Toadstool Mentality

Hello all. Please send me pictures of horrible architecture (real, no AI). I write. A lot. A great deal of my writing ends up here. Currently, I am writing The Dark Crystal fanfiction most often. The things I reblog often include art, and fandoms including RotG, Labyrinth, Venom, Animorphs, Babylon 5, Abarat, light, shadow, water, masks, poetry, and bad humor.

[princesslilymay]

Alice Matryoshka - Mitsuo Inamura

[uracthearchivist]

urGoh the Wanderer - Circle of the Suns Bong Prop - Jim Henson Company 70th Anniversary Auction on Julien's Auctions, sold for $3,200 - Lot 205

"A prop bong used by urGoh the Wanderer (performed by Olly Taylor and voiced by Bill Hader) in the seventh episode of the prequel series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix, 2019), entitled, "Time to Make... My Move." UrGoh can be seen smoking on the pipe from this bong in his first moments on screen when he is introduced by skekGra the Heretic to Rian and his friends at the Circle of the Suns.

The prop contains glass, metal, beads, wood, and resin elements. It contains a (nonfunctional) pipe with a glass tip, rubber-coated tube, and metal fastener.

Dimensions: Base: 17 x 8 x 8 inches"

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | urGoh the Wanderer - Circle of the Suns Bong Prop

[bisexualwario]

sorry to post facebook videos on main but the sound of jello going through an industrial shredder is both mesmerizing and horrible

[amurderofkittens]

This is the one thing in your life you really want and need to hear. It’s so fascinating.

[pmamtraveller]

Mammal in a Sunday Dress, by Georgina M. Cox, 2026

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Mammal in a Sunday Dress explores the uneasy relationship between femininity, civilisation, and the animal body. At first glance, the figure appears modest and withdrawn. Her posture is composed, her gaze seemingly lowered towards her bare feet, recalling the conventions of nineteenth-century portraiture where women were often depicted as passive objects of observation. Yet as the viewer moves closer, the illusion collapses. Her eyes are not lowered at all. She is looking directly back. The delayed eye contact transforms the encounter. The viewer approaches believing they are safely observing a woman; instead, they realise they have been observed themselves. The work refuses the traditional power dynamic of portraiture, denying the comfort of anonymous spectatorship. Looking becomes a reciprocal act. For Cox, the painting considers humanity's persistent desire to separate itself from the rest of the animal kingdom. The title quietly undermines this distinction. A "mammal" is not another creature—it is us. The Sunday dress, rich with cultural associations of femininity, morality, and respectability, becomes an attempt to distinguish ourselves from nature. Yet clothing cannot alter biology. Beneath lace and ritual remains the same vulnerable animal body. The work also reflects on the historical relationship between women and nature. Across art, religion, and philosophy, women have repeatedly been positioned as closer to instinct, emotion, reproduction, and the body itself, while men have been aligned with reason, culture, and civilisation. Mammal in a Sunday Dress does not reject this comparison. Instead, it questions why proximity to nature has so often been treated as something lesser. Chiaroscuro isolates the figure within darkness, allowing the luminous dress to symbolise the performance of civilisation while the bare feet quietly return the body to the earth. Neither is presented as more truthful than the other. The painting exists in the tension between performance and instinct, refinement and biology. Mammal in a Sunday Dress ultimately asks a simple but unsettling question: if every layer of culture were stripped away, what would remain? Not a king. Not a saint. Not a gentleman or a lady. Only another mammal, looking back.

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[videolottery]

I’ve been watching so many old garbage movies recently that I’ve started to have like 60s sci fi themed nightmares where I’m being attacked by like horrible ape monsters and it’s actually scary as fuck! What an awful problem to have

[videolottery]

Last night I had a dream about a terrible science experiment called Moon 13 that involved putting scantily clad women inside of large lava lamps to harness their innate psychic ability. I wish this was a joke

[gretchensinister]

Okay so long story short a nurse recommended eating sour candy to derail anxiety attacks and I do love sour things but like the idea I have now is to find out how pretentious rich people in the 80s or whatever kept their cocaine on them, getting some kind of accessory like that, and filling it with citric acid powder

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

rewatching PHM and this is all I can think of

[twilight-skies]

Prev. These need to be seen @mumblesplash

[gretchensinister]

I like doing jigsaw puzzles, and since my local library started lending them, I've been doing a lot more. This has led to what, to me, is a rather strange revelation: one can get better at doing jigsaw puzzles. It's not a static skill for an adult.

So. Brain exercise is real, don't skip brain day.

[ovenloaf]

Spock enters bottle quarantine until Bones says it's safe for him to come out

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[marypsue]

tam lin's twin - Chapter 2: hold me close, and fear me not - MaryPSue

Not all who wander are lost. But Will is lost, now. More lost than he thinks he’s ever been in his life. And he has no idea how to find his way home.

Exactly one year to the day after posting the first chapter of the third installment of what was supposed to be a quick crackship oneshot, I can finally call this series finished!

[devilsskettle]

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

[devilsskettle]

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[ymutate]

Tara Lee Guild (Canadian, born 1984)

August Forest, 2010

Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 inches

Private collection

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

I've just found the single most homoerotic piece of LOTR art ever who wants to see

[outlaw-monarch]

Um, YES?

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

This is The Taming of Smeagol by Donato Giancola and by god they're gonna have a threeway with that wriggly guy

[chau-draws]

REGULAR YAOI ISN’T ENOUGH!!! I NEED THEM TO SPIRITUALLY MERGE AT A COSMIC LEVEL!!!!!!!!!

[doomtemparts]

one of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.

[pangur-and-grim]

this is her lifestyle

[pangur-and-grim]

her decadent life