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ab. 1885 Black court dress of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (made by Fanni Scheiner)

black moiré silk with lace trimmings and rich jet pearl embroidery

(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

The Fall of the Damned by Peter Paul Rubens

#pov you're a little mouse taking a stroll at night

This is the final thing you see before Deftones starts playing

Victim dummies from season one of Hannibal, taken by Fangoria editor in chief Chris Alexander for Fango’s issue #323. Makeup effects headed by Zane Knisely.

The Mount Owen Moa Claw was a confusing and frightening discovery that contradicts much of what we think about the extinction of this animal. Nearly three decades ago, a team of archaeologists were carrying out an expedition inside a large cave system on Mount Owen in New Zealand when they stumbled across a frightening and unusual object. With little visibility in the dark cave, they wondered whether their eyes were deceiving them, as they could not fathom what lay before them—an enormous, dinosaur-like claw still intact with flesh and scaly skin. The claw was so well-preserved that it appeared to have come from something that had only died very recently.

The archaeological team eagerly retrieved the claw and took it for analysis. The results were astounding; the mysterious claw was found to be the 3,300-year-old mummified remains of an upland moa, a large prehistoric bird that had disappeared from existence centuries earlier.

The upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) was a species of moa bird endemic to New Zealand. A DNA analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested that the first moa appeared around 18.5 million years ago and there were at least ten species, but they were wiped from existence “in the most rapid, human-facilitated megafauna extinction documented to date.”

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Cornelius Hickey

"A Mercy"

for the mutual, @pumpkinspicegingerbread (isn't he the most elegant bastard you've ever seen?)

Mad Monster Party [1967] ༺🦇༻

Sirin and Alkonost. A Song of Joy and Sorrow - Viktor Michailowitsch Wasnezow

The Sirin is a part bird part, normally owls, and a womanly creature. Sometimes known in the context of the Alkonost, a similar creature, the sirin is directly based on the Greek mythology of the siren, which is, as you probably know, a mermaid like creature. This bird/ woman creates such a beautiful song, that the listener will forget everything that they know, and will want nothing more for the rest of their lives.

The alkonost lays her eggs on the beach and rolls them out to see. And when they hatch, they start up a thunderstorm. The sea becomes impossible to sail on so that they can hatch in peace.

The siren is basically the same as the alkonost, but she can tell you the future, and she sings to the saints. Men who heard her would follow her, and ultimately die. People would scare away the sirens with loud noises. Yes people believed in her. In the 17th and 18th century though, the public view towards her shifted, and she became a symbol of harmony. She became to symbolize eternal joy and heavenly happiness, because only happy people could hear a sirin, and she’s very fast and elusive, just as human happiness, she is hard to glimpse. The sirin cries sadly in an apple orchard on the Apple feast of the saviour. And in the afternoon the alkonost flies to the same location and blesses the fruits and plants of the area while she brushes dew off her wings. Those fruits then develop healing powers

“Sometimes Sirin is seen as a metaphor for God's word going into the soul of a man. Sometimes she is seen as a metaphor of heretics tempting the weak.”

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The Stillborn King, Allen Williams (2016)

(prints available on artist’s website, linked as source)

The Terror, 2017, dir. Tim Mielants

Casey Weldon's "Tacit Turnaround."

Opening on Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California is artist Casey Weldon's highly anticipated solo exhibition, "Tacit Turnaround."

"Tacit Turnabout" is a menagerie of ideas Weldon has collected over the last couple years. Each piece is inspired by real-life scenarios he has witnessed, including stories of loved ones, observations about his environment, and his own introspective self-evaluation.

The collection is particularly special as it represents a return to creation and work for Weldon, who has recently been through a long stagnant period due to recent brain surgery. With ‘Tacit Turnabout,’ he aims to make something beautiful and fun out of relatively dark origins. While he is not aiming to beautify the struggles, he sheds light on a different perspective, emphasizing optimism and hope.

The collection itself is a lovely convergence of many ideas, all in pursuit of connecting with the viewers. As Weldon describes it, “my intent is to be narrative, accessible, and hopefully pleasurable to look at. I definitely like to involve a lot of nostalgic pop references, especially for the more humorous side of my work, but I also like referring to nature and man’s interaction with it. In the end my major goal is to get the viewer to be inquisitive about the painting, either to get the punchline, or make one up on their own. I can only hope that I can be interesting enough for them without being too ambiguous, but still say something without spelling it out. Plus cats.”

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, (1974)

Welcome to the family, son

Shigeru Mizuki (1922 - 2015) https://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2022/08/shigeru-mizuki-yokai-mythological.html

Universal Classic Monsters Art: The Bride Of Frankenstein 1935 by Rick Melton