Blood Rose Rising

A new web series of horror, romance, and the supernatural

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Reception or Dinner Dress, ca. 1883

Charles Frederick Worth

via MFA

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 A fine gown for dark magicians who wish to avoid blood stains...

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Satan’s Little Helper [x]

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(Sins more just in case)

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SIX THINGS ONLY GHOSTS WILL UNDERSTAND

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This might just be the best comics ghost since Wink Hauntlie.

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me 11:59 September 30th

me 12:00 October 1st

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A Blackwood family wedding cake!

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Thomas Bavington

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"Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire, The Costume Institute’s first fall exhibition in seven years, will be on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Anna Wintour Costume Center from October 21, 2014 through February 1, 2015.  The exhibition will explore the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the 19th and early 20th centuries.  Approximately 30 ensembles, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, will reveal the impact of high-fashion standards on the sartorial dictates of bereavement rituals as they evolved over a century.”

[flaxrobyn]

dapper and gentlemanly villains (◡‿◡✿)

beastial and brutal villains (◕‿◕✿)

suave and seductive villains (◕ヮ◕✿)

easily angered villains （”>ヮ< ）

villains (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ* ・゚✧

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In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being human: aging, decay, darkness and so forth. And I believe that monsters originally, when we were cavemen and you know, sitting around a fire, we needed to explain the birth of the sun and the death of the moon and the phases of the moon and rain and thunder. And we invented creatures that made sense of the world: a serpent that ate the sun, a creature that ate the moon, a man in the moon living there, things like that. And as we became more and more sophisticated and created sort of a social structure, the real enigmas started not to be outside. The rain and the thunder were logical now. But the real enigmas became social. All those impulses that we were repressing: cannibalism, murder, these things needed an explanation. The sex drive, the need to hunt, the need to kill, these things then became personified in monsters. Werewolves, vampires, ogres, this and that. I feel that monsters are here in our world to help us understand it. They are an essential part of a fable.

Guillermo Del Toro  (via mashamorevna)

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mythology meme: Lilith [לילית] - “night creatures”, “night monster”, “night hag”, or “screech owl”. In Hebrew mythology Lilith was the first wife of Adam.

Book of Isaiah (34):

“Her nobles shall be no more, nor shall kings be proclaimed there; all her princes are gone. Her castles shall be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches. Wildcats shall meet with desert beasts, satyrs shall call to one another; There shall the Lilith repose, and find for herself a place to rest.”

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wednesdayschildis submitted

A second attempt at my kickstarter project. Please share! Thank you! <3

Clothing the workers:Researching Victorian Clothing

An in depth research project into the realities of clothing for the Victorian Working Classes in Britain

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wednesdayschildis/clothing-the-workers-researching-victorian-clothin

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Sounds like a worthy cause!

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This 4th of July, why not honor the founding fathers by communing with their spirits?  And if they ask for a few sacrifices in return...well, surely the price won't be too high to pay!

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Science and Superstition in Blood Rose Rising.  From human sacrifices to experiments with electricity, there's a history to our bloody tale.

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Victorian Headless Portraits

The Victorian era has many photographs, most of which show the subject sitting or standing with a stern expression. Since photography was still in its infancy, photographers were experimenting with novel ways to create photos that differed from the norm. Animals acting human was one popular concept, and then came the headless portrait. Funny and entertaining, a new genre of photography was born.

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A new interview is up- Mythology in Blood Rose Rising.  What monsters will you get to see in our little show?  Find out here!

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A bowl of blood held by Ambrose Blackwood.  Tune in to the show to learn its sinister purpose...