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June 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM

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happy birthday to my hairier half @thegloomlord.bsky.social <3

(neither of us are picture people tbh, so here’s an oldie of when i gave his character a beard upgrade a few night faires ago lol)

May 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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happy mother’s day to the dearly departed moms of bygone days <3

[ #photography #graveyardphotography #newenglandcemetery #gardencemetery #mother #mourning #victoriancemetery #darkphotography ]

May 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM

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May 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM

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i took some time to make a couple of new pieces of decor out of my collection of foraged finds ✨

(+ audio book progress because why not & cat tax because duhhh)

a hand holding up a wall hanging made out of foraged materials, including an acorn cap, bone, a hagstone, a chestnut, sticks, a devil pod, and a pinecone

small paper mystery bags with a linocut eye stamp on the front, being displayed in a shallow box made of foraged materials, including sticks, moss, pinecones & mushrooms

a screenshot of the lord of the rings: the two towers audio book, showing 17 hours, 38 minutes & 6 seconds into the book while on chapter 6: the forbidden pool

a tortoiseshell call laying on a rug on pair of black slides & a gudetama sock in the corner

May 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM

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here’s me with all of the time i wasted because i didn’t proactively save every three minutes, just in case~

May 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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ঌ 𝔳𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔰’ 𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 ঌ

[ #illustration #darkart #darkaesthetic #whimsical #witchesnight #walpurgisnacht #valborg #hexennacht #spring #folklore #heathenspring ]

three upside down witches flying on broomsticks around a large bonfire. a crescent moon above them & a single hawthorn flower with two stalks of grain on each of its sides below them.

May 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM

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⚔️ 𝔦 𝔞𝔪 𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔩, 𝔦 𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔢𝔫𝔡 ⚔️

[ #illustration #darkart #darkaesthetic #whimsical #dragon #wyvern #folklore #mythology ]

a black and white illustration of a european dragon whose body shape was inspired by those of medieval dragon paintings, but completed in a darker yet slightly more whimsical style

April 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM

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sooo I actually got a few of these done today lol

new illustration, customized a frame for it, finished a faerie banner, returned to the most gorgeous cemetery I’ve ever stepped foot in, took product photos, & I’m about to get cozy with Skyrim<3

zines, print making & finishing Two Towers tomorrow~

a product photo of the following items; a small handmade banner hanging from a low tree branch with a woodcut mushroom design in the center, an illustration of a cat-sìth (faerie cat) sitting next to a turnip jack-o-lantern in a frame customized with a bunch of twigs, and a small coffin-shaped box tied with twine in the forefront

rolling hills of a woodsy garden cemetery with a blossoming pink tree and a winding road cutting through the landscape

a closeup of dead leaves, young wild flowers, and an acorn on the forest floor

a gravestone engraved with “all be as before, love, -only sleep!

April 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM

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today I visited one of my favorite cemeteries & found a stinky pile of gull bones

[ #graveyardphotography #darkart #mementomori #newengland #graves ]

a small brick cemetery shed covered in bare vines with the year 1890 etched into the doorway

a small Victorian era gravestone marked only with the name Gracie and a small stone sheep perched on top

a close up of the top of an old gravestone; a cherub design at the top of the stone with “in memory of” etched beneath it

a pile of dead leaves with a few feathers, wing bones, and ribs of a seagull poking through

April 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM

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just a couple of wonky little medieval marginalia-inspired weirdos while the worldly horrors persist~

[ #illustration #darkart #darkaesthetic #whimsical #medievalmarginalia #blemmye #harpy ]

April 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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these are all great suggestions! personally, i just printed copies of my own little zine today with a bunch of free & easy ideas/actions that the average person can do to help get us (& each other) through these times & i plan on passing ‘em out to friends & fam~

a black & white collaged zine opened to two pages; the left page displaying a graphic of a broken tv with “cancel unnecessary subscriptions” written across it, while the right page displays a graphic of a stack of books with “visit your local library & get yourself a library card” written on the bindings.

a black & white collaged zine opened to two pages; the left page displaying a graphic of hand washing, a masked girl & vaccines with a radial design at the tip surrounding the words “mind your health”, while the right page displays a graphic of a hand dialing a rotary phone beneath three diagonal arrows & beside a feminine protester with “no mercy for fascism” on their sign & the words “make some noise!” in the center of the page.

April 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM

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whew, okay!! after hours & hours of collaging & formatting & screaming into a pillow, here’s a few pages from my new ziiine ✨

a black and white photo collage of various vintage clippings of the following: the text “how to survive the fall of an empire - 15 easy tips!” borders the left side of the image while a woman with a skeletal face who is knitting sits on the right side

a black and white photo collage of various vintage clippings of the following: a stack of five books with “visit your local library & get yourself a library card” written on the bindings, surrounded by a simple botanical design

a black and white photo collage of various vintage clippings of the following: a vintage television with the text “cancel unnecessary subscriptions” written across its cracked screen, with a mirrored image of a hand pointing a toy ray gun at a hypnotic spiral above and below the television

a black and white photo collage of various vintage clippings of the following: three slanted arrows pointing to the text “make some noise!” above an image of a feminine hand dialing a rotary phone and beside an image of a protester holding a sign that reads “no mercy for fascism”

April 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM

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i don’t have any art to post because i’m currently in production of:

-a 20+ hour zine
-my brother & his fiancé’s wedding present
-stuff for a market this weekend
-art for a card game

anyways, new art’s coming soon, but in the meantime, check out this absolutely insane gachapon haul from tonight ~

a small, green corduroy bag on top of a lap with capsule machine prizes on top including: a taiyaki with its arms folded on top of its bent knees, a pandorobou rice ball mirror keychain, and a life-sized stag beetle articulated model

April 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM

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last night’s lunar eclipse // last year’s solar eclipse

[ #photography #naturephotography #lunareclipse #solareclipse #eyesontheskies ]

a photograph of the last few moments of totality of the lunar eclipse of the blood worm moon; a small dark reddish moon with a thin sliver of white across the top of it

a photograph of a total solar eclipse in a dark sky above the silhouette of bare tree branches

March 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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make that *two* vendor opportunities

a flyer for two upcoming art markets; taunton, ma on 3/22 and ipswich, ma on 3/23

March 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM

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a vending opportunity fell through last minute, but an even more last-minute opportunity opened up for the same exact date

March 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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i randomly reread junji ito’s yon & mu the other night for the first time in a few years. it reminded me so much of my own babies & was coincidentally right between their gotcha days 🖤