viewed as sweet or soft as it is today it was seen as painful like being shot with an actual arrow would be almost like an onset of madness which could then further tie into the themes
@cameronhubert6373
@cameronhubert6373 19 күн бұрын
New floppy video right in between the Who’s Lila and Immortal runtimes, inject it straight into my veins. Love your work floppy thank you for being my favorite KZbinr
@jeremytitus9519
@jeremytitus9519 18 күн бұрын
Please do not mainline digital information-it ghosts you right into the machine!
@Nassifeh
@Nassifeh 18 күн бұрын
Fun fact: Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. Alpha, Beta, Gamma. Alec and Genevieve's ending isn't a happy ending because they're missing someone. And everything suggests, I think, that Boris was actually intending to do what he did beforehand--Atropos, the third Fate, is Death--and that he was doing it for reasons that perfectly mirrored Alec's intention to exit so that the other two could be happy together. I might infer some stuff between Alec and Boris, but honestly, the story makes Genevieve having feelings for both of them and them both actually being okay with that extremely text? So the masks they wear are the way they adhere to social expectations trying to make the others happy, and then it's only when the masks come off--when they're on the edge of death, or beyond it--that they're really honest with one another.
@Nassifeh
@Nassifeh 18 күн бұрын
God I'm also realizing with more thought that, Signalis spoilers here, like big ones I'm not kidding. Every copy of Elster is, I think, attempting to essentially Boris for every other copy of Elster? Whether they know it or not, they're just trying to get *one* of them back to Ariane? Ughhh. I'm fine!
@flawedpeacock
@flawedpeacock 17 күн бұрын
@@Nassifeh Now THAT is nutty. I'll screenshot this comment. If this possible line of thinking comes up in the video I'll be sure to credit you for the inspiration.
@lilfishy5808
@lilfishy5808 9 күн бұрын
@@Nassifeh Honestly until reading this I hadn't really drawn the connections but wow the mask specifically really does have a lot of parallels you can draw with signalis. Even just thinking about it briefly the cryopod draws some pretty strong connections with the marble preservation powers of that pool of liquid and what that might represent (keeping something alive without it's soul perhaps, and god knows you can take that further with replikant vs gestalt themes). Even the weird 3 way relationship going on with Elster Ariane and Falke feels like there must be something you could draw from there. God it's been a year and signalis's hooks still aren't out of me...
@sabresister
@sabresister 17 күн бұрын
4:23:46 in case no one’s answered yet: flax is what linen is made of! It’s the stalks that are spun into thread, not the seeds (those become granola) 😊
@flawedpeacock
@flawedpeacock 17 күн бұрын
No wonder the seamstress I contacted on etsy hasn't gotten back to me.
@cranksock6949
@cranksock6949 13 күн бұрын
How dare you impart such forbidden knowledge
@nicki0kaye
@nicki0kaye 18 күн бұрын
ITS HERE, ITS FINALLY HEEEERE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Seriously tho working with you on this has been a dream come true, I'm so excited to see how it comes together and hear all your thoughts! 🤩💖
@leolion3323
@leolion3323 17 күн бұрын
Your art is absolutely beautiful! It could easily fit right in among the other various covers of KiY
@nicki0kaye
@nicki0kaye 16 күн бұрын
@@leolion3323 Thank you! That means so much! This project was outside my usual wheelhouse so I'm so proud it came together so well!
@t1dotaku
@t1dotaku 16 күн бұрын
I don't know if it was intentional but I love that you used a cooler light while recording so you didn't look as yellow. As if trying to protect yourself for the color itself while talking about the king of said color. I might just be getting floppy with it, though.
@kMegalonyx
@kMegalonyx 12 күн бұрын
Arent we all just flopping around
@comradestylin
@comradestylin 18 күн бұрын
Fun fact. Kenneth Hite, the annotator on your edition at the start of the video, writes for a tabletop RPG called Delta Green. It's fantastic. I highly recommend everyone check it out.
@nicki0kaye
@nicki0kaye 9 күн бұрын
HELLO FELLOW AGENT
@comradestylin
@comradestylin 8 күн бұрын
@@nicki0kaye Lovely night to see you at the opera!
@invadernav3422
@invadernav3422 18 күн бұрын
I'm sure watching this while I'm sick and feverish home from work will have no lasting impact on my mental well being.
@leolion3323
@leolion3323 18 күн бұрын
Yay same here with the being home sick. I barely slept last night so i kind of dozed while listening to the mask story and woke up properly again for the end, it was pleasant in an odd way, captivating and lulling. I swear i could see the story play out in my head as he read while i was dozing, but i dont remember much. Now that im back up and awake, and i think my fever is decreasing, im having a fun time trying to put together the pieces of what happened while he keeps going. Cant wait to learn more about these mundane scenarios combined with cosmic horror and madness. :] (the yellow king may or may not have his claws in me already)
@Nassifeh
@Nassifeh 17 күн бұрын
To be fair, this can turn any piece of media into an experience that makes you feel deranged. The King in Yellow, Ouran High School Host Club, they all kind of become one long nightmare either way.
@brunomunemassa8266
@brunomunemassa8266 18 күн бұрын
I think the genius cosmical idea from the book that can be experienced in our real world is the idea of the time of day affecting our "moods". I worked in Japan once, i'm from brazil, and the two quick months i was there i got a sudden mood shift when the sun was setting. The moment the moon was up the feelings of anxiety, or whatever else even joy sometimes, suddenly vanished. The real explanation is blood pressure as the weather changes (or time of day) so do our bodies and our moods but it's so astonishing to see someone far from my time period using that to create their world-building. Puts a cool lovecraftian perspective on "I'm not a morning person...".
@shubs9532
@shubs9532 19 күн бұрын
embarrassingly, my main experience with the king in yellow is the game "sucker for love," so I'm excited to see the actual story explained lmao
@Justapikachu577
@Justapikachu577 18 күн бұрын
Dont be embarrassed She's hot
@krissywizzle
@krissywizzle 18 күн бұрын
Haha, same here 🤣 That's actually my favorite part of the game, and what sparked my interest in the story itself
@PragmaticProsecutor
@PragmaticProsecutor 17 күн бұрын
That was my first experience and Malevolent was the second lmao
@TryinaD
@TryinaD 15 күн бұрын
Honestly they really did their research for that one! Including the fact your mask is actually no mask.
@awesomegirls10
@awesomegirls10 8 күн бұрын
Same here, and for a lot of my friends.
@vesperlord4342
@vesperlord4342 18 күн бұрын
OK I'M SORRY I'M GOING TO SCREAM THE TIMING OF THIS IS INSANE TO ME. LITERALLY IN 24 (and a bit) HOURS I DEBUT AN ORIGINAL PLAY I WROTE BASED ON THIS BOOK AS PART OF MY MASTERS. I HAVE SPENT THE MAJORITY OF THE PAST TWO DAYS REHEARSING IT. I GET HOME. OPEN UP KZbin. AND THIS IS AT THE TOP OF MY FEED. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS A (yellow) SIGN OF BUT IT'S SOMETHING.
@jhufffamily7920
@jhufffamily7920 16 күн бұрын
please update with whether you went mad or not ☺️
@vesperlord4342
@vesperlord4342 16 күн бұрын
@jhufffamily7920 Oh I'm pretty sure i passed that threshold a long time ago, but night two of four went well!
@leolion3323
@leolion3323 10 күн бұрын
Oh man i wish i could watch your play!! I love seeing smaller theatre shows.
@vesperlord4342
@vesperlord4342 9 күн бұрын
@leolion3323 well, on the off chance you're in Wellington, New Zealand in late February, we're doing it again!
@bluelobster1702
@bluelobster1702 17 күн бұрын
ever since i found your channel through the home safety hotline videos ive almost watched all of them and i cant wait for your analysis of the story of signalis. if this is just the prelude to the signalis video, i cant even begin to fathom how long itll be, and im absolutely ready for it.
@flawedpeacock
@flawedpeacock 17 күн бұрын
I'm in the pre-editting/game footage recording process, and its likely not going to be as long 😅But still very very jam packed.
@Mallowolf
@Mallowolf 18 күн бұрын
I only know _The King in Yellow_ from it being referenced in other stories. Really excited to watch this!
@thefirdsouls5724
@thefirdsouls5724 19 күн бұрын
Finished your who's lila video yesterday, once again you came back to what you told us to keep in mind
@evandouville8935
@evandouville8935 18 күн бұрын
"this video was a long time coming" is the "hey all, scott here" of Flawed Peacock videos, and every single time it is such a treat
@maybelater2160
@maybelater2160 16 күн бұрын
In my perhaps strangest high school phase, I remember submitting a thirteen-page essay about how specifically The Street of the Four Winds was a gothic retelling of the first half of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as told by Metamorphosis/The Golden Ass. Artist is in love with a concept of a woman that (somehow) I equated with being in love with love itself. Now that you pointed out that Sylvia is a placeholder for a beloved, it makes more sense. He asks four people of their opinion on Sylvia, and they give him their opinions on love (vain, stupid, pleasure seeking, good and beautiful). The street of The Four Winds takes him to her the way west wind Zephyrus carries Psyche, then he finds her by the light of the candle in her bed, therefore parsing the love. If he never saw her he wouldn't find her dead. I believe she was already dead (that's why her cat was in such awful condition), so he literally didn't kill that random woman by seeing her, but if he didn't return the cat, he would never have seen her, and she would never be dead to him. Back then, my conclusion was about why Sylvia as a sigh of love was found dead, but with the greater theme of the human mind achieving bliss while in love of the original myth and the theme of the human mind going mad while in love in King in Yellow, it just fits better; I like it.
@piethecreator1003
@piethecreator1003 9 күн бұрын
You claim of illiteracy; and yet as i listen to you read, i occasionally forget that this is not an audiobook. I believe that you could very easily put out audiobooks and become well sought after. The inflections you put in the descriptions, the voices and "Character" you bring to the characters, is honestly inspiring and delightful. I am still a new subscriber, slowly picking through your videos when i can. Your humor is hilarious, and your kindness immeasurable. With every video i have listened to, you have put us(or at least me) at ease through some of the more macabre aspects of these stories. You have reminded us in the past(Who's Lila) that these ganes abd stories cannot actually hurt us. And in the case of Immortality, you reiterate, "in the world of Imortality" to subtly remind of the fictional narrative without taking away from the story that is being told. You put so much thought and effort into these videos. It does not go unnoticed, and it is very much appreciated. Thank you for the part of your personality and gift of creativity that you share with us. I look forward to every video. I pray you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Please keep being as considerate of yourself as you are with your audience.
@ryderwillis1591
@ryderwillis1591 18 күн бұрын
I love when Peacock says "it's flopping time" and flops all over one of my favorite books.
@nardoritardeau2291
@nardoritardeau2291 16 күн бұрын
As others have said already, in The Street of the First Shell, Sylvia gave birth to Hartman's child way before meeting Trent and he either took it away or she left because he was (verbally?) a.busing her (she mentions he was awful to her). Also, consider that she turns 19 in the story and the child isn't described as a baby, she was maybe 15-17 when it was born (the baby was most likely eating solid food before she met Trent and married him, so it makes the most sense that it's a 2-4 year old). She says Hartman "told her he loved her"- basically Hartman manipulated a very young woman into having s.ex with him and then refused to marry her, even after finding out she was pregnant. The living child of Hartman and Sylvia is the other life that ties them together, and it is very sweet to think that Trent and Sylvia adopt the child and remain married after the horrors of war make Trent realize it's not worth leaving Sylvia over her supposed "dishonor". And, that he can do the right thing in opposition of Hartman who abandoned and discarded Sylvia as what some would call "used goods". As an aside, I like to headcannon that all the bad things in these stories are caused, in some way, by the King in Yellow play- meaning the world war itself was caused by it. No real evidence, I just like it as an idea. In Rue Barrée, Elliott goes off about Clifford falling for her- this is a great little cultural example of how marriage was percieved in this time. Read some Jane Austen or the Bronté sisters if you like all this romantic 1800's drama, because those books are literally all about this stuff... minus the horror of course (except Wuthering Heights, which is kind of scary honestly). Anyway, Elliott is telling Clifford off because the upper class folk are expected to marry equal or hopefully above their financial level, and Elliott is calling Rue Barrée lower working class. He calls her mother a washlady or essentially a laundry lady which was very hard work because you had to hand scrub everything and use lye, a pretty harsh chemical soap. Elliott then says Rue Barrée has ruined Clifford's aspirations, meaning she has made him care little for marrying someone rich and upper class as he should aspire to do. We as a modern audience view this as the wrong reason to marry, but the opinions and sensibilities of that time were very different. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen has subtext about this classism and differentiation even among the wealthy upper class, because those who can have an estate and a few servants and basically have so much money that they make a living off investments are still far below the mega rich who have a huge estate, many servants, several carriages, a rental property, etc etc. Anyone who liked the romance aspects of these stories, seriously, please read some stuff by Jane Austen. I think a lot of her books are free on audible if you have just a prime subscription, if not they're old enough, they gotta be available for free all over the internet as open source books.
@shiplizard
@shiplizard 15 күн бұрын
I think it’s interesting that Sylvia(sotfs version) clocks Hartman as a good father- she gives the child to him because he has money and she doesn’t, and he isn’t going to marry her, but unusually for that kind of character, he actually takes the kid in instead of going ‘not my problem lol.’ now he actually cares for the child in (i think it’s implied) both the nurturing sense and the loving the kid sense. Weird dichotomy of shitty boyfriend (like what-was-fantine’s-fuckboy-named-in-les-mis) but responsible provider
@TryinaD
@TryinaD 15 күн бұрын
Thank you for pointing this out, I think the social conflict aspect has also made it much more meaningful than simply weird tales.
@nardoritardeau2291
@nardoritardeau2291 14 күн бұрын
​@@shiplizardThat's an interesting point, he's a bad guy but not so bad as to abandon a child to a crappy life. I like your idea better because it gives Hartman depth and shows he's more than just a stingy manipulative jerk... but I wonder if it's more likely he can't stand the thought of his precious progeny being low class or raised poor. Maybe he's that self obsessed and looks down on Sylvia so much that his child couldn't possibly be raised in such "filth". There's no evidence of my interpretation at all but I like to call Hartman a scumbag. That's my bias lol
@AsymmetricalDialogue
@AsymmetricalDialogue 18 күн бұрын
Making the connection to the memetic nature of the yellow mythos and its threads to the mundane is exactly the vibe we try to capture in our work: it’s delightfully therapeutic and grounding. Destroy societies boxes and make your own
@marlmt
@marlmt 18 күн бұрын
3:25:05 "Carcovid" is absolute WILD 😭🙏 Caught me quite off guard 😭
@leonarddevir9965
@leonarddevir9965 18 күн бұрын
Excellent choice. The King in Yellow is so underrated and so very important for today's fiction. In my opinion it's far more Eldritch and existential horror than even the lovecraftian mythos.
@xxbabayagaxx1425
@xxbabayagaxx1425 17 күн бұрын
The revelation of the "no mask" to Cassilda also reminds me of the Mask of the Red Death by Poe. Thematically it fits, in how it treats the avoidance of something by role playing and a confrontation of the Truth (tm) -- that there are some things you can't run from, consequences that ignore the masks we wear. In the King in Yellow's play, revolving around loss and the fall of a kingdom, there are echoes of Poe and his gothic works. Long lost and ill fated love, beauties dying young, the falling of kingdoms and fated consequence.
@Pelimatic
@Pelimatic 18 күн бұрын
I don't know if it's anything, but my reading of In the Court of the Dragon, when the narrator is talking about some sin "long forgotten" and "Death and the awful abode of lost souls, whither my weakness long ago had sent him - they had changed him for every other eye, but not for mine", that this is about how the spirit of some dude that the narrator killed long ago has been sent from the afterlife or w/e, disguised to all but the narrator, to drag him down to Carcosa as punishment. Or of course it could be that it was all in le head and the narrator simply imagines all of that happening as a consequence of his failing health, and his guilt and preoccupation with the King in Yellow provides the imagery and scaffolding for his imagination to build this story in his mind in his final moments in the church.
@dr.nosborn5416
@dr.nosborn5416 15 күн бұрын
It is amazing how peacock just helped me understand the king in yellow, the meaning and the love in the theories, the concepts and, the time he takes to interpret each important detail is something that I hope I can do in the future, with the same depth and love he shows in each video.
@DomsDumpster
@DomsDumpster 17 күн бұрын
i LOVE that you refer to this story as medias first Cognito Hazard, because that's how i've always thought of it! what a potent reason to be intrigued by this story. there are the first dramas, the first operas, the first songs, and the first horror stories - but the first cognito hazard. that's a truly spooky idea, and this book is a treasure of human history. and now i get to watch one of my favorite essay dudes yap about it for hours and hours and hours. what have i done to deserve this incredible gift? there are plenty of competent creators on this platform who have discussed this book, but i am excited to hear your opinion most of all. stay Floppy mr. Peacock, i can't wait to binge this video. p.s. PLEASE REVIEW MORE BOOKS I EAT THIS SHIT UP
@kMegalonyx
@kMegalonyx 12 күн бұрын
I dont think this is a review its a full on analysis
@casanovafunkenstein5090
@casanovafunkenstein5090 8 күн бұрын
I don't think that it's particularly spooky. It's incredibly lightweight and I couldn't take it seriously after about the third time someone pointed to it, said "that's the book that makes you go crazy. I'm not reading that!" before reading it and not actually becoming more crazy than they seemed to be in the first place. I desperately wanted there to be more to it, but it's literally just the most basic possible version of the idea. It's got a serious case of Edgar Allen Prose, where florid purple descriptors and excessively long sentences are the lipstick on the emaciated pig that is the so called plot.
@christmashammy
@christmashammy 18 күн бұрын
The greatest youtuber of all time, genuinely no one even comes close. The only content in existence I could watch all 9 hours of in one sitting and still wish I could watch more.
@skelebratz
@skelebratz 17 күн бұрын
just got to the fanart section-- gotta say i immediately heard my cover and almost hurled in excitement (not literally i just got really excited) glad to see you've made another great video as always! great analysis on a great book :] considering you said this is a bite-sized prelude to signalis i'm starting to think that video is going to be like. 48 hours long p.s. when i got the email reply to my fan art i got so excited i immediately told a friend who i was calling at the time, printed it out, and taped it to the wall behind my desk in case i need a little boost of affirmation. no i am not joking. yes i can send proof if you really want me to
@arempy5836
@arempy5836 17 күн бұрын
5:19:20 In love with the thought of a woman, the image, the dream, the mask. "I wear no mask". The horror of getting exactly what you pined for, your dream girl. "My dream girl don't exist. At the age of 5 she slit her wrists" "It's too bad that all these things, can only happen in my dreams"
@FablesTold
@FablesTold 17 күн бұрын
Oh, also, I think you were more right than not about Sylvia and Hartman's child. Just that she wasn't currently pregnant with it. She'd already given birth, and for whatever reason- probably a promise that the child would have a better life with Hartman instead of being known as a bastard child of a single mother, especially in that time period-, but she wanted Hartman to live so that the child would not become an orphan, and might still continue to have a better life than she could give it by herself. Now, _why_ Hartman would take on a bastard child is another question altogether, whether it be some kind of honor on his part, or if he's wife- the other woman that he's given himself to- was unable to conceive and he needed to make an heir in another way. But any way it came about, I do believe it is Sylvia and Hartman's child.
@arempy5836
@arempy5836 16 күн бұрын
The Demoiselle D'Ys feels like a fairie story. In a lot of stories where humans enter the realm of faerie, time flows differently. A person could spend 3 days in faerie and return to the human world to find that 300 years have past. Sometimes the human that return's will turn to dust the moment they step foot on earthly soil. I think the Yellow king has a lot in common with the fair folk, some strange and mysterious which enchants you to enter the unearthly realm of magic and pleasure which steals away your life on earth. Also, it should noted that Ys is the name of a mythical city on the coast of Brittany that fell into the sea but is said to rise again some day. It seems to me that the city of Ys is not dissimilar to Carcosa, a ghostly realm between life and death, wake and dream, past and future. There too is the connection between water and death.
@casanovafunkenstein5090
@casanovafunkenstein5090 8 күн бұрын
Yeah, pretty much all of the stories can be explained as the result of fairies messing with people.
@kurikame
@kurikame 18 күн бұрын
leave it to you to be the youtuber to bring up a video that had a chokehold on me as a kid- the MV for fantasy was so intriguing and new to me as a child (maybe also a bit traumatizing). didn't expect to see you mention it!!! you never fail to surprise me
@noctotainlowry9246
@noctotainlowry9246 18 күн бұрын
The connection between Madness and Love is not all that far out there when you remember that i Believe the greeks used to categorize all consuming love as a type of madness
@strawbebbiejam
@strawbebbiejam 17 күн бұрын
Youre my favorite content creator and I love these long videos. This book is super interesting and I know nothing about it, so I think I will try to read it before I finish the video. Happy holidays!
@flawedpeacock
@flawedpeacock 16 күн бұрын
@@strawbebbiejam thank you so much for the support! Enjoy reading it! And happy holidays!
@ethantaylor9613
@ethantaylor9613 15 күн бұрын
I really like the repairer of reputations because it’s ambiguous whether their plan would have worked or to what extent any of it is real, but you’ll never know because the main character, who might’ve been on the precipice of controlling the entire planet, fucked up and lost. Extremely funny.
@notsae66
@notsae66 16 күн бұрын
I prefer to think the power of courage and honesty saw Trent and Silvia through. Not just because I'm a sucker for happy endings, but because it fits that the best way to escape the grasp of a god of deceit, fear, decay, and delusion is with honesty, charity, and courage in the face of unrelenting horrors (and it fits the contemporary morals of the day). Trent spent his time fighting decay, trying to help people despite the danger and sickness rife throughout the city, and made active efforts to reject deception no matter how much easier it would be (and Silvia did similar). In doing so, he firmly rebuked Hastur's seeping grasp and managed to come out the otherside of an ocean of madness and decay whole, and with his family intact. Or they all died and reunited in Carcossa, but I prefer my interpretation.
@TryinaD
@TryinaD 15 күн бұрын
Legit, I love Trent so much I wish he would be okay throughout reading the whole story damn
@maitemolanes7845
@maitemolanes7845 10 күн бұрын
It reminds me of the ending of Uzumaki by Junji Ito where (spoilers if you haven't read it The two main characters, after facing all the hazards the spiral god has thrown at them, travel to the center of the town, where it recides underground. After witnessing it and the perished people of the town around them, all they can do now is stare longingly at each other, before them perishing as well.
@r0b0t1ctree6
@r0b0t1ctree6 16 күн бұрын
The conflating of Hastur and Cupid combined with the romantic themes, doomed maidens, and recurring motifs of sleep and promises makes me think of the myth of Eros and Psyche. Though I cannot help but wonder if Hastur, and the protagonists he influences, are meant to be Eros, the terrible winged serpent (which Aphrodite wanted Psyche to marry), Psyche, or a mix of all three. PS. Flax is used to make linen!
@Ganymedia9
@Ganymedia9 18 күн бұрын
4:55:10 the annotator is like "girl, idk what's happening here either" 😂
@theVincident
@theVincident 18 күн бұрын
The moment I saw the title I was so hopeful you'd mention Signalis at least once, so happy to hear within the first 20 seconds that it's your next project! I've been in love with your channel since I found your Who's Lila essay and I appreciate how in-depth you go for every one. Your passion for analyzing, making little skits for, and putting together these videos for all of us makes each of your videos so engaging. thank you for the good food sir
@kimble_maggie
@kimble_maggie 17 күн бұрын
i think the King in Yellow and the Yellow Wallpaper were my first intro to cognitive horror and esotericism in general. i’m very grateful the curriculum of my area allowed for it. thoughts really can be contagious and texts that work to bring attention to this phenomenon scratch such a specific itch! thanks for covering such a masterpiece, Flaw! always really appreciate the depths you’re willing to share your analysis and thereby your soul with us ❤
@ohgodohfuc
@ohgodohfuc 19 күн бұрын
Who up flawping their peacock?
@malinbutnottheplaceinitaly6417
@malinbutnottheplaceinitaly6417 18 күн бұрын
The music at the end of the first chapters reminded myself so much of an amazing game from the 1990s about edger Alan poe stories called "the dark eye"
@flawedpeacock
@flawedpeacock 18 күн бұрын
No way! Funnily enough, I call that whole track "I Wear No Cask of Amontillado". So you definitely picked up the Poe I was putting down.
@pizzaluvah198
@pizzaluvah198 19 күн бұрын
Dude I literally just binged the entire first season of True Detective 3 hours ago. FlawPeacock is in my walls!!!1!
@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396
@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 19 күн бұрын
And I thought this was for the From fans. 😮
@flapjaaak
@flapjaaak 16 күн бұрын
When you mentioned way back when that you would be making my a Signalis video, I decided I would actually play it. Usually with video essays about a topic I know nothing about, I disregard the warnings to play/watch the media for myself because I just want to know what the ideas are behind the subject. For Signalis, however, I really wanted to have my own experience. That being said, I have finished my first playthrough today getting the Promise ending! Seeing this video come out has given me so much joy, because all my previous attempts to read The King In Yellow have ended in me not understanding and not continuing much past the second story. I am so so SO glad that you decided to tackle this book before Signalis and I cannot wait to see what floppiness you have in store. This video is incredible. I have been enjoying your work for a long while now, but I can’t help but feel like you have come into your element with this and your last few uploads. My recent favorites have been Her story and Immortality as well as The Hex video (which I like to watch on my cross country airplane travel days). I always look forward to what you have to say. Thank you Mr. Peacock for these analyses. They make me realize that deconstructing our favorite media is not some esoteric artform, but rather an enjoyable process that can really elevate my love for the media I already enjoy.
@chrissycurtis4152
@chrissycurtis4152 19 күн бұрын
Broke up with my partner of 3 years yesterday. The universe knew I needed a pick me up so it delivered a 9 hour Floppy video. Perfection.
@lordofthevallies2280
@lordofthevallies2280 17 күн бұрын
The passion you bring to your analysis of everything makes me love your content so much. Its like listening to a friend speak of something they love.
@redrighthand9571
@redrighthand9571 18 күн бұрын
This is one of my favorite books ever written, covered by one of my favorite KZbinrs. Never been this excited for a video. Hope you keep up the great work.
@airanuva
@airanuva 18 күн бұрын
1:38:00 ish: Opaque is the opposite of transparent. Opalescent means having some of the reflective properties of Opals, a kind of rainbow-y glint.
@pinkpirate5
@pinkpirate5 18 күн бұрын
Within the Great Work in Alchemy there are four stages. The first of which is putrefaction. Breaking the raw material down into it's smallest constituent parts. Burning, dissolving in acid, and actions like that. It's thought to be necessary so those parts can be purified and then combined into the final product. Not sure if it helps. But you asked.
@DianaTempest
@DianaTempest 10 күн бұрын
I listened to this in the midst of a breakup with a now good friend of mine. I found it to be very fulfilling and cathartic while learning to unmask my own heart. Thank you! May your thoughts always be floppy.
@Knuckleb0ne
@Knuckleb0ne 15 күн бұрын
i think what you misunderstood in The street of the First Shell is that Hartman's child is Sylvia's child. She tells him that what ties her to Hartman happened long before she even met Trent.... a child born out of wedlock and perhaps from assault. In the time period this was written in, it already would have been taboo to blend a family like that while the father was still around, let alone in a time of war. Trent is also angry and upset because as he explains, until she told him about this secret of hers, he didn't even realize that he loved her. And now while Hartman lives, they can't really be together. There are references in this story to Les Miserables written by Victor Hugo. Colette/ Cosette, Fantine having an illicit child born in "shameful" circumstances that another man must choose to care for, a French revolution, urchins in the street committing crimes to survive a harsh world that can't love them....
@NEIGH6699
@NEIGH6699 11 күн бұрын
ooh that was good the way you @ around 48 minutes explained the death of a reputation being an actual form of death, also the connection to the "traducer". Thank you for helping me understand and teaching me a new word
@hilotakenaka
@hilotakenaka 18 күн бұрын
So something that I picked up on is that The Mask and Repairer of Reputations appear to be somewhat inverses of one another despite the similar themes Both of them feature men who are in love triangles and settings where suicide is heavily featured, but they wholly oppose one another Alec, upon reading the manuscript, realises the harm about to befall his friends and keeps trying to see them, only for his friends to perish. Hildred, on the other hand, becomes obsessed with sabotaging his close ties, and in the end the only person who suffers are the people involved in his delusion, especially himself. It’s why I also think that the ending of The Mask _is_ meant to be taken literally: one story ends in death for the narrator, the other in life new life given to them. I have no idea if you came to the same conclusion yourself since I’m only up to the dragon part but I might update this comment or make new comments as I continue watching EDIT 1: The "Really? You're a nouveau?" exchange in the penultimate story reminds me of the "no mask? No mask!" exchange in the King of Yellow play
@taste-E
@taste-E 13 күн бұрын
The street of our Lady of the field felt like a reverse of the yellow sign where the man was innocent and the woman knew better. I've enjoyed your essay and you've earned a well deserved subscriber. Thank you for your work. Id tried listening to an audio reading of this book a few times but you kept it fun and contextually informative. Thank you again.
@alexcollins71090
@alexcollins71090 18 күн бұрын
Man, am I beyond excited to listen to this for 9 hours - I decided to listen to The King in Yellow to form my own initial opinions and to better follow along with your analysis! I've honestly been meaning to do it for years now, and your video gives me a really good reason to do so. Currently listening to HorrorBabble's rendition and it's quite excellent (just finished In the Court of the Dragon and decided to leave a comment here), but I'm hoping to find an actual physical copy at my used bookstore tomorrow. Perhaps they'll even have Hite's annotated edition. An aside - I cannot thank you enough for your long-form stimulating content - I feel like, in a way, you help keep my brain functioning properly haha - I hope you understand. Please take this as praise I mean it to be and not pressure! I don't know you personally, but I imaging that producing videos at the high level you do can be draining, and do take care of yourself
@chewthulu1004
@chewthulu1004 16 күн бұрын
I've been a big enjoyer of the King in Yellow since I've read it back in...2017-2018, and I read it because I came from the Lovecraft stories. When I read it, I actually enjoyed it more than the typical Lovecraft story. It was subtle, an almost...gentle kind of horror that sought to embrace you in a blanket of warm dread. Then later on, I've read House of Leaves and I'm still trapped in it. As time went on, I've kept having this weird feeling of wanting to come back and really dissect the King in Yellow, and so I'm incredibly grateful that you went over this! I missed so much the first time around, and...didn't really know that there was an annotated edition of the book. That would've been helpful years ago. Lmao
@No-uc6fg
@No-uc6fg 18 күн бұрын
If you ever feel like making a video for a book again, I wholeheartedly recommend "Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España" by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. It's the, more or less real, story about the conquest of New Spain (The Americas) by the spaniards, from the point of view of a foot soldier for the conquest. He wrote it as a direct response to several claims of what happened (made with political reasons), and to show what actually happened, at least from what he saw. It's not a story of glory and might, but rather of the everyday of the conquest, like how the bread served in the ships was stale, or how he planted the first orange tree seen in the americas and was surprised to see the tree was diligently cared for by the natives. I genuinely cannot recommend it enough.
@certafan
@certafan 16 күн бұрын
The writing involving the social masks is delicious and you break it down so eloquently. Not just that, but that mask slipping off and his internal struggle becoming more arduous during the night, like the shadows of mens thoughts growing longer in The King in Yellow. Banger vid, w as always ya love to see it.
@leolion3323
@leolion3323 18 күн бұрын
For a while i was genuinely convinced that the king in yellow was some sort of goncharov-like phenomenon. A story that lots of people could describe themes and details of but not anything that actually existed as a whole which was possible to read. In a way i suppose that is the case with the play. Im so glad it is a real story, im definitely interested in reading the annotated book. :]
@TryinaD
@TryinaD 15 күн бұрын
I feel it is like Goncharov in universe! Like everyone in the story just has some kind of memetic exposure to it and it kinda manifests in different ways, like the allegorical stories and the romantic art student plots
@crystalespers
@crystalespers 17 күн бұрын
Only creator that could get me to watch a 9 hour video twice since i wanted to make sure i had a good understanding of all the information! Amazing job like always~!
@Cheeseable
@Cheeseable 18 күн бұрын
Ahh! You have impeccable timing, Peacock. Just over a month ago, I was thinking about running a DnD thriller/mystery one-shot for my friends, taking inspiration from this anthology, when I'd seen you were gonna do a vid on it. Yesterday, I figured I'd start to actually prepare the story, and now I've got this 9 hour epic to get me in the right thematic mindset. I'm sooo ready to get floppy!!
@Domi_Nique811
@Domi_Nique811 19 күн бұрын
It took me a second to notice that the KZbin video was a portuguese lyrics version. I guess fan translation is the greatest form of preservation of media still.
@lilymasters2863
@lilymasters2863 18 күн бұрын
Yep, this is how I'm going to spend my day of chores while the babe is at work. Honestly this is one of my favorite channels. So well researched with just the right amount of humor to keep me listening for 9 hours lol
@christopherlowery3797
@christopherlowery3797 16 күн бұрын
When I finished Signalis, I’d intended to read this book, but I never got around to it after the most recent semester of college started. Finding your channel’s been such a blessing (I’ve watched all but 2 of your vids now!) & seeing this notification made me so giddy, I almost teared up 😂 keep up the amazing work, king!
@danieladam1740
@danieladam1740 19 күн бұрын
I audibly gulped when i saw that the video is 9 hours . Thanks Peacock
@Dubioushandle223
@Dubioushandle223 16 күн бұрын
This content might not get as much engagement as something like Inscryption or Who’s Lila, but I wanted to say that I love the literary analysis and this was a perfect deep dive! Thank you for your hard work and efforts, I’ll keep tuning in no matter what you’d like to cover!
@kodaaxolotlnerd9352
@kodaaxolotlnerd9352 19 күн бұрын
Opened up youtube to watch something with breakfast, saw this posted 21 SECONDS AGO! I just watched your Immortality video last night, excited to watch this one ❤
@annihlud6569
@annihlud6569 15 күн бұрын
The first 4 hours are now inspiring me to write again for the first time in a long time.
@lanidickens
@lanidickens 19 күн бұрын
Omg you made a full shift at work long video for my obsession! I might seriously cry
@audreysunflowers
@audreysunflowers 15 күн бұрын
I am writing this before watching and can I just say that words alone can not express how excited I am for this video. The King in Yellow is my favorite book, possibly even my favorite piece of media as a whole, so I am very eager to hear your interpretation of the story and all its madness.
@REIN900
@REIN900 19 күн бұрын
The King in Yellow is one of my favorite stories I’m so happy you are covering it Peacock ❤
@optipri2135
@optipri2135 19 күн бұрын
I didn’t expect to wake up from a nap to see this posted barely a minute ago. Been waiting for this for so long now! Didn’t get to finish reading the book, but hey, I’ll watch up to where I’m done.
@FelisImpurrator
@FelisImpurrator 16 күн бұрын
So, about that Demoiselle D'Ys... This is actually a reference to the mythical city of Ys from Breton mythology, a culture that is closely tied to France. In the myth, Ys was swallowed up by the sea, destroyed in the name of a foolish love that borders on madness - sound familiar? The princess of Ys, Dahut, opens the dikes that keep the city from flooding after being led astray by her lover, and the city is lost. In those versions, her pious father escapes, but she perishes, whether by falling off their horse or being thrown off. An alternative telling claims that the city is to be punished with a great flood due to becoming a place of sin and debauchery. Very in line with the thematic elements of the Yellow Mythos. So I think the Demoiselle D'Ys may actually be, if not meant to be Dahut herself, a figure similar to her.
@TheMorrigan_x
@TheMorrigan_x 19 күн бұрын
Eeeeeee thank you thank you thank you! I am starting this now as I have zero self control for FP essays/experiences.
@MatkatMeerkat
@MatkatMeerkat 18 күн бұрын
Oh huh, this might be a floppy theory, but i thought that the short "Sacrifice" was tied to the marble-liquid story, with the white flower and the brim of a basin turning pink (perhaps if the liquid wasn't deposed of, it would have turned blood-red?)
@strangeyoungster319
@strangeyoungster319 18 күн бұрын
A 9 hour Flaw Peacock video? Sign me up! You made my day man much love
@Yunisca30
@Yunisca30 16 күн бұрын
Death : (Leshy voice) Who can compare with me? Clown: (putting on makeup) You ARE very beautiful... Me: Finally some appreciation for Leshy and his beautiful... Wait, that's not Leshy- but Death with a pallad mask! Death: I wear no mask... Me: No mask? No mask!
@o5-1-formerlycalvinlucien60
@o5-1-formerlycalvinlucien60 19 күн бұрын
I've always wanted to read the King in Yellow. So many of the works I've already read, like Lovecraft and the Hanged King, are inspired by it.
@ivelissefournier6137
@ivelissefournier6137 19 күн бұрын
WOOO day shift length video!!!!! I can’t wait to get into this
@garageheathen8568
@garageheathen8568 17 күн бұрын
Fantastic video! Hoping that the trend with book analysis continues ^^ UPD: The street of our lady in the fields reminds me a lot of Dostoevsky's Idiot. There the main character is also pure an innocent, while his love interest is afraid of corrupting him.
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