⛧ eliot ⛧ he/they ⛧ born sometime in the late 1900s

hello! i’m your resident beaftblogger, purveyor of antiquities and general bad takes. hope you’re doing well today.

interests: vampires, faeries, haunted dolls, vulture culture, dream sequences, medieval bestiaries and manuscript marginalia, weird bugs, vintage illustrations, art nouveau, fungi, body horror, dioramas, folk music, queer-coded villains, unsympathetic female characters, men who look good covered in blood, unreliable narrators, saints, tricksters, doppelgangers, martyrs and maximalism

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circusbutch

Desire (2025)

22.5 x 31.5 in

Ceramic, soda fired earthenware

guy was collecting for charity outside the train station and when my friends and i passed him he tried to get our attention by saying “hey girls, it looks like you’ve dropped your smiles!” but because all three of us are extremely literal-minded we just stopped in confusion and looked at the ground like “what? where?” and he got incredibly flustered trying to explain his Smooth Remark while we just stared blankly at him

clearlightwired

i wish that the "bad people don't worry about whether they're bad people" myth was less pervasive in posts about moral OCD. you can tell it's false if you look at the world for more than a half-second, and i think the degree to which it is obviously false makes more people conclude that their OCD is correct. there are lots of self-hating terrible people out there. the crucial part is that their self-hatred is not making them into better people

cheldessin

embroiderycrafts

Second time trying Stumpwork and I went with lunar moth! by HelloPanda22 on reddit.

dawn-in-the--adan

The Borderlands (2013)

beaft

i feel like it's genuinely been years since i was properly spooked by a horror film :( any horror enjoyers out there who want to send me their deep cuts?

if it helps, i tend to find atmosphere, ambiguity, and surreal/haunting imagery more impactful than jumpscares or monsters - films that have unnerved me in the past include:

• jacob's ladder
• picnic at hanging rock
• possum
• whistle and i'll come to you
• lake mungo
• some parts of sinister

beaft

update: people mentioned some good-looking films and i have now made a list of them to work through, thank you so much for all the recommendations!

and while i’m at it i ALSO want to bring your attention to ‘the borderlands’ (not the terrible video game movie) which i watched last week almost by accident and which ended up hitting a lot of my favourite tropes, not just for horror movies but for fiction in general:

• small town where Something Ain’t Right
• found footage that actually makes full use of the medium and enhances the the story
• two guys who share a mutual dislike being forced to rely on one another in a high-stakes situation
• priest who’s a little… oh you know
• folk music (the mingulay boat song made an appearance!!)
• practical effects
• catholic guilt
• tiny details that are hard to catch on a first watch but when you see them you go “OUUUH”

there was more that i liked and can’t tell you about because it’s spoilers but!!! movie good.

lovertm

pins by Abprallen

guinevereslancelot

helispark

i've had this queued for an entire year, the most important holiday we celebrate here in boston HAPPY GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD DAY EVERYBODY

big man got injured and needs to wear a cone till it heals and he is being unbelievably dramatic about it