Emily R Ward @lagrin9a - Tumblr Blog

Been watching and rewatching IT: Welcome to Derry like a lunatic 🎈

#pennywise #dick hallorann #it welcome to derry #im not calling you a good boy

Its frustrating when non-horror people come into horror spaces and ask why we like violence and watching people suffer and sexism and all other manner of moral hand-wringing, but i also find it frustrating when horror fans (myself included) attempt to sincerely engage with these questions. Like 9 times out of 10 the question is either being asked in bad faith, or the asker is genuinely confused, and neither of those types of people are prepared for a proper answer about how horror reflects the cultural landscape or the complex relationships between the genre and gender and race etc and they definitely aren't ready to hear about the real facet of sexuality and eroticism in basically all horror media

horror is an easy target for pearl clutching but you can subject pretty much any genre to the same criticism if you frame it poorly enough. Oh you like romance movies? So you enjoy watching men stalk women and violate their boundaries? You think cheating is okay? You think its cool when women give up their careers to get married? I dont like or watch romance movies but based off my limited understanding thats what they're all like, etc

i think we need to just start responding to bad faith questions about horror with "yeah i thought it was awesome when The Killer fed all those teenagers into a wood chipper"

thewindowofthesummerhouse

@sketchmenot Mackenzie Mathews

Everything is temporary

Nothing here will last

Breathe the dust around you

It's the future it’s the past

Nothing that you do

Will be remembered or remarked

You're just a loathsome stranger

Clutching, struggling in the dark

-“Everything is Temporary” by Those Poor Bastards

#digitalillustration #horror #fantasy #dark fantasy #ankou #death #the grim reaper #irish folklore #decay #scythe #those poor bastards #everything is temporary

boozois

the creature will grant you one wish for the new year, what do you wish for?

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;

Long time the manxome foe he sought—

So rested he by the Tumtum tree

And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

-“The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carrol

#fantasy #digitalart #digitalillustration #horror #demon #demon sword #dark fantasy #vorpal blade #jabberwocky #lewis carroll #eldrich horror #cosmic horror #fantasy swords #weapon design

Wildling

#digitalillustration #horns #characterdesign #digitalart #the black cauldron #fantasy #horror #feral child #the horned king #the horned god #demon

Yurei Ryuto 2024 vs Yukai Ryujin 2008

Back in 2008, I made a Naruto inspired OC. Yukai Ryujin eventually became my persona, but man did I suck at drawing at 13. Now after all these years of practice, getting in the habit of researching, and being less cringe, I redesigned her. I renamed her to Yurei Ryuto because after all these years, I realized I was spelling “Yokai” wrong, and the word Yurei does connect better to ghosts. And Ryuto instead of Ryujin, because it’s more of a legitimate last name. Anyway, she’s still a Sound ninja, formerly a mist ninja because she wanted to improve her abilities. She specializes in illusions, and water based techniques. Her scythe shrunk because those are more compatible as weapons than western harvesting scythes (unless you repurpose it into a battle scythe). She still has a katana. And for some reason, she looks like Inoske from Demon Slayer 😅