#nightmaires

[robsheridan]

Goodnight, and remember: N̴O̴ ̶S̴C̷R̷E̴E̵N̵ T̶I̴M̵E̵ ̷B̶E̶F̸O̴R̴E̶ ̸B̸E̴D̷. . . . . . . . . . .

[robsheridan]

Screams of Silence on the Shores of Time.

Some new explorations with MidJourney V6 into an aesthetic space I've been building on for a while... I like it here. More to come.

[robsheridan]

Remembering the good ol’ days, when Black Friday was a bloodsport of consumer carnage to watch in highlight reels on the nightly news. Young people only know this day as a flurry of marketing emails, but real ones remember the K-Mart Killing Fields of ‘95, the Mervyns Massacre of ‘96, the Circuit City Slaughter of ‘97… This holiday has no grit anymore.

...But also, check out my marketing email because I have some good shit. 🙃

[robsheridan]

Before you sit down and enjoy your meal today, please take a moment to learn about some important Thanksgiving history they won’t teach you in schools.

Never Forget with my official Blood Parade souvenir merch

[robsheridan]

FOR SALE - Charming country estate on large natural property rich with vibrant history, dying for some light restoration!

A uniquely remote location hours from the nearest town will whisk you away from crowded civilization, but don’t worry about getting lonely - you'll be charmed by regular visits from previous residents of the property, who loved it so much they can't seem to say goodbye!

As any adventurous renovator will surely understand, this is a historical property that has not been occupied for a hundred years, so SOME aging & decay are to be expected; all part of the experience! The structures sometime have minor issues with walls & ceilings rotting into the writhing undead flesh of a thousand cursed infernal souls, but it’s nothing some holy water and a good chainsaw can’t cut through! OR just wait until the next full moon, when the unholy manifestation of Lady Sarabetha the Forsaken, Demon Witch of the Shifting Zones, Culler of the Bloodless, will appear again for The Razing, in which she sets the building ablaze with hellfire, cleansing it of escaped souls. It’s QUITE a show, and nothing to worry about: the hellfire will NOT burn you or your possessions or your pets (probably), it ONLY razes the undead fleshrot cursed to grow anew in an endless cycle of pain for all eternity! You’ll feel nothing more than a tickle as the flames pass over you, boiling the blood-soaked walls back to their original BEAUTIFUL oak construction! You can even sleep right through The Razing, but you probably shouldn’t, it can cause nightmares so severe you’ll be unable to sleep or eat or speak ever again. But who would want to miss such a unique event anyway! Think of it as an included cleaning service AND fireworks display! Just keep your eyes on the flames and NOT on Lady Sarabetha! Any direct eye contact will be taken as a challenge to Her authority over the curse - not recommended unless you’re VERY well versed in the regional dialect of ancient arcane black magic spells!

Asking price $3.2 million, all-cash offers encouraged, bidding will be very competitive! Contact Trish at Sarabetha Family Realty

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NOTE: This alternate reality horror story is part of my NightmAIres narrative art series (visit that link for a lot more). NightmAIres are windows into other worlds and interconnected alternate histories, conceived/written by me and visualized with synthography and Photoshop.

If you enjoy my work, consider subscribing to my free newsletter to stay up to date on my projects, or supporting me on Patreon for frequent exclusive hi-res wallpaper packs, behind-the-scenes features, downloads, events, contests, and an awesome fan community. Direct fan support is what keeps me going as an independent creator, and it means the world to me.

[robsheridan]

Demon on the Inside. One of several new retro-flavored neon horror designs for Halloween 2023. On tees, hoodies, sweatshirts, longsleeves, and a lot more at Glitch Goods - including a Retro Halloween variant only available until November 1st!

Check out more of my year-round Halloween designs in our Halloween Shop!

Our shop: 100% independent art / small family business (just my wife and i and our baby and our cat and our dog) / made in the USA / supports charity / ships worldwide

[robsheridan]

Maybe dreams are the way that they are because in REM sleep our minds open to their full potential, beyond the limitations of consciousness, at the exact same time that an infinite number of other versions of ourselves are also dreaming in infinite adjacent timelines;

and those timelines are actually so close together in spacetime that when all of the minds of all of the versions of ourselves expand all at once, they overlap with each other, just a little bit on the fringes, like radio frequencies, absorbing confusing details from variations of our memories that are familiar but not quite right;

as if during sleep all of our other brains are magnetic disks arranged too close to each other, causing interference, picking up faint ghostly bits of the distorted recordings of the adjacent disks;

and maybe that can feel like messages, or visions, or unlocked memories, or prophecies, because we’re absorbing the whispers of a place where it all really DID happen that way;

and maybe that's why sometimes your dreams tell truths, and sometimes your dreams tell lies.

Or maybe our brains are just dumb fleshy electricity boxes that fizzle and crackle when they’re recharging and make pointless little mindfarts cobbled together incoherently from all the decaying data stored in them.

Either way, sweet dreams.

[robsheridan]

Spectagoria Magazine’s 1978 “Swimsuit Issue” mocked the popular institution with themes of pollution and global warming, depicting melting, skeletal, oil-drenched models on apocalyptic beaches. “Just a decade after the carefree innocence of the ‘Endless Summer,’ we are careening towards an uninhabitable future of poisonous air and a deadly summer that truly does not end.” Editor Sera Clairmont said she was inspired by her experience in the record-shattering British Isles heatwave of 1976, which “felt as though the whole of my skin was surrounded at all times by the bone-dry specters of imminent death, crowding ever-closer around me, nipping at my flesh.” The playful, sexy tone of “the swimsuit industry’s most lucrative marketing stunt” felt absurd to her after that experience, as she witnessed what she described as “psychic visions of a future where our relentless destruction of the planet boils it with rage, and dooms mankind to melt and crumble into the dust of our own ruin.”

It was far from the only time Spectagoria’s fashion photography drew influence from supposed visions or “visitations” from the future. But the British Isles heatwave was widely regarded as a standalone extreme weather event, and Clairmont’s prophecy of an imminently burning planet was mocked as the latest example of her supposed “mania” since going into hiding two years prior and shifting the magazine’s focus towards darker and more other-worldly themes. But while critics found its predictions easy to dismiss, still no one had any explanation for where the magazine was staging such elaborate photo shoots, who the models were, or how some of the seemingly impossible visuals were executed. Rumors intensified that Clairmont had powers to commune with realms beyond our own…

Two years later, the 1980 heatwave in the United States was among the most destructive and deadly natural disasters in US history, claiming at least 1700 lives. It was reported as an isolated extreme weather event. As was the next one. And the next one. And the next one…

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NOTE: Spectagoria is an ongoing work of fiction created by me. This alternate reality horror story is part of my NightmAIres narrative art series (visit that link for a lot more). NightmAIres are windows into other worlds and interconnected alternate histories, conceived/written by me and visualized with synthography and Photoshop.

If you enjoy my work, consider subscribing to my free newsletter to stay up to date on my projects, or supporting me on Patreon for frequent exclusive hi-res wallpaper packs, behind-the-scenes features, downloads, events, contests, and an awesome fan community. Direct fan support is what keeps me going as an independent creator, and it means the world to me.