#deathless ones

[thingsasbarcodes]

Rise of the Tomb Raider - All Cutscenes

[zu-is-here]

The Frog Princess ✧ Your Culture Day

Dream & Nightmare by jokublog

Cross from xtaleunderverse by jakei95

[hangsawoman]

violet trefusis in a letter to vita sackville-west, august 1920

[kazz-brekker]

i present: my extremely long and highly specific list of book recs for my fellow rings of power fans

[yourlazykitkat]

I don't know much about this Koschei guy but he's an Azris shipper and thus I trust him with my life.

[torpublishinggroup]

This advertisement is for a dark urban fantasy romance called ONE FOR MY ENEMY by Olivie Blake, a new title from the bestselling author of THE ATLAS SIX. The book features original interior art by Little Chmura and the pic features Dolly, a puppy who kinda has people eyes lol

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

Our stage is Manhattan in the modern day, where rival syndicates run by criminal witches tolerate uneasy peace, until fresh blood opens old wounds. Now, the descendants of bitter adversaries must navigate a treacherous crossroads.

The Antonova sisters—beautiful, cunning, and ruthless—serve their mother, the elusive Baba Yaga. The Federov brothers serve Koschei the Deathless, a shadow-kingpin of magical Manhattan…and their father. Star-crossed lovers, wayward scions, the angry, and the hurt—all must choose where they stand.

This is a story of the struggle between siblings, lethal magic, and tangled love. It’s Shakespeare run afoul of Slavic Folklore's more treacherous specters, emerging shaking and bloody.

[adridoot]

COTLtober Day 7: This Death Was Painful

[deatheless]

biblically accurate amina farris stage shots

[zenithabovemarshland]

Saturn in Pisces: Make it, and make it eternal. Make it deathless. Make it undead. Make it true.

[queencryo]

Here, read our story about a mage sacrificing a college student for immortality and power. TW, uh, human sacrifice

[ao3fujoshevik]

wtf

[xavathun]

ouaghh. density,,

[john-gosh-darnielle]

but none of the rage in our eyes

[lizbethborden]

I had a creative writing professor who was a prick but could be right sometimes, and he talked about how poetic writing is most effective in contrast with simple and straightforward writing, which is why "purple prose" can become incredibly dull and numbing to read as you go on. This isn't a perfect rule because there are some works that utilize a specific register of writing that feels elevated or poetic throughout, and they're doing it to achieve a specific effect, but it takes a skilled writer to do that and not make it punishing or parodic. But it's always come in handy for me as a thinking tool and I find it tends to hold true in other settings and applications, that the strongest effects are generated by contrasts, and I think that's what the horror genre does as well. A movie about a child who is lost to loneliness and death, thinking she's entered a magical world (Pan's Labyrinth) is effective precisely because of the ironic contrast between the reality we understand she's living in and the reality she perceives, the fate we know she experiences and the fantasy she has of the meaning of her death (and this isn't even talking about the roles of gender and politics in the story). (Coraline could also be argued as an example of this type of story, but it's aimed at children so has a happier ending.) Horror often generates its effects by contrasting the world as it should be and the world as it is in the context of the story, so naturally will have stuff to say and teach about what "the world as it should be" is and means.

[stheresya]

As Eleanor Fairlie (aged seven-and-thirty), she was always talking pretentious nonsense, and always worrying the unfortunate men with every small exaction which a vain and foolish woman can impose on longsuffering male humanity. As Madame Fosco (aged three-and-forty), she sits for hours together without saying a word, frozen up in the strangest manner in herself. […] Clad in quiet black or grey gowns, made high round the throat—dresses that she would have laughed at, or screamed at, as the whim of the moment inclined her, in her maiden days—she sits speechless in corners […]

The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

‘Not a word can she speak,’ said Finn. ‘Ah, they should have told you. It is a terrible affliction; it came to her on her wedding day, like a curse. Her silence.’ … ‘Is there anything else like that I ought to know about him?’ ‘No make-up, mind. And only speak when you’re spoken to. He likes, you know, silent women.’

The Magic Toyshop, Angela Carter

"There is no need for you to speak tonight, Marya Morevna. […] I know that is difficult for you--I would not have chosen you if you found it easy to be silent and pliable! But we are going to do an extraordinary thing together. […] We are taking your will out of your jaw--for that is where the will sits--and pressing it very small between our hands, like a bit of dough. […] When we are finished you will give your will to me, and I will keep it safe for you."

Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente

[torpublishinggroup]

This advertisement is for a dark urban fantasy romance called ONE FOR MY ENEMY by Olivie Blake​, with interior art from @littlechmura!

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

Our stage is Manhattan in the modern day, where rival syndicates run by criminal witches tolerate uneasy peace, until fresh blood opens old wounds. Now, the descendants of bitter adversaries must navigate a treacherous crossroads.

The Antonova sisters—beautiful, cunning, and ruthless—serve their mother, the elusive Baba Yaga. The Federov brothers serve Koschei the Deathless, a shadow-kingpin of magical Manhattan…and their father. Star-crossed lovers, wayward scions, the angry, and the hurt—all must choose where they stand.

This is a story of the struggle between siblings, lethal magic, and tangled love. It’s Shakespeare run afoul of Slavic Folklore's more treacherous specters, emerging shaking and bloody.