#gateways

[thesubtlepenguin]

© richard b potter 2023

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[marejadilla]

Tom Bagshaw, "Daughter of Hecate", 2024, digital painting. Bagshaw was born in Bath, England.

[zoeflake]

Spider's inner sanctum ph. Lunaladee

[euphorictruths]

ZŁOTOUJŚCIE- Jacek Yerka- 2021

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"Travelling women will inevitably encounter many gateways, portals or tenuous partings in the shadowy fabric of worlds. To reach such a threshold is one thing; to work out a way through is another matter, requiring determination, daring, and some personal act of magic."

~Carolyn Hillyer, Weaver's Oracle

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There's a wonderful short story, by Stephen King, called Mrs. Todd's Shortcut about a middle aged woman who delights in finding alternate routes on her way into the city. She always returns with branches and bones in her hair and always arrives faster than anyone can explain. It perfectly captures this concept. I believe he wrote it for his wife when she was approaching her crone phase. Highly recommend.

[The Spirit That Moves Me]

[raeiyyn]

[emmafrostcovercollection]

Marauders #26 (2022) - Hetrick Variant

[worksoftheflesh]

OVER THE THRESHOLD ///

photography & collage by me @mutinyrat

[moved-to-piersgender]

To Become Never Found

[mrvenuspluto]

The Fall

Deep wounds, shallow tombs, Blood flows through the gateways of eternal youth, souls reunite, accept their fate in full sight, hearts left lingering, Desires left Unfulfilled Passion, Lust, greed, soak and manifest from Root chakra to the sacral, voices cry, ears acknowledge, soul denies, veil reveals portals open, no longer freewill, taste of DEATH fullfills curiosity of LOVE.

[nonooddo]

Oddo OK’d & Oddo OK’d & Oddo OK’d …

Following the latest Olathe City Hall approval of yet another of Oddo’s plans for world domination - one small Midwest city at a time - rumors are rife that our town is about to be renamed - “Oddosville”…

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Olathe Monopoly Apartments - Fun for all the Oddo Family. Watch Daddy Oddo race round the board using ALL the playing pieces - stomping on locals with his Old Boot, racing through one gateway to Cedar Creek after another in the Racing Car - all while wearing his C19th capitalist’s Top Hat. (Dogs are no longer allowed — these are monopoly APARTMENTS after all!)

The object of the game is to try to get in or out of Cedar Creek WITHOUT passing Go Go Oddo (I.e. an Oddo development. (Playing tip - you can’t! The man has a MONOPOLY …!)

Oddo just put another Cedar Creek gateway (College) into his big bag of “Approved”…! This follows an earlier Oddo OK on Valley and of course the Oddo OK in Lenexa and.. you get it, right?

For sure they are gonna be ditching the name Cedar Creek - that’s becoming Oddo Creek. (Or maybe Cedar Rick!) Either way that goes to a ‘vote’ of the planning commission sometime soon - but the result of the vote has already been released: “Approved”!

After all - when College Blvd AND Valley Parkway are BOTH now under the shadow of Oddo “Approved” plans - why would we still be stuck with the old Cedar Creek name? Didn’t Potter gain control everything in ‘Its a Wonderful Life’ and then the town was eponymously renamed…? “A great movie” the young Rick Oddo was once heard to say, adding: “pity the ending went all wrong…! But when I grow up…”

And now that he is all grow’d up - he never forgot his boyhood dream ‘I’ll own everything - and be happy…’!

And doesn’t he look Happy…!!

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College Boulevard

Cedar Creek Parkway

WHY MUST ALL 3 ROADS IN AND OUT OF CEDAR CREEK HAVE CITY APPROVED ‘ODDO APARTMENT COMPLEXES’? WHY OLATHE…? WHY, MAYOR BACON…? Ask Him: Mayor Bacon, City of Olathe, City Hall - 100 E Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 66061

[khaosritual]

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[djohnhopper]

SELF: gateways... For many more posts of self, and more - just follow the link: https://johnhopperartist.blogspot.com/

[raspberrycreamandfear667]

[throughthegateways]

Body Art in the Gran Republic

Body modification exists in an odd area within the Gran Republic. Patrician culture is infused with the ideation of the natural physical form, the curves of muscles and the gleam of sweat, and looks down on tattoos as unsightly. Their militaristic ethos drives them away from piercings for practical reasons; it's rare to see any patrician with more than perhaps a lobe piercing. In the swirl between patrician and plebeian beliefs, this sanctity of flesh largely tends to hold. Although tattoos aren't rare among the general population, they certainly aren't common, and there's a certain amount of stigma surrounding those with inked flesh.... In all places but one. One section of Azulvistan society has kept ink alive, creating an intricate set of rituals and meaning around body art.

That section is the military- more specifically, the army, or ejército. Azulvistan army tattoo culture has deep and entrenched roots, having gone from being the markings of self-made outcasts to an intricate system that can often tell more about a soldier's life than an hour sitting down and talking to them. The most obvious tattoos tend to be the most complex- unit markings, regimental symbols and specialist insignia are all easy to figure out, but others are much less easy to parse.

Churches, for example, symbolise soldiers who joined the army after serving a prison sentence, or trees for those who come from military families. Those who have fought against Yyasum typically have lightning bolts or stylised Yyasum skulls, while those blooded against rebels prefer mountains, boulders or cliffs. Other common motifs include stars to represent 'broader' saints without specific symbols of their own, eyes as good-luck charms to watch for ambushes, circles as stylised planets and moons to show a soldier's birthplace, or four riders for those who frequently engage in high-intensity 'wetwork.' Among the ESMG's mercenarios, this culture has become even more prominent. Already a hyper-military offshoot, mercenarios have elevated ink to something truly special. Full back pieces of saints and sinners are only the start: their cult like beliefs and heavy focus on the inevitability of death has curated a whole new set of designs- hourglasses, skulls, wilting flowers and timepieces are all common motifs.