G H O U L

Fantasy art, anti-communism, history

[enchantedbook]

«The Adventures of Baron Munchausen» Illustration by Sergey Alimov.

[moroccanmanga]

Riad Dar El Malaika in El Jadida, Morocco

[trve-grimdark]

Wayne England

[thingsfromthedirt]

The Party on the Stairs by Adelaide Claxton (c. 1875)

[fivepoint-12]

[truenuke]

It cannot be overstated just how positive the "hipster" phenomenon was for culture, and it is especially apparent now in the twilight of its influence. It was a repudiation of everything we now call "goyslop": McDonald's and Applebee's, Budweiser, Folgers, everything frozen and out of a can, radio rap and pop, music written via focus group.. It valued taste and craftsmanship and appreciation of excellence but also rejected consumerism at least in theory (thrifting, etc). Aesthetically it was a nostalgic movement, wearing old clothes, the goofy mustaches, the revival of bluesy or folk music. All of this combined spoke to an attitude that somewhere along the line, things had gone wrong... But there was also an optimism, we could set things right if we just slowed down a bit. Despite near universal ridicule, so many elements of hipsterdom sublimated into the culture and remained a dominant and positive force on it for the last couple of decades. I think it's been fading quickly since COVID and since Doordash. I will miss it. Nobody will weep for stomp clap or for the girls in stupid little flat brimmed trilby hats or for the waxed mustaches or the mustache finger tattoos or even for the thick rimmed glasses that dominated style up until just recently... But hipsters are the reason your morning coffee isn't shit. Thank you hipsters. I love you.

[0ttozgotagun]

Unironically a Starship Troopers style of voltuneerist service in exchange for participation in the affairs of the State is the mildest and most progressive outcome for the United States, probably combined with some sort of American Integralism in order to enforce proper assimilation on immigrant populations deemed assimilable. This is the best outcome. Anything else is either far more extreme or takes the opposite route of complete chaos and eventual balkanization.

[jca-archive]

Christian Broutin, from JCA Annual 9 (1990)

[oldpaintings]

The Apache's Supper, 1901 by Louis Legrand (French, 1863--1951)

[antiqueanimals]

"Details of Collared Peccary"

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 3. 1927. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Internet Archive

[poolsofchrome]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained

[the-falling-apart-girl]

Ian Miller

[gaysie]

bad thoughts at night/poster’s delight… but those posts by the morning/scrollers take warning

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

aboditransylvania

[infanteriesauvage]

"To accept that the American model is the design of our cultural future is tantamount to committing suicide in the very simplicity of its present. Any American with European experience envies the life of the Mediterranean peoples, the ability to maintain a social and civic life, the virtue of combining leisure with work. Americans hardly meet in a café, hardly share a few drinks in a bar, lead a poor life in neighborhood that is only enhanced by membership in some club or brief contacts in the sacristies of parishes and timed parties. They have gradually extinguished the potential and enjoyment of family relationships and the ease of friendly contacts. Their lives are occupied by the need to prosper, make money, beat the rival and pay the therapist."

Vicente Verdú

[70sscifiart]

Hajime Sorayama

[chimeride]

The Four Horses of Apocalypse.

[chimeride]