𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸

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Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃 Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· 27d

*Follows cryptids and creatures* *Follows more cryptids and creatures* If you're not a cryptid or a creature, I'm sure you're decent enough otherwise. (Below: My two personalities.)

Holographic laptop sticker. A black wolf snarls, staring directly at you. Outer circle: “EAT THE RICH • EAT THE RICH • EAT THE RICH • EAT THE RICH”

Matte laptop sticker. A wide-eyed black cat, stylized. “It’s fine, I’m fine. Everything is fine.”

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Jul 7

If you don’t have a sense of humor, get the fuck out of here. (Note: New username, courtesy of some idiot who takes himself way too seriously.)

Lyrics from “My Halo” by Ad Infinitum: “Hello, my name is Master of Illusions”

“I’m growing tired of these goddamn emotions”

“They’re messing big time with my intuition”

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Jul 4

Bonus points* if you had any of the following: • The original comics • Videotaped episodes • Both series on VHS • Boxed DVD set • Toys/figurines • Perfect memory of the theme song (which is playing in your head right now) * These won't get you laid. Unless you're dating another horror fan, anyway.

Image: the Crypt Keeper (Tales from the Crypt). Text: "Kids these days will never know how scary this motherfucker was."

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Jun 7

DEAR GOTH MUSIC FANS: Comment below to join a “Bluesky Goth Community” list. You’re welcome to include your location, at your own discretion. Be wary of scammers and stalkers. RULES: – No spam/advertising. – No kink accounts. – No minors (<18). – 𝘞𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺. (Normal people ruin everything.) 🖤

Lyrics: “Two Souls Apart” by The Spoiled. (Yes, it’s satire.)

Do you remember?
“You crushed my heart
I want to hate you, stab me back”
Stab me back

Lyrics from “Ravenous” by The Spoiled and Corlyx:

I’m wasting all my pain
Your blood the way you
show me trust
Damnation everyday
I need your pain to become trust

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Jun 5

There’s a not-so-secret “secret” relating to the goth subculture. A schism. Ruptured lives. Lies fed to people to stoke hatred. I’m not here for drama. I just need more information. If you participate in the goth scene (location doesn’t matter), please comment below if it’s alright to DM you. 🖤

Dancing Plague – “Shadow Self”:

You made a choice
You made a choice to be this cruel
You heard a voice
It taught you lies and you took them as truth

Refocus the camera back on ourselves
We’re nothing if not terrified
Take a look at your shadow self

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Jun 2

Why are you still awake? I’m reading Substack and overthinking 𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚐̶𝚜̶𝚝̶𝚢̶ bittersweet song lyrics. Staring into the middle distance, paying no attention to what my fingers are doing... Out of nowhere, THIS image jumped onto my screen. *𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳.* I feel better now. How about you?

Lyrics to “See You In Hell” by The Creepshow, via Spotify:

Please fall forever
Please fall together
If you don’t like it, then
we’ll see you in Hell

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Jun 2

My best friend died suddenly at the beginning of the pandemic. (Aneurysm. It was quick.) Out of sheer luck, this is the last thing he said to me: “You’re an awesome person, not because of your parents, but in spite of them.” Tell your friends and family that you love them. Say it 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

Reddit comment by u/horoyokai:

So many people think last words are so important. The last time I talked to my dad it was an argument cause I was late coming from a movie, he got in a car crash and died on his way to get me

For years I felt bad about the last words but then I realized they don’t matter. What matters is the years of words and actions before that. Years of love don’t get overridden by three bad minutes at the end.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· May 31

Do me a favour? Since I missed #BandcampFriday, please recommend five songs, preferably by different artists. Any genre, but I’m getting tired of nihilistic gloom. Bonus points if the singer: • is female; or • doesn’t sound exactly like Robert Smith, Ian Curtis, or Carl McCoy. 𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴. 🖤

Lyrics to “Endurance” by The Foreign Resort, via Apple Music:

Hold on tight
While the fire’s burning
Stand up and fight
Don’t let them get to you

This is not right
You see yourself
outnumbered
We stand together
Enduring the fire

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· May 31

ATTENTION: CHAI FANATICS. ☕️ Chimes Spiced Chai Hard Toffee is addictive. Two bags are $10 on Amazon. If they’re sold out, here’s a link to the Chimes Store: www.amazon.com/stores/Chime...

I’m holding a purple bag of Chimes Spiced Chai Hard Toffee, with CHAI in big letters and “made with fresh coconut milk” in a tiny font beneath. They taste like chai (tea), not like coconut. (Or even toffee, really.)

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· May 19

New doormat!

Unwelcome mat: “Go Away”. Black background, ivory letters, Gothic font. A small broomstick underlines the hostile words. (I hate everyone equally, but some are more equal than others. 🖤)

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· May 4

PSA: Protecting your whimsy means knowing when to be a bitch. (With thanks to @willtherebestars.bsky.social!)

A classical-style painting of a woman in a flowing red dress standing calmly among a group of lions, wolves, and other wild animals in a forest. She reaches one hand upward toward a white bird, while the animals gather peacefully around her. Overlaid text reads: “protecting your whimsy means knowing when to be a bitch.”

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· May 3

𝑀𝒰𝒮𝐼𝒞 𝐹𝒜𝒩𝒮 & 𝑀𝒰𝒮𝐼𝒞𝐼𝒜𝒩𝒮: Starting May 4th, I’m creating the music lists & feeds that I promised ages ago. Problem: This needs to go FAST. Needed: Collaborators. How many? LOTS! Genres: Goth/Gothic Rock, Darkwave, Deathrock, Post-Punk, Industrial, and more. Comment if you’d like to contribute! 🖤

📷: Me (2004). Five succulents on a black tablecloth, ranging from deep reddish-brown to dusky purple.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Mar 13

It looks like I’m doing melodrama and clinical depression this year. Can we bring MySpace back? Bad Omens ft. ERRA - Anything > Human Bandcamp: sumerianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/concre... Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/5ZOB4k...

Lyrics (Spotify):

I dream in Hell and wake up screaming
Wishing that I was someone else
The static leaves me in a catatonic peace
I wanna finally sleep now

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Mar 8

I’m liking Bad Omens lately. (Three guesses why these lyrics are stuck in my head.) Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/7i3rUE... Bandcamp: sumerianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/findin...

Lyrics from the album 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘉𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘔𝘦 [2019]:

You can give sight to the blind
But you can’t force them to see
You could take us back in time
But it wouldn’t change a fucking thing

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Feb 18

“A seedling planted in a garden” vs. “a neuron planted in your brain”. The two images are almost identical.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Dec 30

A black square with the words "Men Need To Know It's Okay: To Talk About Feelings, To Ask for Help, To Break Down, To Cry, To Need Support, To Be Vulnerable, To Go To Therapy, To Not Be Okay.”

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Dec 26

Kill all yesterdays Let’s just start again.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Oct 11

Mood.

“Fuck being the bigger person. I’m going to start biting people.”

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Sep 27

If you’re grappling with traumatic loss, grief, uncertainty, or alienation, here’s an invitation to “Tending the Wild Root” by Alexandra Winteraven. She’s a somatic psychotherapist who works with death and destruction. She’ll guide you into the Underworld. #WitchSky substack.com/@alexandrawi...

there’s no going back. you already know that.

and forward? nothing but fog. no map. no trailhead. just rubble, ache, and the faint pulse of something not-yet.

a lot of people are here right now. they followed the script, built a life inside empire’s scaffolding, and now it’s crumbling. what once rooted no longer holds. what once comforted now contracts.

and yet the next shape hasn’t arrived. and it won’t until we stop trying to resurrect the old one.

this isn’t failure. it’s what happens when an old shape can’t hold you anymore. when the old story stops working, and the new one hasn’t arrived.

what feels like being lost is actually your un/becoming.

how do you stay with yourself when nothing holds?

what if the map forward is made by how you walk it?

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Sep 26

You absolutely do! I suggest starting with Mort, as I did, but you can really start anywhere.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Aug 23

REQUEST: Please post photos of your plants, so that I may admire them. 🌱 Below: a strange assortment of baby Echeverias. REALLY tiny.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Aug 17

Claw-leaves (Echeveria 'Black Prince'), sacrificed to create new plants. 🌱 Do these look radioactive to anyone else? Free plants will be shipped to those who ordered seeds in 2024 — and who received a refund instead of a package.

Horizontal array of black-green leaves shaped like bear claws.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Aug 16

I'm insanely excited, too. This is the first time I've had a succulent bloom! Have you seen any wild reds in California? Here are a few of mine. Now I'm curious about what *you're* growing.

Deep red succulent rosettes against a black backdrop.

A reddish Echeveria flanked by a much larger 'Black Prince'.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Aug 16

Hmm. I'm not sure they're easy to find. I purchased mine from Etsy. Where are you located? I can send you a link to the listing. Alternately, if you're VERY patient, I can send you a free baby plant after one of my new cuttings takes root, but they'll be too small to ship for another few months.

Echeveria 'Black Prince' leaves, ready for propagation.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Aug 16

My Echeveria 'Black Prince' looks happy. 🖤 Those bright green inflorescences? They're a sign that my plant is almost ready to bloom. Red flowers, black rosettes. This succulent is Goth As Fuck.ᵀᴹ 🌱 #gothicgardening

A black echeveria with two bright green flower stalks tipped with buds.

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Aug 5

Unpopular Opinion: Serial killers are not the world’s most dangerous predators.

Understanding Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World’s Most Dangerous Predators

"Understanding Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World’s Most Dangerous Predators:

"A deep psychological and forensic journey into the making, motives, and methods of serial killers."

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Jul 6

This crow is not amused. Quit it. (You know what you did.)

Portrait of a grumpy-looking crow. His human friend calls him "Oregano". Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/crowbro/s/Im9JRMQ1En

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Jul 4

At the end of everything, hold onto anything.

White text against a murky night sky with a strange greenish glow, framed by barren tree branches. (Screenshot from Night In The Woods.)

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· Jun 29

Someone in Camden (lol) once told me that "skeptics make excellent firewalls." I like to imagine I'm impervious to magic spells. The forces of evil get confused when they reach my psychic shield of disbelief and contented obliviousness. That *is* nonconsensual, I agree. Let me guess: edgy teenager?

Old meme. A kitten is surrounded by a rainbow circle of markers. "Ur negativities cannot penetrate mai Rainbow Wall of Happiness."

𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸@horrorculturist· May 17

Against my will and my better judgment, I have officially survived to the age of 39. If you like, feel free to wish me a happy birthday. Or "congratudolences." Or "thoughts and prayers." It's all good. 🖤