After two weeks and 22 entries, we’ve finally picked our winners for our Cthulhu Cthursday “Goes Like This” Contest.

Picking two winners was not easy: as far as we’re concerned, every single one of you deserves the honor of being devoured first when Great Lord Cthulhu comes slithering to shore, and a consolation prize of a Cthulhu plushie until that glorious day.

As we sat down to judge the contest, Eliza and I realized the daunting task ahead of us. What was our criterion to be? Many of you — Chesh, Stammell, Jones, etc.) had tried to game the vote with props like eye patches, goggles, fezzes and moutstaches. Others of you — like Jilder, Giannia and Nicole — were attractive women who might possibly be bribed into having sex with me if you won the contest. And others were small children, batting their big moon cow eyes, trying to garner the sympathy vote… as if we had any sympathy whatsoever for our filthy larval forms.

Ultimately, Eliza and I decided to each pick our own personal favorite. The two grand prize winners, after the jump:

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I’ve been grinding my teeth for the last few hours, my fillings shooting sparks, trying to get to the bottom of the whole “Goes Like This” Flickr technical difficulty, where you couldn’t see the slideshow or the set if you weren’t logged in to Flickr (effectively making the whole thing useless). All the images had the correct permissions, they were all work safe. What gives?

Well, it turns out our Flickr account is not considered work safe, thanks to several smutty pictures Eliza has uploaded, replete with breasts and cunnilingus and the word fuck. Flickr has therefore flagged our account as adults only, which means no one can browse it if they aren’t logged in.

In other words, I’m going to have to create a new account for the contest entries, which blows. However, the good news is that this means we’re extending the “Goes Like This” contest for another week, and we’ll be giving away both first and second prizes to two lucky winners. This is just as well, as Eliza has vanished, and we haven’t been able to pick a winner for last week yet.

So if you haven’t entered, there’s still a week to win. Get to it! We’ve gotten some new entries in the last 12 hours so I’ll get a working slideshow up later today.

Brownie Monster Domo-Kun not required, although props will be considered when scoring, along with moustaches and bikinis. Just take a photo of yourself doing what Tim is doing above and either post a link to it in the comments or email it to us. The winner will receive a Cthulhu plushie; if we have runners-up, we’ll splash out some Cthulhu Action Figures their way.

With dripping tentacles and slurping suctioning noises, Great Lord Cthulhu himself has slithered his protuberances through the entries for our very first Cthulhu Cthursday Contest Giveaway and picked the winners. Our first two contest winner will not only win a stuffed Cthulhu, but their submissions will determine the next two Cthulhu Cthursday contests.

Our second place winner is zanbowser, who suggests: “Best Cthulhu-Ectomomeme mashup (trepanation by tentacle, vagina coleoidea, etc.)” We’re not entirely sure what he means, which is part of the genius of the thing: it’s open to deviant interpretation. Congrats, Zan, you’ve won your very own secret agent Cthulhu!

But as great an idea as that is, Eliza and I are united in awe at our grand prize winner’s suggestion. Congratulations, Tim, for your winning contest idea: “Best Picture of Someone Going Like This.” Such subtle genius is easily worth a Superhero Cthulhu.

Winners, send us your addresses and we’ll get your Cthulhus out to you. Losers, don’t fret: we’ve got gobs worth of Cthulhus still to give.

Just a reminder that you only have three more days to enter our first Cthulhu Cthursday giveaway. The contest is recursively meta: the two best ideas for future Cthulhu Cthursday giveaways get a stuffed Cthulhu, courtesy of Ectomo’s other official tentacled mascot, my Mom, who has donated about 15 to us to giveaway as we see fit. If you want to enter, just drop a comment in the original thread.

Pictured here: Dracula Cthulhu snuggling with Bullwinkle J. Moose.

It was only just a few weeks ago that my aged mother didn’t even know who Cthulhu was. Certainly, she’d never come across his phonemically impossible name in any of the romance novels that I’m never, ever, ever supposed to tell anyone that she reads. The first time the wonderful old pigeon asked me about Cthulhu, she innocently inquired, “How many moustaches does Cthulhu have?” and looked hurt when I shook my belly full of laughter in her direction.

Fast forward three weeks? My mother has turned into an Eldritch thing, fully embracing the Cthulhoid Cult. She’s purchased over 20 Cthulhu toys in the last few days. And the darling, darling woman has given them all to Ectomo to distribute to our readers as we’d like.

So Ectomo is pleased to announce the start of our Cthulhu Cthursday giveaways. Every week, we’re going to give away at least one Cthulhu toy. Unfortunately, we’re impoverished of contest ideas.

So how’s this for meta? Best Cthulhu Cthursday contest idea gets a large Superhero Cthulhu doll. Second best idea wins a smaller Secret Agent Cthulhu. And we’ll throw in a Cthulu action figure to both winners.

To enter, just drop your entry into the comments. Make sure to give your love to my Mom while you’re at it: she deserves it. We’ll announce winners next week.

(Pictured above: Margaret Ruth sluts it up with Elvis Cthulhu, Superhero Cthulhu, Dracula Cthulhu and Secret Agent Cthulhu on my Mother’s couch.)