Here there be monsters

A blog for my Div 3 at Hampshire College. I am studying fine arts, and focusing on mask making, character building, monstrosity and horror. I plan on examining how we define monsters and monstrosity, particularly how that intersects with the concepts of humanity and body image.

[operatory5]

From Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi

[slow-riot-deactivated20200720]

Snake gets lost in endless tunnel of skin after shedding malfunction

Employees at an Australian reptile exhibit said they had never seen anything like it – a Stimson’s Python managed to get trapped in its own shedding skin, forming an endless, circular tunnel

I fee like this headline unintentionally sums up a lot about 2016

[deceptipup]

this is an actual ouroboros i dont know how to tell you this and i dont know what an ouroboros actually signifies but we are absolutely fucked

[tauntaunting-deactivated2017111]

Generally taking on a circular form, the symbol is representative of many broad concepts. Time, life continuity, completion, the repetition of history, the self-sufficiency of nature, and the rebirth of the Earth can all be seen within the circular boundaries of the Ouroboros. [x]

Look, I’m not saying we’re fucked but…   

[hamilton-lyrics]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[arseniccupcakes]

THERE IS A GOD

[tallestsilver]

HALLE-FUCKING-LUJEH

[neoluxure]

[damnyourdarkeyes]

Who you callin’ a crazy leprechaun? #AmericanGods @ Toronto, Ontario instagram.com/p/BGxtdeaw8nZ/

[sweetielouis]

[los-york-new-angeles]

UNMUTE PLEASE

[lesstalkmoreillustration]

Daniel Brox Nordmo

https://www.behance.net/danielbrox

[blazepress]

[tahthetrickster]

today i found out that my favorite vine has an extended version and i couldnt be happier

(source)

[pr1nceshawn]

[love-personal]

[damnyourdarkeyes]

We have our Salim!

[neil-gaiman]

There were people who seemed not to believe that we would include the gay Moslem interracial (human-djinn) storyline in the TV version of American Gods.

I can’t think of a better time to point out that it’ll be there.

[onmonstrosity]

Q

[thetreeswestofhere]

June2016 - The 10 months of tarot giveaway!

I have absolutely no reason for doing this giveaway other than I want others to have copies of my very favorite decks. I will be giving away a deck every month for the rest of 2016.

Every deck is new, sealed and ready to use. And you never know, I might sneak more goodies into the package when it heads your way.

The June deck is the Dreaming Way tarot printed by US Games.  I put off buying this deck for the longest time and I have no idea why. As soon as I started using it, I was in love.  Why did I wait so long?!? It has beautiful art, a gorgeous color palette, and reads very well. Personally, this deck gives me great reads on spiritual matters and on past life issues.

Rules and whatnot:

• reblogs count

• you need to be following me at the time I draw the winner - feel free to unfollow me after if you like, I don’t mind

• please be over 18 yrs old - It’s a tumblr rule plus I don’t fancy getting nasty letters, lawsuits or legal trouble from parents or legal guardians who think that I have corrupted a minor or sent their child on the path of devil worship. (not that tarot is either one of those things but parents can have funny ideas sometimes)

• do not tag as a giveaway or do anything to get my tumblr space censured - this is not affiliated with tumblr in any way (etc. etc. etc.)

• I’ll be drawing a winner on June 17th

I will ship internationally.

[shacklefunk-deactivated20220623]

reminder: gwendoline christie is 6′3, making phasma Big

a tall, mean, armed woman ? phasma was made w me in mind

[nathanjurgenson]

In a male-supremacist society, female power must logically appear illogical, mysterious, intimate, threatening. “Witch” stands for all those unnamable shadow acts of disappearance and withdrawal, self-cultivation, and self-medication that elude the social and sexual order.

Editors’ Note: Witches    (via okayophelia)

[yonhonashikao]

思い立って顔ちゃんのペーパードール作ってみた。楽しい。 

[redxbean]

omg…

[jenkristofu]

[whiskyrunner]

Just a reminder:the natural diet of these birds is BONES. Not just bone marrow; actual bone shards. They pick up huge freaking bones from carcasses and drop them onto rocks until they get spiky pieces and then they swallow them. Their stomach acid dissolves bone.

[liminallyric-deactivated2015030]

look me in the eye and tell me that’s not a fucking dragon

[cellarspider]

And they aren’t naturally red like that. That’s self-applied makeup. They find the reddest earth they can to work into their feathers as a status symbol.

And they don’t scavenge other parts of carcases, just the bones. 85-90% of their diet is exclusively bone. Hence why it’s only a myth that these birds would just pick up whole lambs and carry them off. It’s not true, but in German they’re still called Lämmergeier as a result.

[embracing-hallows-end-deactivat]

So metal

[crowcandy]

These birds are so fucking boss I can’t even handle it.