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It is, after all, the prerogative of the Gothic to collapse the real with the supernatural, the actual with the imagined, to destabilise the parameters by which the former might be distinguished from the latter.
Packham, Jimmy. Gothic Utterance : Voice, Speech and Death in the American Gothic, University of Wales Press, 2021
todays warm up: The Abbey is full of ghosts again and it couldn't be a happier place
In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.
today's warm up: when you leave such a fine and blessed sword hanging around, you can't expect someone not to try their hand Also im reallly proud of the atmostpheric vibes here!
The full saga of Margie and the Nuns (so far). Realised I never compiled these in one place.! Also, bonus Margies!
If a fantasy world has an ancient tree of wisdom, that means it must also have young trees that are dumb as shit. Just giving terrible advice like, "the evil wizard is kinda hot"'
This implies a just-kind-of-old tree, presumably doling out trivia, widely held misconceptions, and gardening tips. "I don't know, try throwing some mint or kudzu into the evil wizards garden."
Kind of old tree after lecturing for an hour about hardy, pest resistant plants and storing nutrients, "Okay, next up are predators of th- Hey, are you guys listening? You should be writing this down."
"How is this going to defeat the evil wizard?"
"Fuck, I thought you said wevil wizard."
"Oh, you talked with the ancient tree of wisdom, did she ask about me? How does she look? Let me guess, she said to look within and know your heart or some bullshit. Well that don't put food on the table."
"Right, but the evil wizard?"
"Fuck if I know, try outcompeting the wizard for sunlight and soil nutrients."
today's warm up: when you leave such a fine and blessed sword hanging around, you can't expect someone not to try their hand Also im reallly proud of the atmostpheric vibes here!
Resisting the urge to Um Actually this dragon novel because it has the dragon eggs be like three or four feet wide but there is simply a limit to how large hard-shelled terrestrial eggs can be. No matter how large the animal is, the embryo needs oxygen, and oxygen needs surface area. The larger an object is, the lower its surface area relative to volume, and the less oxygen the embryo can receive. We think of large animals as having porportionately large young because mammalian pregnancy has the unique benefit of allowing for the size of the young to scale with the adult because their oxygen is provided directly through the placenta, and almost all the megafauna remaining on Earth are mammals. But this is not the case for species which lay eggs! For fuck's sake even the sauropods hatched out of eggs barely larger than basketballs! Your hatchling dragon would be impressively enormous if it were the size of a house cat. Stop trying to make me believe that this (ROUND!) dragon egg somehow supplied enough oxygen to develop an infant the size of a large dog or even bigger. If it were possible the dinosaurs woulda been doing it!!!!
I love you /lh. Experts going off on their particular fascinating cool topics and adding unexpected context to things we take for granted is like my favorite thing this was delightful. Talk to me more about eggs and geometry and biology all you want :D
Amazing concept
God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth to climb trees and play with plastic animals are buying foundation at the drug store
for a second i thought you meant foundation like, a building foundation. not makeup
God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth are building something great and terrible on the edge of town
Ah yes, just as God intended them to
Their mighty works will rival those of Babel
Why is salt good for exorcism and banishing and all that jazz? Well you see, way back in the day people knew jack-all about germs and microbes and for all they knew it was evil spirits that got into their food and made it go a-spoil. They Noticed and Observed that when you soaked food in a Lot of Salt, food stayed good longer. So that meant that the salt was keeping the bad spirits out. Now, tossing around salt and making salt circles makes for dramatic rituals, sure. But I think we all know that some entities are just powerful bastards and need some extra oomph to get them out of the damn house. You know what is more potent than salt at killing bacteria and germs? Bleach. You know what’s really good for just killing all kinds of stuff very dead? Medical autoclaves. Now I understand that not all of you have access to autoclaves, but I understand that a good pressure cooker can also do for sterilization. So therefore, I propose that if you have yourself a haunted doll or something that isn’t reponding to the usual methods, a wash with chlorine might be in order; and if that doesn’t to the job, a visit to the Insta-Pot might teach the bastard who’s boss around here. (Of course there might not be much of a doll left but it wasn’t like you needed to keep it around, anyway.)
that story where you challenge the fairy queen to a match of wit and skill to win back your loved one. and it goes … fine, you think? probably.
adapted from this very short Elsewhere University piece, changed slightly to be a little more self-contained.
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today's warm up: when you keep sending children into assumed death, it's foolish to think the children won't come back changed, and armed.
today's warm up: Niahm will always regret her lateness in coming home from the hunt, letting the estuary freeze her way home, but her wife visits, at least there is that.
today's warm up: Known as the wandering gate, the one who holds the maddened plane in their mind. Their mother knew them as Saine.
