#genre aesthetic

[fallensapphires]

Aesthetics: Dark Academia

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

[secret-restaurant-press]

An excerpt from Nate Hoil's new short story published in PULP LIT MAG. Read the full issue HERE

[abnormes]

Spirit, George Roux (1885)

[castielsprostate]

i hate you "influencers", i hate you tiktok, i hate you "content creators", i hate you "unalive" and "s€x" and "dr/ügs", i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people's privacy, i hate you modern day social media

[prokopetz]

It's actually kind of striking how tightly wedded most major genres of tabletop RPGs are to the decades when they were popularised.

Trad fantasy tabletop RPGs – even those that aren't positioned as revivalist – are so intent on emulating the sword and sorcery literature of the 1970s that the only reason they don't come off as quaintly nostalgic is because nobody reads sword and sorcery anymore.

Cyberpunk tabletop RPGs are, at this point, essentially an exercise in retrofuturism, endlessly polishing a vision of what people in the 1980s thought the year 2015 would look like.

Urban fantasy tabletop RPGs might include smartphones and electric cars in their equipment tables and mention 9/11 in their lore chapters, but culturally and aesthetically, most of them are taking place in a world where the 1990s never ended.

I don't mean this as a criticism – I'm just fascinated with how this tendency is so strong that, for example, a brand new urban fantasy RPG written in the year 2024 is liable to end up being a 1990s period piece at heart even when that was 100% not the author's intention, simply through the inertia of the medium's well-established tropes.

I'm mostly curious what the characteristic tabletop RPG genre of the 2020s is going to end up being thirty or forty years from now, and I hope I live long enough to find out!

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) "Fatima" (1883) Oil on canvas Currently in a private collection

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767–1849), "The Hard Word"

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: lovecraftian/cosmic

[ricky-olson]

kai @miwtual​’s birthday countdown event ‎ ‎‎ ‎  ↳ day 13 ☆ horror: gothic horror (classics + personal recs)

[lionofchaeronea]

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942

[fallensapphires]

Genres: Dystopia

Where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

[hydrangea-shelters]

Goth genre stamps. Show off your favorite goth genres with these stamps + can be an aesthetic stamp since i put some fancy pixel graphics

Ethereal and coldwave was difficult to me to think what i associate of, so i just slap some pixel "waves" or some abstract but ethereal background. Coldwave is just black and white since most of coldwave albums i see is minimal.

Goth genres:

Gothic Post punk (i.e. The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division)

Anarcho-Goth - not really a genre but there are actually goth bands that also have anarchist tendencies (like Anarcho-Punk but well.. goth). Anarcho goth usually have a deathrock sound (especially with modern deathrock bands). Examples: Horror Vacui, Rudimentary Peni, Christ vs Warhol

Goth rock (i.e. Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephelim, The Merry Thoughts)

Coldwave (i.e. Molchat Doma, Opera de Nuit, Asylum Party)

Darkwave (i.e. Clan of Xymox, London After Midnight, Switchblade Symphony, Twin Tribes, She Past Away)

Deathrock (i.e. Christian Death, 45 Grave, Scarlet's Remains, Nox Novacula). Modern deathrock bands may also call themselves "dark punk"

Ethereal Wave (i.e. Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins)

feel free to use it to your personal page, carrd, neocities, strawpage, toyhouse, sheezy, deviantart, etc. No need to credit when using the stamps (like putting html embeds and stuff) but linking any of my pages is appreciated when reposted, reblog, or reupload on different places.

[cozymochi]

Hehe Sebek 💕

Him and Tia look so pretty together

Can’t wait for the light novel “THAT TIME I GOT TRANSPORTED TO A MAGICAL ACADEMY AND MY HALF-CROCODILE-FAE CLASSMATE IS TRAINING TO BE A ROYAL GUARD FOR THE FUTURE NIGHT FAE KING?!”

(textless under cut)

lol my scribbles

[abnormes]

Lovers in the Small Boat, Maximilian Pirner (1884)

[acinematicworld]

𝐓𝐲𝐫𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬, 𝐋���𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐳𝐞 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864-1930) "The Green Gown"