Maaaaaaagnificent, by Crom!!

Howard looking at a slug in the garden: "I can write a horror story about that."

@MiniatureMythos

11 күн бұрын

Yeah, seeing how many statues Conan dropped on the thing before going down and hacking it to pieces... I think Howard had some issues with slugs ^^

@markwatkins4282

4 күн бұрын

@@MiniatureMythos When I was 20 yrs old, I was using a weed-eater in the yard, wearing only cut-offs, and I accidentally killed a slug. It ranks as one of my most disgusting and never forgettable memories. : (

@MiniatureMythos

4 күн бұрын

Oh sheesh... yeah, I can imagine that will leave some kind of trauma!

The narrative was great, and the illustrations, impressive. Especially the ruins of Larsha.

@MiniatureMythos

8 күн бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the entire package!

@luthermcgee3767

5 күн бұрын

Well, not the entire package- the slug that chased Conan over half the city was shown as much smaller than the original when he killed it. After he did that, it was still 50 feet long, just a dead one. I'm just keeping it real.

@markwatkins4282

5 күн бұрын

@@luthermcgee3767 Small slugs move faster. If you come across a 10 foot slug, you get a 50/50 chance to get away, so long as you run down hill. Crom loves escargot.

@MiniatureMythos

5 күн бұрын

Fair enough! Can't deny that the slug has diminished a bit from it's epic size when Nestor comes into the scene... Might be a case of "I once caught a fish *this* big!", but then "Nestor, I just fought a slug *this* big" while the obvious smaller slug is lying right there?

@luthermcgee3767

5 күн бұрын

@@MiniatureMythos , it wasn't you being dishonest, but AI. But, cheers! Larsha was great. And the direct quotation of the story, faultless.

EXCELLENT JOB great story

Great reading! So relieved isn't another AI reading...keep up the great work, friend! Subbed!

@MiniatureMythos

11 күн бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! I´m enjoying these too much to have some robot read them for me ^^

This was very enjoyable to listen to. I very much enjoyed the artwork along with the prose. I hope you keep doing this and make more readings, and about Beowulf, I think you would do well, and other Norse tales as well. This was excellent. This was a great story of the younger Conan, while he was still in his thieving years.

@MiniatureMythos

7 күн бұрын

Thanks for the kind words and feedback! Very much enjoy the Conan the Thief-arc as well. And I guess I have an added direction to expand my To-Read list now: Norse Tales! I'll see about adding some.

American History forgot about Robert E.Howard but God bless you, God bless you (👇🏼) and God bless all the subscribers too 🙏🏼 for bringing him back 🔙

@MiniatureMythos

5 сағат бұрын

Thank you for your heartfelt blessings. Blessings to you as well! In the spirit of Conan, Crom gave us the strength to shape our legacies. Thank you for helping keep Robert E. Howard's legacy alive!

I really like the pace that these stories are read in. Very well done all around ❤

@MiniatureMythos

12 күн бұрын

Thank you! Happy you enjoyed it!

Loved this story as a teen in high school in the 80s, thanks for doing a Conan pastiche by L Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.. Hard to find any of the pastiche stories as audiobooks on KZread. City of Skulls would be awesome. I loved Juma the Kushite as a character.

@MiniatureMythos

Күн бұрын

Indeed, some of the pastiches are really good! However, since they've been written/published after Howard's death, copyright is still often an issue, and I think that's the reason why they're not adapted into audiobooks that often. I'll take a look at The City of Skulls to see what the copyright status is, and if it's possible, I'll put it in the line-up :)

Thanks

@MiniatureMythos

11 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for the support!

I’ve been looking for this story on audio for awhile, awesome!

@MiniatureMythos

10 күн бұрын

I'm happy I could provide you with it! If there's any more stories you're looking for, let me know and I'll see if I can add them to the list.

Fifty Foot Slug..... Great old punk band.

Love the pictures along with the story

@MiniatureMythos

7 күн бұрын

Glad you like them! I do try to put some effort in them

@tommygreene47

7 күн бұрын

@@MiniatureMythos amazing

Sweet thank you my dude

@MiniatureMythos

9 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Fantastic reading!

@MiniatureMythos

10 күн бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

A slug that size, with 100 pounds of butter, 50 pounds of garlic and 15 pounds of salt, could have fed a typical Hyborean village for months. Cook it first.

Your Teutonic? accent would be outstanding for Beowulf...

@MiniatureMythos

8 күн бұрын

Now that´s a compliment I haven´t heard before. I´ll see if I can put Beowulf on the To-Read list!

Good idea to start with a rare-gem type of story and a solid narration!

@MiniatureMythos

10 күн бұрын

Happy you enjoyed it! And thanks for the compliment!

4:10 Arthur Morgan

@MiniatureMythos

9 күн бұрын

I've also heard Jaime Lannister from someone else... Either way, Nestor should be a very capable man if he resembles any of those two ;)

"Hawk tuah!🎉

@MiniatureMythos

11 күн бұрын

"And spit on that Barbarian, you get me?"

@mq9893

8 күн бұрын

@@MiniatureMythos 😁⚔

AI art?

@MiniatureMythos

5 күн бұрын

Yes, I generate the art with AI. Often I do change stuff in there with Photoshop to better fit the scene, but the basis is always an AI image.

@maunderjape8365

5 күн бұрын

@@MiniatureMythos sorry but I can't abide AI. Shame, there's decades of real Conan art.

@MiniatureMythos

5 күн бұрын

That's fine. You are entitled to that opinion and I respect you telling me that. There is in fact a lot of Conan art around, that much is true. Some of them are truly epic. But, even if it's decades old, someone did put work in it and owns the art. The reason I don't want to use existing art is two-fold: first, it would be a huge added workload to figure out the correct copyright status for that art, and to track down the copyright holder (if they're still around) to get approval to use the art. Second, as a small channel, this doesn't generate me any income just yet, so I can't buy a license to use copyrighted art. Since this is a hobby project besides my full-time job, going to AI seemed like a logical step to support the creation of these videos. It's true, those reasons don't give me a "need" to use AI, since I also fully believe no one "needs" to use AI, but I've made the decision to use it nonetheless. My reasoning being that I'm already using my own voice, licensed music that I bought and read actual published stories. Since these make up the core to my narrations, I feel the art is rather something to prevent you from looking at a blank screen for the duration of the stories :) And I'm fully planning to actually start commissioning artists once this channel's revenue makes it possible. If you'd like versions of my stories where no AI was involved, you can also find me on Spotify. That's just the audio and music of the audiobooks. If not, then no harm done, and I'm glad you did visit the channel, even if you decide that the format is not for you :)