some of Fevrith's...eligible...bachelors????
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I can't unsee it
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Nina bonds with her rat dad and Ochlys talks about her garbage queerphobic parents
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Jeg har fået lov til at dele dette fra en ældre medborger, som havde ønsket sig at hun havde haft Nødfløjten den aften hvor hun faldt tæt på hendes hjem og måtte overnatte på græsset til midt på næste dag, hvor hjemmeplejen fandt hende. 🍀 Hun endte med at købe nogle stykker, som hun kunne dele ud til sine nærmeste venner 🤗 #mormor #morfar #farfar #farmor #bedstefar #bedstemor #oldemor #oldefar #ældre #oldpeople #ældresagen #gammel #pensionist #old #oldpeople #boomer #gamla #far #mor #børnebørn #oldebørn #familie #people #middelaldrende #familie #old #photography #plejehjem #senior #otium (at Copenhagen) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfYJ5j3DJft/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Midnight Pals: Pickman's Model
HP Lovecraft: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the story of the pickman's model
Lovecraft: what if there was a painting so scary
Lovecraft: like it was so scary
Lovecraft: like SO scary
Lovecraft: so there's this painting that's SO scary you can't look at it
Barker: what happens if you look at it
Barker: do you go insane
Lovecraft:
Lovecraft: yeah you go insane
Barker: damn howard really going outside your wheelhouse tonight
Poe: clive don't start
Lovecraft: so this painting is so scary that you can't even look at it
King: wow! imagine if there was a painting like that!
Stephen Gammell:
Garrett Cook: a scary painting huh? i got a twist on that
Cook: what if a picture was scary
Cook: because it was drawn with haunted chalk?
Lovecraft:
Cook: just think about it for a minute
Lovecraft: oh yeah that's good
Cook: like, chalk cursed by the soul of a debauched libertine
Lovecraft: oh no i don't like that
Barker: wait wait i want to hear more about that
Lovecraft: but clive
Barker: shut up howard
Barker: adults are talking
Lovecraft: no guys you don't understand
Lovecraft: the reason that the painting is so scary
Lovecraft: is it's a painting of, like, a scary dog
Dean Koontz: i wouldn't be scared of a dog
Lovecraft: oh you'd be scared of this dog, dean
Lovecraft: it's real scary
Lovecraft: but the scariest thing about this scary dog
Lovecraft: is
Lovecraft: wait for it
Lovecraft: the scary dog is real
Koontz: what!
Lovecraft: it turns out pickman drew it from life!
Lovecraft: from his model!
Lovecraft: pickman's model!
Koontz: gosh howard
Koontz: i think that's just great!
Koontz: seeing a picture of a dog is great
Koontz: but then finding out that the dog is real and you can go see the real dog
Koontz: that's even better!
Lovecraft: dean you don't understand!
Lovecraft: the dog is evil!
Koontz: i don't believe that
Koontz: there are no bad dogs
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stephen gammell's horror art is so fucking good
the way the values are done so they look so soft in contrast to the ragged and gnarled edges of things is amazing. the lumpy flesh looks as soft and resistant as a ball of dough. and isnt it crazy to make something soft scary? when i went to this one beach as a kid, i had to ask my parents where there were beds of clay in the water, because i Hated the soft, clingy beach sludge on my feet. rot is soft. fangs and claws are scary because you know they can shred you. soft, yielding organic matter can be even scarier bc it can just immerse you. like the RE8 nightmare house baby.
anyway yeah the softness communicated thru value is really one of my fav parts of gammell's art. it is also amongst other great textures like stringy and hairy. also love the hairline cracks in skulls and dark thin hairs, branches, tendrils, that extend to the art like webs.
the surreal elements are another great part. any bizzarrities just added to the fear for me. big eyes floating in hollow darkened sockets in heads coming out of the ground look like they dont want to eat you but will tell you when you die, and lie about it, just to see you live your life that way.
i dont even remember the story of the invisible friend. the picture in my memory right now is a room with a human silhouette bulging under plaster or drywall. it scared me that it was an invisible presence that was so physically there.
i either cant find the image online or my brain misremembered completely, but this is the most likely match:
it doesnt match what i said. but i'd also read parts of the third dark tower book, which did have something manifest under ceiling plaster, so maybe i confused childhood fears. but i swear the image in my head is this art style.
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K, so my art class requires that I paint a scene from a film I like in the style of an artist I like.
Should I go with:
Spirited Away train scene in the style of Edward Hopper or
Annihilation bear scene in the style of Stephen Gammell?
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Stephen Gammell
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Alvin Schwartz, ill. Stephen Gammell)
"Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a collection of short stories, written for children. The stories themselves are pretty standard stories that are just spooky enough for kids, but the illustrations are what most people remember. Each story is accompanied by a picture that are still unnerving to look at as adults, let alone as kids. Growing up with this book, it felt like a test of bravery just to turn the page. It reminds me a lot of the Season 4 TMA episode, in Callum Brodie's domain - an avatar of The Dark planting images of monsters in kids' heads and letting their imaginations do the rest of the work in scaring them."
Stolen Sun (Korney Chukovsky)
"A Russian children's poem that narrates how the crocodile consumed the Sun and how the bear gave him a proper pummeling and forced him to release the star back into the sky. No, it doesn't make sense in context either, but it does take on the motifs of Slavic myths about a dragon stealing the Sun and imprisoning it for thirty-three years, cueing global night and cold."
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Robert Hale Ives Gammell (American, 1893 - 1981) Handy Man, 1938
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