#Haunted Adelaide

[allen-tiller]

Unkowing Magazine Summer 2023

I just had an article published in Australia's own 'Unknowing Magazine'.

My article is about recent sightings of a Pan-like creature near Tanunda and how that ties in with the recorded history of a local pastor, August Kavel's 1840s attempts to chain the devil at Kaiser Stuhl!!

you can buy a copy here:

#BarossaValley #paranormal #devil #unknowing #magazine #allentiller

[from-a-spiders-web]

Ghosts

George Roux - Spirit, 1885 Julio Romero de Torres - Song of Love, 1905 Emile Foubert - Hommage à Corot, 1892 Adelaide Claxton - The Lady Ghost, 1876 Tony Robert Fleury - Alix Appearing in Mask, 1891 Frederick James Shields - Hamlet and the Ghost, 1901

[melanodis]

think the only college version ive neglected to draw is william. do not separate them they need to be holding hands at all times.

[insennaty]

beat him. defeat him. best him. lose him.

adelaide // 1988 vs 1993

[unamused-kookaburra]

Pathologic has truly rotted my brain I keep hearing the sound affects irl and it's raising my blood pressure and driving me insane

[thedeafprophet]

Ms Peninnah hastings Levy i am so sorry u never got to see ur kids grow up you wouldve done a great job,,,

anyway i have this au in my head so much ;-; au where she survives Alex's birth, sees the growing issues with her husbands, and decides its worth it to take the risk and protect her kids. She packs up with her kids in the middle of the night, and ends up coming to the Neath, where she knows her brother went a long time ago....

[crackships-and-manips]

Adelaide Kane and Michiel Huisman

[polychromatiica]

adelaine, lilliane and june from "haunted by the snow" a new indie animation project that is being made rn, its very new so i dont think the creators have any socials for it that i can link but i will when i can :D

[khruschevshoe]

Just caught myself shouting "Let's get FUCKED UP" in a perfect frat boy impression referring entirely to watching the Doctor Who episode the Waters Of Mars because I'm in a horror/tragedy mood. Can't say I'm wrong

[we-are-all-abandoned]

May you rest.

[rileylefae]

Love to have aus in my brain for my stupid fucking oc that i can't share with friends because they haven't ingested the media

[shy-attention-whore]

The Party on the Stairs, Adelaide Claxton, 1875.

[creakysocks]

Can't get her out of my head

[deathmaiidens]

@xsorrowofamanxx from [x]

"Again," Adelaide started, her grave countenance a stark contrast to her youthful beauty (at least until the old grandfather clock struck midnight and you could see right through her bones, right through to her broken heart). "You're gonna have to be more specific. Many things happened here. To start with, there was William and Eleanor Gracey, but I think the ground was cursed long before they built this place..."

Wide brown eyes darted towards the portraits in the hallway where you could hear a low howling sound (or was it only the wind?), then back at the man. "They came here from England with their only son, Edward Gracey. Eleanor went first, died of yellow fever, and then William followed hoping to find her in the other world, forgetting he'd be leaving a little boy behind, all alone in a house full of ghosts. None of which were ever his mom or dad -- only strange phantoms with white hair and see-through bones like blue glass. When he grew up, he fell in love; found his bride in the most beautiful woman in New Orleans, but history was doomed to repeat itself. She died giving birth to a baby girl who wasn't expected to survive the night. Against all odds, she survived many a night from then on. So did her Papa who promised he wouldn't make the same mistake his Papa did and leave her, as much as he wanted to be with her Mama. As tired as he was of wandering through the haunted ballrooms and cemetery parties every night hoping to find her in the crowd of spirits let in by his father before him.

"Pretty soon thirteen years had gone by and you know what they say about the number thirteen, non? He was always there in the shadows, I think, but for some reason, Death himself waited that long to take the girl and her father. I suppose to make sure they'd never leave and well..here we are, to this day."

She smiled sheepishly, as if she were an ordinary little girl telling an ordinary little story. Only for a moment though, before she took on that serious glower again. "I know it's a little trite to say 'beware' at the end, but believe me when I say that there's something here...something that doesn't just want to scare people like the others, something that's hungry."

[kuroishuuha]

DP x DC prompt - My Mother Annabelle - I mean Adelaide

(A Different Haunted Doll AU)

A young Danny finds himself in the Gotham after running away from home. He brings with him his favorite doll.

Bruce finds a young Danny wandering the streets and takes him home.

The batfam can't help but find it adorable, and a little sad, that Danny calls the doll his "mom."

That soon turns to horror.

[insert haunted doll shenanigans here]

Adelaide does not like the fact that some playboy with a furry fetish has decided to take over the parental role in Danny's life.

That's HER role!

Basically, a haunted doll and Bruce Wayne get into a custody battle.

[inbarfink]

So when discussing the ending of ‘Over the Garden Wall’ and the nature of the Unknown in general, I think it is important to remember that it’s left deliberately up for interpretation. You know, it’s not a Quiz with one concrete answer we must uncover, but it’s more about our interpretations and personal feelings. Each and every one of us experiences that journey with Wirt and Greg into the Unknown in a slightly different way. 

So what I want to do here is not present a Correct Interpretation that will dispute all the others and prove them all wrong and prove myself right, I just want to share my own outlook on the nature of the Unknown. In the hopes that others will like it and it’ll inspire more cool readings and interpretations

So on some level I do agree with the popular theory that the Unknown is some sort of Afterlife - but I don’t see it as a regular Afterlife for human souls, I think it is an afterlife for Stories. This place is where fictional characters and stories end up once they’ve been totally forgotten by the living, ‘lost in the clouded annals of history’. and become.... unknown It is quite literally a place where ‘long forgotten stories are revealed to those who travel through the wood’.

That’s why the Unknown is a mishmash of different time periods and primarily visually and narratively influenced by stuff like fairy tales, ghost stories, children’s books and old cartoons - these stories have a high-tendency to be forgotten and thus get lost in the Unknown (whatever it’s because they rely on oral traditions or because they suffered from very poor preservation historically). 

And that is what the theme song, ‘Into the Unknown’ is talking about…

Where can we pretend that dreams do come true? In Stories.

And what are ‘the loveliest lies of all’? Now that would be Fiction. 

The entire concept of stories is a huge theme of this song, I think.

Beatrice and her family, Adelaide of the Pasture, Auntie Whispers and Lorna were all originally fairy tales. Maybe the same fairy tale, or maybe they were originally separated before being ‘melded’ together. (If, for example, the last child to Remember them before they were forgotten just assumed the Bad Witch in both the Auntie Whispers and Beatrice stories was Adelaide)

Pottsfield was an old urban legend about a haunted ghost town, Wirt and Greg basically played through its ‘plot’ directly. 

Miss Langtree, the schoolhouse and the other associated characters come from a long-forgotten and out-of-print children’s book. That’s why those characters tend to talk in comically-stilted expository dialogue. 

The Tavern was the setting for a series of 20’s animated cartoons.  (Although obviously set long before that era). The Tavern Keeper was created as a Betty Boop clone and was the main character. The Tavern setting was probably a mere framing device for all sort of musical animations. The reason why none of them can comprehend the idea of not having some sort of Title or Label is because that’s how they were written - all given job-related titles but not named.

Fred the Talking Horse was a main character from a forgotten tradition of humorous oral stories where he was sometimes a trickstery anti-hero and sometimes a straight-up comedic villain protagonist.

Quincy Endicott and Margueritte Grey were characters from a satiric limerick about the greedy rich and their wacky habits. (Quincy was at least inspired by a real-life person since his name appears on a tombstone in the real world)

Possibly the same limerick where the punchline was the status-quo at the beginning of their OTGW ep, that both rivals’ mansions have become connected and they assume the other is a ghost haunting their house. Or maybe they were each from different regional variations of the same limerick about a greedy rich weirdo being lost in their own house and going mad. 

Frogland and their little boat might be from a children’s book as well, but I also think that maybe… from the vignettes shown at the opening of the series…

That one might take place outside the Unknown, and shows the real inception of Frogland. Two brothers making up stories with their toy boat by the river. Since they never shared these stories with anyone else, when these two brothers died or maybe just grew up and forgot their boyhood misadventures by the stream - these stories also ended up in the Unknown. 

The Fishing Fish we see briefly in ‘Babes in the Woods’ might be a small comedic illustration from a children’s book, or another piece of limerick, or just someone’s random notebook doodle that gained a life of its own first in the creator’s mind and then in the Unknown. 

Cloud City, the North Wind and the Queen of the Clouds were also, much like the Tavern, from a very old cartoon.

The Beast was once just a mere Boogie Man to keep young children from wandering off into the woods. Ending up forgotten in the Unknown just ended up giving him a whole world of lost souls to harvest. 

Maybe the Woodsman and his daughter were always a part of the story of the Beast. But since it seems that the Woodsman being a lantern-bearer is a fairly recent development - they might have had their own separate story. Some sort of pastoral novel about a family moving near the woods? But their narrative has been ‘hijacked’ by the Beast. 

Wirt and Greg ended up lost within the Unknown cause had they actually died in the lake that night - they would have become a Story in their town. I mean we have a moody lonely teenager and his adorable little brother disappearing/dying - on the night of Halloween - after last being seen in a graveyard - with the older brother’s last act on this earth being to hand his crush a cassette of his love poetry. Can you imagine what sort of Urban Legenda you can grow from those seeds?

But as they were not yet dead, and not a Story yet… so they were technically an Unknown story. Between the borders of life and death from a human perspective because they were about to die, and from a Story perspective because they were just about to be born.

And the ending sequence, with the little vignettes showing where all the characters from all the episodes ended up. I think that’s almost like Wirt and Greg back in the world of the living and the real - being able to create happy endings for all of those stories they've met. That’s how the Woodsman’s daughter ended up being alive all along - it was less that the Woodsman's whole tragedy was a wacky misunderstanding all along. But it became so as a gift of thanks by their new storytellers - Wirt and Greg.

Because if dreams can't come true, than why not pretend?