[ancientsstudies]

The Secret Society of Literature Students.

[etherealacademia]

i drove through my empty university campus yesterday. the buildings looked so lonely.

[eirlis]

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt. I fear. I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”

— Bram Stoker, Dracula

[superheroesincolor]

Gods of Jade and Shadow: A Novel (2019)

The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

Here we shall begin to tell a story: a tale of a throne lost, of monsters and magic. A tale of gods and of the shadow realm. But this, our story, it begins in our world, in the land of mortals.

It begins with a woman. For this story, it is her story. It begins with her. 

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty, small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. 

Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it–and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan God of Death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea’s demise, but success could make her dreams come true.

In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey, from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City–and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld. 

Mixing the excitement of the Roaring Twenties with Prehispanic mythology, Gods of Jade and Shadow is a vivid, wildly imaginative historical fantasy.

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Pre-order it here

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of Signal to Noise, named one of the best books of the year by BookRiot, Tordotcom, BuzzFeed, io9, and more; Certain Dark Things, one of NPR’s best books of the year, a Publishers Weekly top ten, and a VOYA “Perfect Ten”; the fantasy of manners The Beautiful Ones; and the science fiction novella Prime Meridian. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows (a.k.a. Cthulhu’s Daughters). She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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[acourtofcouture]

An Insider’s Guide to Serpent & Dove: the City of Cesarine, Capital of Belterra, 1/?

[uze]

[heylookitsarevolution]

This is the money courage, reblog at your leisure for wealth, positivity and good fortune. Add any negativity to this post and a man will appear outside your home yelling “return the slab” over and over.

[papirene-royzn]

The Apparition by James Tissot

[avatar-aang]

avatar: the last airbender + scenery (requested by @rcmxslupxn)

[petalpetal]

Artist I Like Series

Yuko Shimizu 1965-  a Japanese illustrator based in New York City whose work combines Japanese heritage with contemporary reference points. Works by Shimizu address a range of serious issues including sex, race, and cultural identity, but also can be light and whimsical.

I love her pop cultural imagery with the aesthetics of traditional Japanese printmaking.

[sonythotstation]

La Luz (2020)

[lovely-charlotte]

[kritastrophe]

angel on the backroads

[tracyjleeart]

disguise

[almostreading]

How many books is too many books?

[metamorphesque]

Fyodor Dostoevsky / At Eternity's Gate / Walt Whitman

[elosilla]

[ecchymosess]

UM EXCUSE ME THOS E ARE FUCKING PIXELS HOW

[street-trash]

Seize the Day was a calendar program made by in 1994 by Buena Vista software. It features graphics that at the time, were revolutionary because of the way they handled color cycling. These images were static bitmaps, but by changing color values, they appear animated. What is also impressive about these images is that they had full day night cycles built in, rendered also through color cycling. A few years ago, a html5 version was made. A copy was uncovered online and there is a way to use the program through DOSbox. As well, one of the original programmers for the project, Iam Gilman, has thought of the idea of remaking it, open sourced, for modern machines.

[xeppeli]

thanks for writing a more elaborate explanation. i’ve seen these pictures be spread like wildfire without mention of the technology behind it.

[jesamjd]

I’m sure its been done before, but it’s my first time watching it FMA:B through, so I had to do it.