#magical decadeical

[cina-full-moon-xanadium]

it's the same

[oldvintageglamour]

Black burlesque beauties "Doris and Hortense" & Gladys Martez, 1954 🖤🖤🖤

[juliavaccina]

The Silent Decade Part 3

Previous: Part 2

[uncanny-tranny]

Every time you think, "Oh, I don't have [x condition], I'm basically cured!" that is the devil talking. You aren't cured, you are likely going through periods of your symptoms waning. Don't cease whatever you're doing to help yourself, like medication, for instance, because it's likely you still have the conditions or symptoms, even if you aren't noticing them as frequently or severely.

[bugblast]

starting the year right with magic and imp :]

[xantchaslegacy]

[redladydeath]

Okay, so last night I decided I wanted to do something with Vox and body horror and this story concept ended up manifesting in my brain. Massive CW for psychosis that's not actually psychosis, as well as self-harm and body horror.

Vox and Alastor meet in the 1940s while they're both doing electrical engineering work for the war effort. Vox is only 22, so he falls fast and hard for Alastor, who decides to use the younger man's infatuation with him to his advantage. One night while they're out drinking, Alastor convinces Vox to make a blood oath with him. He tells him it's just symbolic, but in reality, there's magic involved; if Alastor kills him, he'll get all the years Vox was supposed to live added to his own lifespan, which is dwindling. He lures Vox into the woods and tries to murder him, but is shot by a hunter who happens upon the struggle. Vox nearly loses an eye, but survives the encounter and is able to go on with his life, albeit with some pretty intense trauma.

Twenty years later, it's the 1960s. Vox has been a successful television presenter for 10~15 years now. He's rich and is married with children, but is less than an ideal husband/father. When he's not at work, he's usually with Valentino, a young male prostitute who he's been having a secret affair with for the past year or two. The two of them are currently somewhere between a sugar daddy/baby arrangement and a legit relationship. Vox is overall pretty content with his life and hasn't thought about Alastor in years. That is, until he starts feeling everything change.

At first, it seems like it's just a bad cold; his joints are stiff and he has the chills constantly, but that's nothing too unusual and he continues going about his daily life. But then the delusions start. Vox begins hearing strange things whenever a radio is on– words and phrases that shouldn't be coming out of it, said in a familiar tone of voice. He starts seeing shadows moving just out of the corner of his eye, but when he turns to look at them, they're gone. When Vox looks in the mirror or watches clips from his show, there's something different– uncanny– about his own eyes that make him feel like he's looking at a stranger. It must be stress, he thinks; he's been working himself too hard.

But things only get worse. Vox's body is stiff and jerky and cold– suddenly very cold to the touch, although no one other than Vox can feel it. Food and drink and cigarettes lose their taste. His emotions feel muted– all except fear. He starts hearing this loud, irritating humming when he's in the studio and it makes it hard for him to work. People are starting to get worried. He's acting erratically, asking if they can hear or feel things that simply aren't there. His wife thinks he's building towards a nervous breakdown, but Vox knows that's not true. Something's happening to him, something no one can perceive but him.

Things continue to deteriorate. Vox thinks he can hear metal creaking when he moves. His face won't show up on camera anymore; the footage always ends up damaged somehow for reasons no one can explain. He smashes the family radio in front of his kids when he clearly hears Alastor's voice coming out of it, taunting him. He asks Valentino, who hasn't even been to church in the past decade, to connect him to his childhood priest because he thinks he's being possessed and wants an exorcism— if the Protestant God won’t help him, maybe the Catholic one will. It still doesn't work.

Things come to a head one night when Vox, desperate to prove to himself and everyone else that he's not crazy, takes a knife and cuts deep into the hand he used to make the pact with Alastor all those years ago. He cuts and cuts and cuts until finally– finally– he sees it: metal and wires and no blood. He was right. He tries to show his wife but only succeeds in scaring her out of her wits. He flees the house and takes the family car: he needs to go see Valentino, show him, ask him for help. He crashes the car into a lamppost while trying to drive with one hand. A cashier working late in a nearby television/radio store tries to help him, bringing him into the store to wait while he calls an ambulance.

When the cashier leaves him alone to go make the call in the backroom, Vox hears it again. He hears Alastor's voice coming out of the radio, telling him that his time is up; he's been living on borrowed (or rather, stolen) time for the past ten years and now it's time to come join him, down where they both belong. Vox can feel his "bones" cracking, his skin stretching and tearing; he can't hear anything except Alastor's voice alongside the blaring static emitting from all the TVs and radios in the store. He's dying he's dying he's dying– until he stumbles into a fusebox and the whole store is engulfed in an electrical fire.

When the firemen dig through the rubble, they never find a human body.

[sir-adamus]

this post volume 9 content has really hammered in why we didn't get JNR in JLxRWBY Pt 2

while RWBY went through some shit through volumes 7 and 9 (the gap between movies) and that's alluded to and explored as part of the narrative, but they couldn't do that with JNR because you'd have to explain why Jaune has white streaks in his hair now and acts so much older (like from Jaune's perspective, meeting the JL was decades ago), or Nora's scars, or Ren's 180 in personality given how aggravated he was in the first part - they'd have to dedicate time to that without really doing much for the overall narrative of the movie which already had a limited runtime

[winterfieldfrontiers]

TMS Anime is making a real push for Detective Conan in the US, M27 is possible the first tilm in century that is going to release in USA.

The 27th film in the franchise, is set to break records with its wide release across 515 theater screens in Japan, marking the widest release in the franchise's history in country

International fans outside of Japan can follow the TMS Anime website for detailed news regarding the global release of this much-anticipated film.  

Conan is going to Hollywood like Godzilla Minus One LAST YEAR???

THE FIRST NOMINATED OSCAR IS COMING!!

[cina-full-moon-xanadium]

[oldvintageglamour]

Afro-Brazilian showgirl & model Valeria Valenssa performing at the Rio de Janeiro carnival, 1999 🤎🇧🇷🤎🇧🇷🤎

[googlyeyesonmagiccards]

How about Astarion the decadent?

[umberandmochaagate]

Happy Birthday to Moi 😌😚🩵

[deargodholdme]

I swear every time I hear the music from Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe I cry a little. Like I stop what I am doing and stare the distance feeling homesick for a place I have never been to. Gets me every time

[reticulating-splines]

Chez Cromwell

"Well, here we are! Chez Cromwell."- Benny the Taxi Driver

Based very loosely on the real victorian used as Aggie Cromwell's house in Halloweentown, this was my first CC-free build in Sims 4, the first build I started on stream, and, after working on it for an entire year, I'm fed up with it and I want it out of my game and into yours!

Lot Features:

Victorian era historical build, fully playtested

Off-the-grid compatible

9 Bed / 6 bath

Library Greenhouse

Spellcaster's room

Outdoor smokehouse

Pleasure + kitchen gardens

Portal to the magic realm

Hidden cat room, bathroom, + catway system for Familiars

Staff/Servant's lounge w/ private stairs

Bedrooms for Butler, Nanny/Governess, and Maids

Lot size 30x40, fully landscaped

Cat Hangout, Homey, Peace and Quiet

Spooky lot challenge

Packs Used- packs in bold are essential:

EPs: Cottage Living, Island Living, Get Famous, Seasons, Cats + Dogs, City Living, Get Together, Get to Work, Discover University, Eco Lifestyle

GPs: Realm Of Magic, Strangerville, Jungle Adventure, Vampires, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, Parenthood

SPs: Blooming Rooms, Paranormal, Nifty Knitting, Tiny Living, Vintage Glamour, Romantic Garden, Laundry Day

Gallery ID (remember to check custom content box): ReticulateSpleen

Free download on Patreon