The pride bats are back! I thought it’d be nice to regroup them into a matching poster. The border on the moths one was changed to a rainbow gradient and some colours were tweaked for better readability/printing. Original posts: Pride moths LGBATs 1 & 2
Proud and hopeful
Third and final piece in the pride series
My submission for the Hatsune Miku Electric Sheet Gallery show Nucleus.
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Hey Goblins, uh
Did you know, that you can make an AWESOME journal for your adventures ALL ON YOUR OWN from a cereal box and paper/scraps that you likely have at home/can get from friends or family/you may find around your environment?
They’re called Junk Journals and they’re my entire life.
Im gonna do my best to walk you through how to make one! First, get you a mini cereal box! I use boxes from those cool multipacks of cereal that you can find at Walmart!
And then cut it out so it looks like this! (I already had one cut, so I’m gonna use that)
That “nutrition facts” side is gone become your spine!
Next, find some paper to use to decorate your cover! I was lucky enough to be gifted a bunch of scrapbooking paper, so I’m gonna use that, but you can also use newspaper, paper from books/magazines, junk mail, napkins, paper towels (excellent texture), etc!
Go ahead and glue that paper to your box (to cover the cereal logo) and cut it out! It’ll look like this;
Next you need to find your pages! Again these can be anything! Junk mail, envelopes, receipts, food wrappers, magazine/book pages, scrapbook paper, computer paper, construction paper, ANYTHING. Just grab a whole bunch!
You’re gonna want to fold them in half and cut them to the size of one of the covers of your box, and layer other pages inside of it to make your signatures, like this!
Each signature should be about 7-10 pages. You don’t want them too thick, otherwise the inner pages start sticking out when folded in half. You’re gonna have a LOT of these signatures, as you wanna fill the area in the spine as best as possible. For this one I’m using 7 page signatures. Here’s a pic to show just how much paper you’ll need
Each of these signatures are 7 pages, 6 signatures have only filled about half of the spine, so I’ll need probably 6 more.
Next you gotta figure out how you want them in your journal. Personally, I like to sew them into the spine, but you can also keep them in the spine with rubber bands, so you can have removable pages! (Be weary that rubber bands may break over time! So you may want to always keep extra bands near it to replace in case one snaps. This is why I prefer sewing them in) I find it best to look up on YouTube how to sew in signatures, just because having someone walk you through it where you can see what they’re doing is easiest. If you can’t access YouTube, there’s plenty of text tutorials on how to sew in signatures online, or you can message me! I’m not gonna go too into detail, but here’s the jist;
Okay so I’m a forgetful gob and I hecken forgot to take pictures as I was going along kahshshshsh
But essentially, I sewed in the pattern similar to the one I drew. The dots are where the needle goes all the way through to the back. I also like to use rubber band as an extra mode of support but you can do one or the other. I also like both cuz I can tuck stuff in em between the pages. Since I didn’t take more pictures; I’d really recommend looking up a how-to on YouTube or w/e if my badly drawn diagram isn’t clear enough (heh sorry about that)
Next, I glue fabric to the spine. It spruces it up quite a lot and holds the rubber bands in place, plus it give more support to the spine since there’s gonna be a lot of strain on it.
Only 10 photos per post, so I gotta post this and reblog it with the rest.
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Here’s the journal with the fabric on the spine, I decided to go ahead and glue the excess to the rest of the cover too, cuz I liked how it looked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Next step?
DECORATE the pages! I haven’t decorated this one yet, but here’s some pages I have completed!
Have fun with it! Make tuck spots and hideaways. Add folders and envelopes and make tags and things that dangle. Decorate the covers and the spine and make it your own! Add things as you find them! Anything! Even candy wrappers! This is really the ultimate goblin journal!
I hope y’all enjoyed this mini tutorial =3
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Honestly @gayestgoth I’m not sure how you don’t think it’s goblin. In my opinion, using garbage to make something cool is very goblin. And not only that, you can make these with ANYTHING.
Here’s one where I decorated the cover with actual leaves
I regularly use materials and litter that I find while out in the woods. I pick up all sorts of paper, receipts, scraps, cloth, advertisements, broken beer bottles, etc to use in my journals. And because I’m picking these things up, there’s less litter in the woods. PLUS I’m recycling. And I press plants into them.
Half chewed papers? Go for it! I set the corners of pages on fire before cuz I liked the burnt look! (Do with caution) chew ya own papers! Make it unique!
And shinies?
I’ve got plenty! I use all kinds of clips, wire, beads, buttons, pins, coins, etc in my journals. Half of which, I find in the garbage.
Hell,
I found the upholstery fabric I used for the cover of this journal in the garbage!
So how is this goblin?
How is it not?
Not all goblins live in dirt! This seems like the kind of thing you would find in the home of goblins who live in the city, in the corners of society, who gather recycling and live in the gap between two buildings, slowly renovated until it looks like an intentional structure, and between the foot-wide miniature fireplace and the reupholstered child’s rocking chair is an old display case turned on its’ end and made into a bookshelf, packed to the brim with books that had been thrown out, refurbished and decorated by careful hands by firelight and by the light of second-hand candles
“The center of the world is different for everybody, it just depends on where you stand.”
Danke für den Request @rainonface
Cherokee Trail High School Gothic
•you know where your classes are without even looking, when did you pass the bridge doors?
•there’s a social studies teacher that looks young and old at the same time. You never see him outside of his classroom, but sometimes he’s not there either.
•passing periods are another plane of reality. Everyone is different, but when you look closer everyone looks the same.
•the people at security never look up when someone walks in. You wonder if that’s how the school got infested.
•maybe they’re part of it.
•Faust might be an alcoholic. His dog has gotten drunk… twice.
•Grandview is a mirror of CT, you wonder if the people are mirrors too.
•Dictator Rauh left and you haven’t heard of her since. But you still don’t know the name of your current principle.
•You don’t know the name of the freshman class. Class of twenty twenty-who?
•people walk slowly, when you pass they appear to walk with a normal gate.
•you flat tire someone in the hall by accident and look up to apologize. The person is no longer there.
•you swear you hear someone call your name. You shouldn’t have looked behind you.
•the girls who want there to be a Mrs. CT have no sense of humor.
•leadership believes they’re superior to you. You start to believe it too.
•leadership tries to sell you a Wish Week shirt. You’re afraid of what happens if you don’t buy one. They say you’re helping a good cause, but the look in their eyes makes you feel like it’s darker than that. Momma J has to get her power from somewhere. You give them $10 and convince yourself that you’re committing to a cause bigger than yourself.
•not enough “Be Kind” shirts are made. You are treated like you’re an awful person when you don’t receive one. You’re their prey.
•there’s always a crowd at the DECA store. The creepy guys like to flirt with the girls at the counter.
Night Driving Gothic
- It’s pitch black outside and you swear it’s the middle of the night. How could it only be 5:30?
- You check your backseat to make sure no one’s in your car before you get in. You lock the doors before you start driving. Apparently you didn’t look long enough.
- The same car passes you over and over again. It turns the opposite direction at every intersection. You find it parked in your driveway when you get home.
- Where were you headed again? You’re on autopilot when you realize you don’t know where you are anymore. It’s too dangerous to turn around.
- You make the mistake of looking in your rear view mirrors too many times.
- You merge onto the highway and you’re the only car in sight. You feel eerily alone.
- But they watch from the shadows.
- Nobody sees their glowing eyes.
- “They’re just parking lights. Cars pulled over on the side of the road”
- Why does no one see them?
- Was that a man or a cryptid? You keep driving after they run in front of you.
- The radio plays the same song on repeat. The host sounds like he’s being held against his will. You can’t bear to listen but you can’t bear the consequences of silence, either.
- You left an hour ago.
- You should be there by now.
- It’s only 5:30.
A Guide To Exploring Abandoned Churches
- If you go alone, don’t bring a flashlight. You’ll see things you don’t want to.
- Don’t bring groups bigger than 12.
- Bring water and some snacks, but no wine.
- If you have to sleep there, sleep in the sanctuary, but not on a pew.
- If you try to read the hymnal, the words won’t be english anymore.
- The Bibles will be blank until you confess.
- Don’t go into the confession booth. The man talking to you is not the priest, and you don’t want to know what he really is.
- The cross on the wall changes locations, don’t look at it for too long.
- If you see someone praying at the altar, don’t approach them. If they approach you, don’t talk to them. Leave immediately.
- If you hear the organ playing while you’re in the basement, know that your time is running out.
- If it plays while you’re in the sanctuary, your time is up.
- Take whatever you want, but if you find that one of your possesions is missing, don’t look for it. Let them have it. It’s not worth your life.
- If you find a rosary, don’t put it on. It won’t help.
- The water isn’t holy anymore. Throwing it on the demons in the shadows won’t work.
- Drink the wine if you wish to never leave.
- Don’t get seperated from your friends.
- If you spend the night, leave at sunrise otherwise you’ll enter another plane of reality with no way back.
- If you don’t spend the night, leave through the doors you came in.
- You might look behind you after leaving and see that the church isn’t there anymore. It means that they took what they wanted.
- Never enter the same abandoned church twice. Even (especially) if you forgot something inside. That’s a lure. On your second tour through, they will know enough about you to keep you there.
A GUIDE FOR EXPLORING HAUNTED ASYLUMS
•Leave all your belonging outside the door
• If you take anything in you won’t ever get it back
• Don’t force open any locked doors, they’re locked for a reason
• Bring string to help you find your way out, or you’ll never be able to leave
• If you see children try to ignore them, they’re not human
• Watch for the janitor and make sure he never sees you, if he sees you he’ll hunt you after you leave
• Stay out of the morgue, you’ll be stuck in a work other than your own
• Never sleep in the building, you may never wake up from your slumber
• If you see residual patients leave them alone, and don’t ever try to help them leave
• Before you leave check all your pockets, they will leave things in there
• Don’t visit the building more than twice a month, and never in the same week
• When you go home keep your lights on the rest of the night, they attack in the dark
Home Alone Gothic
- You lock all the doors day or night. You tell yourself and others it’s so no person can break in, but you know you’re protecting yourself from something much worse.
- The house ghost watches you from the top of the stairs, disappearing when you look in it’s direction.
- It’s eerily quiet.
- You thought you shut the basement door, but it’s always open when you walk by again.
- What is that sound?
- Your dog stares down the hallway and whines at nothing.
- You know there’s something.
- You go down to the basement to get something. There’s a being at the end of the hall. You are paralyzed. Its eyes stare into your soul as it approaches you. When it gets close it disappears.
- You feel different and go back upstairs without grabbing your item.
- You don’t even bother shutting the basement door.
- There’s blood on the kitchen counter. You ignore it.
- Suddenly it’s dark out. How long were you in the basement?
- You close the curtains and blinds, knowing they don’t stop anything that truly wants to see inside.
- The front door isn’t locked anymore.
- Your favorite show goes to commercial, so you go to the kitchen to grab a drink. You come back to the TV playing static. The channel hasn’t changed. You sit and watch anyway.
- The being from the basement has replaced the house ghost’s spot at the top of the stairs. It doesn’t let you go.
- There’s a knock on the door. You realize every door was knocked on at the same time.
- You haven’t seen your dog in a few hours, but you hear it whining from a location you can’t get to.
- Your family member gets back home, they look different from when they left. An entirely new face.
- They shut the basement door.
- The dog greets them, tail wagging.
- The TV plays the news.
- The kitchen counter is blood free.
- “Why are the curtains closed?”
- They open them. Sunlight pours in.
- It’s the middle of the day.
A GUIDE TO SURVIVE OUR FUTURE
- Only do what you’re assigned to do, don’t stray from your assignment
- Never think you can defeat the system
- Don’t question where people disappear to, all you need to know is that they upset someone
- Rebelion won’t save you, you could end up dead for all you know
- Questions are never to be asked out loud, they listen to everything
- They will watch your every move
- Stick to a routine or they will know something is up
- Your rights don’t matter anymore, there is no more constitution, that was burned in 2035
- Don’t fall in love, a spouse will be appointed to you when you come of age
- And you are expected to have children
- The internet will be restricted
- Remember to follow the order and never try to escape
- There is no escape
- No outside the wall can help, no outside the wall knows where to find you anyway
- And never ask one question…
- Is this a simulation?
Snow Day Gothic
- Class is cancelled because of snow. Or so they say.
- You’ve lived this day before.
- Your peers post the announcement of the cancellation on their social media. On the surface it is a celebration, when deep down you know it is a warning.
- There’s a knock on the door. No one’s there when you open it, and no footprints in the snow.
- You don’t drive. The ones who skid off the road are never seen again.
- The snowmen seem to appear out of nowhere. You haven’t seen anybody outside to build them. They move when you aren’t looking.
- The neighborhood children sled down the hill. Only some of them come back up.
- You hear the shoveling of snow, but none of it has been cleared.
- The fireplace crackles. You don’t remember turning it on.
- You tell your friends that you love snowdays. “They’re cozy” you say, “I like watching the snow fall while I’m warm in the house”. You’re really just too afraid of what is waiting for you outside.
- You hear a car slip on the ice on the road behind your house. You know they will be feasted on.
- This snow is just like every other, so why was class cancelled today?
- What’s out there? You’re tempted to find out.
- There’s a snowman in your yard. Who built it? You couldn’t have. You decide to stay inside.
- The weather is the same the next day, but class is in session. They must have left.
-quick note-
Hello! I’m surprised about how many followers we’ve gotten in the past week or so since we started this blog. There are two of us running this and tbh it’s been real fun so far!
We’re gonna start tagging our stuff so you know who wrote what, and mine’s gonna be 🕳 cuz I think it’s funny.
I also wrote the Home Alone, Abandoned Churches, Night Driving, and High School gothics.
if anyone needs me i'll be frothing at the mouth thinking about the origin of language and interspecies communication. happy wednesday.
how did we learn this? who taught us this? is it coincidental? is it observational? is it that something in the source of these sixteen languages stems from the same animal instinct that causes each of these species to call out to their own kind? I Am Going To Lose It.
✨Aesthetics✨ For different Types of Witches
Weather Witch
☔ Accidentally summons weather with their feelings
☔ You or your Storm Deities summon weather at almost every major event
☔ *Dramatically looks up at the sky* A storm in coming
☔ Has a million different jars on the windowsill for rain water
☔ Saying Hi to your storm deities whenever you hear thunder
☔ Dresses in weather-related motifs for the fun of it
☔ Genuinely annoyed when it’s too hot
☔ Has almost single handedly been keeping their hometown out of drought with all the rain they summon
☔Gets very worried when it snows later in the season
☔ Probably talk too loud
☔ Very protective
☔ Not afraid to curse people
Stitch Witch
🧵 Sews magic into everything they make (literally)
🧵 Constantly enchanting their clothes and jewelry
🧵 Probably makes the coziest quilts ever
🧵 Will sew a quilt for nightmare free sleep
🧵 Always trying new crochet and sewing projects
🧵 A natural caretaker who loves helping people
🧵 Knows color symbolism like the back of their hand
🧵 Is always looking for meaning prints on fabrics
🧵 Has correspondences and meaning for every type or fabric they use
🧵 Puts intent into every stitch
🧵 Talking to your clothes to set intentions for them
🧵 Probably has a really lovely, aesthetically-pleasing home
Kitchen/Hearth Witch
🍳 Their Book of Shadows is basically a cookbook
🍳 Thinks cooking is a love language (it is)
🍳 Hates the idea of cleaning but loves it once they actually start
🍳 Probably an incredibly forgetful witch
🍳 Talks to your home and spirits inside
🍳 Always baking
🍳 Stirring intention into your cooking
🍳 Knows what direction to stir to bring things or dispel them
🍳 Saving egg shells and drying orange peels
🍳 Drying and pressing herbs
🍳 Very impressive herb collection
🍳 Owns a mortar and pestle
Fairy Witch
🍄 Stumbled ass-backwards into a faerie contract
🍄 Things constantly go missing around the house
🍄 Has a garden but rarely needs to maintain it (that’s the fairy’s garden)
🍄 Their plants and garden flourish effortlessly
🍄 Researching plants that fae like
🍄 Has a million different names and aliases for safety
🍄 Definitely liked Fairies as a kid and now it’s come full circle as an adult
🍄 Researching the different types of fae in their area
🍄 Weird dreams
🍄 So many bees, butterflies, birds and insects around their house
🍄 Never harms spiders
🍄 Lowkey scared of the fae
🍄 I feel like they’d enjoy trying out fun hairstyles
🍄 Suddenly smelling floral scents with no explanation
Death Witch
🪦 Always asks spirits before collecting graveyard dirt
🪦 Possibly Chronically Ill
🪦 Wears the same outfit every single day
🪦 Saves the dirt from dead plant pots
🪦 Always looks forward to when Pomegranates are in season
🪦 Knows the deceased will be well cared for by their deities, which brings them comfort
🪦 Really into taxidermy (it’s like goth stuffed animals)
🪦 Not put off by Vulture Culture or roadkill
🪦 Loves making playlists
🪦 Loves oddities and strange happenings
🪦 Knows all the local graveyards
🪦 Probably has a favorite grave
🪦 Has already designed their headstone
🪦 Doesn’t fear old age as much as everyone else
🪦 Loves their ancestors and keeps in touch with them even after death
Look. I know a slightly chewed up flower isn’t quite on par with those brandy barrels alpine rescue dogs purportedly have, but someone might need an emergency flower or something. It could happen.
(PRINT💐)
Source: ofsparrows
This is definitely not what I thought you meant when you said you’d ‘take care of dessert’.
Source: ofsparrows