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Dave Lebow

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If I tell you this is a horror dance number it still won't prepare you. That last move was so terrifying even the judge was like "Let go! Let go!" If you told me they're actually possessed I'd believe you.

One of the most perfectly choreographed and executed dances I have ever seen and comes closest to Shobana's original performance in Manichitrathazhu. Incredible!

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I recently came across Frankenstein and it striked me SO HARD that these two are seeking the same feelings of belonging ! And all along i was like "what if they met ?!"

I don't make the rules.... they're boyfriends. End of the story. Too bad for you Christine, Erik had made the ring bigger for Adam.

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Vogue Paris, March 1991.

Ph. Karel Fonteyne

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Big vampire day on here (normal Tuesday)

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Spike is a cat: text posts pt 2

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The Brides tormenting Jonathon Harker.

From the comic book adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), art by Mike Mignola.

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Albert Schindehütte (b. 1939) - from Edgar Allan Poe’s Poetry Album, 1982

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Angels see sleeping with humans as bestiality. Demons see sleeping with humans as monster fucking. Debate over. Because the Angels think we're just unevolved lifeforms whereas the Demons see us as potential co-conspirators.

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This month: pink houses. Pink everything. Because pink reminds me of candy, and candy is delicious. Original source, America’s Painted Ladies.

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I'd like to introduce everyone to this horrid thing I created about a year ago but haven't shown many people yet (probably for the best).

This is Baby. AKA The Monster. AKA Sight Tremendous and Abhorred, AKA Vile Insect, AKA A Thing Such As Even Dante Could Not Have Conceived, etc, etc. It's made from bits of scrap fabric I scrounged from various sources and is roughly the size of a human toddler. Its design is based on Mary Shelly's original descriptions of Frankenstein's creature.

But that's not all! Behold!

You can dissect this little abomination to reveal a full set of crocheted, knitted, and scrap fabric organs, all hand-stitched by yours truly!

It has a heart, stomach, lungs, liver, small and large intestine, kidneys, bladder, and, of course, a brain! So it can ponder the horrors of its own existence!

I used this pattern by Less Than Three for the heart. I ended up felting it because I screwed up most of the stitches (I was relatively new to crochet at the time). The result was a bit of a blobby mess, but oh well.

So yeah. This thing lives in my house now (my family hates it). I have yet to reap the full consequences of my hubris.

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Christian Dior 1998 Spring/Summer Haute Couture

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people really just walk into horror movies and expect them not to deal with uncomfortable things despite the genre being dedicated to discomfort.

i saw so many people complain that lisa frankenstein, a movie where one of the leads is famously a rotting corpse, was too gross for them. when i walked out of nosferatu, i heard people say that the nudity was uncalled for... in a vampire film. nudity? in MY gothic horror?! unheard of!

a LOT of people really need to accept that maybe some genres just aren't to their taste, idk. not every movie needs to be cookie-cutter clean. sexuality is a staple of gothic horror, if not the wider genre horror in General. you don't need to enjoy it, but it doesn't make these things uncalled for.

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Commission for the lovely https://www.instagram.com/byjessicamason/

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