#imaginary monsters

[night-loop]

The Birthday Massacre CDs (that I don't have). Images from discogs.com

Others here (x)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

[nintendumpster]

[crazydreamercycle]

[artoflumeria]

a creature that feasts on hopelessness and inhabits nightmares.

#creaturedesign #creatureconcept #imaginarycreatures #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #nightmare #imaginarymonster

[fictionz]

New Horror 2022 - Day 24

"Turn Out the Light" by Penelope Love (2015) "The distance they had struggled with all their lives was now made infinite by death."

The horror of a gulf between mother and son.

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"The Cemetery" by Franco, Abigail Larson, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022) "Don't you just want to get this over with?"

How do we learn to navigate the scary stuff? And why do some of us make it while others don’t?

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Trouble Every Day dir. Claire Denis (2001) "Do you believe in loyalty, Mr. Brown? What about betrayal?"

This pendulum swings from horrifying to erotic and back again so many times it made my head spin. I had to look up what the hell was going on afterward. I’m certainly learning a lot about the New French Extremity this month.

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Halloween Forever dev. Imaginary Monsters (2016) "Our butternut hero returns to his life as a mundane carved gourd.”

A cute Halloween platformer that hits many horror monster tropes. These sorts of games tend to lean into that “Nintendo hard” mentality but the developers are thankfully lenient and keep it a short and sweet experience.

[billies-art-shit]

Doodle I did in 5 seconds: A griffon that's part parrot instead of eagle

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

*sighs* precious baby version of night and his mentally drained brother/dad got me dropping everything for a quick doodle<333

au by @dreemurr-skelememer

[triplexmile]

It’s Raventober!

Raven is Girl of the Month for October of 2023! All commissions featuring Raven will receive a 20% discount! (solo, no comics)

You can find contact information, as well as information about pricing, in the About section of my Tumblr! About Section: Link

[walkman-cat]

it’s a very important question

[night-loop]

The Birthday Massacre extra releases

Blue DVD (2005)

Red Stars (single) (2007)

Looking Glass EP (2008)

Show and Tell (Live album) (2009)

Imaginary Monsters EP (2011)

The NeverEnding Story (standalone single) (2021)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters?”

-- Tim Minchin

[crazydreamercycle]

[blinkpen]

when your sleep paralysis demon is an artist, prone to Moods, (what are you afraid of? tell me what you're scared of)

[heartfullofleeches]

I think that a marionette sounds great, maybe to add a creep/intimate factor maybe it dispenses out of their mouth with it storing in their torso and opens for refilling around their stomach or back

"Sugar for a treat."

The sign stands out around the marionette's lap long with its appearance. Lanky, bony white limbs wrapped in red stripes, a jester hat atop its head with tails that dragged along the floor. The stomach material of its shirt was cut open and the torso itself was gutted to make room for the glass jar placed within. Candy filled it all the way to where the wooden part of its body continued, a crack in the center of its chest. You turn it twice, but nothing happens.

That's strange. Maybe it's broken? You look at the puppet's painted face. Contrasting eyes greet you there, one blue and one pink - lacking pupils and irises. They look just like the balls of gum stored in its chest. The hinges in its jaw confirm any doubts that the candy came directly from its mouth and while they opened when you tried nothing came out. The sign fall out of its lap, facing upwards. You finally start to realize what that kiss mark on it means.

Were you really going to smooch an inanimate object for some candy? There wasn't anyone around for miles, and those little pockets of sweetness were hitting a craving you were unaware of until you laid eyes on their case. How would this even work, anyway?

Shrugging it off, you kiss the marionette's cheek and turn the knob again. Nothing happens - greedy doll. You ghost your lips over theirs and squeeze the knob in preparation for the next attempt. As your mouth connects with the surprisingly delicate pair of lips the soft clunk! of the machine's mechanisms plays at last - but you didn't hurt the handle.

Wooden joints creak as they close around your head, forcing you into a full, open mouth kiss with the marionette as it rises in its chair. You dance on the tips of your feet to match with the additional height as you try to claw its hands away from your skull. A rope of velvet you realize to be its tongue enters your mouth, allowing easier send off for the piece of gum that rolls out. Its right hand grabs your neck so that you don't swallow the candy by accident, helping you chew by working the floor muscles of your jaw. The artificial tang of banana flavoring tangles with your tongue once the marionette's is done doing the same. The wriggling cord strokes the curve of your lips before it retracts back into the creature's mouth. Its stomach contents rattle as a raspy laughs crawls from its throat.

The marionette stands with a hunched posture and picks up the sign. It flips the card over.

"Lifetime guarantee."