#unknowable horror

[entirelysmoothbrain]

Does anyone remember weaver

Apparently that little brown girl was foundational to my general mindset

oh I forgot jumpscare in the tags teeheeeeee

[danascullysjournal]

“Oh, Archivist.”

It’s finished! Nikola Orsinov kidnapping Jon sent me spiraling so I had to paint it. The horrors he endures😵‍💫🥺 poor Jon. I don’t think the creators meant to have the wax figures melting but that’s how it is in my head

Detail below:

[maareyas]

12:54 04:05:20XX - Mariana Trench Mission Objective: Investigate whale fall - An unknown creature was already present at the site when the deep sea probe arrived. He immediately fled from the probe's line of sight after seemingly recognizing what it was. - The probe was then brought offline by an unknown assailant; Most likely the creature.

My interpretation of a merhog Silver for Mermay ✨

[crow-with-a-pencil]

Hi @naffeclipse I'm very normal about your fic. Have some frantic midnight sketches as extra kudos along with some tag rambling :)

[seytrix]

Inscryptober 2023 Week 1: Corruption

do you think she ever called leshy her meow meow

[stressfulsloth]

Disco Elysium// Two Fishermen on an Aspidochelone, Unknown// Our Wives Under the Sea, Armfield// Unknown// Disco Elysium// Gallathea, Lyly// Sharks Feeding, Crossley// From Bodily Fear to Cosmic Horror (and back again), Miller// Disco Elysium// Early Verse, Marx// The Road, McCarthy// A Sacred and Terrible Air, Kurvitz (team ibex translation)// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium Art Book// A Sacred and Terrible Air, Kurvitz// Nona the Ninth, Muir// Sunrise With Sea Monsters, Turner// Nona the Ninth, Muir// Disco Elysium// The World's One Hope, Brecht// The Old Gentleman of Raahe// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium// Engraved Shell. Unknown// Capitalism and the Sea// Disco Elysium// Capitalism and the Sea//

[bonefall]

do the starclan angels get to taste the culinary evolutions their descendants cook up? do they ever watch their great grandkids salting something and think "damn that looks agreeable"

Sadly there are downsides to being dead. They can still eat and cook the prey in StarClan offerings, but they can't taste of the mortal plane any longer.

There is ONE exception. Sacrificial offerings can be tasted. Tasting these offerings as a spirit can sometimes have... unintended effects.

Nothing magical, but suddenly, it hits you again that the afterlife isn't the same as being alive. There's flavors you haven't experienced in years. Mass returns to your lips and paws. You realize that you aren't breathing, and for a twinge of a second, your chest surges with the warmth of a beating heart.

Angels who died young are usually alarmed and unsettled by eating such offerings, and won't partake more than once. To others it's a comfort. Many cry after their first experience, so perhaps, unknowingly for the living, it's why it's so common to make food sacrifices during droughts.

[samglyph]

Hi welcome to my convoluted malevolent canon divergent au in which when John murders Parker, Arthur’s mind is still under the affects of the book (read: open to trespassers) so instead of getting shipped off to the dark world or whatever afterlife was in store for dear Parker Yang, his ghost is instead sucked right into the head of his closest friend and partner. Along with his murderer.

(Do with this what you will)

[deebrisbyfish]

Of all the jokes I've seen so far about so-called "AI Art", I've yet to see one that also references John Carpenter's THE THING. I mean, I'm sure they EXIST and I'm doubly sure folks will loudly let me know about it as soon as this starts running, but I'VE not seen them. Heidi was delighted to get cast in the Kurt Russell/MacReady role for this gag.

[logandria]

The woods hungers.

It feeds when it wishes.

It digests slowly~

[entirelysmoothbrain]

help me I’m drowning

i am on land yet I am still drowning

I hope I die. I hope we both die.

I inhale smoke

I exhale

smoke

I bleed.

I drown

I die

~~~~~~~~~~~~||

Let the game begin

[the-magpie-archives]

There's something so grotesquely thrilling about the unknowing being a dance. As an art form dance is uncomfortable, painful, and even causes lasting damage to the dancer; but above all it is something that MUST be beautiful.

"I just want you to join me for a dance!"

Such an innocent statement, even if you know that it isn't.

To think of a partner dance: Perhaps a waltz where your partner is much taller than you, their position forcing your arms out of their sockets as you struggle to keep your form.

A solo dance? Ballet without training, elegant poses that stretch your tendons til they snap; pointe work without shoes, the weight of your body crushing the bones in your feet.

Or musical theatre! Your body moves at a pace you can't control as your throat grows hoarse from singing louder than you ever should. A smile (or perhaps a grimace) plastered painfully on your face.

What about contemporary? Your soft unprepared body meeting the harsh ground from a leap that ended too soon; something tears inside you as you draw yourself up gracefully in a way you wouldn't think possible.

The pure raw confusion of your body doing something you never allowed it to know how to do. What is this body? What is this movement? What shape am I being twisted into?

"so effortless!" an onlooker exclaims, as another bone snaps.

You'd scream, but the punishment for not smiling is worse than this pain.

The harsh gaze of dead, automaton eyes watches you from the wings, judging and critiquing. It's not good enough, your performance wasn't perfect; but if you're lucky you won't live long enough to hear the feedback. You wouldn't understand it anyways.

[mushroomribcage]

Nikola and her circus

I was originally just planning on drawing Nikola, but that turned into drawing up a whole entourage for her.

Lighter version under the cut

[mannyblacque]

From Guillermo del Toro's Instagram:

"All CGI test for a rig - ILM for AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS (a decade ago) never-before-seen."

[inky-evergreen]

some concept drawings of what a more feral and mutated Anthony would look like

[trillscienceofficer]

re: about not being able to remember Voyager episodes... it's killing me right now because I KNOW I could find an example of B'Elanna being horrified at assimilation not only because of its violence but specifically as the Borg way of 'understanding' the universe... like I think it might be in "Scorpion" but I'm not actually sure, ugh. Anyway, girl who is so devoted to the scientific method but whose plots often revolve around visions and narratives... perhaps epistemology is very complicated and very relative and the universe is vast...