Calembredaines & Coquecigrues

[arabellesicardi]

The Deadly History of Women Using Perfume as Poison | Broadly

Is that arsenic on your vanity, or are you just happy to see me?

Had a lot of fun writing about beautifully inclined serial killers! My problematic faves. 

[vestatilleys]

Gabrielle Ray as Joan of Arc, 1900′s.

[asfouri]

[vul-va-deactivated20140905]

By Pakistani artist Abdur Rahman Chughtai.

[specialagentartemis]

The mirrored eyes of the secret saints that adorn the windows of All Christs’ Chapel look down on those who scurry through the alleys, burdened with secrets and candles of their own…

After a month of work, it’s finally done!  My entry to @failbettergames for the Fallen London Hallowmas Competition!

As part of the “craft” category, here’s a stained-glass Hallowmas visitor!  I tried to capture the aesthetic of Fallen London, as well as the imagery of Hallowmas.  (The candle flame and eyes are made of mirrors.  It felt fitting.)

[failbettergames]

The Hallowmas Competition closes today!

[grammery]

The remains of a mid-16th century church known as the Temple of Santiago is visible Friday from the surface of the Grijalva River due to the lack of rain near the town of Nueva Quechula, in Chiapas state, Mexico.

[mudwerks]

(via Anonymous Works: Scary)

Unusual Antique Victorian Era Tintype Photo of Masked Theater Actors 

[detrituss]

Remembering is like constructing and then traveling again through a space. We are already talking about architecture. Memories are built as a city is built.

Umberto Eco, from “Architecture and Memory,” trans. William Weaver, VIA (vol. 8, 1986)

[teeething]

“Lamia #7″, corrupted video file in digital screen with found ornate frame. 1 of 6 digital installations from my recent solo show POSSESSION

[ghostbees]

A king in a strange country

[humanfilth]

[marthajefferson]

humanfilth:

Die Seelen des Acheron, Detail. by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

[blightthings0]

It is its own weird brand of dystopia that a whitewashed movie celebrating revolt against a police state will earn a bajillion dollars in the same week that people protesting excessive authoritarian violence and injustice are forcibly suppressed and given racist treatment by a largely unsympathetic public

[thenarrativefoil]

Hey guys Ferguson wants artists to beautify the town esp the boarded up windows and buildings! They need volunteers and paint supplies~ Tom Halsaka is organizing it and we’re meeting at Art Bar STL on Cherokee Street

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[marxism-leninism-utenaism]

imagine if steampunk was “actually” punk and not just fucked up empire fetishism

[swan-archive]

#i think about this a lot#steampunk is based on the idea that the world wars never happened and the industrial revolution never stopped#so imagine that...

[diamond-in-the-ash]

I think of how the mystics read by the light of their own bodies. What a world of darkness that must have been to read by the flaming hearts that turn into heaps of ash on the altar, how everything in the end is made equal by the wind.

Timothy Liu, excerpt from “Vox Angelica,” The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University, 2000 (via apoetreflects)

(another collection that still haunts me from my shelf)

[claude-russo-deactivated2026011]

Friday Project: Witch Moral Compass

[onestudyblr]

Sol Justitiae by Albrecht Durer, 1499.

[oldladycallowaysghost]

"Makeup should enhance your natural beauty, not obscure it. Use subtle highlights to accent the ravenous hunger in your eyes and bring out the extraordinary size of your submandibular venom glands." "Your daily positive affirmation: today I am thankful for being alive and blessed with rows upon rows of teeth that shear right through muscle and bone." "Conceal your dark circles. Conceal your bright chevrons and your dusky stripes. The humans must not suspect what you are." "New research shows that ideal femininity encompasses a lamia’s beauty, a cyclops’ strength, a hydra’s deadliness, a Fury’s heartlessness, a harpy’s swiftness, and a sphinx’s love of feasting on less intelligent creatures. Be a chimera that cannot be contained!" "Aim to be described as "inexplicably eerie," "unsettlingly off," and "I’m not sure what she looks like, I could never keep my eyes on her face long enough to see."

If you are not aware of the “Beauty by H.P. Lovecraft” Facebook page, you are missing the time of your life.  (via baptismus-flaminis)