[anxiousmimicrpgs]

One of the classes in my upcoming OSR game A Most Bloody Devotion. She's a literal corpse. Not undead. Just an actual dead body that people get obsessed with when they touch it.

[jay-rayart]

Out on Youtube March 20th. Link in Bio!! These two masterpieces where ALL over my mood board when I was making Waves. Black and Magical is the way I’d describe this film. Loving yourself when the world wants to hate you is the greatest power the world has ever seen. I have so many feelings about this film. Please look out for it this March! 3/20/2026, the first day of spring 💙

[dreadwedge]

LOL so the other day I was scampering about squeaking and looking for cheese and such when I saw the farmer out in the field and, get this, he was trying to pull a turnip out of the ground, but the turnip was like really big, right, so he couldn’t do it 😅 like he was really struggling. Weak fuckinh farmer. So he calls over his wife and she holds onto his waist and starts pulling too but the turnip is still stuck. So she calls over their kid and she grabs onto her grandma and now all three of them are huffing and puffing but the damn turnip won’t budge. This is one crazy ass root vegetable. So they call over the dog and I’m thinking, girl, this is not going to work. but the dog bites down on the kids pants and starts pulling. It’s like a damn conga line. No dice. The dog starts whimpering and next thing you know the cat wanders over and bites the mutt right on her tail and starts pulling. So I’m laughing my ass off at this point but the cat starts looking at me. And normally we don’t really get on, the cat and me. But there’s this desperation in her eyes. In all of their eyes, really. Like, if I can’t dig up a damn tuber then who am I. What’s the point of it all, if there’s an enormous turnip that’s stronger than me. And I can see the future unfolding in my mind. The cat will never respect the dog again, and dog will never obey the kid, who will probably run away from home to find a new jacked grandma. And the farmers wife will leave him, and the whole damn charade of masculinity will crumble and fall. And I shouldn’t care right. I have no stake in this. This is some funny shit. But how funny would it be if little old me pitched in and the turnip actually came uprooted. I’ve got no ego. nobody respects a gay little mouse in this city. If I don’t make a difference here, no loss. But if I save the day? Can you imagine? Outdid by a mouse? The farmer would be delivering me fresh brie on the daily and the cat would probably have to move to a different area code to escape the mockery. So, in the spirit of cooperation, I grab the cat’s tail, and I give a little tug. Just the one. And I swear to god, it feels like an earthquake. Up comes the turnip, big as a house, and the farmer falls on his ass, and so does his wife, and all down the line. And I hop up on the cats head and scamper up the backs of the team as they catch their breath, and I leap up onto the turnip itself and I take a big bite out of it. And let me tell you: that shit? Tasted like a turnip

[salmonpiffy]

Just watched Backrooms and couldn't stop thinking about it

[snappingsquids]

um for the locked tomb folks that have their books memorized—do we believe that Jod committed the resurrection?

like, through Nona we get the story leading up to the end of the world. his genocide, anger over the trillionaires, the degree to which he manipulated his friends in order to keep them on his side. but he doesn't talk about the resurrection, all he talks about is what leads up to it: nuclear extinction, the death of the solar system, trillionaires escaping, crafting the body for Alecto, etc.

when he's asked about the resurrection he talks about how "the cost was too great" and even the neo-niners were just kept on ice for the myriad. plus, "John is a lying liar who lies". he doesn't even resurrect his daughter (though the issues of invulnerability serve him more), but instead grasps whatever is left of her soul and shoves it in a corpse, like his creation of Alecto's body. the most he demonstrated was the ability to create a revenant.

there's something that nags at me over this, because John's power isn't his own, it's Alecto's—given and stolen, the ability to wield it for massive solar system level extinction events by consuming the soul of the earth isn't the same as a practiced skill.

this is all for fun, but I do think John is taking credit for the resurrection as part of his myth, his ego. I'm tempted to say Alecto pulled it off and he took the credit.

also, I'm probably wrong and someone's gonna slam down some citations. please do it, hit me with some theological parallel for funsies too.

[katakaluptastrophy]

I don't think John is lying about the Resurrection, but as the end of NTN seems to hint at, I don't think we're getting the whole truth...

In the immediate aftermath of the deaths of 10 billion people and all the planets of the solar system, I do suspect John might have been able to fully restore a very small number of people. Because this is what Harrow narrates at the end of NTN:

You resurrect some of them. You wake up fewer still. You start out with a few thousand, then, later, some hundred thousand, then millions, but never more than millions.

Which suggests that John only ever resurrected a few million people, not the whole 10 billion population he slaughtered. And many of them he stuck in storage - hence the "ancient dead" who supply the new Ninth.

Harrow then says:

I want to understand why she was angry — I want to understand the mathematics, now that I have seen them for myself. I want to know how many of the Resurrection are left, and how many you began with, and what the discrepancies are. I want to know where you put them. They didn't go into the River. I want to know why she was angry...and why you were terrified.

The implication would seem to be that billions were never resurrected and their souls never passed into the River. What happened to those souls? In John 1:20, John describes how he "drank them in" after they were killed by the bombs or directly by him. But then it seems he didn't resurrect them all.

So this is where I start to wonder about the Tower, and about Varun saying "he left them too long - you left them too long, my salt thing". About how Harrow assumes the treasure of Canaan House is a power source in GTN. About how Abigail makes a strangely significant digression about the secret chambers of the Emperor in Canaan House in the middle of HTN, saying that they're more likely to find them than summon the ghost of Nonius...

Is some of John's power independent of Alecto, from the trapped energy of those billions of souls? Are these trapped souls the source of the devils? Just what is going on in the nexus of those questions Harrow asks, and how badly is that going to go wrong for him (and everyone else) in ATN? Why is John terrified?

[ghostsandyoumightdie]

If John is gaining power from those 10 billion souls being somewhere... Else, I wonder if the Eighth's soul siphoning method (using a vacuum) is an extremely diminutive form of that necromancy. That would also mean the whole concept of soul siphoning was foreshadowing.

[katakaluptastrophy]

Oh, ok, this is a fascinating suggestion...

Here's Cytherea explaining how soul siphoning works to Harrow and Gideon:

When Master Octakiseron siphons his cavalier, he sends the soul elsewhere and then exploits the space it leaves behind. The power that rushes in to fill that space will keep refilling, for as long as either of them can survive.

And here's Harrow and Palamedes discussing what the challenges at Canaan House are meant to teach them:

"As we saw in the entropy field challenge, continuous siphoning..." "...These experiments all demand a continuous flow of thanergy. They've hidden that source somewhere in the facility, and that's the true prize." "Ah. Your secret door theory. Very Ninth." She bristled. "It's a simple understanding of area and space. Including the facility, we've got access to maybe thirty percent of this tower."

The Emperor is apparently on record as saying that "siphoning was the most dangerous thing any House had ever thought up".

In Harrow the Ninth, Abigail, asked to summon Nonius, says:

"I think our chances are very small. I think we've got a similar chance of Magnus tripping over the secret entrance to the lost chambers of the Emperor Undying. Actually, that's significantly less unlikely, as I've come to believe they run sidelong to the facility rather than — never mind..."

Which seems like a lot of detail for an apparently irrelevant digression.

Abigail also tells Harrow that there is "something terribly wrong with the River" and Alecto later describes it as "yet dead". Why does it feel like John in part runs on some metaphysical equivalent of a hydroelectric dam? Generating phenomenal power from something that interrupts the natural flow of a river, preventing things from moving through it as they should, upsetting the natural rhythms of the ecosystem...

[grynwood]

Your honor, I love them, they're so horrible

[mintish0]

BOOK COVER REDRAW of one of the most insane and gutwretching books ever written. (Art without text and full process on my insta!)

It was my first time designing a book cover and I have to say the process was painful. I started with a strong idea in mind: I wanted to portray Harrow at the exact moment she got her memories back. It had to be spectacular, dramatic, atrocious. There had to be skeletons, lots of skeletons, the castle of her House, and of course, Gideon's sword. Then came the hard part, colors. I changed the colors I think 4 times, just couldn't get them right, but in the end can say I'm quite happy with the result. During the whole process I kept looking at the original cover from @studiotommy.co (insta) trying to grasp even a small fragment of his tenique (ps. Posting this 2 days before a big tit announcement wasn't in my plans👀)

I hope I've done this book justice, because at the end, that's what it's all about.

Ty @noblenico for sharing the We Do Bones font, it really made the difference!

[campmiasmas]

“What transness and especially a pre-transition dysphoria actually feels like, to me at least, is much more internal and intangible. The language that I use to try to talk about it is language that I'm borrowing from the surrealism of David Lynch — the dreamlike nature of his films — or the body horror of David Cronenberg.” — JANE SCHOENBRUN, I Saw the TV Glow writer/director (x)

@lgbtqcreators​ creator meme (v2): [1/3] free choice

[wuntrum]

utility pole paintings for april / may / june !

[cryptic-curation]

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.

[mousidy]

"afab only housing" is honestly beautiful. it's #progress to use inclusive language when discrimating against trans women

[mousidy]

you might as well just say "no men, and yeah I think men includes you trannies (but trans men aren't men you ladies are welcome 🥰)"

[butchnandos]

^^^

[rokosourobouros]

It really is one of the best examples of them compounding. Cause when I was in a really bad spot housing wise, a few times I applied to those anyway and made a point about being like "oh I'm afab" and it felt so fucking gross. But I didn't wanna be homeless. So I made myself uncomfortable (and for nothing as it turned out, I would not do the same thing again if I went back in time)

But even then, and even more now, I was so conscious of the fact that, as uncomfortable and gross as it felt.... It was an option. And if I was a trans woman, no matter how desperate I was, it would not BE an option. It's a way of understanding privilege more people need to take on IMO, cause it's not about whether or not I think of it as a privilege. Course I dont. That's not the point.

[signawyvern]

Here's a list of non-English musicals I've seen submitted to @dyk-this-musical-song and links for how to watch/listen to them with English subtitles or the best equivalent. There are a bunch of non-English shows that have been submitted and seemingly some interest in checking them out, but I think a lot of people just have no idea how to go about that, or if it's possible. Disclaimer: I haven't watched these links, or if I have, it's been years, so possibly songs are out of order in playlists or shows are just linking to the first act. If that's the case, let me know and I'll make a note. A lot of these are pro-shots, which is fun. I listed shows here that have been submitted to the dye-tms blog, because that's a good way to gauge which have a decent amount of interest, but please let me know any you'd like added to the list.

Of all the ones I've checked out already on here (Tanz, Elizabeth, Marie Antoinette, Rebecca, Mozart l'Opera Rock, Kristina), Elisabeth is by far my favourite and probably the most popular internationally. It's historical but with heavy Phantom of the Opera vibes, if you're into that. But it's a good place to start, maybe.

Also there are a decent number of musical movies in non-English languages, often with English subtitles. I haven't included anything that exists more as a movie than as a stage show; this is more about stage shows, but a musical is a musical. To list the two I can think of, there's Les Paraplouies Des Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Women of Rochefort), both in French.

Friedrich: Mythos und Tragödie (Friedrich: Myth and Tragedies) (German) there’s just the German album and you can follow along with the Wikipedia summary if you want , but this lovely person made a post about subtitles they made

Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires) (German) Here

Elisabeth das Musical (German) Here; there are actually multiple German-language productions with English subtitles, since this show is so popular. If you want, you can also find English subtitles on productions in several other languages (mostly, Japanese and Korean). I picked this one randomly, hopefully it's a decent enough video and isn't missing any critical scenes, if it's an early version.

Rebecca (German) Here; there might also be English-language videos/audios out there, this did get a few performances in English, but it's been a whole Thing and is mostly put on outside of English-speaking regions.

Mozart! Das Musical (German) Here

Marie Antoinette (German) This is just act 1, not act 2. I can’t remember if it’s sung-through or not. I can't find any translations of act 2.

Artur--Excalibur (German) Here So this premiered in Switzerland but it's written by Wildhorn, so originally was more an English show, but I don't believe has ever been performed in English. There are a few shows like this, Wildhorn is weirdly popular abroad as compared to in the English-speaking world.

Starmania (French) Here

Robin Des Bois (Robin Hood) (French) This has Russian open captions and closed captions, so you could use auto-translate on the closed captions, but it would be hard to read them with the open captions behind that so maybe set the subtitle background to opaque.

Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (French) Here

Notre Dame de Paris (French) This is actually an English version; here is a French-language one with English subtitles

Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour (Romeo and Juliet: from Hate to Love) (French) Here

Le Roi Soleil (The Sun King) (French) Here

Mozart l'Opera Rock (Mozart: the Rock Opera) (French) Here

Anne de Bretagne (Anne of Brittany) (French) I couldn't find any translations but here's a proshot

1789: Les Amants de la Bastille (1789: the Lovers of the Bastille) (French) Here

Adam et Ève: La Seconde Chance (Adam and Eve: the Second Chance) (French) Here

Dracula: Entre L'amour et la Mort (Dracula: Between Love and Death) (French) Here is a version with Russian and Serbian subtitles that you can auto-translate to English; here is the same video but with fan-translated English subtitles

Dracula: L'Amour Plus Fort Que la Mort (Dracula: A Love Stronger than Death) (French) Here is a version with Spanish subtitles you can auto-translate to English

La Légende du Roi Arthur (The Legend of King Arthur) (French) Here

A Dzsungel Könyve (The Jungle Book) (Hungarian) I don’t think there’s anything besides the Hungarian-language album, so try that and the wikipedia summary and maybe that’ll work.

István, a király (Steven the King) (Hungarian) Here, also here

A padlás (The Attic) (Hungarian) Here

Jónás Könyve (Book of Jonah) (Hungarian) Here

Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe) (Hungarian) translations of lyrics are here; I'm not sure if those are of all the songs. Here is the show in Hungarian.

A Pál utcai fiúk (Paul St. Boys) (Hungarian) Here is a playlist with some videos of songs and those are translated, the rest are from the cast recording and are not. I'm not sure if the playlist is in the proper order or not.

1989 (Polish) Google drive link to a video with subtitles; made by @perplexingly; thank you so so much!!!

Mieszko Pierwszy (Mieszko the First) (Polish) Here

Kristina från Duvemåla (Kristina from Duvemåla) (Swedish) Supposedly there is a movie but idk if it’s subtitled; there is an English-language translated version of the album and it’s sung-through; that’s available on YouTube

데스노트 (Death Note) (Korean) (there is an English version of this show; I’m not sure if it’s significantly changed or if it’s just a direct translation, but you can watch that) japanese production from 2017 korean production from 2015

프랑켄슈타인 (Frankenstein) (Korean) on Disney Plus, if you use a VPN to claim you're in Korea, but English subtitles probably aren't available.

Xcalibur (Korean) on Disney Plus, if you use a VPN to claim you're in Korea, but English subtitles probably aren't available.

Doornroosje (Sleeping Beauty) (Dutch) no translations filmed show, no subtitles, Dutch album, no subtitles

Tarzan (Dutch) Dutch album,  English version of the album Scenes are missing from both; the English Broadway production can fill in those gaps

Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) (Dutch) no translations I could find; here’s the album

3 Musketiers (3 Muskiteers) (Dutch) Here

Демон Онегина (Demon Onegin) (Russian) Here

Последнее испытание/ПредПоследнее Испытание (The Last Trial) (Russian) Here is the movie; here is a proshot

Мастер и Маргарита (The Master and Margarita) (Russian) Here is a version with Russian subtitles that you can auto-translate to English

[dyk-this-musical-song]

An updated version of the post with more musicals for you to check out! Including some Russian ones, which I'm surprised have yet to show up on this blog.

[pmamtraveller]

Season by Christina Bothwell (American, b.1960 ) Medium: cast glass and ceramic.

[thatlavendergremlin]

My brain is frying in the heat and yuri juice

[sillyppi]

happy coco day ;__; 💚💚💚

that's my daughter fr i love her so badd

[himejoshevik]

Interesting analysis but Im stuck on "But I was breathing, you couldve taken me to a hospital" & "Is this true?" after Lestat's version of how she was turned. The betrayal there ..

ok yes let's get into it.

"but i was still breathing!": this is the fight when claudia runs away from home. she's desperately hurt; she's throwing everything she's got at louis to inflict as much damage as possible, saying the worst things she could think of to say. in this same speech she says i could have been sweeping floors and carrying babies! going to church! you think on that some, louis! this picture of mortal normalcy is not claudia's personal deepest desires. it's some shade of what louis wishes they both could have had, but that normalcy is constructed, not natural. the desire for it is an unfulfillable desire for safety. even as humans their options were severely curtailed, by patriarchy and by a virulent racist society. sorry bit of a tangent but to return: i do not think the audience is meant to entertain this like oh my god claudia totally could have survived her wounds. maybe a different kind of miracle would have happened and she would have survived some other way, but probably not.

lestat's version of the turning: lestat doesn't even suggest that claudia wasn't actually going to die. the trial's version of events is that louis was hysterical and ignored lestat's warning that claudia would be doomed. here we once again have the argument that claudia is fundamentally broken and should never have been made, weaponized to its full extreme. the goal with this entire narrative is to lynch her and louis. to portray louis as dangerous and unstable and claudia as a tragic mistake. the audience is not meant to trust lestat's account, but even more than that--even if we suppose this lynch trial retelling is accurate--we're not meant to come to the same conclusion that the trial does. it does get to claudia in the moment, but her subsequent defense of louis during the show trial, her clutching for him when he's ripped away, and her defiance up to her last moment show the consistency of her love for louis and her fundamental regard for her own existence. and what makes the tragedy of the whole show effective AND brings louis the most closure is that claudia's death was NOT inevitable. claudia loved and was loved! she was victimized over and over, she was sick of enduring and she felt like something was going to explode inside her, but she could keep going and most days she wanted to keep going. she went bang! and kept going after that! the people she'd thought would be her community had her enacting her suicide in a baby doll costume every night for years and it did not break her. she DID dream. when louis is allowed to remember this, to remember how fiercely she loved, how she brilliantly she lived, it gives him regard for his own existence. it drives him out of the coffin he'd almost resigned himself to. are we the sum of our worst moments? i didn't know it was a gift!

[helvarcult]

for @ldpdlweek2026 day one, family | parenthood/siblinghood: louis and paul de pointe du lac