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this is a terrible time to be alive *remembers the latter half of the 14th century* this is a not so good time to be alive

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kinda feel like I need to go outside and be absorbed by fog or somethin. become one with the creatures in the mist. become the physical manifestation of the sound the highway makes in the distance. be my own liminal space. self care, yknow

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You can survive this. Outlast your enemies and thrive. (Plan for a two part linocut. I think I'm just going to have to suck it up and buy some new lino; I have rubber blocks and a couple small pieces of lino but it seems I just can't do without detail.)

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A monster, however horrible, secretly attracts us, pursues us, haunts us.

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, tr. Richard Howard

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practice

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Another of the skulls fused with a maille (chainmail) Coif recovered from the site of the battle of Visby, Gotland, ca. 1361.

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I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

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"August," 2024.

Watercolor on hot press. 7.125 x 11.125”

New piece available now via @everydayoriginal

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the most mortifying part about posting abt your ocs is posting about your ocs

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i lovelovelove vtm so much bc its just a community of us hyping up each other's ocs. we are all each other's biggest fans. we live in a perfect world

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Requested by the gorgeous @heywizards/ @vampiremood - my various commissions sorted specifically by the vampire clans! :D What a fun idea thank you! Here's the whole pack of Gangrel that I've been commissioned to draw! Names and owners beneath the cut ~

Mouse belongs to @problemsynth Geoffrey belongs to @sporebat Azriel was commissioned by @insatiablewit! Marina belongs to @knuxtiger4! (i've also seen she may have been updated into something else so please let me know!) Misha belongs to @m4rloe5! Pepe belongs to @lord-pon Tertius belongs to @spell-fox!

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According to director Dan Trachtenberg, Sarii’s presence in the film was heavily inspired by The Road Warrior, and “Mad” Max Rockatansky’s loyal dog companion from that film, known simply as “Dog.” So, giving Naru a dog was always part of the plan for Prey. What changed along the way was just how much Sarii would end up being in the film.

“We were trying to get Coco out of scenes but the opposite ended up being true, and we ended up including her more – even in some of the action set-pieces, because I just thought it’d be so fun,“ Trachtenberg said. “One of the great things about Road Warrior is the way Mad Max uses his doggy, so we wanted to have the same kind of fun in this movie as well.” - SYFY Wire

MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981) dir. George Miller PREY (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

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x / Landscape With Fruit Rot And Millipede, Richard Siken

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man fuck humanity. blaming everything on me, the beast, instead of reflecting on themselves.