#it's horrid i love it

[bravest-notts]

my midst evangelist mutuals will be happy to know i started listening today! it's very good so far. really cool worldbuilding, very interesting setup getting slowly dripped in over time. they do a great job of setting up the tension where i'm sure that these background class frictions and political motivations are going to boil over at some point in the near future but as of right now, i can't begin to guess what that tipping point's going to be.

#midst podcast #liveblogging tag #lark is my favorite #very very much my type of character #i played a gnome with a similar energy for over a decade so as soon as she showed up i was like ooh yes this one #the notion of a religious quasi-currency with an ever fluctuating exchange rate gave me such like #Forex Trading/Crypto Scam Meets Prosperity Gospel energy #it's horrid i love it #i'm on episode 10 of season one rn #given my job i will probably be caught up by monday #maybe even earlier

[popsicle-stick]

funniest thing is when it turns out someone actually has exactly the same takes on a fictional character as me but they finish like 'so yeah that's why i detest this guy' and it's like. ah. i see. i am a fundamentally different person however

#hate and love is much the same if you are deranged enough i suppose! #i need horrid little guys else i combust

[dizzybizz]

family trip to the grocery store

#buddy daddies #kazuki kurusu #miri unasaka #rei suwa #fanart #my art #little guys!!!!! #kazukis shoes are fucking insane #DUDE WHAT ARE THOSE #horrid #i love him <3

[piss-stained-jorts]

"i wanna see something other than the same edgy horror stuff when a beloved character becomes public domai-"

FUCKING MAKE IT, THEN.

the literal only difference between you and those horror directors who took mickey and winnie the pooh and made them into the horror you hate so much is that they made something and you didn't.

MAKE the romcom. MAKE the deep and existential meta horror you want to see. MAKE something cozy and child friendly. MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE

don't just sit there and bemoan the things you don't want to see! MAKE THE THINGS YOU DO WANT TO SEE. BECAUSE NOW WE CAN MAKE ANYTHING. THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT!

YOU DON'T NEED PERMISSION. YOU DON'T NEED TO BE SOMETHING FIRST. JUST MAKE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE.

YOU CAN'T STOP AN ARTIST FROM TAKING A CHILD FRIENDLY THING AND MAKING IT INTO HORROR. THE LITERAL ONLY PERSON YOU CAN STOP, AND ARE STOPPING, IS YOURSELF.

DON'T FUCKING WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO MAKE IT FOR YOU. PICK UP A DAMNED PENCIL/KEYBOARD/WHATEVER AND MAKE THAT THING YOU WANT TO SEE, GOD DAMMIT!!!

#mickey mouse #public domain #i don't care if you have to make it outta stick figures bitch! MAKE IT #MAKE IT AND DON'T APOLOGIZE #MAKE IT AND LOVE IT AND LOOK BACK LATER AND HATE IT BECAUSE AT LEAST THERE'S SOMETHING THERE TO HATE #MAKE. CREATE. BRING LIFE TO SOMETHING. GIVE YOUR VISION FORM. DO IT FUCKER #YOU WANT OTHER SHIT? MAKE OTHER SHIT AND DON'T LET THAT HORRID VOICE OF DOUBT STOP YOU

[stuckinapril]

I literally thought this track list was satire when I first saw it because who the fuck greenlit these

#aside from the fact that this woman refuses to pry herself out of the public conscience for two seconds these are actually horrid #swifties before u fucking get mad at me. ‘but daddy I love him.’ let’s be real. #text

[fungerisms]

horrid henry cuz ive been rewatching this series while working and im having quite a lot of fun with it :]]

#not funger but his is my only art acct on tumblr #horrid henry #rude ralph #moody margaret #brainy brian #gorgeous gurinder #beefy bert #singing soraya #perfect peter #weepy william #sour susan #anxious andrew #silly simon #i love how they call the characters it gives me joy #henrys mom #idk her name #the cat #miss fluffy #i think shes called

[pallanophblargh]

Another desperate strike at the art block and a tribute of sorts: super rusty linocut to reinitiate me into the world of printmaking. It’s not as attuned to my working style as intaglio was, but this is fun, tactile, and enough of a departure from my way of thinking that is super welcome.

It’s nothing special and definitely technically lacking (over-inked block and such) but it’s something, which is a big deal lately. Also it’s my favorite species of fish and we all know Kuhli loaches deserve all the tributes we can give.

#printmaking #linocut #Kuhli loach #kinda sorta art #love the carving process even though this is only the easy carve block so it’s soft #I have some of the firmer stuff too for future works for better detail #wanna do a cecropia caterpillar #actually wanna do a bunch of little precious invertebrates #art is so hard these days I will take what I can get #I’ll figure it out i promise #this is redemption for the horrid woodcuts I did during my relief printmaking class #miss it so much

[nerdepic]

modern/non-fantasy au bloodweave !!!!

#i have a lot of thoughts HIIII #they meet in a bar and have freaknasty cubicle sex (astarions idea) but then they have a slow friendship building trust #post- cazador and minthara (who are horrid horrid exes in this). and learn to love again :))) #bg3 #bloodweave #bg3 astarion #bg3 gale #gale dekarios #astarion ancunin #if u know the first image's ref.......... i know what you are #gale x astarion #my art tag #art; bg3 #txt

[unclekaz]

springtrap: 'i understand i am dirty.. but it's not like it's a serious problem! at least not yet! i insist, i'm perfectly-'

me:

#i love him. #but honey you've been rotting for thirty years #i understand you're afraid of springlocks #but think about your fur.. you smell horrid #springtrap #fnaf #fnaf fandom #fnaf springtrap #five nights at freddy's #husband material #springtrap and deliah

[redwitchrune]

the commanders batch and their adopted captain go to 79's

plus a little close-up :)

#runes art #star wars #the sillies!!!!! #i love these guys i just think they're neat #yes i know ponds is bald but i didn't realize that until i had finished and couldn't be bothered #commander ponds #captain rex #commander cody #commander bly #commander wolffe #commander fox #commander gree #gree your bacon hair was horrid to draw #star wars the clone wars #swtcw #tcw #sw tcw fanart #idk how to tag this stuff. theres so man tags #in my hc the ages are ponds gree bly cody wolffe fox (rex) #but cody wolffe and fox are like triplets and they always argue about whose the oldest (fox tends to lose. he gets assigned youngest)

[siwy-3]

hjey did u know he was my fav since middle school. yeag . still figuring out how to draw him i havent done undertale adjacent fanart in 2 million years.

#underfell #underfell sans #underfell fanart #fanart #treading with caution here because amino was NOT kind to me back in the day and im still terrified of seeing horrid shit here/lh #dont expect alot im fighting the internalized cringe #UF grillby and mtt forever though #also this design isnt 100 accurate i LOVE gg!underfell so i tossed in the eye crack

[psygull-arts]

Ouroboros

#oc #horror oc #red thing #through the red door #artists on tumblr #horrid creature :) i love it

[paper-lilypie]

@opudontdonut pls let me smooch my unimaginable horrors challenge

#alternate caption: pictures taken 0.1 seconds before getting your face bitten off #i just wanna love these creatures horrid beyond comprehension :((( #is that so bad :((( #fnaf #sun x reader #moon x reader #nightmare au #fanart #lily’s sketchbook

[ganymedesclock]

Tell me more about parasites and their hosts. Do you think the dynamic works if neither is aware of the other?

Before all else, any simplified dynamic has nigh infinite potential and how you explore it depends entirely on what you personally are looking for.

In my own case, a lot of my relationship with the idea of parasitism comes from my own mental health being strongly dependent on where I live- being able to return to home like a save point in a horror game. This sense of constantly being dependent on comfort, not merely as a normal person is but to the extent that I've felt like I'll be unable to cope if I can't get home in time or haven't built adequate mini 'safe rooms' (e.g. my car or a hotel room) to recharge, has formed a lot of my relationship with the idea of parasitism and the idea of haunted houses.

Both, to me, centrally focus on the idea of dependency on equilibrium. A house can't really chase you down- while there's certainly haunted house stories that give it the power to trap or pursue, to me, the most compelling angle is often one of necessity. Someone weighing the ghosts, the violence, the blood on the walls, and having to ask themselves if this is really worse than being homeless, or losing some advantage or shelter that you have here that can't be found elsewhere.

In the case of parasitism, the host is the haunted house. It may be simply indifferent to the parasite's survival; it may be actively hostile to and trying to rid itself of the 'guest'. But both parties have to weigh the odds- is it worth tearing into your own walls just to get at the interloper, is it worth staying in a place that unknowingly tolerates your existence at best and hates you at worst if the alternative is being laid barren in the world?

As a child, I remember reading the Animorphs books and one thing that always struck me as an unexpected source of pathos was how bleak and miserable the yeerks' default existence was. While we mostly experienced them from the horror of their would-be victims, people terrified and paranoid that those around them were being controlled, made prisoners in their own minds... the book where Cassie is briefly host to a yeerk and the first thing said yeerk does is, rather than focus on their agreement or advantages, start running around wildly and making use of Cassie's morphing power for the sheer wild euphoria of being able to.

As much as they are the Bad Guys in the story- invaders, body snatchers, sometimes sadists- there's something to be said about the torture of a fully sapient and intelligent being living as a nearly senseless, barely mobile creature by default. A tapeworm is perhaps lucky it cannot evaluate its existence in comparison to other life forms.

And, yeah, sure, parasites trip a particular contrarian reflex in me that I always want to root around and play with things that are seen as too icky or evil to be 'worth exploring', whether or not there's even any actual morality attached to things. Parasites do nothing on a basis of sadism- 'parasitism' is how they survive just as much as herbivory is how a rabbit survives.

It's instead on a basis of need.

And the point where we need others- especially imperfectly, reluctantly, warily, always hesitating on these dynamics of exploitation- and especially when it comes to the body which we often see as the most private bastion of the self- is where some really juicy dynamics can spring from.

#writing ruminations #long post #do I need you; do you need me; can I not live without you; is this not a form of devotion; is this not a form of love; #I am not the same as I was before I met you before you touched me; there is 'Us' now and it is beautiful and horrid; #we dread 'Us' as much as we dread the solitary 'I'- the true proof that we are alone

[space-writes]

wip intro - claws

sharp objects x carrie x hellraiser

🩸 Genre: Queer Horror

🩸 Features: teacher/student relationship (university edition), toxic romance, gender fuckery, broken identity, demonology, murder, self-harm, obsession, stalking, infidelity, a lot of blood, pact-based magic system, corruption, jealousy, eldritch entities, love is a wound, body horror, attempted suicide, and a little bit of arachnophilia

🩸 Status: First draft completed

🩸 One Sentence Summary: A young student’s obsession with his demonology teacher sparks a twisted romance that draws him to the limits of his humanity—and into the web of an eldritch horror.

🩸 Series Tag: wip: claws

summary

love makes monsters of us all...

When Vivien Webb breaks into Rainier Mortem’s office, he's only following the whim of his obsession. Love makes you do things like that. Things you shouldn’t. But when he finds—and impulsively steals—a hidden vial of demonic ichor, it sets in motion a chain of events at once everything he’s ever wanted and a nightmare made real.

In Rainier’s defence, sleeping with a student was never something he intended to do, things just sort of shook out that way. Vivien is different. Special. Addictive. And Rainier’s never been good at denying himself what he wants. Besides, if the kid stole his ichor, he needs to know sooner rather than later, because he has plans for it far greater than whatever street corner Vivien’s planning on selling it on. But it isn’t the ichor either of them should be concerned with—it’s the thing it came from. Because demons, much like lovers, want nothing less than all you have to give.

cast

Vivien Webb - gay transmasc nightmare boy. loves spiders, eyeliner, and Rainier Mortem. many issues, none of which he's dealing with. undiagnosed autistic (no, he hasn't figured it out yet either. it's not going well for him.) ftm in this case being female to monster.

Rainier Mortem - wretched bisexual demonology professor. hot and charming and knows it. incapable of taking responsibility for anything. the closest thing demonology has to a rock star. astonishingly good with his mouth. dirtbag trans ally and horny bastard.

Wolfe Talbot - Rainier's oldest, longest-suffering friend. former army medic, current paramedic. regrettably still a little bit in love with Rainier. regularly calls Rainier on his bullshit (not that Rainier listens).

Holly Barker - Wolfe's girlfriend and former classmate of Rainier's. feminist, pagan, and prone to speaking her mind. would stab Rainier in the balls given the opportunity. possibly the only actually sane person in this book.

Alice Vox - hottest, gothest sex worker. owns the nightclub Wonderland. another old friend of Rainier's who is actually smart and never slept with him (much to his neverending despair). enjoys fucking with people.

taglist: @belovedviolence @foxboyclit @coven-archives @mjjune @revenantlore @sarandipitywrites @noblebs @k--havok @asterhaze @verba-writing @indecentpause @bootstrapparadoxed (ask to be +/-)

#writeblr #wip intro #wip introduction #horror wip #queer wip #writblr #writing community #writers on tumblr #wip: claws #finally making an intro for this horrid little novel that has consumed my brain! #it's currently Marinating in the back of my brain #very excited to see what comes out of that wretched little cocoon later this year #also i *have* decided that vivien is def autistic now #i love him so much TT_TT

[officialweezerelections]

Have you ever seen a bird and thought “wow, that thing is fucked up” and you didn’t have anyone to tell? That changes NOW.

Welcome to the Fucked Up Bird Competition. A competition to find the most fucked up bird EVER.

Mods are

GF (he/him) (goose apologist) (signs off with 🦢)

Corvid (he/its) (eats humans) (signs off with 🦇)

Nominate your weirdest and most evil and fucked up birds below. May the worst bird win.

#animals #birds #fucked up birds #weird birds #horrid birds #scary birds #I love birds btw #information