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A recounting of tales from the Gillyverse and musings on tabletop games. And cute pokemon pictures.

[poovellamkettuppar]

*seductively slips into existential melancholy*

[sailorbrazil]

[peachdoxie]

Miles Morales was instantly relatable in the first 30 seconds of his appearance in Into the Spider-verse when he only sung along to like 28% of the lyrics to Sunflower and just mumbled random syllables to the rest.

[nae-design]

Everyone’s favourite crane master Cristian Marianciuc’s latest works are just as stunning.

[saltycatfish]

I feel like it would be a cryptid.

[vintagegeekculture]

I've seen a lot of old convention stuff on your blog. What would you consider to be the greatest convention of all time?

If you want to visit the coolest convention ever with an absolutely unrepeatable guest list, set your time machine to take you to the 1977 Nudlecon in Tucson, Arizona (aka the 1977 Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy World Exposition).

The guest list for this event was absolutely beyond belief and will never be repeated, especially since so many of these people have passed on. Scifi grandmasters, science personalities like Carl Sagan and an actual Apollo astronaut, even Margaret Mitchell, the actual original Wicked Witch of the West, Harryhausen himself, even legit scifi grandmasters like Heinlein, Ellison, Poul Anderson, not to mention James Doohan. It even had legit Hollywood legends like Robert Wise, Buster Crabbe, and Johnny Weismuller. 

According to one person who was there: “Johnny Weissmuller celebrated his 73rd birthday with a party there. Charles A. Purchase and Raymond E. Mondoux refitted an original Apollo trainer to bring to the event.”

The guest list has to be seen to be believed: 

Ask any old fan from Arizona, they’ll tell you how mindblowing and defining the 1977 Nudlecon was to this day.

[awed-frog]

when you’re trying to write and your last two functioning brain cells start yelling at each other

[catboyrights]

you know where to find me if tumblr goes down

[ar-mah]

[exeuntnoctis-deactivated2025103]

I have no words for this.. Phenomenal

[bugsroseee]

Tag your porn

[3derfla]

From the soundtrack of Interstellar by Hans Zimmer

[carlboygenius]

[torianu-deactivated20190206]

The Plaque Series

The concept art of Jenny Holzer.

[glumshoe]

Is there anything more nauseating than ‘expensive heterosexual wedding’ culture?

[glumshoe]

My dream wedding: outside, illegal fireworks, shoes are optional, mostly potluck, someone’s dressed as a wizard, I get to insult my relatives, hopefully some live music.

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

You want to get married at Bilbo Baggins 111th birthday

[lizardvvizard]

and that’s The Mood ®️

[mmothmanners]

Meission Impossible – a true underdog story.

[hymnsofheresy]

ok the shittiest part about christmastime is the fact people keep skipping over the forth verse of “we three kings” like… we get it. y’all are white protestants who can’t even think about mortality for one single second. 

[hymnsofheresy]

also people who skip the third verse of “o holy night” are reactionary cowards

[hymnsofheresy]

ok but these lyrics are so powerful and amazing. im so pissed.

We Three Kings (4):

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume Breathes a life of gathering gloom; Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, Sealed in the stone cold tomb.

O Holy Night (3):

Truly He taught us to love one another, His law is love and His gospel is peace. Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother. And in his name all oppression shall cease. Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we, With all our hearts we praise His holy name. Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we, His power and glory ever more proclaim! His power and glory ever more proclaim!

[shorthistorian]

Important context on O Holy Night: The English lyrics by John Sullivan Dwight are from 1855, a full decade before the abolition of slavery in the United States. In fact, abolition was still a VERY fringe position. Pro-slavery advocates, meanwhile, were arguing that slavery was God’s gift to white civilization. In that year, six years before the Civil War began, Americans were already shooting each other over whether slavery should expand out in Kansas.

Dwight–unsurprisingly, a Unitarian minister–put the most inflammatory possible political statement of the day into his Christmas carol.

[biotechwitch-deactivated2018122]

[freddieandersen]

the statue in the bottom right is Le génie du mal, carved by guillame geefs to replace a different lucifer (known as either Le génie du mal or L’ange du mal) carved by his younger brother. why did joseph geefs’ lucifer get removed from the cathedral? it was too sexy. the statue was too sexy by far.

st. paul’s cathedral in liége went from one lucifer, whom they called ‘too sublime’ and removed because he was distracting ‘pretty penitent girls,’ to another lucifer, who they’ve left there for 170 years even though he’s so hot that satanists visit the cathedral to meditate in the presence of this Most Sexy Of Lucifers

here’s how i imagine that went down.

liege cathedral: hmm. you know what we need? a nice satan for our church. let’s ask joey geefs

joseph geefs: sculpts this

liege cathedral: no!! too hot!! now we all want to fuck lucifer! we need a different satan. let’s ask… the sexy lucifer sculptor’s BROTHER. yes. willy geefs is older so he definitely doesn’t want to fuck lucifer

guillaume geefs, who DOES want to fuck lucifer, and the only sign of his being older than his brother is that the lucifer he wants to fuck is somewhat older: sculpts this

liege cathedral: shit. well we don’t have any more money for lucifers so i guess we’ll keep this sexy lucifer

mlm, straight girls, and satanists in the vicinity of liege: NICE

[porterr-robinson]

[monkeysaysficus]

Not to be That Guy™️, but UNMUTE THIS

[wav3ydaz3]

im in a used massage chair i found in the street drinking wine out of a daffy duck mug and this is matching my energy perfectly

[caitmayart]

CONTENT WARNINGS - BLOOD / VIOLENCE / DEATH

My EXTREMELY LATE Halloween Comic - inspired by the Vampire of Lugnano. Feels good to work on some personal stuff, and it’s been ages since I’ve drawn a horror comic. Check out this article about the REAL vampire!