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How to be Lost
Dedicated to finding the weird, ominous, unsettling, or threatening within the everyday and mundane. Winding roads, dark spaces, and things half-seen in the distance are what makes life more interesting.
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I-TREE © - Drawing created with markers and gel pens on acrylic painted background.
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minecraft gothic
- You are the only one capable of building complex, planned structures. You are alone. You don’t remember building the temples or houses you come across.
- You are alone. You are the only one like you in the entire world.
- Villagers keep their hands clasped beneath long robes. You’ve never seen a villager’s hand. Sometimes you wonder if they have them at all.
- The villagers all have the same empty green eyes. They have completely different anatomy from you. They’re humanoid, but not human. Are you?
- The undead, however, have your face and your clothes. They seem closer to you than the villagers.
- You’re alone. You are the only one like you in the world.
- All caves are the same. You’ve been in a ravine like this one. Maybe you’ve been in this ravine. You’ve visited it countless times. No matter which way you turn, you stumble into it.
- No matter which way you turn, there’s more caves. Sometimes there’s torches. You’ve been here. You still can’t get out. Sometimes there’s not torches. Sometimes you give up escape and decide to explore ever deeper.
- You wonder if you’ve ever seen the surface, or if you were born in these caves with a vibrant imagination.
- You are the only living thing in this world.
- You come across dusty, abandoned mineshafts and rusty minecarts with loot at the bottom. You don’t remember building these or leaving anything behind. You wouldn’t shore up the walls with wooden posts. You know this world better than that.
- Then why does shoring up the walls seem logical? You don’t remember a world before this one. Why does this one feel so strange, sometimes even irrational?
- You’re alone. You are the only one like you in the world. You’re being watched.
- The caves aren’t yours. You’re the only one in them, but they’re not yours. They belong to something else - someone else, and you both know it.
- You’re alone in the world. You’re not alone in the caves. Their breathing and occasional humming echo in the stony corridors.
- Maybe the caves themselves are breathing. Singing.
- You are the only living thing in this world. The world itself, however, is alive.
- You make up stories for everything you build. You forget they’re just stories.
- The world sings to you. You clutch its music close and hope it never stops. In the silence after each song, you’re alone.
- You’re alone. You are the only one like you in the world, for this world is honest. You are being watched, for you are not.
- You’re the only living thing in this world. The world is alive. You are not alive the same way.
- The world exists to for you to live in it, and you think it resents that.
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If you go to the pool this summer, watch out for False Caustics. They look like the dancing lights at the bottom of the pool, but they stay mostly still.
False Caustics (Praya dulcis) are in fact siphonophores that colonize pools with poor filtration systems. If you swim through them, they will burn your skin. Their sting is rarely fatal, but it causes excruciating pain that can last several years.
These siphonophores are colonies of tiny organisms related to jellyfish. They are the only known species in their group to live in fresh water, and likely imitate caustics as a form of camouflage.
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Trapped soul PNGs.
(1 is a Syrian alabaster from 3rd century BC. 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 are South Arabian alabasters from 3rd-1st century BC. 3 is a Nigerian basalt monolith. 5 is "Tete" by Max Ernst. 7 is a Ural bronze animal mask.)
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I HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Selkie!
#she's five months old and i just picked her up from the foster last night#and she's ADORABLE and settling in fine#and she will be meeting Siren tonight when i get home from work#and they will hopefully be buddies#she is so soft and affectionate#Selkie#cats#my cats#a friend for Siren
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You can buy a little figure of THE Mr. Bones!?
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My Most Haunted Roll Of Film Yet
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we should be getting iced coffee and going to creepy and musty antique stores together why must we be separated by our screens…
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HEY
THE AUTHOR OF SEARCH AND RESCUE WOODS POSTED HER UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT TO THE r/STAIRSINTHEWOODS SUBREDDIT
This is FUCKING huge because something a lot of people aren’t aware of is there was supposed to be a SAR book. Unfortunately, syfy forced the author to give up adaptation rights in order to make the butcher’s block season of Channel Zero, so it never got published.
So now, she’s released it for everyone!
READ IT HERE
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"How to step out of the picture" a new Secret Knots comic! I hope you like it.
As usual, this webcomic is made possible by the support of kind Patreon followers. Check out the different tiers (there's even a free one!) for extra content, sketches and more.
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The house keeps its own secrets.
Based on my illustrated gothic horror series, the Deephaven Mysteries! The first book is on shelves now, with a new mystery coming this September that you can preorder wherever you get books!
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Apparently we’re not the only ones who mark our calendars with the three states of haunted barn ghosts – awake nights, awake [in the day], and asleep in the nighttime. From Antioch News, Sept. 1996.
It’s been said that we still have only the crudest understanding of ghosts. Here are a thousand vintage ghosts I’ve invited over.
Wondering about this post? Wait for the dissertation (TBA).
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I have one of those robot vacuums but there's a mirror in the house low enough to the ground that the lidar scanner can see a nonexistent room in the reflection so on the navigation map it's generated I have a room that doesn't exist that I have to forbid the vacuum from entering.
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need to sit down in a cemetery for a while. maybe bring a little thermos of soup. just to sit and stare and listen.
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Thought this one deserved its own post
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Game idea: Don't Call Cthulhu. You are all cultists, but none of you REALLY want to summon the Great Old Ones to destroy and recreate the world in their own fearsome image; however, you dare not appear reluctant, lest you get used as a sacrifice by more fanatical cultists.
Game mechanics revolve around coming up with reasonable-sounding objections to starting the ritual now, arguing against those objections so you don't look like you're giving in easily, and finding ways to uphold any objections while still making it seem like progress has been made towards starting the ritual.
Eg, "we don't have any chalk to draw the diagram", "we can just get some chalk", "we need the highest-quality chalk possible in order to do this perfectly, which we'll need to special order".
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