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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 2h

The director did Gorcha's voice and it's..

a woman in a blue robe is sitting in a kitchen with the word perfect written in front of her .

ALT: a woman in a blue robe is sitting in a kitchen with the word perfect written in front of her .

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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 12h

Thinking about petroglyphs again. Thinking about what I would fill a vast blank wall with. #art #drawing #rockart

A 3 page collection of various animal glyphs in the artist’s sketchbook. They have been drawn with a colored pencil and inked over with a brush pen. Tigers are the dominant species depicted, but there is also a Rhamphorhynchus pterosaur, a wolf, a tufted titmouse, a ball python, several betta fish, a turquoise darter, and two coelacanths.

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The Stillfleet Studio ☉ more than play 🇵🇸 @stillfleet.bsky.social · 8d

Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying is LIVE on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyt...

Preorder the rulebook and settings books today and get your name in the credits!

Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying

Explore the mysteries of a world beyond death. History, mutant madness, and old-school combat meet at the end of humanity.

www.kickstarter.com

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 5h

If you're looking for a Gothic simmering with atmosphere and tragedy, 'The Vourdalak' has it in spades.

ALSO - Gorcha is a human sized marionette and his herky-jerky movement heightens the ill feeling. Red-mouthed history stumbling on strings to eat you.

Production photo showing the completion of the Gorcha marionette

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 5h

Power thrives on exclusion. Its hunger bottomless. It uses every lever to sustain and grow its influence over others.
Love
Death
Momentary kindness

Like Gorcha, those enthralled often prey on those closest. And these victims scrape their own power from it. Because the cruelty must have a point.

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 5h

The eldest daughter, the youngest son, and the Marquis initially attempt to fight back against the monster among them.
But the trio's efforts born from womanly wisdom break against patriarchy's entrenched power. Both Jegor and Gorcha unleash raw violence to maintain their authority.

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 5h

"Love is a poison in this land"
The ties that bind form invisibly nooses, strangling the family's resolve. To act is a betrayal. Of their closest loves. Of their father. Of their world.
All they can do is hug their destruction close and bleed.
Bleed into the dead's open mouths.

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 5h

Bound by love
Paralyzed by fear
Blinded by ignorance
The family cannot save themselves.
Starting with the grandchild, Gorcha feasts on each of them.

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 5h

If he returns, he will be a vourdalak and none should let him in.
Unfortunately for everyone in his house, Gorcha returns.

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 5h

There the Marquis finds the Gorcha family, sans Gorcha the patriarch and his eldest son, Jegor. Shortly Jegor turns up with ill tidings: after a month seeking revenge on the the Turk, he failed. Gorcha continues the hunt and should die fighting.

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 5h

In 18th century Eastern Europe (somewhere around Romania), French Marquis Jacques Saturnin du Antoine loses his companions and horse due to banditry in an ugly storm. A local directs him to the house of Gorcha.
There, our Marquis can find a horse and shelter.

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 6h

The #hauntalong continues! Tonight I'm talking about love, patriarchy, and family annihilation in...

The Vourdalak (2023)

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15h

I wrote a thing! thedispatch.com/article/pent...

Writing in @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social, I argue that Hegseth's new 'Department of War' is a foolish break with the most successful parts of America's military past: our civ-mil relationship and the American 'way of war.'

Of Warriors and Wannabes

Hegseth’s ‘Department of War’ is a dangerous break with American military tradition.

thedispatch.com

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 22h

In 1876 an old woman named Peg Grover was repeatedly ducked in a pond because, for no reasons given, she was believed to be a #witch. The death of a girl in the village, near Newport (in Wales?), was blamed on her, giving louts the excuse to have some fun... Luckily, Peg was rescued.
#WyrdWednesday

An illustration from 'The Illustrated Police News' from July 1, 1876. It shows a number of yokels with a rope draped round the branch of a tree with an old woman on the end of it, soaking wet and being pulled out of a pond. She is reaching out in supplication, but the young yokels using the rope are clearly enjoying themselves. The caption reads 'Attempt to Drown a Supposed Witch'.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 12h

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie's opening title is so good

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 11h

some of the military uniforms from this section of "NIGHTSOIL"

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Shining Wizard Designs @shiningwizardds.bsky.social · 22h

With a white rose of devotion, Starlight Kid is coming for Konami, her tenth anniversary the perfect time to dream it up all over again #stardom #wrestlesky

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 10h

You're on to something. I've heard ppl talking about it multiple times in the past 3 months.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 1d

@ghostalservice.bsky.social emotional support weird medieval blorbo guy for you (my kingdom for dms with images here)

A line drawing of a medieval grotesque, a sort of hairy bird with paws, wings, and Ed’s human head, wearing a chaperon with a long liripipe and oak-leaf trim. He has a little scroll-shaped speech bubble with a heart in it next to his face.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 16h

hah. hahaha. HAHAHAHA. imagine believing this.

Sorry, but the Young Republicans have always been this way. If you want to make a distinction -- the TPUSA Republicans simply were furious they couldn't be open on network TV about how they thought "Hitler was soft on degenerates."

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Drew Shields (commissions open) @gnarlyghost.bsky.social · 14h

Demonland

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cure @curepixel.bsky.social · 14h

Fanart of Portland's favorite frog fighting fascists
#pixelart #portlandwarzone #amphiba

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Aaron B. @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social · 13h

I think about it at least once a month. The nested narratives and the parallels between the characters. Fuck.
What a book.
Indra Das is one to watch.

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Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · 1d

Salford, Where We Stood (Fall In Love, Not In Line - 2012) - A Closer Look

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Stella, Sandwich Enjoyer @evilgoblin.wedding · 14h

My book is for sale via @spacepenguinink.bsky.social as of today! G, Jarrett, and I worked hard on this and are super proud of what we made. If you want to bring your osr dungeon crawling into a forsaken far future check it out! spacepenguin.ink/collections/...

A staplebound booklet on a display case. Massive text reads The Door in Murex Canyon credited to Condrey, Crader, and Gilraine. The cover art depicte a mechanical warrior with a sword and an elf standing in front of a semi organic looking mechanical door in the side of a canyon wall

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