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“Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so.”

carmilla (stone) lithograph | prints here

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"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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Mutual obsession or wtf is even the point

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putrid hound

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By Rob Isley

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"Vampire Fairy Demon"

By Takato Yamamoto

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Congregation of the damned

Dream in ether

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✞ 666 ✞

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Drowning in the dark

Some nights I don't want to talk

I can feel it better when we lie to ourselves

You don't feel at all

Don't hope

We can make it out

Talk slow

We can take it now

Slip away

There's nothing left to keep us here

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from “that’s my girl” to “that’s my wife”

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People with no childhood trauma is so confusing like what do you mean you cried to your mum and she helped you?

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Meet Me In the Moonlight

Watercolor on Black Cotton Paper

2023, 22"x 30"

White Peonies