sure death to shore birds

mel/29/I am for the monsters

[lakritzellaz]

December 2

[lunasabatica]

Władysław Podkowiński: Szał uniesień (Ecstasy), 1894.

[crypticdatesuggestions]

Date an eldritch mermaid from the deepest parts of the ocean. she is horrifying and yet the most beautiful creature you have ever seen. her eyes hold a thousand terrors and yet you cannot look away. she is ethereal, you cannot tell where she ends and the ocean begins. her whispers carry the secrets of the ocean, secrets humanity is not yet ready for.

[folkhorrorrevival]

Karl Alexander Wilke (1879-1954), The Witches of Macbeth, Illustration for Die Muskete magazine, 1915

[kitajgorod]

wishing well.

[nothingbutmeme]

[horrorandhalloween]

[aftersextacos]

THIS IS HALLOWEEN! THIS IS HALLOWEEN!

[nemfrog]

“Ariel: On the bat’s back I do fly.” The Tempest. H.C. Selous, illus. The plays of William Shakespeare. 1870. 

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

There are times when you know that something is not right anymore or that something is over, but with that knowledge comes a sick premonition of what it will mean to you, as if you suddenly realized that the ground was dissolving under you, and under that was darkness and dirt and crawling bugs, and you want the comfort of solid ground back so much that you will keep to the thing that is not right, willing it to be right for another day’s journey, a few thousand more steps, because you want to not think about the dark hole waiting for you, and if you can delay the collapse of the ground you will certainly do it.

– William T. Vollmann, “The Blue Wallet”

[nellygwyn]

Self-proclaimed nice guy: I’m a gentleman :) I pull chairs out for women

Me, thinking about the good old days when gentlemen were god-honest cads and took you on a date to the local opium den and ate you out in the theatre box: cool beans

[crypticdatesuggestions]

Date someone who is a little too skilled at finding bones in the woods.

[antigonick]

HADES : “Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because they tasted like blood, like love.”

– Pauline Albanese, The Closed Doors  (via lachantefleurie)

[alonesomes]

Let us pray for the foxes sleeping in your knees. May you always know when to run. Let us pray for your head hitting the pillow, for your mouth when it whispers“Enough. Enough of that now.” O, pain. O, it is no small thing, with its chariots and its kingdoms built on the backs of the suffering. May you walk straight again in the free land. When the light comes, may you wear the morning well. May you always keep part of it in your hands. Let us pray for the courage roaring in your colosseum chest, that it stays hungry and that it wins. Let us pray. For your blessed bones. For your sacred hands. May you learn to love what is holy in you. May you learn to love what is not. To the ones that have not loved you like you deserve, may you forget their names. May you remember your own, always. Amen. Amen.

Caitlyn Siehl, A Prayer (via alonesomes)

[the-word-is-destroy]

And so the Ursidae series is done!

The concept behind it was to do portraits of bears in the national outfits of the regions they inhabit. Many bears live in more than one region but I focused on their names and the places where the bear populations are higher. So:

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus): Greenland (this one was the hardest because polar bears inhabit places that don’t usually have people in it lmao);

Brown Bear (Ursus arctos): Russia;

Panda Bear (Ailuropoda melanoleuca): China;

Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus): India;

Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus): Malaysia;

 Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus): Peru;

Asian Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus): Tibet;

American Black Bear (Ursus americanus): United States.

I’m very happy to conclude this series after thinking about it for two years already.

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[lifegraduate]

[adz]

Autonomous Trap 001

“What you’re looking at is a salt circle, a traditional form of protection—from within or without—in magical practice. In this case it’s being used to arrest an autonomous vehicle—a self-driving car, which relies on machine vision and processing to guide it. By quickly deploying the expected form of road markings—in this case, a No Entry glyph—we can confuse the car’s vision system into believing it’s surrounded by no entry points, and entrap it.”

-James Bridle

[bogleech]

Two years ago I’d have thought this was creepypasta/metafiction

[crypticdatesuggestions]

date the beast that runs along side your car as you go on long road trips. it is huge and magnificent, crossing miles with its six strong legs. it watches over you with its many eyes. it wants you to be safe. it hopes you can look out and watch it too.