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

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.

Please Don't Worry

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

Painting by Daniel Danger.

Decemberists Poster 3

Hedge Assignation.

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

House Dougal Pooka

Motola the elephant: Landmine survivor.

Via The Daily Mail, via Dirty Russia.

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.

Island of the Dead

By Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin. Likely based on the similarly fascinating Greek isle of Pondikónisi:

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.

Cult-reviving politician killed by lightning

Reposted from Mosnews:

A Ukrainian politician who had been excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church for his attempts to revive ancient pagan cult was killed by lightning on Saturday while on a fishing trip, Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on Monday.

. . .

A former activist in the Soviet youth movement Comsomol, Chervoni started an independent political career in early 1990s with radical Ukrainian nationalists. At some point, the politician joined the religious movement Runvera – a Ukrainian sect that seeks revival of obscure ancient cults, in particular, the worship of the sun god Dazhbog.

When he was retired from the governor’s post in 2006, all Orthodox churches in Rovno Region had a special prayer thanking the Lord for deliverance.

This story was trawled up by the Delta Green folks who had the obvious take that, in the name of nationalist cultic revival, this guy had been dredging up ancient powers best left forgotten.

But from a World of Darkness point of view he might just as easily have been fried by the Technocracy before he could use his newly acquired reality deviant abilities to revive yet another brand of superstitionist practice among the masses. Simple Paradox backlash wouldn't be out of the question either.

Via Tenebrax on the Delta Green mailing list.

I Lived On the Moon

A Sluagh father schooling his son in Dreaming lore.

One of my favorite videos ever. My hat is off to Yannick Puig and Kwoon.


Much more information and better quality video 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.

Crypto Taxidermy

Blood Rat

Iris Tongued Snapper

From Mascara.

Via Dirty Russia.

Bottled Curios

Unknown Specimen

RECOVERED FROM CHEST CAVITY OF DECAYED ANIMATED CORPSE. ANIMATION OF CORPSE CEASED UPON REMOVAL. SPECIMEN BEGAN TO DISSOLVE WITHIN MOMENTS OF REMOVAL FROM HOST. DISSOLUTION CEASED WITH FORMALDEHYDE AND ACETONE. HAITI, 1894

A handy how-to guide on preparing your own spell components, containing unruly familiars, and formalin-preserving other oddities.


Link.

Writhing Brood Clusters

They're in our sewers now.

More info.


Via ialdaloboth on the Delta Green Mailing List.

Forestry Blades

Some random, cool-looking implements intended for wilderness and/or forestry use.
Click images for more information.

Gator Combination Axe
Gerber: purveyor of fine baby foods and bladed implements.

Woodsman's Pal Axe
Also available in salty sea dog.

The Magnum Kukri
Because it's tough to go wrong a giant black machete.

Again via the Delta Green list, c/o the MIB.

The Shadows of St. Petersburg

The hungry ghosts crowd in great overlapping mobs, swarming unseen through the places they haunted in life. They search wearily and in vain for something, anything to give their prolongation meaning, to feed the emptiness inside.


Of Alexey Titarenko:

Major photo series include "City of Shadows" (1992-1994), "Black and White Magic of St. Petersburg" (1995-1997), and "Time Standing Still" (1998-1999). In those series Titarenko paints a bitter picture of a Russia (seen through the lens of St. Petersburg), where people live in a world of unrealized hopes and where time seems to have stopped.

More here.

Nature's Wrath

A spirit of wilderness and desolation lashes out with impotent rage at the highway desecrating it's land.

Or, alternately: The last remaining eddy of excess energy released by a powerful ritual in the area.


Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath, by way of Boing Boing.

The Dyatlov Pass Accident

Of the event Wikipedia has this to say:

The mysterious circumstances and subsequent investigations of the hikers' deaths have inspired much speculation. Investigations of the deaths suggest that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow; while the corpses show no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. According to sources, the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation . . . Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths, barring entry to the area for years thereafter. The causes of the accident remain unclear.

Article here.


Via the Delta Green mailing list.