yay a blog

[orchidblack]

Photos of Kowloon Walled City by Greg Girard. From his book City of Darkness Revisited.

[feldfrog]

I used to be monotheistic. Until the great worm that I worship got cut in half

[spindle-and-nima]

Video I've been thinking about a lot recently

[mug-of-beans]

“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic.

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has

[wizard-archivist-official]

The old magic is robust enough to survive a decade of use and it's compatible with every wand, staff, scroll, and charm in our collection.

The new magic stops working after three days and every spell uses proprietary runes.

Our preferences, as an archiving institution, should be pretty clear.

[charlesoberonn]

You try to get guidance for the new magic and the king's sorcerers maybe will answer you in a few days with an unhelpful suggestion to buy the newest orb.

You need guidance for the old magic and a dozen retired middle-aged wizards will pop up to explain it to you rune by rune if necessary.

[yourtryhard]

no wet cigs

[battements-d-elle]

[thecollectibles]

Square by Zp Zhang

[malotte00]

Borzoi

[combataromantic-deactivated2026]

Hey bro can I come over and cough up blood and cough up blood and order takeout and then cough up more blood

[thecollectibles]

COSMOS by Victor Hugo Harmatiuk

[keepscrollinghun]

Vtáčkovia, Siroty a Blázni ↳ 1969. dir. Juraj Jakubisko

[aphel1on]

"character doing a c+ job of breaking the cycle of abuse" is such a crunchy dynamic forever. what if i'm giving my all to give you a better life than i had and i'm succeeding but "better" just isn't quite enough. what if my blind spots and deeply ingrained trauma and inexperience mean that you will be indelibly scarred by me despite my best efforts. what if my abuser's influence still bleeds through at times because i know nothing else. what if i go so far in the opposite direction to avoid it that i hurt you in ways i couldn't have anticipated. what if my undeniable love and unforgivable shortcomings came part and parcel with each other. what if your love and gratitude and resentment and pain came part and parcel too. what if we both knew you deserved better but i was all you had. what if we had to move forward and reckon with that. what then

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Cosmos, Photoshop illustration by Victor Hugo Harmatiuk

[descendinight]

Haloth’s Lair（Mérilimbén）

[jareckiworld]

Tan Mu — Torus (oil on linen, 2021)

[saintsatellite-deactivated20240]

when someone has "taken" in their bio it's bc they've been consumed by the fog

[lewerta]

Find your flow.

Photo by Nick Prideaux