Dark Whispers in Shadows

Aesthetic blog for all kinds of dark things, showcasing artists on tumblr, and sharing things that I personally enjoy.

[trevorhenderson]

owl study

[ritasanderson]

the normal horsegirl

[noiseartwork]

Sirens at night.

@sssslimysswampghostttt

Sirenhead Fanart I did some time ago.

[blessedbethewickedofficial]

Jeff the killer in Blessed be the wicked is written by myself and @puppycarnage2 intended to be a rewrite that highlights what works about the character, fleshing it out and to throw away the bits the fandom latches onto that serves no real purpose.

Jeff Higgins was alive during the 1970s and even back then, he was rotten to the core. The kind of kid who’d laugh too hard when someone got hurt, who poked at roadkill just to see how it broke apart. There was always something mean simmering under his skin. When the war came, he saw it as a gift. Finally, a place where that kind of cruelty wasn’t just allowed, it was rewarded. He begged his best friend, Isaac Wight, to enlist with him. Said they’d raise hell together, make something of themselves, see the world. Two boys who thought violence was purpose. But when the day came, Jeff went alone. Isaac never showed. Didn’t even say goodbye.

Jeff went to Vietnam angry and stayed that way. He fought hard, harder than he needed to. What he did there was the kind of thing no one writes on a tombstone, the kind of horror you only admit when the bottle’s already half gone or you're on your deathbed. Whole villages burned with him leading the fight, and when the flames came for him, they didn’t stop. His own napalm caught him, melted most of his face to the bone. He carved his mouth back open just to breathe. They sent him home a “hero.” Bronze Star, discharge papers, a handshake. No surgeon could fix what he’d become. His girl, Lilly, was long gone. His house looked like no one had lived there in years. He tried to find Isaac, maybe to kill him, maybe just to see him and found nothing but a man pretending he hadn’t run. A man wrapped up in his kid sister, pretending the world was still good.

The war doesn’t leave a man like Jeff. It just changes shape.

[aukkenopsia]

Body Alchemy

Progress stages under cut.

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[elirerahael]

Valthir 🌙

[artwins]

Nagash, Supreme Lord of the Undead

(reward for the amazing @mephicchi )

[ritasanderson]

[immren]

yum.. a nice juicy... organ?

[ritasanderson]

the normal horsegirl

[ineed-to-sleep]

Balin & Uriel for @kuummii and @onethousandeyeslooking 🕯📚❤😌

[u3pxx]

ok i suddenly had a thought and got curious

visual artists: when you have an idea for something, does it appear in your mind as the finished product, the steps you'll have to take, a sentence, or something else?

finished thing (i saw an image of an apple in my head so that's what i'll draw)

steps (if i draw an apple, i'll draw a circle as a guide first, then...)

sentence (i should draw an apple being picked from a tree)

a combination of these (tell me in the tags!!)

something else (also tell me in the tags!!!!)

not a visual artist, just curious.

Remaining time: 2 days 18 hours

i have aphantasia (i can't see images in my brain) so i just like hearing how other people visualize ideas LOL also hopefully the examples i wrote make sense it's kind of hard to put into words but ehhhh

[markollart]

More Sylus... mooore!🖤

[mgath]

More 🦷

[patopq]

grwm to survive another day haunted by my insane dead mother

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.