#the moon pool

[between-two-worlds]

Angus McLaren as Lewis McCartney and Phoebe Tonkin as Cleo Sertori H2O: Just Add Water

[oakendesk]

book cover - The Moon Pool - 1951

Robert Crowl

[theseventhoffrostfall]

So The Moon Pool kinda sucked, insofar as I read. "Pulp adventure predecessor to cosmic horror" sounds like it should be a lot of fun, but the requisite florid prose stops being flowing and indulgent and dramatic and just starts feeling like padding. And while there are indeed ways to make an alien being of beautiful light and ethereal music frightening, the book employed none of them and just wrote normal horror scenes with the later gribbly tentacled Things replaced with some mysterious angelic being that seems to mostly want everyone to fuck off and leave it alone.

There was also the problem of the dialogue. It's as or more florid and elaborate than the narration, to the point where all you can think about during critical scenes is "Jesus Christ. Nobody talks like this."

And most damningly, the book introduces a half-Irish mongrel and expects us to give a shit what happens to him

[moodymuu]

More background practice. Love liminal Pools. Also thought it would fit Moon’s vibe. Idk why

I’m not very proud of it but that’s why it’s a practice

[tagidearte]

My tablet's pen broke so I broke out the watercolours and... I guess he went on a Lost and Found haul. For reasons.

[huariqueje]

Moon , Pool - Dozier Bell , 2013.

American , b. 1957 -

Acrylic on linen , 46 x 44 in.

[lemonstars-cat-blog]

i love them.. i .. ough

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 317

IMAGINE THIS: Lil baby Damian, bored and being not quite old enough to start learning how to use proper weapons (curse these wooden ones, he wants true steel!) is wandering the base. This is not out of the ordinary, he’s the prince after all. What is out of the ordinary is that his shadow, his Akhi, is not here. 

Technically, he should be napping, but he woke up and neither his mother or his brother- who is quiet but gentle and isn’t a good speaker (mother said it was from a head injury)- is there. Which is how he finds his way to the Pit, which he’s not supposed to be at. Or at least not alone. 

But! His mother and Akhi are there! And- and Akhi is screaming and he’s never heard him scream like that, like he’s in agony- His eyes are green- they were blue, had, had Mother placed him in the Waters- 

And then the pool is bubbling- he should be running away, get assistance or something, he’s five, he shouldn’t be running towards it when everything is screaming to flee. But one moment he’s at the doorway, the next he’s clinging to his akhi as something writhes in the Pit, a mighty bellow echoing even as the Shadows take defensive positions. 

The water cascades, laps at their feet, splashes everywhere as a scaled form rises from the depths, wings like a bloodied sunset spreading as fur bursts into flames. Crimson eyes glare down at them all, pupils slits as they bare down at his Akhi. 

The creature- the dragon- dips its head down, its breath warm as it chuffs at his akhi, wings folding as though it is bowing. His akhi is clinging to Mother, shivering, several scars glowing as they fade and a burst of hair burned white. 

Oh. 

Oh.

@fairy-lights-and-blobs @f4nd0m-fun @hdgnj @radiance1 pspspspsps

[cheezitofthevalley]

radiohead post

it was bound to happen.

[ashpaw-is-alone]

into the pool pt 3 (final)

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Phoebe Tonkin as Cleo Sertori H2O: Just Add Water

[knightofleo]

Caroline Polachek, "True Love Waits" Radiohead cover

[weirdlookindog]

"They stood bravely waiting as radiance grew brighter and the dread Dweller swept closer. . . ."

Virgil Finlay (1914-1971) - Illustration for Abraham Merritt's 'The Conquest of the Moon Pool'

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries, April 1940)

[sillynet]

music blinkies i made

i can't stop

[ilovethomyorke69]

some radiohead collages i made on my pinterest

feel free to use!!

[more-relics]

Rick Wright Pink Floyd, Empire Pool Wembley, London England. October 21 1972. Photo by Neil Libbert