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lavender-laney · 10 months

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project intro, choking on sea salt

choking on sea salt

chapter 1, chapter 2 part one, chapter 2 part two

genre . gothic horror, folk horror

status . outlining, drafting

tag . #choking on sea salt

a fishing village with a foggy history. whispers and visions of century-old evils. unexplained shipwrecks and an ocean no one is permitted to step foot near.

if you're a fan of vengeful sirens, feminine rage, or the concept of "coastal gothic" (in the same vein as southern gothic), then choking on sea salt may draw your interest...

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sadie is a young journalist intending only to study the history of a remote fishing village. upon her arrival, however, the residents are distrustful and avoidant of her questions. it is forbidden to step onto the beaches or into the water, and the ocean elicits a visceral fear in the locals. more notably, though, is the startling lack of women, and sadie’s attempts to speak with the few women present are repeatedly thwarted or outright denied. sadie’s suspicions are growing, her notebook contains more questions than answers, and the eerie song echoing through the night is drawing her closer and closer to the ocean – and the century-old evils that lie in wait beneath it.

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heartshapedcaskett · 2 years

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Charleston, South Carolina

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algueslittoral · 8 months

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Rocks dark in the setting sun. Rubbing grape juice across my lips, I watch the sun leak from the sky. Wrinkled and grey, it is left. A lonely shade to welcome the Moon.

Father caught a pink fish for supper. We ate the flesh and spit out the bones.

I bury them beneath sand grains and look up at the grape stained sky.

Soon, we loose the summer and I find you.

#mermaid #coastal gothic #coastal #coastal girl #fisherman #lighthouse #mermaid core #lighthousecore #writing #prose writing #ocean aesthetic #ocean core

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alwayshaveandialwayswill · 5 days

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“the sea gets into your head […] once you let it in, it doesn’t leave you alone.”

—hannah kent, burial rites

#image source: pinterest #coastal gothic #aesthetic #dark aesthetic #sea aesthetic #coastal aesthetic #gothic aesthetic #gothic #quotes

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christinegriffinart · 1 year

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I guess while I’m at it, I’ll upload a few. This is a fave, and I ended up loving the rough edges. Listened to “Under the Milky Way” by The Church, on repeat, when I drew this... “Low Tide” graphite and charcoal on paper

#original art #artists of tumblr #dark art #lite horror #grapite #charcoal #imaginative realism #coastal gothic #starfish chappeau #drawing #christine griffin art

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aburninghill · 2 years

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Coastal New England Gothic: Stratford, CT, founded 1639. Site of the hanging of Goody Bassett for witchcraft in 1651

photos from flickr

#long island sound #gothic #new england gothic #coastal new england #new england #aesthetic #new england aesthetic #halloween #coastal new england gothic #spooky #witch trials #storms #stratford #connecticut #connecticut gothic

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forestgreenivy · 18 days

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You can find me here.

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bloggingfromthedeltaquadrant · 21 days

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Haven't posted any selfies in a while! Enjoy my face and tummy

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allamericanvampire · 5 months

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ruins of a beachfront restaurant | cardiff-by-the-sea, california (2019)

#mine #me #california #abandoned #coastal ruins #beach #california gothic #american waste #american gothic

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rocksanddeadflowers · 1 month

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thinking about jonny's backstory in CoCaL and the fact that i stupidly romanticize and love writing about drowning....

#the consequences of creation and love #have a few different drafts of different characters that's just the pov of the character drowning #i am NOT insane i swear i always functioned this way #this is just what happens to kids who grew up gothic and coastal and fixated on mermaids #and pirates and ghosts #fae too but that irrelevant i was a goth kid growing up in Galveston what do you expect

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lavender-laney · 10 months

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choking on sea salt

fog rising from the ocean’s surface, choking your lungs, muffling your senses. the shimmer of blood-stained scales flashing in the corner of your vision. pale figures flickering through the haze, lingering when you close your eyes. the taste of sea salt on the breeze, stinging your cracked lips. waves rumble in the distance, not a comfort, but the distant growl of a hungry wolf. the fury of your mothers and sisters before you boiling in your veins, prepared to bite at a reaching hand.

#just a fun little thing..#the ~ vibes ~#writeblr #choking on sea salt #coastal gothic #gothic horror

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heartshapedcaskett · 2 years

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Yes, they'll all come to meet me

Arms reaching, smiling sweetly

It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.

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algueslittoral · 8 months

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The ocean today.

I fear I am obsessed with creation. Are we all—writers, painters, playwrights, friends—longing to become Gods? Can we ever be satisfied?

#writing #diary #journal #literature #vintage #ocean #oceancore #sea core #sea salt #lighthouse #lighthousecore #coastal #coastal gothic #coastal girl #mermaid

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goodeveninglila · 19 days

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𝒟𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝒟𝒾𝒶𝓇𝓎,

𝒫𝑜𝓌𝒹𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒸𝒾𝓃𝓃𝒶𝓂𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝒸𝓀𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓎 𝓈𝓊𝒸𝓀𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝓊𝓅𝑜𝓃 𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓀𝓎 𝓈𝒾𝓁𝓀; 𝐻𝒾𝒸𝓀𝑒𝓎.

𝒲𝒽𝑜𝓁𝑒𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝑒𝒹𝓁𝓎,

𝐿𝒾𝓁𝒶

𝟦•𝟣𝟢•𝟤𝟦

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guardsbian · 1 year

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tragically I want to return to serpentis solacia and flesh it out. this is tragic because every time I think about it I despise how much I would have to change to be happy with it as a location

#it's very inconsistent with my other locations on account of being my first clan so it's like. it doesn't. look good #it doesn't look like anything #which I guess is an aesthetic within itself but the areas have no visible correlation between the dragons in them #like serpentis solacia isn't even particularly. based in anything #lantern's light is gothic victorian with an apocalyptic twist + more #rinascita rituale is a gaudy 80s las vegas type + cosmic horror university #los oleajes is a coastal town with 80s crime vibes #nautes-xenia is. mediterranean #what's serpentis solacia then? not a damn thing! and it never has been #so I'd have to figure THAT out. which would then mean redesigning everything within it #the only Thing it has is bring divided into profession-based districts but that's. that's still nothing.

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homespuncinnabun · 2 years

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Story time

I’ve been off for a while, and I return with this:

Context: before I was forced to move to the very edge of a city a little ways inland, I used to live in a TINY town right on the beach. This town is surrounded by marshes, swamps, rivers, forests, and canals.

Anyway, a coworker and I were discussing cool things we’ve seen in our towns--a deer eating from a drive-thru window, a city pigeon with a trio of crow bodyguards, etc--when I brought up how many times I’ve seen tourists from the city fall into swaps and marshes back home because they don’t read the signs warning them about the ghost lights.

My coworker stared at me like I was crazy. “The...what?”

So I tell her about all the tourists I'd seen lose their bikes, shoes, bags, even a whole car to these ghost lights. Then I tell her about the time my school called all kids inside and locked the doors because a teacher spotted a light outside the yard. No recess that day, even after the light vanished.

“Your home town is haunted as shit. You know that, right?”

“Oh yeah.”

I have so many more stories from my old hometown, but my coworker says she doesn’t want nightmares.

#my stuff #ghosts #old town gothic? maybe?#coastal town #stories #true stories

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