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Ruins of Despair

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A weary pilgrim on the grave of the Romantic Hero, a forlorn eulogist cast upon the desolate shore of the exquisite agony that is The Gothic. #books #gothic #romanticism 'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' (P.B. Shelley)

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 12d

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

– Lord Byron

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Kon The Böbbermein @kobobbermein.bsky.social · 10d

Tales pervade cultures - tales of things pretending to be people, mimicking voices and faces - but never get quite close.
It will soon be proven to be truth, when the first skinwalker specimen is discovered.

#specevo #speculativeevolution #foundfootage #analoghorror #uncannyvalley #skinwalker

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 5h

🦇 Nocte Volamus = We Fly by Night 🦇

The best motto to have around #Halloween time for your heraldic bookplate. This particular bookplate comes from our Charles Hall Crouch collection of heraldic bookplates, which encompasses around 30-40,000 bookplates in 73 boxes!

A bookplate in the shape of a shield. It has three bat wings in the middle, with a small lion above. At the top is another bat wing with black spots on it. The phrase 'nocte volamus' is at the bottom.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 11h

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

– William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

A fragment of a page of William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Text: of Hell

Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

Solitude was my only consolation — deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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Eric Replatformed @21stcenturyeric.bsky.social · 1d

Two beers, two benadryl and 10 mg melatonin, perchance to dream.

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Mark @astrangeday.bsky.social · 3d

#Glasgow #University #architecture #photography

Wander around Glasgow and past Glasgow University.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

Boo!

Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 2d

Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.

Blood is a very special juice.

– Goethe, Faust

Old fraktur print, with text:
Mephistopheles.
Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.

Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 3d

This thread is the perfect example of yet another social media platform descending into petty partisan bickering and utter raging nonsense

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3d

Pick one! Once and for all!

Joyce
Faulkner

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Eine rosa Rose @einerosarose.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysofGraves
Tag 13: Skelett / Skeleton
Grabmalmuseum.
Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Hamburg.

Blick auf ein historischen Grabmal mit einem moosbewachsenem Schädel. Der Schädel liegt oben auf einem runden Stein-Gefäß. Dieses ist beschriftet. Die Schrift ist anber nicht mehr lesbar. Ebenfalls in dem Moos ein Schädel eines kleinen Vogels.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 3d

This level of hopefulness is uncalled-for, surely.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 3d

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

– Alfred Tennyson

#Monday

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4d

James Macintosh Patrick’s poster advertising rail travel to Dunnottar Castle, Scotland, 1938

Travel Poster
a castle atop a rocky coastline

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 4d

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

– P.B. Shelley

#mementomori #cemetery #cemeteries #spooktober

A photograph of a cemetery at sundown. Small flowers cover the ground.
Original photo by Justinas Ribakauskas.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 5d

I hope it's Consumption, the most romantic of all diseases!

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 5d

Kids, are you wondering what it is exactly that adults do that they don't want you to know about? Well, nothing describes it more accurately than this wonderful old artist...

Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 5d

It's a cave drawing of a moose! Or: a cave drawing of an AT-AT Walker, as they existed 'a long time ago'

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Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social · 6d

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 5d

Careful, you'll jinx it. Soon you'll be celebrating 0 hours without spilling coffee.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5d

Altered endings...
#literature #gothic

Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 6d

He doesn't mind!!

The final page of Frankenstein with a hand-written addendum saying that Frankenstein's monster doesn't mind being called Frankenstein.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 5d

Today, on #WorldMigratoryBirdDay , ask whether your city or community is bird-friendly
#WMBD #birds #wildlife #mephistopheles

Mephistopheles flying over Wittenberg.
Lithography, Eugène Delacroix 1828, for Faust by Goethe

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 5d

Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

Where there's much light, there's strong shadow.

– Goethe

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 8d

Continuation of the child's eye view of the French emigration, 1789

Delighted to reveal that:
a) his mum also got chronic diarrhoea
b) then they all went to meet the pope

a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room

media.tenor.com

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Jooli-AHH! Ghoulia 🎃🍂🔪 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 5d

*trust falls into the abyss*

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Rosie. @stillestunde.bsky.social · 5d

Schlaft gut und habt keine Angst vor der Dunkelheit!
Die mörderischsten Mörder kommen eh bei Licht.

Dunkle Straße, ein kaum erkennbares Auto und eine dürftige Straßenlaterne

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