sureashellaintslendy: “Hickory Horned Devil”, the caterpillar of the Royal Walnut Moth (Citheronia regalis)
This looks like something Lovecraft would have dreamt up… LOVE IT!
"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody or something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom."
— Vladimir Nabokov (via lovewroteandwrit)
(via maybefox)
(via that-ferry-broad)
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
-Frederic Brown
Oh hello, I’m the Doctor! Why did you lock yourself in a room? Bit boring, isn’t it?
And the shortest horror…
In response to Minionier:
Because it is not! Contemporary literary theory teaches us that the reader, not the author (Or in this case, the OP), is the one who holds the relative truth of the story. We each judge and interpret a story based on what we carry with us in the form of bagage.
This bagage is the cultural patchwork that we each are made up of. In the case of whovians, Doctor Who as a part of that bagage carries a larger weight than most other things. Therefore their immediate interpretation of the OP would be to apply DW to it, thus changing the meaning according to how they interpret the text.
And the glorious thing about it? It is just as true as any other interpretation, because it is their intepretation. Any other fandom, or group, or person could have interpreted differently, and it would also have been valid.
(Sorry, just spent 6 months on this xD )
(Source: lmaogtfo)
concept art by retrovenus miravis
what if tony stark was a genetic engineer instead??
holy shit this is incredible.
(Source: atorridloveaffair, via iwouldratherbbc)
Words that have gone into obscurity
Allemande: courtly baroque dance in which the arms are interlaced
Logophile: a lover of words
Delenda: things to be deleted or distroyed
Orphrey: Gold or other rich embroidery
Phrontistery: a thinking-place; a place of study
Celeste: sky blue
Aureate: the fanciful and flowery language of poets
Rosarium: a rose garden; or someone who grows roses
Eudaemonia: true happiness
Eremite: a hermit; one who lives in solitude
Eidolon: a phantom, or spectre; a shadow of mere existence
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I had some medical trouble this week that had me dreaming of upgrading my model. The photosynthetic critter is based on the sea slug Elysia chlorotica.
This is awesome and I agree 100%
Rosemary is the best, the BEST
I wish I had cheek pouches now…
Poe Visualized by Harry Clarke
From the 1919 deluxe edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Harry Clarke reached deep into those dark, flinching corners underneath the bed and ripped out the grotesque horrors that lurked within, creating these macabre illustrations that accompanied Poe’s disturbing classics like “The Pit and the Pendulum” and the “The Telltale Heart” perfectly. In the same vein as Stephen Gammell’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark monstrosities decades later, these illustrations are sufficient evidence that while some stories can be even more frightening when left to your imagination, it takes a truly visceral artist to give those shadows form and really scare the bejeezus out of you.
(via: fastcodesign / io9)
Harry Clarke is fucking amazing. My step father owns an original copy of the 1919 Poe book these illuatrations are featured in. I used to sit there and carefully pour over those frightening, gorgeous, intricate drawings. Really, look him up.
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