#the scorpion with two tails

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The Scorpion with Two Tails (1982) poster.

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#sergio martino #the scorpion with two tails #giallo #cinema #movie poster #horror #film #movie #poster design #vintage #movies #80s #cult film #italian horror #cult movies

[abstractionsinyellow]

Sergio Martino, Assassinio al cimitero etrusco, 1982

#sergio martino #giallo all'italiana #assassinio al cimitero etrusco #the scorpion with two tails #giallo #giallo film #eurohorror #elvire audray #claudio cassinelli #paolo malco #1980s #80s #horror

[brokehorrorfan]

The Scorpion with Two Tails will be released on Blu-ray on January 24 via Full Moon Features. The 1982 Italian horror film was original shot as an eight-part miniseries before being cut down to feature length.

Sergio Martino (Torso, All the Colors of the Dark) directs from a script by Ernesto Gastaldi (Torso) and Mara Maryl (The Great Alligator). Elvire Audray, Paolo Malco, Claudio Cassinelli, Marilù Tolo, Wandisa Guida, and John Saxon star.

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A young woman (Elvire Audray) is having gruesome dreams of ancient sacrificial rites. When her husband is murdered in the same ritualistic way, she begins to suspect that someone or something is targeting her, leading her deep into a nightmarish mystery involving death, smuggling and reincarnation.

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[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | The Scorpion With Two Tails (Martino, 1982)

I don’t know if I’d call this a full on giallo, but it certainly is giallo-adjacent, so it’s interesting to consider this next to two more notable entries in the genre from the same year. Tenebre and The New York Ripper feel definitive. The former feels like the genre devouring itself, the latter feels like an explosion of its ugliest tendencies. There were certainly movies made in the genre afterwards, but they feel in a way like its final statements. This comparatively feels stodgy and inessential. There is enough in the way of classic genre elements, with the line between literal and perhaps less literal realities of the movie dissolving. But there is little of the viciousness of the other movies, little of the sense of audience complicity. The kills are bloodless, and instead rely on 180-degree head twists, an image the movie trots out regularly to amusing results. The one thing that makes this stand out are the archeological elements, which seem like an attempt to cash in on Raiders of the Lost Ark.

This is directed by Sergio Martino, who a decade earlier could be considered one of the masters of the genre, but at this point was trotting out extremely low wattage thrills in stuff like The Great Alligator, which is fun to veg out to but not terribly exciting. This is a similarly low energy affair, and it’s maddening to think it was originally supposed to a TV miniseries, presumably with endless, endless head twist scenes to fill the extra hours of runtime. Even more than most Italian horrors, this has a somnambulist quality to the proceedings.

So this is not very good, but I like the flavour of these Italian horrors, even in an extremely diluted form, so I had some fun with this even if I was zoning out pretty hard at times. The stuff with the Etruscan tombs is pretty fun and gives you some of the juice you can expect from the poster. And as these movies tend to reuse a lot of common cast members, I had fun once again hanging out with my good friends John Saxon and Paolo Malco, the latter of whom has one scene that justifies the price of admission. And I do not know if Elvire Audray is a great actress, but she pulls off the furrowed brows and startled reactions you need in this kind of material.

#film #movie review #the scorpion with two tails #sergio martino

[alephskoteinos]

#fabio frizzi #horror soundtrack #italian horror #assassino al cimitero etrusco #the scorpion with two tails #Youtube

[torgawl]

trying to avoid leaks like

#what the hell i start reading stuff and suddenly realise it's about the archon quest 😭 #i read one navia voiceline about clorinde that one was an okay leak because lesbians 🔛🔝 #but it's gonna be an exercise navigating the internet avoiding stuff #okay i also saw skirks design she's really pretty also women 🔛🔝 #and arlecchino. there's just so many wives and i'm still waiting for the queen herself myrianelle or however the two braid girl whose hair #looks like scorpion tails is called #honestly a bummer myrianelle wasn't released during scorpio season methinks

[whimsical-sonic]

buncha sketches of my boy sting

#cosmic chatter #sting the scorpion #my ocs #doodles #my art #sth #his tail...my nightmare to draw #ill get it down eventually #he's got two markings on the back of his head as you can see in the lower left #the markings are to give the impression that he has six eyes #since scorpions have 6-12 eyes

[cervidaedalus]

It's always gotta be the lack of diverse tail mods that are gonna cause me trouble huh.

#The two existing fish tails are very stiff and stick out from their butt instead of hanging #no scorpion tail mod at all #all the bunny tails that are pointed enough to pass for deer tails are viera exclusive #and now it looks like there's no Meteion tails that can function as an accessory rather than a tail replacement #The Miqo tails I envision don't seem to exist either

[dead-end-draws]

Tribe Banner concept art:

Folks seemed to enjoy my WOF WIPS, so here’s more concept art for y’all! My favorite thing about WOF is the potential for world building. I thought it’d be cool to see a tribe emblem represented on a banner/flag of sorts:

Read below for some of the thought process / headcannons behind the design choices: 👇

Skywing Banner:

Skywings pride themselves on 3 things; treasure, fire, & their enormous, soaring wingspan which steals the sky.

As such, portrayed on the banner, the fabric (often made with dyed cow or goat leathers) resembles draped dragon wings. Two Skywings embrace a goblet, which is spewing golden fire.

The banner is often held aloft with iron or gold poles, signifying to other tribes their wealth and pride.

Mudwing banner:

These banners are fashioned with leather hides from cow or crocodile skin, held aloft with bamboo, and painted with a Talon-print & Reed crest.

The talonprint symbolizes community and the strength of Mudwing sibling bonds. The reed border unifies all Mudwings regardless of their relationship to home; the swamp. Bigwings are often seen carrying these into battle, signifing their status and making it easier for a sib to locate them in the flurry of a fight.

Sandwing Banner:

Sandwing flags are made with camel skins and dyed cactus leather.

A crest shows a Sandwing coiled around a beaming sun, a reminder that despite the revered 3 moons, Sandwings are born to thrive in sunlight.

The fabric is cut in a way to mimic the swooping dunes of Sandwing territory. And the poles of the flags are equally intricate, with scorpion tails and golden ropes which frame the banner.

These flags make prominent appearances in parades, festivals, and markets, and even miniature version are often displayed in homes or as tapestries/carpets.

Seawing banner:

These banners are often seen displayed in royal quarters or councils, or above land to mark territory.

A nautilus shell crest on front echoes the swirl-pattern associated with royal Seawings: The banner’s borders resemble waves and a dragon swimming beneath their surface.

These are crafted with rich materials, strung with seashells, pearls, silver dollars, and deep oceanic color fabric. There is severe penalty for Seawings found plucking treasure from the banners, as they are a direct symbol of royalty.

Nightwing Banner:

These banners emphasize the Nightwings’ relationship to the moon, their source of power and praise. The material, a contrast of white stitching against purple velvet showcases moonlight and night, black scales against stars, magic and mystery.

They are seen decorated with 3 moons at the top and a centered dragon reaching up into the night sky.

These banners were often used during the war as secret code by spies to deliver to other tribes. Prophecy scrolls often came attached, delivering cryptic messages or secrets in the night. These banners all helped add to the secrecy of the Dragonet Prophecy, and kept tribes on their toes around Nightwings.

Rainwing banner:

Rainwing banners are not used for battle purposes like other tribes, most are mere decoration, location indicators, and have no unified design.

However, It is said back when Rainwings left the rainforest to trade pre-war, this particular banner design was often raised above Rainwing merchant tables, and showcases the coiled tail of a Rainwing with leaves, vines, and other sights from the rainforest adorning a bamboo pole. Bright color combinations accentuated the flag to entice curious customers.

Now, only one tattered version of the original Rainwing banner remains, displayed proudly in Queen Glory’s quarters, a reminder that building the Rainwings’ community is their most important goal.

Icewing Banner:

These banners reflect the same standards Icewings hold themselves to.

Like a visual of the rankings themselves, each banner is cut perfectly from an Icewing’s trained, serrated claws to resemble icicles, and crafted with fine blue stitching.

Flags are often held aloft with perfectly polished narwhal horn or bone, and can be inlaid with sapphires or diamond.

Icewing soldiers are often gifted these during ceremonies, and perform training exercises with the flags to test their stance/attentiveness. The crest showcases the swift sharpness of ice through a flying dragon, and a snowflake toward the bottom reminding Icewings that even minuscule snowflakes, small things, should be perfect in form.

#wings of fire #wof #rainwing #sandwing #icewing #mudwing #skywing #nightwing #nightwing wof #seawing #dragon art #dragon #art #concept art #bookart #wof fanart #wings of fire art #book fanart #books #illustration #dragon drawing #wof art

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#Scorpion with two tails #blu-ray #horror #Sergio Martino #full moon features #Bandcamp

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? / @/oceaii (tumblr) / Liv Ullmann Changing / The Elektra Complex / Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman from "Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry / unknown / @/violentcherries (tumblr) / @/nutnoce (tumblr) / Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea / unknown

i. Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? [ "This haunting is architectural. It is not about you. It is about where you are. There are bones in the foundation. This house is a graveyard. This house is a corpse. You are inside the corpse. That makes you the maggot." ]

ii. @/oceaii (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a deer. The deer looks forwards in the first panel and turns back to face the audience in the second panel. "Turn and face / the person you've become." ]

iii. Liv Ullmann Changing [ "I will never forget the loneliness I knew as a child. For a period in my life I hid behind a mask. Did not want to acknowledge any longing. / Now it is a part of me-something I can share. / Both the loneliness and the longing." ]

iv. The Elektra Complex [ "If you were to peel the skin of me apart as a fig's, you would finally understand. I am my mother's daughter. From poisoned seeds sprout poisoned fruits." ]

v. Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman [ "I didn't want / to be the dead star / that uses borrowed light to survive." ]

vi. unknown [ Black and white illustration of two deer. They are both labeled with words. The deer in the background says "just be." The deer in the foreground replies "just being is the hardest part." ]

vii. @/violentcherries (tumblr) [ "the environment you are not thriving in is not yours forever / IT'S OKAY TO LEAVE / ... / IT'S OKAY to abandon the things you used to love" ]

viii. @/nutnoce (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a scorpion doing chores. It's tail just barely curls over the front of a clothes line. Various pairs of socks hang from the clothes line. It stands before a bucket with more clothes inside. "I come from the toughest, meanest place you can imagine. / I want to be gentle, I want to die gently, but / It seems that when life gets hard / I have to get harder to match." ]

ix. Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea [ "I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar." ]

x. unknown [ "1. Man is a MORAL animal. / 2. You can get human beings to do anything - IF you can convince them it is moral. / 3. You can convince human beings that anything is moral." ]

#joan tierney #why are you haunted? #liv ullmann #changing #the elektra complex #rosario castellanos #monologue of a foreign woman #meditation on the threshold: a bilingual anthology of poetry #jean paul sartre #nausea #poetry #poem #words #writing #text #web weave #poetry web weave #web weaving #on heartbreak #on self destruction #on anger #on rage #quote #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #dark academia #light academia #spilled poetry #dark academia quote #dark academia poetry

[copperbadge]

I've worn glasses since I was two and my eyesight, as with most people, has declined a bit as I've gotten older. I don't shower with my glasses on for self-evident reasons but one hardly needs to most of the time....

So when I was in the middle of cleansing the mortal husk this morning, I saw something move out of the corner of my eye but it was too tiny for me to discern. My folks live in something adjacent to the boondocks and they often deal with Creatures, which occasionally are Scorpions, so I went "Ouuuuaghhha!" and backed away from the small reddish thing writhing around in the gap between bathtub and wall.

Once I saw it move I realized it wasn't a scorpion, but I couldn't tell what it was, so I rinsed and dried very quickly and got my glasses on, and behold! A Creature!

[ID: A photograph of the tile between my parents' shower-bathtub and wall, featuring small round dime-sized tiles. Resting on the tiles, roughly the size of one of them, is a small pink lizard with a black-and-white striped tail.]

#lizard #wildlife #creature

[minced-mangoes]

I am in love with the concept of the demons in the devildom having to shed their horns, as well as possible shedding of fur, feathers, scales, or skin. With this we have to assume the demon's horns align closer to antlers than actual horns, since horns don't shed, but antlers do. Either way these are magical creatures so fuck logic. I can do what I want. Maybe they don't actually fall off, but instead shed a layer of keratin, keeping the horns shiny, strong, and unmarred. For some demons this shedding is easier, like for Lucifer and Diavolo's horns. However, with demons like Mammon and Barbatos, the details on the horn make it much harder to come off, often needing assistance.

The shed keratin from demon's horns can be used for other things, typically the creation of beauty products, and demons can get good grimm for handing in shed horn layers. I also think Satan will have to do this with his tail.

Now, the feathered demons tend to have the problem of occasional molting, and losing feathers. I'd also imagine they'd have to spend a lot of time preening and plucking their wings. Lucifer might need your help pulling a blood feather or two. Help him, please. Fur. I'm mostly thinking Belphie here. He sheds. Everywhere. Usually Beel helps by brushing out his fur, but you can definitely assist as well, it's lot of fur and four hands are better than two. Scales, this is for Levi. Please help him shed. It's not comfortable and he can't pay attention to his games if his scales have a layer peeling off. Dunk him in water, get him some nice rocks to rub up against, and peel off anything that gets really stuck. He'll be smooth, shiny, and happy afterwards.

And for the demons with wings that aren't feathered? I assume they'd need to be cared for as well. The thin wing membrane will need moisturizing. For the bug demons? help them shed their exoskeletons. I'm thinking specifically Beel and Asmo here. Yes, I headcanon they have to shed like bugs. Beel not as much, since he's a fly, but Asmo's sin animal is a scorpion, he's gonna need to get rid of that old exoskeleton as he grows. Also he comes out so much shinier and more beautiful! You gotta help him be as gorgeous as he can be!

All and all demon forms need a lot of maintenance. But that's okay, you're there to assist. Hey, maybe this will help you bond. And when you need a little help with caring for yourself, your demons will repay your kindness. ~~~ Tomi here! I take requests via my ask box! Please PLEASE PLEASE drop ideas or just things you want me to talk about there or in my comments,,, I eat stuff like that for lunch,,,

#obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me swd #obey me lucifer #obey me mammon #tomi's obey me au #headcanon #obey me leviathan #obey me beelzebub #obey me asmodeus #obey me belphegor #obey me diavolo #obey me satan #obey me barbatos #Does this need a tw? #i don't think so #but if it does #just lmk I'll add it #bug mention #i take requests

[gubbles-owo]

so @lilyblackdrawside and i were discussing how the heck manticore sleeps with that massive scorpion tail... sleeping on her stomach feels like it'd be uncomfortable, and it'd just leave her tail to drape off the bed. i didn't think a standard mattress could be modified to accommodate her comfortably (boring a hole in the damn thing ain't exactly feasible, yk?) so lily suggests that, rather than a traditional bed, she'd have a heated sandpit. IMAGINE IT lightly knocking on her dorm door with "hey manti, you awake?", u poke your head in and take a look... the sandpit in the corner appears to be empty. but suddenly the sand begins to stir and shift, and the two little headwings and tip of tail poking out fizzle into view...

she half-crawls out all sleepytired and rests her chin on the edge (i don't imagine she's a morning person), eyes crusted with sand and not at all ready to get up anytime soon. IT'S FUCKIN CUTE AAAAAAAUUAOIUEOHGOAHIGHSPAFH also! consider the following:

#tbf rhodes island would likely NOT pay to set this shit up but like. just imagine. aough #i love her so goddamn much #manticore #arknights

[alephskoteinos]

Music from The Scorpion With Two Tails plays in my head when writing Part 3 of my critique of Revolutionary Demonology. Or really just one specific track that I'm having trouble finding in the soundtrack. I think it plays in scenes such as when the protagonist and her drug-trading dad are being chased by a motorcycling assassin. I have to admit I have a soft spot for that movie. It's so weird it sticks to me.

#giallo #the scorpion with two tails #fabio frizzi #italian horror

[majachee]

THE CHANGELING BROTHERS 🗣🗣🗣

Some design notes under cut:

In mythology, changelings are humanoid creatures that have been placed by fae (broad generalized term) in place of a human child, though there are also some stories here and there of adults being taken and replaced by changelings.

Changelings, based on my limited research, only really refer to the creature left behind during some good ol cradle robbing. They are related to the fae, though. Fae, or faeries, cover a broad range of different creatures in all sorts of European mythos, however, from elves to trolls to imps. In more modern art and stories, fae are drawn as tiny little humans with bug-like wings and long, flowing hair. But there have been less flattering depictions throughout history.

Taking the origin of the mythos, and the obvious bug inspiration in the show, I've decided to redesign these two to look like impish little sprites! Changelings in my AU are smaller than the average pony, usually reaching their chin or shoulders. They have thin, flexible bodies that are protected by an exoskeleton! Their jaws are an odd mix of mammalian and insect, so they can expand and protrude their lower jaws while their upper jaw stays fixed to their skull. Their tongues are thin, based on nectar-drinking bugs and animals like butterflies and hummingbirds.

Most changelings have two wings, only Pharynx and Thorax have four wings (reformed form only.)

Pharynx is also a bit taller than the average changeling drone... Have fun imagining how tall Thorax is. Height chart coming eventually.

Their tails are loosely based on a scorpion's stinger, but I took more inspiration from cartoony imp/devil tails in art and cartoons! 😇

#majart #mlp fim #mlp g4 #my little pony friendship is magic #my little pony #mlp pharynx #mlp thorax #pharynx mlp #thorax mlp #mlp au #mlp rewrite #lore post #changeling #mlp changeling #art #digital art #fanart #mlp redesign #lmao... lol even...