#Ptolomaea

[4-everangel]

You devour like smoked bovine hide

how funny, I never considered myself tough

[honeyrosepetals]

ptolomaea 🦷❣️ @mothercain

[bra1n-d3ad]

How I’ve felt every time I’ve gone to sleep since I was a child btw

[urv3nicebitch]

why is my hotel giving that house in nebraska

[chlorophyllcrimescene]

the first time I came here it was hailing hard, like meteors, or dead buzzards tumbling from the wires between telephone-poles. this trivial place at the edge of suburbia-- this is where people come to find meaning. I can sense God here. I know it simply because they know it. Collective consciousness at the Dunwoody Hobby Lobby. It's either turning on my heel, or it's joining the mob, getting out the trusty pitchfork.

[clairebear-98]

THESIS DONE

it’s done, sorry i didn’t really do any updates lol

my movie posters for Preacher’s Daughter, the lovely debut album by @mothercain​, are finally done ahhhh!! here they are! (sorry for low res tumblr is being weird about file sizes idk)

as you can see, together they form a frame for a cross that will hang on the wall between them, this way each piece can not only stand on its own but be placed together as a cohesive unit.

American Teenager, the song I chose to represent the opening act of Preacher’s Daughter. I looked at a bunch of coming-of-age movies and Andrew Wyeth

Thoroughfare made the most sense for me to be the song to represent what I consider the second act. I looked at a lot of western movie posters, and california desert sunsets for this one. it’s the most standout imo, in terms of color treatment which is cool i guess.

The third act, where Isaiah does his evil deeds to Ethel is represented by Ptolomaea in my mind. I wanted to have a slashe/thriller feel to this one, akin to early Scream and Carrie posters. A huge emphasis on the eye, and its reflection, was important for this.

and lastly, Strangers felt most encompassing of the album’s ending to me. This one was a bit tricky to pin down to a genre, since i had the concept in mind from the start. I decided to look at horror, more specifically psychological horrors like Silent Hill and a lot of body horror as well. I wanted it to feel like Ethel was simultaneously at peace and in distress, to address both her spiritual and physical fates.

These are going on display next week im super excited! Thank you so much Hayden for your inspiring music, I really hope I did you proud!!!! Also I stole the fake castings from her fancast lol...

[bootdork]

Okay, reaching out because I've exhausted all my ideas @mothercain.

At the very end of Ptolomaea, you can hear what sounds like a man speaking Portuguese saying "Ligue para... um oito oito oito, nove nove nove, sete quatro oito oito" which translates to "Call 1-888-999-7488". Me, @uglymothwife, and @snaileggs have tried to figure out what this number means but we've just found that it might be a debt collection agency based in America, and it might just be some guy who lives in California.

What is this? Is it just some random radio noise? Help.

[d0gwithabr0kenleg]

"No more money, no more fancy dress This other kingdom seems by far the best Until its other jaw reveals incest And lose obedience to a vegetable law I will not go Prefer a feast of friends to the giant family"

[greenladybug333]

a picture i took today that i quite like for some reason

[daremna]

sources:

1. Archeology, Wisława Szymborska 2. Man of Sorrows 1460, Simon Marmion 3. Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi, George Seferis 4. The Apparition, Gustave Moreau 5. Family Tree (intro), Ethel Cain 6. Author/artist unknown 7. Christ Crowned With Thorns, Albrecht Bouts 8. Invictus, William Ernest Henley 9. What Colour Would God Bleed, Elisabeth Hewer 10. artist unknown 11. Ptolomaea, Ethel Cain 12. The Touch of the Angel, Roberto Ferri 13. Jet of Blood, Antonin Artaud 14. The Deposition 1615, Anthony van Dyck 15. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 16. Freedom, Skullrose 17. Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Rainer Maria Rilke

[horsemantiddies]

PTOLOMAEA - Ethel Cain

[godsfavouritedear]

who wants to guess my halloween costume

[amandamonroe]

singing along to ptolomaea (particularly the bloodcurdling scream) won’t fix what’s wrong with me, but it would help.

[spale-vosver]

The transmasc experience of loving Ethel Cain but being afraid of the fandom because of how easily valid and correct interpretations of her work (for instance, calling Ptolomaea a song that "sounds like what it's like to be afraid of a man") can veer into radfem and TERF rhetoric.

As a trans man I share so many of the sentiments she expresses in her music, but will fellow fans see me as an outsider, a predator, a villain?

Am I Ethel to them, or am I Isaiah?

[welcometorealiti]

*throws it back fearfully to ptolomaea*