baptized by decaying hands

headfirst falling into hell

[lealdog]

🗡️ ART @rotkap 🗡️ GUILD WARS 2 @elememetalist 🗡️ ESO @wormcult

Vampire: The Masquerade, fromsoftware (and other) video games, LARP and music (post-hardcore, hardcore punk, emo, screamo).

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[dogmotifv2]

eating an apple outside really is the closest you can get to smoking without smoking. some would think thats vaping but vaping is closer to eating a comically large lollipop in public

[blanchebees]

Old Godwin sketches

Tip Jar

[muttrott]

This month's postcard art for art club. Join on or before June 10th to receive it

[lealdog]

hate when i accidentally finger the hole in the sink while washing hands

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

modern medieval fantasies don't have enough weasel-based necromancy

[maniculum]

Please elaborate on this topic at length

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i think i've made my position clear

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

anyway here are some medieval discussions of weasels and their necromantic abilities:

gerald of wales: The weasel also, when its young are dying from any hurt, recovers and restores them to life by the use of a yellow flower. We are told by persons who have witnessed the fact, having put the whelp to death to make the experiment, that the weasel brought the flower in its mouth, and first applied it to the wound, and then to the mouth, nostrils, and other orifices of the little animal, that it might inhale the odor, by which, through the efficacious touch of the plant, breath was restored, though life seemed extinct, some slight and imperceptible vestiges of it only having remained.

aberdeen bestiary: it is said, also, that they are skilled in healing, so that if by chance their young are killed, and their parents succeed in finding them, they can bring their offspring back to life.

thomas of cantimpré: Accordingly they are said to be expert in all the arts of medicine, so that, if they find their offspring dead, they make them naturally recuperate by means of a herb

also in marie de france's lai eliduc, guildeluec uses a flower she got from a weasel that was resurrecting its weasel friend to resurrect guilliadon

conclusion:

behold, a necromancer

[more about medieval weasel beliefs]

[sydrichie]

[einarbaldvin]

Bat Swarm. Ink on paper.

[bahari-official]

once again i'm entering the Suffering From Not Enough Vampires mode

[lealdog]

i need TV Show recommendations. some of my favorites are Better Call Saul, Mr. Robot, Ozark, Game of Thrones and spin-offs

[rotkap]

follow me on the fediverse (@[email protected]) or bluesky (@rotkap.com).

[rotkap]

i spend more time over here these days (self-hosted). if you want to see more crafting adventures, that's where it's at.

if any mutuals want to join my fedi instance, DM me. i guarantee nothing in terms of potential data loss or downtime. it's a hobby project and i'm only paying for so much storage space.

[vieneinpace]

William Etty's Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched (1828) revamped by Astra Zero

[aowna]

A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea...

[helledeh]

Pylon quilt!

made my me

[vossn]

Ordo Hereticus Inquisitors will just ask you to make out in a pile of gutted heretics and not wait for an answer

for @inquisitornocturn ✨

[luulapants]

Got into a discussion about emergency response at a professional retreat recently and everyone was going on and on about agility, and I was like, "Okay but what about contingency?"

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

Anyway, that's how I figured out I'm Batman-coded and also learned how Batman must feel talking to supposedly professional superheroes who never bothered to run disaster scenarios until I pointed out that it's insane that they don't already have a plan for if Superman turns evil.

[nestofstraightlines]

There’s a phrase that really stuck in my head around this. It was from one of the British divers who enacted the Thai caving rescue, though I couldn’t tell you which one or which interview.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

And the diver said, “No, actually people always get that exactly wrong. In an unexpected and urgent situation you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training.”

[throckmortons-thrussy]

[leebrontide]

Hey.

Low key tip from a therapist here for my likely-adhd pals. Like shh pretend you didn’t hear this from me but:

If you are trying to get assessed for ADHD as an adult and the assessor wants you to get your parents to fill out forms but your parents also have ADHD but insist they’re “normal” and you know they’re gonna fuck up your assessment by insisting you never did anything ADHD because thats just their “normal” or because they just think you’re lazy or whatever, then you just tell that assessor “Im not in contact with my parents”. Those are the magic words. Swap it out for “family” if you also mean your siblings or whatever. I don’t care if you were at moms house last Saturday, do not allow this very stupid standard fuck your over.

I hate this standard. We KNOW that ADHD is the most heritable trait after height. But we assume everyone getting assessed has a prev generation member who is totally objective about this? When we know how stigmatized these symptoms have been and continue to be??? Why????

It is authentically helpful to have someone who knew you as a kid, but look around for someone else if you need to,

But you didn’t hear that from me.