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[myselfixion]

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Casey Weldon (US-American, 1979) - Curtains (2026)

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Simon Carle

[milksockets]

bizarre magazine japan vol. 1

[peterdoroshenko]

[peaceinthestorm]

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987, British) ~ Cow Parsley, 1936

[Source: waddesdon.org.uk]

[beingincorporeal]

Rubber Discipline

Marquis, 1998

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As far as anyone can tell, it was on this day 200 years ago that Mary Shelley woke from her nightmare and declared:

‘I’ve found it! What will terrify me will terrify others. I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.’

That spectre inspired her to write Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. Pictured above is a sketch by Percy Shelley of Lake Geneva, where Mary was staying with both him and Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati. It was Byron who, on a stormy candlelit night, suggested that they each try and write a ghost story. 

We also have two volumes of Shelley’s draft of Frankenstein which you can leaf through for free on our website!

[zzzze]

GARRY WINOGRAND (1928 - 1984)

Untitled,New York City, 1968

Gelatin silver prints

[enchantedbook]

"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" , a nocturnal journey of three children through a dreamlike world of moonlight and stars.

Image source: Charles H. Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland (Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909)

[cocainejuul]

Things and stuff

[red-rot]

i love my mini hotel

[pmamtraveller]

Igor Shcherbakov - Lovers. Two On The Bridge

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Konrad Mägi (Estonian, 1878-1925), Landscape, 1915-16. Oil on cardboard, 49.5 × 65.5 cm.

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Source details and larger version.

Here’s my gallery of unusual imagery from vintage college yearbooks.

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Rosalind Fox Solomon

[::SemAp FB || SemAp::]

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Aftermath of the Jonestown Mass Suicide of 1978

via reddit

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Jewish Betrothal Ring 

17th or 19th Century

It is difficult to date and localize the large, ornamented rings that were created for use in synagogues during the wedding ritual. However, there is ample evidence that examples such as this one were exchanged during Italian Jewish weddings. The groom would place it on the bride’s finger, but after the ceremony the ring would have been kept as a prized memento by either the family or the temple community. The gable roof (perhaps symbolizing the Temple of Jerusalem) opens to reveal the words “Good Luck.”