i’ve decided to stay off of tumblr for the rest of the month. or maybe longer. or forever. who knows. this site really has nothing beneficial for me anymore and i am tired of the negative energy i have to deal with everyday on here. it’s become unfulfilling and tiring. those that are close to me will know where to contact me if they want to. fare thee well homeboys
you were only ever taught to show your teeth when you smile. it never occurred that you could use them to rip skin. that lesson became your own.
fear replaced your conscience, so you used it as gasoline. you stand in the ashes and the blood. you scream at nothing and everything. the air exiting your lungs is proof that you made it.
but there is no finish line here, no trophy. no god. no paradise. only you and the whites of your eyes. your scabbed legs ache like fire and remind you that you chose to live.
what of the others?
they struggled like you did, but the choice wasn’t theirs. there is no glory in the spaces they left behind. only men find pride in tragedy.
they did not die so you could live. you felt the pain of your own rebirth. you made mortality your bitch.
survivor’s guilt will become survivor’s gangrene. you will wash the blood off, but it will always stain. calloused skin will coat your heart.
whispers around you will claim that it was only luck that saved you. but you know better. lift up your dirtied hands and laugh at how the world shudders.
it is not luck that saved you. it was you.
and a girl who saves herself belongs to no one but her rage.
The Vodyanoy is a frog-like creature found in Slavic folklore. The Vodyanoy is frog-like creature resembling an old man with a long, green beard, a fish tail, bright, red eyes, webbing between his fingers, and black scales covering his body. He is sometimes referred to as “Grandfather” and he is said to drag people underwater and forces them to be his slaves.
These images were taken by police chief Jeff Greenhaw. The entity has been called the Falkville Metal Man and was encountered in Falkville, Alabama on October 17th, 1973. Greenhaw received a call from an anonymous woman around 10pm; she reported seeing a UFO fall and crash on the property of a man named Bobby Summerford. Upon leaving to investigate, Greenhaw remembered to grab his Polaroid camera, which is how we have these images. Once he got to the location, everything seemed to be normal. But after a few hundred yards of walking along a trail, he saw this humanoid figure that appeared to be made of metal. Startled by the camera’s flash, the Metal Man charged Greenhaw. He later noted that the entity moved as though it had springs on its feet, unlike anything human. Greenhaw got into his truck and managed to speed away and lose the creature. In the months following the sighting, bad luck befell the police chief: he lost his job, his marriage crumbled, and his house was burned down.
Greenhaw was adamant that the entity he witnessed and took photographs of was an organic being that was not of this world.
