CTB Ideas

Beautiful things that catch my interest

[lackadaisycal-art]

Family Recipe

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[derelicthousefootage]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[transchakotay]

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

- Simone Weil

[xic4-4]

"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."

- Vincent van Gogh

[elfwreck]

"Each of us from the moment of his or her birth exists in an environment in which it is easy to do evil and hard to do good.... If I know somebody very well, in ten minutes, if I set my mind to it, I could perhaps say to them things so cruel, so destructive, that they would never forget them for the rest of their life. But could I in ten minutes say things so beautiful, so creative, that they would never forget them?"

- Bishop Kallistos Ware

[caitlynkurilich]

Lily Knight, Digital Media, 2019.

Come visit me in Renaissance-Victorian dreamland. Stay as long as you like.

[depsidase]

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

This is by Sarah Gordon. You can buy it as a print here.

You can follow Sarah on instagram here, on bluesky, and - whatdya know, person who couldn't be arsed to find a source for this painting - on tumblr @scarygorgon.

Oh, and you can also buy the ominous frog as a t-shirt!

[enchantedbook]

'The Graveyard' from the blue bird by Maurice Maeterlinck, illustrated by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1920.

[shear-in-spuh-rey-shuhn-deactiv]

ERIN VEST All The Horses Of Iceland

[no1248]

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Art by Victoria Dael

You can find more of Victoria's (amazing) doggy pictures on instagram, or shop prints/shirts here.

Also, the doggy is called Watson :3

[simkaye]

Sharp tongue

[redlipstickresurrected]

Shou Xin aka 手訫 aka Xin Shou (Chinese, based Henan, China) - A group of mischievous little line-drawn cats is pouncing your way!, Drawings: Pencil, Eraser, and small Knives for added texture

[huariqueje]

The Shore - Barry McGlashan , 2023.

British, b. 1974 -

Oil on paper over panel , 12 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.

[knightofleo]

Cats by Léo Forest

[nevver]

Dead at 95, Jules Feiffer

[and-corn]

shoutout to the "foolproof" bread recipe I fucked up entirely for inspiring this

[soyrwoo]

Happy Moon Landing Day 🌕🐇

[bunnyheritageposts]

Bunny Heritage Post

[thegorgonist]

Ambulocetus in the Light The world is haunted by a past far older than ours. Whales once walked on land. Sometimes the land remembers them--or they remember the land.

Homage to history and my beautiful but fraught Pacific Northwest.

In my shop

[thelolgifs]

Rolling around the Penrose Triangle

[a-book-of-creatures]

are we there yet

[grickle14]

grickle14 

So happy to have these heavily requested images finally available as prints at gricklemart.com! Each one is 8x10 in size and signed by yours truly! Celebrate October with some joyful Nosferatu fellows on your walls! https://gricklemart.com/vampire-3-pack/

VAMPIRE 3 PACK

Featuring artwork, collectibles, books and more from Graham Annable creator of Eerie Tales: School of Screams, Peter & Ernesto, Puzzle Agent