something from nothing
The monster is a paradoxical embodiment of both Otherness and sameness, seeming to reflect our fears that we are not really as different from the Other as we would like to think.
Brandon R. Grafius, Text and Terror: Monster Theory and the Hebrew Bible.
호가호위 ("The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Prestige")
Word Count: ~5,800
CWs: torture, whump, angst, mindbreak, hurt no comfort, noncon
Day 1 for @unwholesomeocweek—Hatefucking/Violence/Divorce
In one of the most famous gumiho stories, a human tricks the spirit-fox and swallows its bead of knowledge for himself. If he looked up to the heavens, he would learn of the cosmos and master the universe. If he looked down to the earth, he would learn of his world and uncover the secrets of men—but only just that.
The human—the fool—looks down. Minkyu, fox-cursed, does the same.
Image credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-drawing-of-a-human-body-with-a-lot-of-branches-2tcwyzxTGRU
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Procrastinating a bit on my other entries because I feel the urge to talk about process, ahaha. This was the second entry that I worked on, but the first that clicked into place for me.
Three Points of Process
Phillip Light
Alice 💜
“Aw, did you catch feelings?” Alice says. When he glares at her, she lets out a cackle. “Serves you right, you big slut.”
“I’m not in love with him,” Rainier says, and winces. That word. It’s not a real word, it’s just what people say when they want something. “He just…there’s this stuff that comes out of him that makes me crazy.”
“That’s called cum, babe.”
Maggie Nelson, Bluets
Bath tub goddess!! (chubby version!)
I usually wouldn’t like this very much because you can see like EVERYTHING but I’m very much in love with myself here for some reason <3
> The Stalker says he can take me to the Zone
> I ask if the Zone is creepy or wet
> He doesn't understand
> I light a cigarette and make my speech about what constitutes something being creepy or wet
> He does not laugh and says "The Zone demands respect"
> it's creepy AND wet
king in yellow is a public domain work that i woudl really really love to do an edition of myself, but when thinking about cover design its borderline impossible to do better than the 1895 edition
1. a bluebeard's wife situation is one of the most interesting situations in the world
2. everything can be a bluebeard's wife situation if you think about it enough
more art of cat(aline), my nunsferatu VTM PC thats based on the concept of "you havent been fully abandoned by god bc your eyes are still so human"
she's got a crazy amount of vampire going on under that headdress but youd never guess
ALTEverything All at Once by Oliver Baez Bendorf