Lovecraftian state nicknames

[Politruk]

The State of Florida, hitherto known as "The Sunshine State," henceforth shall be officially designated "The Sultry and Foetid Province of Degenerated and Mongrel Denizens Skulking in Bewildered Terror Beneath the Remorseless and Incomprehensible Light, of No Colour Hitherto Known to This Planet or Solar System, Emanating from That Amorphous Blight of Nethermost Confusion Which Blasphemes and Bubbles at the Center of All Infinity— the Boundless Daemon Sultan Azathoth, Whose Name No Lips Dare Speak Aloud, and Who Gnaws Hungrily in Inconceivable, Unlighted Chambers Beyond Time and Space Amidst the Muffled, Maddening Beating of Vile Drums and the Thin Monotonous Whine of Cracked and Accursed Flutes."

And it goes on the license plates, too.

And anyone who knows anything about Florida knows the new name is at least as accurate as the old one.

Here, to work with, is a list of official (and other, abominably heretical and esoteric) state nicknames.

 

[Politruk]

Hawaii, formerly "The Aloha State," is now "The Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn State," of course. It's the same, really -- it means both hello and goodbye.

 

[Politruk]

Minnesota, "The Land of 10,000 Lakes," is now "The Land of Shub-Niggurath, Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young."

 

[Politruk]

Ohio: "The Crawling Pallid Glassy Buckeye from Beyond State."

 

[Politruk]

Missouri: "The Show Me Eldritch and Horrific Realms Unknown to the Minds of Men, Though My Mental Sanity Will Never Survive the Blasphemous Revelation State."

 

[Politruk]

Let us suppose hypothetically that the eternal gibbering shrieks of the shambling mongrel Washinnsmouthians of the witch-haunted District of Cthulhu* for initiation into the Inmost Circle of the tenebrous and necrophagous cultus of the United Sects of Arkham were to be, at last after strange aeons, satiated with a fear-offering perversely beseeming, in its impious transgression of the ancient and terrifying geasa of the night-whispered Codex Constitutionalis -- id est, precipitate induction of their representative wizard-priests into the Unholy Synod and the House of Re-Animators, plenary empowered to perform the most puissant and blasphemous rites of Flu'urvoht and Phl'yebastor.

State nickname?

*Separated from the familiar logic and reason of this planet and Solar System by the impassable Belt of Madness that doth swallow its own tail as the Worm Ouroboros, within which fearful legend whispers that the hidden scribe-kings and sessile war-chiefs of the Aimless City endlessly enact incomprehensible rites of unknown origin and unfathomable purpose.

 

[Politruk]

Alaska, the "Land of the Midnight Sun," is now . . . well, come to think of it, how could that be any more Lovecraftian?

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

California, “the King in Gold”

 

[Politruk]

California, “the King in Gold”

Well, The King in Yellow is Chambers, not Lovecraft, but it is counted as one of HPL's influences.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Maine, the Shadow over Innsmouth.
Vermont, home of the Whisperer in Darkness.
Maryland, Treasure the Miskatonic.

 

[Politruk]

New York,"The Empire State," is now "The Empire of the Necromancers." (From Clark Ashton Smith -- he was part of Lovecraft's circle.)

 

[Politruk]

New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state, is now the "Suffer in Ineluctable Madness and Unspeakable Terror Longing Hopelessly for the Sweet Oblivion of Death" state.