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In Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, the narrator's friend known as Danforth completes his descent into insanity in Antarctica by repeatedly chanting the station names of Boston's Red Line.

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2022-08-21

"In the tunnels of that twisted wood, whose low prodigious oaks twine groping boughs and shine dim with the phosphorescence of strange fungi, dwell the furtive and secretive zoogs" (Lovecraft)

🎨 V. Ermolaev "Zoogs" (2016)

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2022-08-20

Darklings!

Today's ends now. And while it's all things over here again, share lore of haunted mines and the crafting of cursed gems with Sam and celebrate dark, weird literature with

🖼️ J. Panuška https://t.co/RTY3Y6demH

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2022-08-20

short stream but this is what i got done 💅 human bookworm

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2022-08-19

Given the fact that Cely's main spellcasting shenanigans come from her lineage, I was thinking of doing a minor reclassification.

Calling her a Sorcerer instead of a Wizard basically.

Her bookwormy nature would ofc remain, just clarifying her spellcasting!

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2022-08-19

You know that meme where a book turns a bimbo into a bookworm? Yeah, they're girlfriends.

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2022-08-19

My girl Lemira! Necromancer/Void Wizard. Huge bookworm, acts cold but is actually a huge nerd. Daddy issues etc.

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2022-08-18

Ah yes, the unhinged chaotic bookworm with the power of God on their side AND the seemingly stoic ML who’s secretly on their knees in love with them - relationship dynamic

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2022-08-16

All deep,earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea,while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.(Melville Moby Dick) I just had to! It's my all time favorite!

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2022-08-14

"The ocean has a life of its own. Its tides, whirlpools, currents and eddies are a testament to its conflicting emotions.”

~ Anthony T. Hincks,🎨Tim Jones

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2022-08-14

"Make no reply, but listen; I am not dead, nor yet am I alive. I hover between this world and the world of Spirits. Mark me."

(Frederick Marryat "The Phantom Ship")

🎨 Howard Pyle "Flying Dutchman"

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2022-08-14

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy...The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural & wonderful existence. It is nothing but love & emotion; it is the Living Infinite."

-Jules Verne
🎨 Max Jensen

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2022-08-14

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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2022-08-13

‘I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.’ Nikos Kazantzakis, The Life and Times of Alexis Zorba.
🖼 Winslow Homer, c.1869.

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2022-08-13

“In an age of hard drinking Hornblower stood almost alone in his abstemiousness ...” ~ The Happy Return aka Beat to Quarters (1951), C.S. Forester.
[illustrations by Joe McLaren, for the Folio Society]

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2022-08-13