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i just love how 19th and early 20th century authors are **so obviously** just as demented and offbeat as writers of today.
Even highly regarded, influential works share this unique quality of letting you glance straight into the writer’s psyche now and then, after an all too disturbing description of something mundane… after which you go “hey- you’re really just as demented as i am, in a way that feels far too contemporary for an author of the modern era ! Wow ! …um…”
-Example, The Price of Salt, Therese, on warm milk-
“The tiny sips spread inside her mouth and released a melange of organic flavors. The milk seemed to taste of bone and blood, of warm flesh, or hair, saltless as chalk yet alive as a growing embryo.”
-Excerpt From The Price of Salt Patricia Highsmith
It’s such an odd time capsule moment to open up a book, some forgotten lesbian love story that’s come in and out of print several times, and have descriptors like this- that may as well have come straight off of some zoomer’s body horror aesthetic tumblr blog.
I am thoroughly confused, but one thing remains true- i love artists content in their disturbances, i love authors who strive not just to create beauty, but also those who memorialize their disturbed, ephemeral mind-musings, to leave a documented account of the nature of an artists mind, unrestrained.
To artists who find inordinate beauty in the mundane, your intention to extrapolate the musings of your digressive mind into art forms will always inspire me. You are as much like me as these authors are, though they have long since passed. Isn’t it a wonderful thing?
For a girl who feels detached from reality, art sure is a real gift.
#classic literature#the price of salt#patricia highsmith#mary shelley#frankenstein#dracula#nosferatu#19th century#19th century literature#early 20th century
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do any other young autistic girls with bpd and/or ptsd have this all encompassing sense of dread associated with the fact that they absolutely would have been institutionalized in the 60’s
#the bell jar#sylvia plath#girl interrupted#60s#psych ward#neurodivergent#autism#actually autistic#adhd#autistic girl
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VINCENTPOSTING YET AGAIN AHHH THIS IS ME AND MY BF LITERALLY 1:1 PLEEEASEEE??? how does this exist <<333 so good



Out of nowhere my mind demanded that I make a rich goth vampire girlfriend for Vincent so I did it (you bet she spoils him LMAO)
Say hi to Blair 🙏🤎
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IM LOWKEY DYSLEXIC… but my new hyperfixation is esoteric high fantasy/sci fi books…. and text heavy story based video games…. haaaalppppp meeee… the writers are transmuting their words into art in my visual artist brain and i simply must be classically trained to get it all out of me !! this is torture !!! my emotions are so big because all of the despair and void is being filled up by the dopamine rushing chemicals of a new hyperfix… instead of reading sci fi novels perhaps i will read my book on DBT !! Perhaps !! but let’s not spoil the fun…..
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This AO3 tag needs to go into AO3 tags Hall of Fame:

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Also I'm crossposting these Japanese variant covers of the first four books by Yoshitaka Amano— before I forget to talk about them on here. Struggling to think of an artist whose aesthetics are better suited to these books!
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SKETCHBOOK OF FULIGIN is live! ohotnig.itch.io/fuligin ohotnig.gumroad.com/l/fuligin Here's something nice for you, especially if you're a Gene Wolfe fan: brand new digital fanzine, containing 44 pages of my Book of the New Sun-inspired drawings (originally done as personal sketchbook project for one of my most committed patrons). This little book could also be considered an unofficial companion piece for Book of Fuligin (www.kickstarter.com/projects/715611068/book-of-fuligin-honoring-the-legacy-of-gene-wolfe)
You can grab it for free (as usual) or get an extended edition for $3+ donation! Cheers!

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Honestly I’d be more inclined to play Stardew Valley if it was about a depressed cop trying to solve a murder whilst navigating the politics of a mass strike and the fallout of counter revolution
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YEARGHHHGHH HRRGGGHHHH HERPMHHGGGHHRRRR URGENENGHHHHHH MM DOAKDBAKMR m.

Vincent doodles 🤎
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Strawberry Switchblade!!
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so real
bruh how could i forget to post it HERE AAA
but YA here's ma pride headcanons for the unholy trinity, love em
happy pride everyone 😌🙏💞
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