#eldritch blogs

[eldritchboop]

And thus it all begins.

Hold your loved ones close, and know we will weather this storm together.

[eldritchboop]

This is what people mean when they say to embrace your weird. This is what they mean when they say be true to yourself.

Just exist as yourself. It’s okay.

Get over the fear of being seen.

Stop caring about how you’re gonna be perceived. Stop doubting yourself. Stop aiming to be perfect. Stop ruminating.

Accept who you are. Hype yourself. Invest in yourself. Be audacious. Trust in the greater outcome. Allow yourself to be seen as you are.

[eldritch-ace]

Happy black friday, fuck capitalism :]

[hemipenal-system]

eldritch horror girl who looks almost human when you meet her. sure her skin is kinda ashen and her hair moves when there’s no wind but she’s so pretty you can’t say no

so you take her home and she pushes you gently against a wall and your lips meet, and then her tongue’s in your mouth and her slender fingers are trailing up your thigh and you're doing the same to her

and she leans in and presses her tongue forward, but this time it just keeps going, curling around your tongue and down your throat and getting longer and thicker until you're almost gagging on it

and you open your eyes out of confusion and she's staring back at you, all six unnaturally orange eyes focused on you. the same cute smile is plastered on her face but her slim lips are parted just enough to see razor-sharp pointed teeth behind them. her skin is rock-gray and chipped and cracked like aging stonework.

she's so hot.

she pulls back to look at you, about six jet-black inches of her tongue suspended between your mouths, the end still wriggling teasingly inside you, and puts a finger to her mouth in a playful "shh" motion. her joints scrape together audibly as she does.

she leans back in and a second tongue curls out her mouth, then a third - one moving down to lick over your jugular and taste your blood through your skin, the other caressing the folds of your ear. her hands are covering your eyes and wrapping around your throat and holding your hips and moving vigorously between your legs and playing with your nipples all at once.

you get the sense that she's caught you, and if she so desired it she could eat you like a mantis eats a fly. the fires inside her irises dance to an irregular tempo.

open your eyes. become one with her.

...

you don't remember having had sex with her. you were kissing, and then you woke up in your bed and it was morning. there's an old, mossy statue wrapped around you like a lover. it doesn't move, but it's warm to the touch and its stonework is surprisingly soft to lay against, as if its edges were molded for your body. its fingers are clasping yours. you're covered in gentle bite marks.

[probablyanalienindisguise]

I contracted a plague again thus am just sending random doodles I've done and just haven't posted yet

My secret (I enjoy using cat cuddling photos for references)

[eldritchboop]

There is no conspiracy. Seriously. Stop that.

We cannot retroactively assign sexualities to people. Maybe that "pair of women portrayed in the same way as husband and wife" considered themselves what we'd today consider lesbians. Or maybe they were aroace. Or bisexual. Or maybe they were queerplatonic. Or maybe they were combining assets in a way that made sense for them at the time. We. Cannot. Know. Gender identity is complicated. It's culturally nuanced. As a scientist, I cannot conclusively state how people in the past viewed themselves and I can barely provide a view of how society viewed them. But I can provide you the context in a neutral way. Neutrality isn't inherently bad.

Same with your "ritual significance" jokes. Or your "we didn't even ask a local" jokes. Many scientists ARE locals! They are embedded in and come from the culture they want to study and interpret. They have the context and nuance.

I'll laugh at the overwhelming white cisheteropatriarchy of science any day. But I find it interesting that these critiques of how "stupid" social scientists are have gotten more vocal now that more women, queer people, and historically excluded groups are entering the fields.

One of the more frustrating things about the particular kind of anti-intellectualism directed at the humanities here and on places like tiktok is that pointing it out makes you seem like a killjoy.

No, I actually didn't find your "historians will say they were just friends" joke funny. No I don't think speculating that old photos are in black and white to make them seem older is harmless. But I seem uptight and "not fun" when I say these things.

[thesummerestsolstice]

Some more thoughts on the idea that Elrond gets more eldritch as he ages. I'm gonna make another post about this that's more fun Eldritch Peredhel stuff but I felt the need to address some of the implications of this headcanon first.

Like I said, Elrond changes slowly, and most elves don't notice at first. When they do, though, things get interesting.

See, Elrond looks increasingly like Luthien over time. As a child, he had similar facial features, but didn't really resemble her otherwise. But when his hair starts to darken and his eyes turn gray, it becomes clear that he's almost an exact replica of Doriath's princess.

The Sindar find this amazing and wonderful– for a lot of them, their feelings of grief over the loss of Doriath are very connected to the loss of Luthien and Melian (who kept Doriath safe), and "having Luthien back" is great. Of course, this puts Elrond in a very strange position. On one hand, it's nice for him to have elves who encourage him to push the limits of his Ainuric power and tell him stories about his mother's family, who he knows so little about. On the other hand, he can't deny it's a little unsettling sometimes, the way that people can stare right at him and see someone else. He also doesn't like how... possessive some of them seem of him, expecting him to act like his ancestors, even though he's his own person.

It's a little more complicated for the Noldor. Some of them find Elrond's increasingly obvious powers creepy– they're a lot more inclined to be distrustful of the Ainur. But it's worth noting that for all Elrond looks like Luthien, his gray eyes and dark hair also make him look very Noldor, a lot more than he did as a child. And while some of the Noldor are uneasy about Elrond, lots of them see him as one of the finest jewels of the Finwean family– a healer who's dedication to his craft is almost unmatched. They can also be a little bit weird about seeing his ancestors when they look at him, or about expecting him to dress, act, and present himself in a certain way. Especially the old Feanorians, who care deeply about Elrond but do not always express that care in normal ways.

Gil-Galad is a huge help here– he's older than Elrond, but was too young to have any memories of most of the people the other elves compare Elrond to. And he has a very low tolerance for people making his herald uncomfortable. Sometimes he enlists Galadriel and Celeborn (who cared about Elrond for who he was long before he started looking like Luthien) to deal with particularly stubborn elves.

[monstersmashorpass]

SMASH OR PASS: Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft Novel: Call of Cthulhu

[Art Credit: Andrée Wallin]

[himbo-in-limbo]

Alien invasion/Fnaf AU oc got a redesign!

Meet Cotton Tail!

[annqer]

hi sunturine nation

[eldritchboop]

This full moon is making me so sad. Locally, it’s known as the Saturation Moon. It’s when the soil is supposed to be dark with water after two months of rain.

We’ve gotten half an inch since October and none on the horizon.

I should have listened harder to the Elderberries. They told me it was going to be a bad year.

[clj-art-blog]

Xunfeng with nephews: two mini copies of Dongfang Qingcang and one freacking cute mini copy of Xiaolanhua

[arthur-lesters-spinal-cord]

Hey John you dropped this *holds up Arthur Lester*

[silenced-ghost]

worship me as I do unspeakable things to your body upon the altar I built for you. recognize me as your one true god.

[puriette-archived]

︵︵ autieldritch ⟢

𓏲  a gender related to being an eldritch entity with autism.

( divider by caeliangel )

[hemipenal-system]