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Spammers get blocked. | Gothic gardener. 🇨🇦. Goth, goblincore, dark art, horror, Halloween, poisonous plants. Nyctophile. Autistic murder hornet. Genderqueer. Pan. They/them. 🌿🍁🍂🎃

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · Feb 5

Welcome to new mutuals!

If it might interest anyone reading, I'm creating three feeds:

1) Goth

2) Halloween Fiends

3) Gothic Gardening

More later, including dark art, horror films & books, and gothic literature (among others).

Comment to be added! We need co-admins; feel free to sign up. 🖤🦇🎃🥀🌱

"The Wicker Man" by Sin Eater, 1973. (Link in the comments to this post.)

An intricate black-and-white illustration. In the foreground is a dead hare surrounded by dense foliage, tall grasses, and detailed plants. Crows or ravens are flying around and perching in the barren branches of a tree that stretches across the background.

On the left side, there is a tall wicker man with rays emanating from their head like a halo. Beneath them is a ladder or structure leading to the ground. The sky is swirling and stormy. The overall mood is ominous.

Bottom text: FEED YOUR OPPRESSORS TO THE LAND.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 19d

Don't stop searching for joy.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, movie theaters, spooky cemeteries, and mossy forests.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.

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Cawtious Imber @cautiousimber.bsky.social · 2d

Be the thing in the woods that terrifies the townfolk.

Cautious Imber wearing a green cloak and corvid skull mask, crouched and leaning against a tree with a river running behind him

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🐺 Kip 🐺 @daydreamdeuce.bsky.social · 7d

“But first they must catch you”
- Watership Down

One of my favourite books of all time, I re-read it once a year so it was fanart time.
Watercolour and gold leaf

A big circle of gold leaf is silohetted by a skeletal rabbit, with smaller shadows of rabbits below it. The background is red and dripping.

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 1d

Holy hell. I want a print of this image. 🖤

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La Fumettista @lafumettista.bsky.social · 2d

Mab’s Drawlloween Club, Day 6: Werewolf

#mansdrawlloweenclub #drawlloween #werewolf #illustration

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 2d

Working on a bloödcheëp shirt. I'm proud of those letters.

A black tshirt design with a bald red cardinal in a circle surrounded by flames, with the word bloodcheep in red death metal style letters above it.

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 2d

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 2d

Gotcha. Thanks!

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to understand propaganda you have to realize that what we call "reality" is really just mutually agreed upon hallucinations. Our sense of reality is easily manipulated by the creation of intersubjective hallucinations. They create "truth" that serves the interests of the propagandists.

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Pretentious Fork @pretentiousfork.bsky.social · 4d

mood

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 3d

Controversial goth group?

As a stranger, I don’t feel entitled to a reply from you. If I’m overstepping, I apologize. Feel free to block me.

apologize.free

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh, moths. Gorgeous collage! 💚

I’m adopting captive-bred luna moths when Canada’s postal strike ends. Everyone loves butterflies, but moths are equally beautiful and fascinating.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 4d

Tagging #FungiFriends 🍄

Fungi Academy @fungi-academy.bsky.social · 13d

Let's share and show some love, as we all stand together.

#love #share #shroom #show #together #betterlife #smile #fungiacademy

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 5d

My controversial opinion is that expecting horror to scare you does a disservice to the huge swath of things under the umbrella of horror that are dark in tone, macabre, or otherwise Gothic.

In this essay, I wil-

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Prairie Bones @prairiebones.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Witch-Cat Trial of 1719

William Montgomery, a mason by trade, had his house overrun by many cats. One night, he found five cats by the fireside, and a servant told him that they were "speaking amongst themselves."

#BookologyThursday

dark barn with many cats with glowing eyes

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Call me Jan @followerofclay.bsky.social · 10d

It´s all about fungi!
Mycena crocata
#fungifriends #mycology #mycena

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 12d

I just want to say Hello and Welcome to everyone who is finding out that now they too Fit The Description.

If you would like consultation on how to exist in a world where you can be caged at any point or for any reason, well I’ll be frank; My price isn’t cheap, but it’s worth it.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 10d

Cats are some of the most loving creatures on the planet wtf

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 11d

I'm looking for #horror movie recs. Anything released after 2000. Bonus points if it's currently on Shudder or Netflix. 🔪🩸🎬

Thanks in advance! 🖤

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Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social · 25d

Horses have been adorned with shiny objects for centuries. It's thought horses were very susceptible to a witch's 'evil eye' so they adorned them with brasses to dazzle and deflect their power. Migrating Romany gypsies who were thought to have introduced horse brasses to Britain in the 18th C. 🐴

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · Feb 5

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"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life: music and cats."

—Albert Schweitzer

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 11d

I'm looking for #horror movie recs. Anything released after 2000. Bonus points if it's currently on Shudder or Netflix. 🔪🩸🎬

Thanks in advance! 🖤

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 11d

PSA: GOTH MUSIC 🦇

Now that we 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 have bookmarks, here’s Gothberg 3.0 again.

bsky.app/profile/edwa... #goth #gothmusic #darkwave #deathrock #postpunk

Regina 🦇🕸️ @edwardsdistress.bsky.social · Mar 2

Okay, you asked and you got. Gothberg 3.0 with even more bands!

The only way you'll probably be able to read the lower fonts is if you save it, open it in images and zoom or open via paint.

Alternatively, convert the words to text: www.imagetotext.info

#goth #darkwave #deathrock #postpunk

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I love the soft lighting. It really emphasizes how intricate and delicate those thin strands are. Gorgeous!

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