Runesmith: "What's The Point of Gargoyles?" | #TTRPG #D&D #History #GameDesign #CreatureDesign #MonsterDesign #France #Grotesques #Rainspouts #Planar
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Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill | Strange, Dark & Imaginative Classic Short Stories Audiobook ⭐ Catholic Star-Rated Review ★★★☆☆ (3.5/5) Grotesques and Fantasies is a collection of imaginative and often unsettling short stories that explore the strange corners of human nature, illusion, and morality. Israel Zangwill presents exaggerated characters and surreal situations that act as moral mirrors—revealing pride, folly, vanity, and spiritual confusion. From a Catholic perspective, the work offers value as a cautionary reflection on the consequences of vice and the dangers of detachment from truth and virtue. However, its fantastical and sometimes absurd tone can blur moral clarity, requiring discernment from the listener. While not overtly religious, the stories provoke deeper thought about human weakness, the need for humility, and the search for meaning—making it an intriguing, if occasionally ambiguous, literary experience.

📣 New Podcast! "Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill | Strange, Dark & Imaginative Classic Short Stories Audiobook" on @Spreaker #and #audio #audiobook #classic #dark #domain #fantasies #fantasy #fiction #gothic #grotesques #imagination #israel #literary #public #short #stories #strange

#grotesques & #dégueulasses

Guide for Constructing the Letters h and i (ca. 1595) by Joris Hoefnagel.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

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#animals #grotesques #calligraphy #floral #art #publicdomain

Guide for Constructing the Letters h and i (ca. 1595) by Joris Hoefnagel.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

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#animals #grotesques #calligraphy #floral #art #publicdomain

Guide for Constructing the Letters h and i (ca. 1595) by Joris Hoefnagel.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

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#animals #grotesques #calligraphy #floral #art #publicdomain

DYK stone #grotesques in some #Romanesque churches seem to approve #GaySex? One guy holds the other’s dick; both have halos! But some #Christians still see it as #sinful? Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #PhallusThursday

Illustration by Jan Christian Bierpfaff, Jeremias Falck, from Libellus Novus Elementorum Latinorum (ca. 1645-50).

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

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#alphabets #grotesques #decorative #letters #botanical #typography #design #art

Illustration by Jan Christian Bierpfaff, Jeremias Falck, from Libellus Novus Elementorum Latinorum (ca. 1645-50).

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

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#alphabets #grotesques #decorative #letters #botanical #typography #design #art

Alamitos and Ocean
#LongBeach #LBC #DowntownLongBeach #DTLB #Grotesques #VillaRiviera

The Baths of Apollo at Versailles (1870).

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

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#grottoes #fountains #gardens #grotesques #nature #artifice #caves #stereoscopes #foliage #design #sculpture #art #publicdomain

Grotesque etching

Illustration by Christoph Jamnitzer, from Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610).

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

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#grotesques #grotesque #human-animal-hybrid #flowers #ornament #design #art #publicdomain

Grotto Design with Automata (1615), from Les raisons des forces mouvantes
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Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

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#grottoes #fountains #gardens #machinery #grotesques #nature #artifice #caves #design #sculpture #art

Cappy Mould, a Wiltshire postman with the BEST NAME EVER! To be remembered forever thanks to stonemason James Rixon.
Read all about how Cappy came to end up on a cottage wall here!
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#wiltshire #grotesques

Men and Women Surrounding a Face (1567) by Hieronymus Cock, Pieter van der Heyden, Jacob Floris.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

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#scrollwork #grotesques #baroque #floral #foliage #cartouches #ornament #architecture #skulls

Modern and traditional grotesques on Glasgow's medieval cathedral.

#glasgow #glasgowcathedral #sculpture #grotesques #gargoyle #architecture #architecturephotography

DYK stone #grotesques in some #Romanesque churches seem to approve #GaySex? One guy holds the other’s dick; both have halos! But some #Christians still see it as #sinful? Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Practicing values by drawing more grotesques. They bring me so much joy 🥹
#commonplacebook #sketchbook #sharpie #health #mentalhealth #punk #weird #illustration #doodle #horror #grotesques #gargoyles #graphite #values #artsky

A carved grotesque mounted on the buttress of a C15 church tower. It looks ferocious and it has wings, possibly a dragon.

Strange winged beast.
St Andrew’s, Pershore.
#Grotesques

A shot of a gargoyle on top of Notre Dame, in Paris, France, with the city and the Eiffel Tower visible in the background under a cloudy bright sky.

Happy World Photography Day with a shot from my archives taken at the top of Notre Dame, accompanied by the gargoyles and grotesques 😍 (2014) 📸

#WorldPhotographyDay #Mono #Paris #France #Grotesques #Gargoyles #BlackWhite #Travel #Photography #ShutterBug

Ballpoint pen sketch of a capon grotesque posing in the typical "proud" pose of his category, the one in which they (metaphorically) bring the world on their shoulders.

#TheWayOfLegends #Ballpointpen #Grotesques

DYK stone #grotesques in some #Romanesque churches seem to approve #GaySex? One guy holds the other’s dick; both have halos! But some #Christians still see it as #sinful? Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HappyPride

The main reason I visited was this 12th century sheela na gig. 🫶🏻 #KilpeckChurch #Herefordshire #sheelanagig #grotesques

A work-in-progress sketch of a small Oxford carved grotesque

The 'ooh I've finished' to 'hmm, I'm not doing anything with my hands' to 'project!' loop is particularly small sometimes

#sketch #sketching #sketchbook #grotesques #architecture

A pencil drawing of an androgynous, vaguely-steampunk-styled, thin gnome sitting on top of a building, the angle dramatic as they look down in delight at a Griffin-shaped grotesque on the building’s corner. The background has been shaded in, except for the shape of large faerie wings at the gnome’s back.

#tockthegnome #worldbuildingwednesday with #grotesques on Gnomish buildings!! Full notes here – www.patreon.com/posts/126079... 🐲😜👻

#fae #faerie #gnomes #gnome #gaslampfantasy #steampunk #indiecomics #queercomics #fantasyart #grotesque #whimsy #bonusart

#FontsOnFriday #ShrewsburyAbbey 17thcentury with #grotesques #Quern design

This collection of rather weird and wonderful sculpted heads are carved onto the corbels of decorative arches over the entrances to a series of tenement closes on Killearn Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow.

Cont./

#glasgow #sculpture #grotesques #greenman #architecture #tenement

Two framed Wally Dog prints placed on the mantlepiece of a fireplace in a library.

Framed Wally Punks in the library.

When two fixations* merge and get out of hand

*wally dogs & hunky punks

#printmaking #wallydogs #grotesques

Grotesques York Minster - "Look, you can see out house from here!" #Grotesques #York #Minster #travel #tourism #Yorkshire #England #cathedral #photography @yorkminster.bsky.social

New therapy unlocked:
Drawing #grotesques in my commonplace book 🤌

I def was making that face as I was drawing it too

#sketchbook #commonplacebook #gargoyles #creepy #creepyart #horror #horrorart #sketches #doodles #art