Three-headed Lady Gaga from "V" magazine
Lady Gaga in "V" (2011)
Photography: Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Styling: Nicola Formichetti
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Alfred Kubin, 'The Creature from Mars,' 1906
lol imagine being on a submarine right now
Image by Iren Horrors
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A hulder crouches by a waterfall. Image by Iren Horrors.
A hulder (or huldra) is a forest fairy in Scandinavian folklore who seduces people traveling through her woods. Once in her embrace, a man will discover the hulder has some inhuman feature, such as an animal's hairy legs and tail or a hollow back (like some old tree).
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CathPulag's depiction of Gaia as a pregnant young woman, nude and looking innocently at the viewer, her hair green and flowery, the very world emerging from it.
Gaia, called Terra by the Romans, is the primordial being of Earth. Mother of all life in Greek myth, she could not abide the tyranny of her husband, the sky Ouranos, and plotted against him. #FairytaleTuesday
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A nature spirit moves carefully through his forest. Illustration by N. N. Brut.
In Finnish folklore, a jumala is a god who rules over a wide domain (such as nature) while a haltija is more of a localized deity -- the supernatural protector of a particular place (such as a specific forest or lake) or the original progenitor of an animal species.
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With thanks to Danie Ware
Crap AI created poster for the 2026 Brighton Fringe, perhaps the idea of someone who spent the art budget on a slap up lunch in some overpriced beach view restaurant rather than, say, commission one of the hundreds of talented artists in the Brighton area to create one instead. But hey, I’m sure that when they decided to go this route, they never thought a lot of creative people would call them out on it, point out the poster’s lack of diversity, or advocate an event boycott because look! They saved some money! Of course, the bean counters might just pat them on the head and decide to cut their job next year to save even more, since a robot did the work, but, hey, they saved money! What could possibly go wrong?
Comedy. Creative. Original. Human. No need for AI, then. Oh, wait, not unless you’re marketing Brighton Fringe, apparently. I’m sure the hundreds of Brighton area based artists are impressed. Not.
I do enjoy doing these types maris. I wish I could do them effectively in pen and ink though.
In response to some bullshit going around:
Can we please fucking destigmatize men being nice to / caring about / engaging with kids? These are normal adult mammal instincts; what's fucked up is that we beat them out of people based on gender and/or assume they're inherently predatory.
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Today is the last day you can get my okapi pins from the Bizarre Beasts pin club!! complexly.store/products/biz...
Image by Alan Lee
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A wicked redcap grasps his halberd. An illustration by Alan Lee.
The redcap (or powrie) is a murderous goblin from Anglo-Scottish folklore. They inhabit ruined castles along the Anglo-Scottish border, especially ones infamous for wicked deeds, and dye their caps red with their victims' blood. While most fairies fear iron, redcaps wear iron shoes.
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A troupe of fairies ride by the water, all decked out in gold. Painting by John Duncan.
In Welsh folklore, fairies wear white and gold, making them seem akin to beings of light. However, light doesn't always mean good. Hafgan ("Summer White") battles the hero Pwyll while Gwyn ap Nudd ("White, son of Fog") tempts saints and drives people insane.
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Tweet from Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn): Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares; / Aleister Crowley is falling down stairs.
...or just this, which is shorter, and surely unimprovable
If you want to know more, you could try this, on what the Yeats-Crowley rivalry tells us about Putin’s favourite ‘philosopher’
L: A young W B Yeats wearing pince nez and a large bow tie. R: A middle-aged Aleister Crowley wearing a large (possibly homburg) black hat and the ‘I’m mad, me’ expression that he always put on for photos
Ah! 19 April – 126th anniversary of the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley downstairs as they fought for control of the British branch of the not-at-all-ridiculous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Battle of Blythe Road. According to legend, anyway... 🧵
"Black Hole" has a very compelling, creepy aesthetic, with big industrial ships, strange robots, and a very disturbing black hole. However, it suffered from the fact the "Star Wars" came out while it was in production, so Disney forced them to shoehorn in various laser battles that really don't fit.
A formline Illustration of a blue Glaucus with a circle design behind it. The design is backlit with stars and coloured in shades of dark blue to light teal.
💙🌑 BLUE SEA DRAGON MOON (repost) #formline
If you didn't think this guy was on my Blorbo list then I don't know what to tell you.
One interesting thing about the wandering wizard look (muddy traveler's clothes but a long white beard) is that it's supposed to be incongruous. Gandalf looks too elderly to be wandering the wilderness on his own, which suggests there is more to him than it seems.
might be finally time to write that paper I put together a ton of research on trying to figure out where wizards come from (it ended up mostly looking at historic & classic fiction examples of proto-wizard individuals)
It's also just what some scholars wore. The two main influences on the wizard look seem to be the lone wanderer and the medieval / Renaissance scholar.
Merlin's magic was traditionally prophecy and shapeshifting (himself and others), and maybe teleportation (he does move around a lot). Certainly not flashy in the way that a lot of modern wizard are. Prospero's weather control (including lightning) seems a bigger influence for that.
Certainly a lot of his appearance. Odin, Hermes, and Gandalf are supposed to be wanderers, which is why they have wide-brimmed hats, cloaks, and walking sticks. I wonder if the tall starry hat that wizards often have is based on that traveler's hat, just spruced up.
It seems that Geoffrey didn't like the idea of a king having supernatural powers, so he created a character to deliver prophecies instead of Ambrosius and to transform Uther instead of Uther doing it himself.