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Chroma V - Yunchul Kim

Video: a metres-long serpentine robot suspended from a ceiling. It has flexing panels with a fluctuating mother-of-pearl pattern. No audio.

jairus666

bucketofcursedbooks

Oh to live in a weird little town with gloomy weather and strange weird sounds in the woods and hushed whispers about strange sightings and an alarming amount of hauntings and a concerning amount of eye motifs and a library with conveniently placed section for everything that's relevant to the mystery and cloaked figures sneaking around and the occasional uncanny person and weird notes and maps and books and stuff being found around the town and oh to live in a weird little town with a mystery

orivu

youve died a thousand times before who caaares just climb out of this grave again & again &agaian & agaian & again & again & aga

#Dont worry fellas just remembering this one for an oc

thegenderal

Vampire meeting where a 1800’s vampire is complaining about how the blood these days just is no longer as good as blood used to be and has all these impurities 🙄 microplastics and zoloft and energy drinks 🙄 i wish we could go back to the old days when blood tasted better. And another vampire (2000’s) goes idk dude it tastes good to me maybe you just had a laudanum addiction .

broosepayne

my favorite thing about Kelley Jones' Batman is that bruce will be in the middle of a conversation and he'll just start striking the most creacher poses for no discernible reason

what are you doing there buddy

burtoo

November - Brendon Burton

#inspo

fuckyeahchinesefashion

bed rooms on xiaohongshu

#inspo

lionfloss

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cryptotheism

Important question: if I wanted to make the most evil looking possible little table altar on a budget, what sorta symbols are we thinking?

gattmammon

We're saying evil-looking so I'm assuming we're going for intimidation. Body parts and weaponry are obvious, but fake props are easily ridiculed and we are working on a budget.

Generally speaking you want something that speaks of obsession and consummation, so accumulation (of trash, of writing, of the same object over and over) and burned/broken objects are all good. Important: if you want to really be creepy I feel like the actual symbolism should be less formal (like a particular statue for example) and more instinctual and obscure. I want to look at it and be like "ok, they are worshipping *something* very intensely and I don't actually want to know what it is. Better move on".

So this is how I would go about it: take several printed pages and pictures from all sources you can find (bonus points for old timey pornography, the raunchier the better, advertising and religious/occult/UFO/new age imagery that is cliché and cringe and capitalist - all forms of exploitation of art and beauty and mystery for money) + a few random cursed thrift store figurines and dolls in the same genre. Absolutely COVER everything in black Sharpie writing. Can be actual writing can be scribbles that look like writing. (Obsessive writing is good because it means "this person spends a shitton of time here working on this"). Find a pattern + stick to it (maybe blot out all the eyes. Maybe repeat a random symbol over and over. Maybe add red twine to connect the different things. Whatever works. Pattern is good because it suggest a logic the observer can't pick up on, as if there is something menacing they don't know about). Pile and pack everything on the table until you have covered all of the surface you want to dedicate to the altar, but still placing it in a way that suggest thought has gone into it rather than it being random hoarder behaviour. in the middle put the most unassuming piece of fireproof tableware you own (white chipped ceramic plate is excellent - it needs to be something common, implying you were in a rush and picked the first thing you found). Put stuff in the middle of the plate and burn it to a crisp until it's reduced to scorched marks and indistinct black stuff. Leave several cheap plastic BIC lighters laying around. Stick a candle into an empty beer bottle, block all natural sunlight in the room, and there you go!

#op tags:#and yes there are a couple ableist clichés in there. dont worry i had my graphomania phase i know it actually means nothing