persistent horror.

EL - 30s - SHE/THEY i like vampires

[fassy]

our family’s not cursed. we just had our dark spots.

[herpsandbirds]

Sonoran Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus nebrius), family Crotaphytidae, Tucson, AZ, USA

photographs by Yinpeng Zhang

[ashmoleanmuseum]

🐝 🌸 Buzzzzz…

Today is national ‘Don’t Step on a Bee Day’. Good advice all year round, we think. This little bee is buzzing around the cherry blossom on a 19th-century Chinese fan painted by Chen Fen. Chen Fen was a specialist in bird-and-flower painting from Guangzhou, Guangdong province. To see the full fan painting, and to search our Eastern Art collection, just click here.

[emziess]

RYAN GOSLING as RYLAND GRACE Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[great-and-small]

I can now attest that the Flamboyant Cuttlefish is aptly named 🕺 🕺 🕺

[samwinchesterism]

head of a dead young man, théodore géricault (before 1819) // supernatural (2018) 

[titsay]

please don't let go

[foldingfittedsheets]

There is a word I’m not allowed to use. I love it. I love it so much. But my darling beloved wife hates it with a fiery passion.

I came across it from Anne Lister’s diary, where she says that she would “grubble under women’s skirts” and honestly. The word perfectly encapsulates the fumbling feeling of fighting your way through layers of fabric to reach the promised pussy land.

However the word has been forbidden, reviled from the first moment my beloved heard it. They shuddered and it’s truly one of the only restrictions they’ve ever placed on my vocabulary so I don’t say it. But I do think it, on occasion.

Sometimes the word will pop into my head and I will think it too hard and my wife will turn and glare at me and accuse, “I know you’re thinking it!”

“But I didn’t say it!” I protest. But they’re always right. Even with no context they always know when I’m thinking it.

Today I told my wife, “I shared the unmentionable word with Astrid today and she quite enjoyed it. She repeated it several times.”

They bellowed liked a dying wildebeest and said, “I can go months without remembering that word exists and then it comes up again. It’s so disgusting, it’s what Sméagol would do on the ground digging for worms!”

I was laughing and protested, “It sounds like fighting through skirts, the groping around.”

“No! That is something that happens in the muck and the filth. It’s negative sexy.

“Bet you're gonna take to Tumblr and share it and some people are gonna be like, ‘Oh what a great word! We should definitely use that in our lexicon. Top tier word!’ And you know what? THEYRE WRONG. GARBAGE WORD. GROSS.”

I listened to their impassioned hatred while cuddled in their arms and radiated love at them and remorse for having reminded them about the existence of grubbling. But now you get to hear about it. As a treat.

[lovetheirloves]

On the tumblr, straight up grubbling it.

[jurisffiction]

Call me 'baby' when you forget my name, I'm just glad that you came Call me 'baby', let me die on the stage, let the orchestra play

The Vampire Armand — Theatre, Etta Marcus (full width on youtube)

[dailystockphotos]

Today's stock photo: A pair of skeletons in loving embrace.

[mananabuffins]

Not to be insane but it's worth noting that the discoloration of the top implies a much older skeleton. #age_difference

[jetix]

Verdigris Waxcap, 2024-05-04

[losingbenni]

ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (2026) 3.07 — The Failures

[20cmodern]

Rosewood case sofa by Milo Baughman for Thayer-Coggin

[jetix]

Red-Lined Bubble Snail, 2026-05-26

[nataliehall]

Jimoteè Chamameé

Who wants a Jimothy tattoo 🤣

[faithschaffer]

[the-library-alcove]

How many mass graves and extinct cultures are needed to convince Christian apologists that missionaries and missionizing are inherently xenophobic?

The answer is apparently always, "At least one more."

[the-library-alcove]

It just like... look. If your religion has an explicit instruction of belief that it needs to take every other religion out there in the world, wipe them out, and replace them with itself, that religion is xenophobic. And the people who engage in the fulfillment of that process are xenophobic. It might not be as explicitly nasty a xenophobia as ethnic genocide, but it's still an instruction to commit cultural genocide.