#shadowy stories

[screamingeyepress]

Ever felt the pull of a shadowy city street? Noir fiction wraps readers in mystery and moral complexity. Check out this piece to learn why these tales still captivate:

Unmasking the Secrets of Noir and Hardboiled Fiction

By Lothar Tuppan

It’s Noirvember! Time to enjoy all things Film Noir, Roman Noir, Chocolat Noir, and Pinot Noir. Silly as that last sentence was, it does make plain that the French word “noir” just translates into English as “black.” So what exactly is “noir” in relation to cinematic (“Film Noir”) and literary (“Roman Noir”) fiction? What is its relationship with the, often associated, term “Hardboiled,” and what is its connections and relationship to Existentialism, Nihilism, and Philosophical Pessimism? This short essay is just a very brief introduction to a, surprisingly, complex topic. Whole books have been written on the subject (see bibliography below for some examples) and I encourage those who find the topic as fascinating as I do to pick them up.

[themintman]

Cracking open a cold one with the boys before we hit the sea temple

[jarofworms]

check your halloween candy this year!!!!! someone tried to hide VOIDMARROW in this candy bar!

[rexbalistidae]

I love ghost stories dub 🙏

Joan looking through an old box she found in the attic..

Sigh obligatory tags @lesbiansupavillain ur fault @autistic-haven ur fault

[fredlikesbreakfast]

i need to go to an aquarium so badly. it's part of my character development arc. pl. please. let me at em.

[crowlore]

i remember it used to be a bit of a fandom pet peeve of mine that some people would forget that the gung ho guns and eye of michael were two separate groups with some membership overlap but then stampede came along and made the eom into a project of conrad’s backed by knives. another example of how the reboot feels like bad fanfiction.

[froggychair05]

More screenshot re-draws! Possible Bee and Puppycat spoilers:

Originals:

[potatochip-oc-dump]

what if we were both lonely

[clegfly]

Small thing I’m cooking for idksomethingclever99’s fic MITPP!! For some reason I’m having trouble tagging them but here’s the fic!!

This seemed fun to do… probably won’t get more done than this page though…

[katiethedane12]

Random sketches that mean absolutely nothing and I have no clue in this world what they are (meaning I was bored)

[sh1-n0bu]

managed to unlock intimacy lvl4 story of calcharo and brb i need to sob

[dndtreasury]

Twilight Phantom (Set) by Dragons & Stories

[czolgosz]

going from the laboratory in my beautiful main account where everything is a 74%+ chance to a name signed with a flourish in my evil side account where everything is a 56% chance maximum is so sad

[age-of-moonknight]

“The Once and Future Knight,” Phases of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2024), #1.

Writer: Erica Schultz; Penciler: Manuel García; Inker: Sean Parsons; Colorist: Ceci de la Cruz; Letterer: Cory Petit

[rexbalistidae]

This is my worst creation by far

@lesbiansupavillain ur fault @autistic-haven ur fault I hate you both 🙏

[carefulfears]

thinking about mulder and scully on the run, traveling from motel to motel like they did for years, hiding instead of seeking. moving from place to place when there is nowhere that is free of haunting; there is nowhere that they haven’t been already, nowhere they haven’t suffered already, nowhere they haven’t almost died already. migrating through memories in reverse. a cemetery in oregon, a bench in pennsylvania, a ghost town in georgia; the country a constellation of lost time, of something they were building that ended in nothing.