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#🍿 I love a good art tour guide here on Tumblr #thank you for informing me about Adriana Varejão #i do so wish i could touch the exposed bits in yhose first couple photos

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it's alive! sort of!

#I love this so much!! #the little... tooth? poking out of the lower pillar! #the horrific globules of... fat? #OP you are brilliant and tallented #and this is a nightmare #thank you

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knight!

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Vermes pt 2: a beloved fairy godmother, a comfort during grief, a troublemaker, and an appreciator of fine things.

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I'm still loosing my mind over how good this is as well! Much love for this rendering of Quercus the Magnificent who is very much in my thoughts as I light up on this holy day of 4/20 ✌️

Quercus the Magnificent for @bowelfly Painted with Watercolour and coloured pencil.

I have the best clients honestly!! These types of commission are still open. They're £50 each, you can send me a message here or email me at [email protected]! I'd love to draw more bugfolk or interesting critters.

#wish I had some of that Yggdrasil shit them wizards smoke #will make do with whatever specials I can find at the shops today #this print is so excellent! -- would make a perfect postcard that I'd definitely send to a number of folks...

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Posted Oct 9th, 2022… I added it to my queue Nov 10th, 2022… 

Interesting to see how far AI images have come in that short period of time. I miss the blurry, not-quite-concrete look of these earlier renderings.

While I appreciate the instantiation into real life, my unease with its digital origin is greater than my admiration of its execution...

Why did I let this languish in my queue for so long? Scrolling past it always was a mild irritant, a token to remind me of modern dangers... Am so surrounded by it now these days though, I guess it's time to move on and let it go.

Opal Chrysalis by Firefly Path couture

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Another AI image apparently... though (as sleuthed by @spacealiencafe in the notes) there's a incarnation of it in reality posted on Facebook

My unhappiness is great as I again didn't notice/couldn't tell this was fake. I do not like this world technology is taking us to.

We've received encouragement from upper management at work to familiarize ourselves with AI assisted coding. The gut curdling reaction I felt at that is new and unfamiliar. I've always been interested in the Luddites and long suspected I am/would be one even before this AI plague blossomed...

What to do when ones tools become abhorrent....

By Alex7

#real Luddites destroy things tho... #how do I lash out on this which I hate? 🤔 #still fucking love Kotlin #love my work and love coding #love real embroidery #love real things #it's the soulless generation that gives me the heebie jeebies #and this from someone who generally dislikes discussions of souls...

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I often click into notes for images I like & want to reblog that lack attribution -- as someone else pointed out, was a slap to the face to realize this is AI. I don't have the domain knowledge of thread to recognize it as such myself. Or rather, I've seen such amazing (real) stuff on this site already that I was prepared to believe a anything was possible...

I think it's the throat w/ the twisting veins in particular that I like here, wonder if that portion could be replicated in reality...

Makes me wonder about a rendering algorithm to convert things to a stitched look... (in a more controlled, intentional manner than just "run it through the AI mill")

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Given Dracula Daily starts again soon right about this time Dracula is probably really busy preparing for Jonathans visit:

Spent days searching for cook books in the library. Spent more days deciding with the ladies which recipies are a bit dated ( he wasn't keen on stuffing a swan anyway) and which are still popular.

Took him 2 days to figure out how to light the stove. Hadn't done it in about 250 years (why would he, he feels no warmth) has to remove several generation of birds nests from the chimney.

When the stove finally burns he has to learn how to regulate temperature. In course of this process 17 eggs and 2 aprons are burned beyond recognition

Also Dracula had to steal some soap. Then went to launder the bed sheets and the curtains to make the place more hospitable.

Utterly destroyed the fragile 300 year old curtains on the washing board. Needs new curtains.

Using a broom is harder than it looked. First only creates big dust clouds till he figures out a proper way to sweep.

#starts May 3rd #that's in 2 weeks! #🍿 like reruns of my favorite show

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#love love love the hair! #can imagine diving & meeting this creature and losing my shit #neat ideas

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over on patreon Tama shouted ‘shark’ at me a bunch of times for the mermaid prompts, which obviously gets results.

goblin shark goblin Mitsu is here again to secure stray forbidden tomes that wander into terrestrial libraries, and this time she’s brought the rest of her team.

 Sagami is the frilled shark lady who’s head of Protection, physical and mental. some cults do NOT want to give up their tomes and some tomes do NOT want to get got. she’s basically here to punch assholes in cloaks so Mitsu can work and create wards against unnaturally occurring madness.

Rea, the greenland shark lady, is the team’s advanced translator and sacrificial editor. she’s still pretty young at only 152 but she should totally be dead by now, a fact which makes the branch of Sedna’s Fingers that raised her pretty smug. she translates books with words as well as books where the concept of words (or books) becomes debatable, and whenever a Rough Draft shows up she makes sure it’s like, physically tolerable before letting it come in contact with anyone else.

they’re 3 smart ladies just trying to do their jobs in this void eats sanity world.

#I like these ladies! #Sagami & Rea in particular have super rad looks!! #I'd like to play a 1 shot with these characters! sounds fun! #lovely work (rendering & world building) op!! #art envy

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People always say that "fucked up looking deer = top tier eldritch body horror." Do you think there's another animal that people should be fucking up in their horror stories just as frequently?

To quibble a little bit with your language, I think that fucked up deer is amazing horror, but not body horror. The fucked up deer is horrifying because it's an object most of us are generally familiar with, made other, made strange. The fucked up deer functions the same as the Victorian doll with the crack running along its fine porcelain face, animal carcasses hanging or nailed to trees in the woods, or alien rituals where people jump from cliffs, stop sleeping to sacrifice themselves to the god of coffee, or place toads in their mouths---to the horror of the audience and our designated stand-in. Indicating that something is wrong by means of a fucked up [blank] is an important mechanism of horror, and while I love deer specifically (I'm a US Midwesterner, sue me) it's not particularly special, just something that gets me where I live.

The best body horror is when you do perform that strange othering on the human body itself. It's the girl from The Ring crawling in jerky movements, the girl from The Exorcist swearing, speaking in tongues, or even (I hate to cite this as an example, but) the dislocated jaws and burst-open spider egg sacs from the most recent seasons of Stranger Things. It's Eric LaRocca's novellas talking about the beauty of staged dead bodies and parasites growing in your belly; it's Agustina Bazterrica's "Tender is the Flesh," which lingers lovingly on the dispassionate, clinical cannibalism inherent in its setting. If I can reference my own writing, it's skin rippling over what's hidden beneath and coat rack-thin wings not supposed to be growing from your scapulae and all the things about your body that don't make sense, don't obey conscious rules, seem to come from something other than you, whether that's a foreign, internal country, or external to your shape altogether.

(There's a reason there's a lot of great trans horror out there right now.)

Really what it comes down to is irony---the way that it's defined by English teachers, that conflict between what's happening in the narrative and the awareness you bring to bear as a reader. I don't think there's any single way to signal this horror! The fucked up deer, the mysterious pain in your gut, the ghosts, the beetles, the school friend who invites you to his ancestral home but retreats to his room before supper every night, the ring of keys you definitely set on the side table but find in a locked attic room three hours later, the chapel in the woods painted with bloody sigils, the ominous flicker on the security footage...

The means of communicating that the world has been broken are endless. I really don't think any one is better than the others.

But the best one is whatever communicates it clearest, sharpest; whatever stands out most against the backdrop you've established as wrong, as wrong, as bad and a herald of worse to come. Whatever makes your reader or watcher clench their jaw and hiss crap between their teeth---that's the best one.

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Inktober Day 04: Dodge Also, with these - Tumblr's GIF system sometime compresses them in odd ways. To view full-quality check out my Instagram

#love the drama- every loop i still worry that the deer will be struck #love how smooth it is and just... gaaaah... #composition is a skill and i admire those who execute it so well #wee lil archer up there 🥺 good luck on killing something another day...

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#am in love with the idea & look of antlers as mounts for cell tower panels and satellites dishes #where is this and what is going on there #if elves built skyscrapers? #gorgeous work as always op

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Just saw a version of this- just one rainbow twist - at Austin's Blanton museum of art. Even without pillars- they strung it above the ticket/check-in room- it was more stunning in person than expected!

You could circle it from above and see all the individual super fine threads. Definitely a fun moiré pattern effect at the center twist, as your perspective changed. Delightfully digital effect in real world look

Neat neat neat!

#Austin TX

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a sculpture i’ve been working on for a while to add to my senior exhibit!! i’m very happy with how it turned out, i’m thinking of titling it ‘milk teeth‘ 👌

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Deadly Look - Lunaotic