ran a bath so boiling hot it gave me heart palpitations 10/10 no notes

Intermediate Eyeball Fodder (The Hidden Thread Edition!) I don’t update it as often as I used to, but once a week or so, I used to share a round-up of new art from my favorite artists (or old art from new-to-me artists) and call it “Weekly Ey…

Resurrecting an old blog tradition today — Intermittent Eyeball Fodder! A gallery of art that's been thrilling my ocular sockets lately... weird, dark, spooky, beautiful. You know what I like! unquietthings.com/intermediate...

(Featured art by @annamond)

roses and roses and roses

My reviews for this year's Lupercalia collection from @bpal.bsky.social are live on the blog this afternoon (along with details for a giveaway!) A graveside Barry Keoghan scene, an exuberant Haribo candy burlesque, Rilakkuma with a purpose and a donut. And more! unquietthings.com/bpal-luperca...

…is it possible…..was this book… created with me in mind…..?

How To Wear A Whole Bunch Of Random Stuff I Purchased In The Last Few Months That Actually All Pull Together Into A Solid Outfit. unquietthings.com/how-to-wear-...

I have a new sticker and I gotta find the perfect place for it

I write about anxiety, grief, and death. About romanticizing your life and also about the absolute devastation of being alive. The extraordinary, the marvelous, the unsettling, the darkly beautiful, the luminously strange.
Anyway! Preorder my very cool book! geni.us/TheArtOfTheU...

If you don’t know me: I’m S. Elizabeth, Florida-based author, blogger, and magazine columnist behind this account, deeply immersed in the world of art, music, fashion, and perfume, exploring these subjects through the lens of horror, the supernatural, and existential reflection.

Cosmic mysteries, hidden watchers, liminal spaces, restless souls, visionary states, forgotten knowledge. Nearly 200 artworks from artists across the centuries who spent their lives investigating the ineffable, bearing witness to the impossible, and attempting to give form to the inexpressible

You’ve seen the cover for The Art of the Unknown: A Visual Treasury of the Esoteric, Uncanny, and Unexplained. Now here’s a peek inside! (Including the first page!)

This is my fourth book in the Art in the Margins series and it is, I think, the strangest and most sprawling of the lot!

Scent of the day: Rose Quartz Phallus from @bpal.bsky.social conjures delightful visions of a grapefruit Haribo candy burlesque performance, pearled sugar pasties, bright pinky-coral musky-soapy citrus wig.

I wrote something kinda-sorta vulnerable on the blog today, but also kinda exciting in a cheesy way. It's about creativity, reclaiming something I lost long ago, and the freedom and joy of discovering what you're capable of.
Read more here: MY ART IS VERY IMPORTANT unquietthings.com/my-art-is-ve...

there are three types of story:
- a person goes on a journey
- a stranger comes to town
- Videodrome

April's perfume tray is brimming with green. Chlorophyll and malachite and moss and violet leaf and sweet grass and fern and emerald spice, verdant and alive and slightly terrifying, soft and honeyed and nostalgic, ancient and stony and swallowing you whole. www.patreon.com/posts/154915...

“….. actually made an arty tumblr into book, amazing” -best blurb ever, courtesy Billy Jane

From 2005-2011, I worked at a tiny health food store in central NJ and they had weekly deli deliveries which included the most delightful curried tofu salad. I’m thrilled to say I have finally successfully recreated it. My life’s work is done.

still life with trifle and dog treats

made my own burger buns nbd

this is right up there with “fix your hearts or die.”

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