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edenflux

Just a normal TV

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The Watcher by The Phantom Painter

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I'm so feral normal about this

gothiccharmschool

Goth DIY

It has become apparent that the gothy DIY knowledge of years past has not fluttered out to many folks. Here, let me give you some quick suggestions:

The Tights Thing: Get a pair of tights. (Which can often be found at dollar stores and thrift stores!) Cut out the crotch, and cut off the feet or make holes for your thumbs and fingers. Ta-da! A shirt!

Things To Do To Any Garment:

Safety pins: Get lots of safety pins (which can also be found at dollar stores), and use them to make designs on an item of clothing. (I've added safety pins in a line down seams on jackets.)

Paint pens: Draw on your clothes! Write song lyrics or quotes! (This also works with bleach pens.)

Appliques: You can sew or use safety pins to attach damn near anything you cut apart from another garment, a patch, or pieces of other fabric to something else.

Change the buttons. You can buy all sorts of interesting buttons from fabric stores, Amazon, eBay, Ali-Express ... you get the idea. Change the plain buttons on a shirt or jacket to interesting ones!

Add trim: Lace, ribbons, fringe, grommet tape ... hell, you can even sew chain onto things.

And finally, here's the Gothic Charm School post on Gothy DIY essentials! Go forth and alter your clothes!

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Because the "goth is bougie" discourse nonsense made me realize I should reblog this ...

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Hotel Endsleigh Inst @guswestie

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Art by soy_enelmar

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i had a dream about this pet cryptid a while ago and it was so beautiful i had to draw it

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temiel

Invocation to Brighid Brighid, Thou Exalted Lady, Bríd, Brig, Bride, Brigit, Brigantia, Sainted One, Foster-Mother of the Christ and all who came before, You Who keep watch at the sacred fires. Healer, smith, poet; midwife, keener, shaper, transformer. Across miles and across aeons Your children call. Beloved Brighid, arise. In the secret cave of this dark night, light the fire of spring. Lady Most High, Muime, Fire of Creation, Well-Keeper, Mother of the Isles, Living Oak, Aid-Woman, Forger of Souls: On gentle wings, carried by flame, Heed our cries and be with us this Imbolc eve. Arise from betwixt us, each fire feeding the other, Spread your mantle over this reaching circle of spirits. Bring to our souls nourishing milk, To our hearths, wood and heat, To our heads, the bright flame of clarity, To our hearts, clear water and soothing herbs, To our hands, strength and resilience to shape and be shaped. Under Your branches, before Your forge, In the water of Your well, in the solace of Your hearth, We await You. Arrive and be welcomed. O tar isteach, tá céad fáilte romhat, a bhean uasail! O enter, you are a hundred times welcome, noble Lady!

Art and invocation are both mine, and the work is dedicated to Her.

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Brighid Mural

I randomly stumbled on this absolutely stunning mural that was just completed in Dundalk, Ireland!

It’s apparently part of a new urban art festival there and this piece portrays Brighid as both goddess and saint. The colors are absolutely stunning and I’m in love with it!

Art by Friz

Photograph by Swedish Ginger

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This reminds me so much of when I visited the Hermitage in Kildare. One of the sisters showed us around and sat with us at the Perpetual Flame for prayer and meditation. Before we left, I had to ask her the question that had been on my raised-Christian-converted-pagan mind for years.

“If you don’t mind me asking,” I asked, “how do you reconcile Brighid’s status as a Catholic saint with her origins as a goddess?”

The sister, whose name I wish I’d gotten, just smiled with a little twinkle in her eye.

“Oh child,” she said. “To know one is to know the other.”