Over The Garden Wall

So apparently that last comic was based on Cartoon Network's Over The Garden Wall, which looks Bawsome!

Here's the pilot:

From the wonderful

Deep Dark Fears

Character sketcher: Doll Divine

Bear with me here . . .

Doll Divine  is a website that has a vast array of little engines for creating virtual dressup dolls in various genres.  Some may be too cartoony or "pre-teen-girly" to really set the right tone for certain role-playing gamers tastes.  But, the wide variety of templates available can still provide a quick, go-to utility for trying to visually portray a character.

Gone to Sleep

Moby and Kelli Scarr make a song based on this picture by artist Phil Toledano.


The video about their creation process (and the song itself) gives a great vibe of eerie desolation.




Author's note: the first night I watched this it inspired a fascinating nightmare about Changeling: the Lost's "Gentry", so I'm considering it prime fodder for that game at least.

Everlong (Foo Fighters)

An oldie but a goody.

Great portrayal of marauding tulpa, free-ranging nightmarish archetypes preying on the dreams of others. Also a neat example of dream shaping combat.


Via Daily Motion.

Metatron

I'm not a huge fan of the idea that the Gentry of Changeling: the Lost must be completely inimical to humanity. But there is a certain appeal to a portrayal of the fae as juxtaposing concepts in a way which does not make sense to the human mind:

A realm of darkness and cold metal populated with horrifying mechanical creatures and devices. Yet strangely the existence of this nightmare relies on the fact that a lone woman peacefully knits at the heart of the machine.

Print by Ray Caesar.

Please Don't Worry

Please don’t worry.
When I wake up I'll be something new.

Painting by Daniel Danger.

Decemberists Poster 5

Steamech Bibliophile Chimera.

Via Gig Posters.

Decemberists Poster 4

Sidhe minstrel.

Via Gig Posters.

Decemberists Poster 3

Hedge Assignation.

Via I Have a Yellow Hat (though who knows where she got it).

Decemberists Poster 2

The great Forrest Whale chimera.

Art by Daniel Danger.

Decemberists Poster 1

Most likely a region of the Dreaming or Arcadian Realm.


Drawing by Jay Ryan.

Reiko

A little too overtly bloody to prefectly fit the Slaugh archetype, but subtler than the stereotypical Redcap. Still seems like she'd fit in pretty well with the Unseelie Kithain crowd though.

Many flash animations available at the artist's site here.


Via Newgrounds.

Paradox Realm of Finance

After successfully over-leveraging his assets by several orders of magnitude, a Syndicate Technocrat stumbles into his first Paradox Realm.


Alternate explanations:

• Arcadian Realm
• Otherspace
• Hastur Incursion
• Nightmare Realm

Via Dirty Russia.

Bachelorette (Utena version)

Utena - Bjork (bachelorette)
by bangayo

I see this as a Fairest Durance, or a love affair involving Sidhe or Marauders.

Editorial:

Revolutionary Girl Utena the series was a fascinating, if repetitive, set of highly stylized vignettes. It involved a series of staged and structured confrontations at a boarding school each culminating in a sword fight. The ultimate goal of these confrontations to catalyze the metaphysical alteration of reality on a grand scale.

Revolutionary Girl Utena the movie was a completely surreal, bordering on nonsensicle farce involving the same characters and setting as the series. To those who've never seen the series, the movie will make no sense. To those who have seen the series, the movie will make little more sense.

However, one good thing did come out of the movie: Some industrious person recut the most interesting bits and pieced them together with bits of the series into a slightly more cohesive narrative. Setting the whole thing to Bjork's Bachelorette made it dynamite.

Bachelorette (Isobel version)

Love the recursion. Seems a good portrayal of a Durance.

Quicktime version available at Bjork's official site here.

Mythic Miami

From the Miami New Times:

On Christmas night a year ago, God fled Heaven to escape an audacious demon attack -- a celestial Tet Offensive. The demons smashed to dust his palace of beautiful blue-moon marble. TV news kept it secret, but homeless children in shelters across the country report being awakened from troubled sleep and alerted by dead relatives. No one knows why God has never reappeared, leaving his stunned angels to defend his earthly estate against assaults from Hell. "Demons found doors to our world," adds eight-year-old Miguel, who sits before Andre with the other children at the Salvation Army shelter. The demons' gateways from Hell include abandoned refrigerators, mirrors, Ghost Town (the nickname shelter children have for a cemetery somewhere in Dade County), and Jeep Cherokees with "black windows." The demons are nourished by dark human emotions: jealousy, hate, fear.

One demon is feared even by Satan. In Miami shelters, children know her by two names: Bloody Mary and La Llorona (the Crying Woman). She weeps blood or black tears from ghoulish empty sockets and feeds on children's terror. When a child is killed accidentally in gang crossfire or is murdered, she croons with joy. "If you wake at night and see her," a ten-year-old says softly, "her clothes be blowing back, even in a room where there is no wind. And you know she's marked you for killing."

The homeless children's chief ally is a beautiful angel they have nicknamed the Blue Lady. She has pale blue skin and lives in the ocean, but she is hobbled by a spell. "The demons made it so she only has power if you know her secret name," says Andre, whose mother has been through three rehabilitation programs for crack addiction. "If you and your friends on a corner on a street when a car comes shooting bullets and only one child yells out her true name, all will be safe. Even if bullets tearing your skin, the Blue Lady makes them fall on the ground. She can talk to us, even without her name. She says: 'Hold on.'"

A blond six-year-old with a bruise above his eye, swollen huge as a ruby egg and laced with black stitches, nods his head in affirmation. "I've seen her," he murmurs. A rustle of whispered Me toos ripples through the small circle of initiates.

Full story here.

Less pretty, but also available at Archive.org.

Limbo

A young mortal protagonist trying to navigate one of those strange, bleak realms found in Wraith, Mage: the Ascension, or either of the Changeling games. Alternately, an otherworldly locale from Unknown Armies.

Better video and some concept art at the official site here.

The Horned Man in Sports

One of the old gods proving his mettle against these modern human contrivances. Probably a Firbolg or Runnerswift.

Image originally from Mutantti aamulenkillä.

Via Dirty Russia.