#Tasmanian Gothic

[alexanderpearce]

an old cemetery with graves sinking into the ground and the two churches (catholic and anglican) on the island

[geethr75]

January Wrap up

I had such plans for January, but alas! I did read a bit, but not all the books in my list were finished. Some I gave up on, because I just couldn’t get into them. Without much ado, let me quickly recap my January reads SPSFC Reads Tasmanian Gothic A fast paced and entertaining read, this one made the semi finals of the SPSFC The Mimameid Solution Perfect for fans of slow paced books with…

[your-ace-fluffy-neighbour]

Midwest Gothic Devil for @the-transmanian-devil

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[ghostshipernr1]

In my opinion, ghouls are a kind of hybrids of different animals, they retain their features, such as wings, tail, horns, as well as some behaviors: purring, chirping.

it looks like this:

Swiss - Tasmanian devil

He definitely inherited his wild and chaotic nature from this animal. He has strong fangs and sharp claws. It's hard to deal with during the day, but at night? Good luck. At night, hes hunting instincts are active thanks to its extraordinary sense of smell and well-adapted eyesight.

Cirrus - raven

At first glance, it's easy to guess what animal she's related to by looking at the large pair of black wings on her back. If you don't even guess? Just wear something shiny, like a silver ring or necklace, and you'll be able to see her looking at you all day long. It's very likely that at some point she won't be able to take it anymore and when you look the other way she will try to steal it from you. (Most often with positive results) (Seriously, how does she even do that?)

Mountain - St. Bernard

Personally, I believe that every earth ghoul is in some way related to a specific breed of dog. Just like his dog side, he is reflected in features such as loyalty, friendliness and great patience. Everyone wonders how he always seems so calm and collected even when Swiss, Phantom and Dew are bothering him and guess what? Even he doesn't know that.

Although everyone knows one thing, if you ever hurt someone in his pack, there is no place to hide. And when he finds you? Well, no one knows because no one has lived to tell about it yet.

Yup he's a really good boy

Rain - otter

A fluffy ball in the middle of the lake, that's how you can describe our water ghoul. But don't let appearances fool you, sometimes it can be a real nuisance, like when he accidentally lost his favorite stone and didn't want to leave the lake area until he got it back (after an hour and a half search involving at least 20 people, it turned out that the stone was still was in his pocket) (oopsie:3).

Once Dew played him a documentary about Giant River Otters and he had to sleep with him for a week because he had nightmares (not nice Dew)

Phantom - bat

As anyone would expect, our little gothic boy is most closely associated with bats. For this reason, it is impossible to miss a large pair of (as he calls it) "vampire" wings on his back.

Every year, the ministry holds a Halloween competition for the best costume. Every year since his call, his elaborate costumes have won at least the podium.

Aurora - opossum

I know, I know, what does Aurora opossum sound like? Would such a sweet little ghoulette be an ugly half-rat from the trash? Now go to Cumulus or Mountain and say the exact same words and see what happens.

Immediately after visiting earth, Aurora had problems with self-esteem, which was not helped by her bald rat tail and gray, nondescript fur. The rest of the ghoulettes noticed this immediately and decided to change it. For a good week, none of them left Cirrus's room until Sunshine called an urgent meeting in the living room where, together with the rest, they presented the new face of Aurora. The previously bald tail is now covered in colorful ribbons, just like her beautifull hair, small claws covered with red nail polish, all the makeup well matched to her complexion and finally a beautiful dress that Mountain couldn't take his eyes off. The first moment Aurora noticed the proud and happy faces of her companions, she immediately ran to the mirror and immediately cried, but this time they were not tears of sadness, but tears of happiness.

Since then, everyone has made her realize how beautiful she is at every step (and she believes it every time).

Dewdrop - rabbit

Really a rabbit? Damn rabbit? From the beginning of its life, Dewdrop has been asking himself this question. After all, how could this big scary ghoul be related to something so... Cute? No wonder, after all, it's hard to take someone seriously with big fluffy ears that just beg to be pet. But don't make Swiss' mistake and don't underestimate him, after all, he is still a fiery ghoul and that element of heat still makes itself felt. (Poor Swiss, after calling Dew a snowflake, he has been knocked out for 10 minutes because he got hit in his balls so hard). Despite his fluffy white fur and cute little tail, Dew knows how to defend himself well - after all, it's not for nothing that nature gave him damn strong legs and even stronger teeth. However, this does not change the fact that, just like Aurora, he still has many problems with self-esteem (If they could, they would gladly switch animals). What Dew doesn't like the most in the world are the sweet looks people gave him when he tries to walk down the hall as if nothing happened and, even worse, when they try to touch him. (But don't worry, Aether knows how to deal with them).

It took him a long time to get used to his own appearance, and even now, when he notices many advantages in himself (for example, teasing Aether in his favorite shorts that perfectly fit his god gift ass), he still has a lot of doubts. But don't worry, on such days there will always be a ghouls ready to prove him that he is perfect the way he is.

Aether - grizzly bear

Try to guess who in the ministry gives the best hugs?

Any ideas?

NO?

Then I will answer you of course its Aether!!!

The mix of his thick brown fur and soft belly gives us the perfect material for afternoon naps. Aether is the type of person who, when he sees someone having a bad day, immediately brews a good cup of tea, turns on a comfortable movie and engages the person in a long cuddle session. Despite his comfortable nature and generally good view of the world, as soon as someone tries to harm his herd, in less than a second this sweet cuddly Teddy bear can turn into a bloodthirsty beast and nothing can stop him. Sometimes when he sees members of his family arguing and it escalates to possible harm to each other, he has to react. He personally hates himself for this because his greatest fear is that in the eyes of ghouls he loves, he will become a monster.

Cumulus - snow owl

For the first month that Rain and the ghoulett met, he could only describe her as absolutely terrifying. Don't get him wrong Cumulus is like a sister to him but... the way despite her huge snow-white wings, she is able to sneak up on him and scare him is absolutely terrifying.

Once, when he went to the kitchen at 2 a.m. to get a glass of water, he noticed her standing by the fridge. He called her and she turned her head 180 degrees and asked what was going on. He ran out of the kitchen in terror and couldn't sleep that night. The next day he discover flowers on his desk and a card with an apology (where did she get the flowers at 2 a.m.?). Fortunately, after a year of living together, Rain know that there is nothing to be afraid of and Lulu is one of the nicest people he knows.

In appearance, apart from the previously described wings, Cumulus has pearly snow skin, white fluff surrounding its neck and ankles, and large white curly hair resembling a cloud. Despite her elegant appearance, Cumulus isn't afraid to get down and dirty and is more than willing to do some spontaneous mud wrestling with Mountain or roll around in the gurney with Swiss. (Poor Cirrus who then has to take care of her tangled feathers)

Sunshine - pony

She loves racing. And when I say she loves it, I don't mean racing once im a while. NO. Every day, she, Dew and Swiss (aka the fastest ghouls in the Ministry) have to compete with each other every time. No matters of its of who takes the bathroom faster, who takes someone else's seat, who gives Copia the documents from his desk faster. She just loves it.

She, Dew and Swiss are a real danger.

Besides, she's a really good girl, really...

While the rest of the ghouls have paws or claws, she is the only one with hooves, poor Cirrus has a really hard time cleaning them from dirt, grass and mud.

When we talk about the sunshine, one fact cannot be omitted... She has a beautiful blonde ponytail and every day she devotes at least an hour to its care so that she can wave it proudly.

I hope you liked it, if you want a story about one of the ghouls, don't be afraid to ask :3

[thisisnotadreamvincentlaw]

Deadloch has it all

Lesbians

Australia

Dark humour

Unrepentantly unhinged women, going through extreme shit, whose characterisation feels so damn authentic.

Small town weirdness with hints of Tasmanian Gothic (like Southern Gothic, but overcast, greyer and with more abrasive accents)

Shitty men getting what is coming to them.

Strong Indigenous Women/Girls

Murder

A great really strong murder mystery that keeps you guessing.

[worlds-4th-best-dad]

Takao: *grading papers at school at night* [His cellphone rings] Takao: *picks up his phone* Minene, prank-calling him: Do you wanna watch a scary movie...? Takao: What do you mean...? Minene: I said, do you wanna watch a scary movie? Takao: No, I mean what sort? Vampire, zombie, werewolf, zombie werewolf- *gets up from his desk* Minene: Huh? Takao: -werewolf zombie, werewolf vampire- *walking through the school hallway* Minene: Uh... Takao: -zombie werewolf vampire, haunted house, grind house- *exits the school* Minene: Uh- wha- I-I-I- Takao: *walking trough the streets at night* -ESP horror, crime and giallo, Lovecraftian,- Minene: Uh, I-I-I... Takao: *enters an abandoned house and locks the door* -mummies and goblins, Cthulhu mythos- Minene: I-I-I, I don’t- You know what? I— Takao: *locks a window* —jiangshi fiction, mumble gore, or do you mean gothics? Minene: *facepalms* Ugh... Takao: *locks more doors and windows* -southern gothic, southern Ontario gothic, urban gothic, suburban gothic, Tasmanian gothic- Minene: Uh, you know what? Someone’s at the door, I gotta go. Takao: No, there’s not, I just locked all the doors and windows. You have to watch a scary movie with me now...! Minene: No-no-no, I don’t. I can hang up! *hangs up* Ha ha ha! Takao, while creepily approaching Minene from the darkness: You can’t hide, because the first place that I’d look would be in your basement... Minene: What the- you’re here?! Takao, while menacingly cornering Minene in the basement: I thought you wanted to watch a scary movie.... Because I really love scary movies...!

[soup-mother]

this is the most specific local discourse but every time some cunt from lutruwita/tassie calls themselves "van demonian" or some shit i want to kill them. i have little patience for tasmanian gothic in general but specifically identifying with the even more colonial name for the island (and the company responsible for massacres to protect their profits) makes me see red

[cha0ticr0b0tic]

More Australian Gothic Movies

True History of the Kelly Gang (Justin Kurzel) – queer, punk, postmodern retelling of the famous outlaw’s story. This one is a lot, very emotionally heavy, pretty fuckin Freudian, but also cross dressing and bucket helmets!! 

The Hunter (Daniel Nettheim) – Tasmanian Gothic film starring Willem Dafoe as an American mercenary-hunter hired by a military corp to hunt down the last living Tasmanian tiger. Very broody and beautiful in its starkness. Found family + care for the environment are major themes. Liked this one more than I expected.

Jasper Jones (Rachel Perkins) – coming of age film set in the 60s, dealing with all sorts of Gothic themes: murder in a conservative suburb, the decay of the family unit, ingroups and outgroups. Based on the YA book, which is also pretty good! At first I was like uh oh is this another “white boy learns about racism” story but it’s more than that – Toni Collette is in it as well and does a fantastic job, as per usual.

[healingpuppys]

Stimboards pt. 5

agere amy rose stimboard

agere/petre celestia ludenburg stimboard

paci gif pt. 12

petre marceline and CG! princess bubblegum stimboard

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[georgiaejlittleyear3blog]

The Gothic Horror Sub Genre's

Gothic fiction is defined by the inclusion of the past coming back to haunt the characters in the story as well as the fear and supernatural events embodying this re-emerging past. Ruined buildings and decay are the staples of this, being physical reminder of this haunting past.

One subgenre is the gothic bluebooks, which fell into two primary categories taking place in either monasteries or convents or gothic castles. They were popular for being able to condense novels worth of content into mere pages, with characters usually either ending up married or dead by the end. The morals were pointed out in the narration and very obvious.

Southern Gothic and Southern Ontario Gothic are versions of this, characterized by their realism and deeply flawed and eccentric characters where were put in derelict settings and grotesque and horrifying situations, all of which were relating to the poverty, alienation, crime, and violence of the time.

Southern Ontario Gothic analyses social conditions such as race, gender, religion and politics, but through the lense of small-town Protestant morality stereotypical of the region, and often has underlying themes of moral hypocrisy. Actions and people that act against humanity, logic, and morality all are portrayed unfavourably. The Gothic novel has traditionally examined the role of evil in the human soul, and has incorporated dark or horrific imagery to create the desired setting.

Suburban Gothic dramatizes anxieties arising from the mass urbanisation of the United States and usually features suburban settings, preoccupations and protagonists. This genre tends to focus on threats to the family or neighbourhood and focuses inwards rather than on an external threat, mainly on teenagers and children.

Similarly, Urban Gothic is a subgenre that explores a post-industrial society. It was pioneered in the mid-19th century in Britain, Ireland and the United States.

While the majority of the Gothic Genre draws from traditional European literature and European architecture like castles and churches, Tasmanian Gothic, whilst still dealing with the themes of horror, mystery and the uncanny, centres on the natural landscape of Tasmania and its colonial architecture and history.

This is the genre most associated with ghosts. Linked to the ghost is the idea of a "haunting", where a supernatural entity is tied to a place, object or person.

[demi-shoggoth]

2023 Reading Log, pt. 9

41. Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine by Gabrielle Hatfield. There are some A-Z encyclopedia style books that are interesting and easy reads. This is not one of them. Most of the entries are long lists of what remedies were used for a particular ailment, or what ailments were reputed to have been treatable by a particular remedy. The writing style is very boring and samey throughout, making it a chore to read. I do appreciate the appearance of scientific names when referring to plant remedies, with a question mark in the cases where a common name is used that can be applied to multiple plants. I do not appreciate how native American remedies are often an afterthought, drawn from a much more limited range of sources, and many times not even explaining what tribal tradition they belong to. This book would probably be a relatively useful resource for a research project, although not a one-stop shop. I do not recommend it, however, as a reading experience.

42. A History of the World Through Body Parts by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras. This book is a historical miscellany, focusing on how human history has been influenced by, well, human organs. It was inspired by a quote by Pascal about Cleopatra’s nose, which is discussed. The book is broken into short chapters about a particular historical person, their body, and how it influenced their actions and legacy. The book is fine, but it is weirdly padded. Each chapter begins with a full page title, and infoboxes, some of which are only a paragraph long, get their own pages as well. So while I did enjoy this book, I do also kind of regret paying full hardcover price for it.

42a. Elf Queens and Holy Friars by Richard Firth Green. I was super intrigued by this book’s premise—that fairy belief in medieval Europe was seen as a threat by the Church to their cultural hegemony. Unfortunately, the author makes some idiosyncratic choices that make it literally impossible for me to read. Long passages from primary sources are quoted. If they’re in French, they’re translated. If they’re in Latin, they’re paraphrased. And if they’re in Middle English, they’re left to stand on their own. I don’t read Middle English or Latin. So this book seems to be written for a specialist audience only, and anyone interested in the topic without the language background can piss off, I guess.

43. The Strange Bestiary by Bruce R. Cordell, Monte Cook and Robert J Schwalb.  I quite liked the bestiaries that Monte Cook Games put out for the Numenera game, so I figured I’d have a similarly high opinion of the bestiary for The Strange, the same company’s dimension hopping alternate reality game. This was not the case. For a system titled “The Strange”, the book is awfully mundane. In The Strange, there’s a Mad Science dimension, a Traditional Western Fantasy dimension, a Lovecraft dimension and a Gothic Horror dimension, which means that fairly uninspired versions of monsters pertaining to those tropes are the dominant contents of the book. There are a few monsters with original and interesting concepts, but they’re drowned out by things we’ve seen before for a dozen different systems.

44. Islands and Snakes, edited by Harvey B. Lilywhite and Marcio Martins. This is an academic book, a collection of papers about the evolution and ecology of snakes on islands. After a general overview of the topic, most of the papers focus on one particular species or species complex. A significant chunk of the papers cover sea kraits, which are snakes I didn’t know much about; they’re eel specialists and more amphibious than other sea snakes, emerging onto islands to rest and digest, and laying their eggs in sea caves or other hidden humid areas. Other topics include the insular tiger snakes of offshore Tasmanian islands, the vipers of Milos Island off the coast of Greece, and the weirdly specialized, and unfortunately now dwindling, water moccasins of Seahorse Key in Florida.

45. Suggestible You by Eric Vance. This book is about the placebo and nocebo effects, hypnosis, and other ways that the brain can influence the body. The author comes at the topic from an interesting perspective. He grew up a Christian Scientist, and his parents told him the story of how their faith saved him from life-threatening illness when he was an infant. This loops back around to a discussion of implanted memories, and the instability of memory in general—he “remembers” the event despite being one year old, and in the third person, because of how many times he’s heard the story. Vance is an eager experimental participant, engaging in placebo trials for pain, getting himself professionally hypnotized, visiting acupuncturists and Christian Science healers, and even getting himself cursed.

[inc-b]

Fixed link:

there dont seem to be many pics of this online so i thought id post mine… numbers on the outside wall/guards’ post of a building in willow court, lutruwita/tasmania. 

there’s no information about who wrote these, or why. as far as i’ve heard theyre from the 1800s. this is the only thing ive found about them online so far.

[beigebox]

Sony Mavica MVC-FD73

Been wanting one of these for years, digital camera from 1999 that uses floppy disks for storage. Turns out it’s a very capable camera!

These are all straight off the disk, VGA resolution JPGs, I fit 36 on a floppy. Mab was a very gracious model. Great zoom and I’ve always been a fan of stark, washed out colour gradings so I’m stoked with the results. Already getting ideas for an analog horror/Tasmanian gothic found footage game.

Computer at the bottom is my ‘03 Pentium 4, mostly built for games but it’s a handy translator for '90s tech.

[inc-b]

Sony Mavica MVC-FD73

Been wanting one of these for years, digital camera from 1999 that uses floppy disks for storage. Turns out it's a very capable camera!

These are all straight off the disk, VGA resolution JPGs, I fit 36 on a floppy. Mab was a very gracious model. Great zoom and I've always been a fan of stark, washed out colour gradings so I'm stoked with the results. Already getting ideas for an analog horror/Tasmanian gothic found footage game.

Computer at the bottom is my '03 Pentium 4, mostly built for games but it's a handy translator for '90s tech.

[your-ace-fluffy-neighbour]

Love the moodboards, aough. If your requests are still open, could I get a tasmanian devil one with a midwest gothic theme? Minus any religious references.

Thank you!!

Haha, thanks! :D posted btw

And here are some pics I wish I could’ve used:

[aosmhor]

Hey, my name is Luke and I'm a self taught trans artist, living in Tasmania, Australia. My style is what I would summarize as a Tasmanian gothic brand of cosmic horror and cryptid art. This is my return to tumblr after more than a decade, and I'm excited to dive back into the art community. You can find me on twitter, facebook and instagram by the same name. Thanks for checking me out