it's not going to haunt itself.

previously @/treeroutes

sharkwreck:

ALT

Translation : “The schizo association informs you : being weird is no big deal.” (credits : clea.ciel on instagram).

tics-anonymous:

ID: A meme with bold words on it saying “on a scale from 1-10, how much does your house fucking HATE you.” There is a double sided arrow on it. On one side of the arrow, it says “The keep from second citadel” which is labeled as “literally your loving parent.” In the middle of the double sided arrow, it says “The House from The Mabel Podcast” which is labeled as “possesive”. On the other side of the double sided arrow, it says “House Of Leaves” which is labeled “horrors worse than death.”

(via mortitsghost)

well friends… MY PHD PROJECT IS OFFICIALLY FUNDED.

twelvedinos:

The second part to my small watership down project, just one more to go, I’ll be drawing Hazel and Fiver next. :)

[ID: digital drawing of a dark rabbit. its eyes are red and so is the background. part of its body are whole but in other parts, all flesh has been removed leaving only the white bones. yet it seems to be moving. by its sides are the words ‘there are no bargains’ and 'what is is what must be’. end ID]

(via aigenderated)

deadreckon:

Raquel S. Benedict: “Is Moby Dick cosmic horror?”

John Langan: “I think it is, I think it is in the sense of, it’s about an individual coming up against a vast and maybe unknowable universe. Ahab says at one point, “All of reality is just a pasteboard mask” and his desire is to punch through that mask and find out what lies behind that—is it nothing, you know, is it the void, is it God, what kind of god is it, is it something else, nature or whatever kind of principle you want to imagine. And in a sense he never finds out, he’s destroyed in his quest, and Ishmael just sort of escapes to tell this story. Moby Dick is ultimately not conquerable and, not only that, but as the narrative goes along, Moby Dick becomes this thing that is—yes, it took Ahab’s leg, it dismasted him as he says, and it can be this terrifying thing, but to other people it’s almost this creature of good omen, so it’s this thing that just becomes—it’s almost like the more you learn about it the harder it gets to see, or the harder it gets to understand.

So I think that, yeah, I think that it fits into the cosmic horror thing, but I think what it gives us, what makes it so great, is the figure of Ahab, and the crew as well, but especially Ahab. I think for cosmic horror to work, there needs to be the person who’s tempted, the over-reacher, you know, the person who wants to know, to punch through that pasteboard mask. And I think in Ahab’s case, because his first encounter with Moby Dick he was just trying to kill a whale, you know, he’s a whaler, that’s what he does, however distasteful I may find that. And then he has this terrifying encounter with this thing that almost kills him, and it drives him mad in a lot of ways. He’s come so close to death, and in coming close to death he’s glimpsed the kind of absurdity of the universe, and he wants to find out—is it as mad as it seems? Is it as terrifying as it seems?”

John Langan on Cosmic Horror on Rite Gud

(via ayekha)

ysabelmystic:

I just heard my mom tell my brother, “when you die, you will go outside and garden until your father says you’re done” and it took me a second to realize that my brother was playing a videogame and this was not a theological discussion.

(via exitwound)

staticstratosphere:

I think… this is inherently homoerotic

[ID: why is it that when i put my hand on a radio antenna the signal gets stronger ? you actually are becoming part of the antenna! your body conducts radio waves to a certain degree, so when you touch the antenna, you are adding the signals coming through your body to the signal picked up by the radio’s own antenna. result = stronger signal! end ID]

(via irradiatedsnakes)

merricatcoded:

the sea is the earth’s most haunted environment. the density of ghosts per square metre is unparalleled. every tide is a time machine. every whale song is a spirit box

(via hauntedbythenarrative)

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‘being transgender is not a mental illness, being transgender is not a delusion’ what if it is?

what if my gender identity is a delusion? what diffenrence does it make? does it suddenly justify mistreatments? psychiatric control? transphobia? conversion therapy?

psychiatry decides who it locks up and who is allowed to be free. and you would rather secure your place on the 'free’ side than fight with mad trans people for psychiatric abolition.

i am trans and delusional. do you think i can tell where delusions stop and gender dysphoria begins? yet it doesn’t make me less trans or less worthy of recieving gender-affirming care.

it’s funny that we call methane hydrate ‘fire ice’ but that we don’t call pure ethanol 'fire water’.

two pneumonias within a few months did not make me stop smoking but ‘the pyrocene: how we created an age of fire, and what happens next’ (2021) by stephen j. pyne might.

salicaceaeapologist:

there’s a tv show called ‘the swarm’ (dir. Barbara Eder, Luke Watson and Philipp Stölzl) that came out quite recently. it’s based on a novel called Der Schwarm by Frank Schätzing and it’s apparently about all forms of sea life developping some form of swarm intelligence and turning against humans in various manners. which sounds fun.

well i just found an article saying that the author of the original novel was so disappointed in the adaptation he asked for his name to be removed from the credits.

watched the two first episodes. sure it’s not the best show ever, and i suppose if you want the human characters to survive you could say it paints the sea creatures as malevolent which is unfair. also the show is obviously no seriously researched commentary on overfishing or the destroying of marine ecosystems. but honestly i’m just here to watch humpback whales and lobsters kill people. and it’s entertaining.