David Allkins @AllkinsDavid

Former political correspondent and consultant for United Response. Interested in books, films, politics, media discussion and writing. Header art by Deven Rue instagram.com/davidallkins/?… Cornwall, England Joined July 2015

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dave ainsworth @daveainsworth63

3 days ago

Happy Birthday to the utterly brilliant English actor and singer-songwriter Jim Dale (Jim Smith) who was born on this day in 1935. #JimDale #CarryOn #GeorgyGirl #Barnum #MeAndMyGirl #HarryPotter #PetesDragon #HitlerMyPartInHisDownfall #PushingDaisies #RaisingTheWind #TheBigJob

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STM @Suzanne08253534

5 days ago

“After Theda, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery.” Mary Pickford

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Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1

4 years ago

WEREWOLVES French werewolves stand upright against a cemetery wall in this illustration by Maurice Sand (1823-1889). 'Les Lupins' is said to be based on a vision by his mother, French novelist and feminist George Sand #SummerForGoths

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Scarred for Life @ScarredForLife2

4 days ago

In 1984, Lamot lager's adverts swerved around their potential audience of Jack-the-lads, and went instead for metal heads, D&D players, and comic book fans. The result was a series of gorgeous fantasy-themed adverts starring the Silent Messenger. I wanted an entire film of this!

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Titania @TitaniasRealm

6 days ago

The Ghostly Castle (1940) by Anton Pieck

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Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1

6 days ago

No coincidence that Rossetti worked in St Mary Magdalene refuge for fallen women. Women saving women from corruption is her theme: 'we must not look at Goblin men, we must not buy their fruits, who knows upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots'. Brilliant!

Bluebell Raven @BluebellRaven

6 days ago

Goblin Market is a 1862 Victorian narrative poem by Christina Rossetti. It tells the story of sisters Laura and Lizzie. Laura succumbs to temptation, buying forbidden fruit from the goblins with a lock of hair. She wastes away from addiction, but Lizzie bravely resists the

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Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1

7 days ago

Pied Piper variants and adaptations are fascinating. It's such an ambiguous and eerie tale of which there are records in Hamelin. When I was in Romania I met families with German names who believe they are descended from the children the Pied Piper took through the mountain!

Scarred for Life @ScarredForLife2

7 days ago

THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN (1981): Cosgrove Hall's beautifully eerie stop-motion adaptation of Robert Browning's poem. Gorgeous narration by Robert Hardy, too. This rat summoning scene is particularly creepy...

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

a week ago

There’s a scene from the 1960 film version of The Time Machine that has been haunting my dreams of late. In the film, the Time Traveller (Rod Taylor) has traveled almost a million years into the future, expecting that when he arrived he would find an advanced civilisation marked by the pursuit of learning. Instead, he finds the Eloi, a race of simple creatures in togas who are bred like cattle, and eaten, by the subterranean Morlocks. In the film’s most harrowing scene, he’s taken by one of the Eloi to a centuries-old library housing the last books in existence, which crumble to dust in his hands. “What have you done?” the Time Traveller demands, as the dreams of centuries turn to ash. “Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating! A million years, the sensitive men dying for their dreams, for what? So you can swim, and dance, and play.” In the last couple weeks I see a lot of men on this platform arguing with a straight face that we should let AI generate our writing for us, that it’s the future, that there’s no fighting it. And I need you all to know that THIS is the ultimate end of a world in which everyone has machines write for them. There will be no more thinking, no more creative expression, no more art or literature. It’s what C. S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.” We will be no different from cattle and our libraries will turn to dust. When ease and entertainment become the highest good, it’s not shocking that people will find clever ways to avoid work and study. But nor should it be surprising when the ultimate fate of the Eloi becomes our own.

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maggie rudy @magrudy

a week ago

The encounter

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Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1

2 weeks ago

HIGHGATE CEMETERY Nature reclaims the dead in this most beautiful of resting places. Seventeen acres of gothic landscape fondly remembered, hidden away from the sun's glare and the chaotic intrusion of modern life.

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Titania @TitaniasRealm

2 weeks ago

It's always tea time 🎨 Ana Jiménez

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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski

2 weeks ago

Which is why, to avoid this during my Spidey run, I always took the time to show Peter and MJ having fun, going to dinner, enjoying quiet evenings. That gives you the contrast. If everything is happy nothing is happy, if everything is sad nothing is sad. The valleys make it work.

Angry Geek @matdevine216

2 weeks ago

@straczynski Isn’t here a point where all this is torture porn, Spidey never catching a break while getting beat to a pulp as he loses out on love and career. I know people relate to Peter’s struggles but we also want something good to happen for all his sacrifices…f@ck Paul

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MΛЯIПΛ @oscillate23

2 weeks ago

Black Cat, circa 1913 by Porte Veine.

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Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1

2 weeks ago

GOTHIC SETTING in Whitby today with @IGA_Goths the abbey ruins, graveyards and cliffs serve as a backdrop for the arrival of Dracula's ship the Demeter which crashes into a harbour during a storm!

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Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1

3 weeks ago

PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN Is the chapter in the Wind in the Willows when mole & rat are awed by the presence of the horned god PAN; a drawing together of classical myth, landscape & English whimsy illustrated by Rackham,1940 #wyrdwednesday

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Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes

3 weeks ago

Amazing what you find when you don't put people with fanatical biases in charge of research isn't it? Do we think that the Gender Critical cult will stop trying to harm children on the basis of this? Probably not.

Kirsti Miller @KirstiMiller30

3 weeks ago

BREAKING: Landmark two-year Dutch review of trans healthcare finds ZERO regret among transitioners. Netherland’s Medical Council warns making trans people go through puberties they do not want is NOT a neutral option. erininthemorning.com/p/landmark-off… The politically biased CASS Review

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Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1

4 weeks ago

CAT-RIDING WITCHES The Black Witch of Fraddam is supposed to have ridden a huge black #cat through the air while looking for magical herbs (Robert Hunt, 1830) Cat-riding witches are found earlier too shown in the image of a witch riding a cat backwards from 1489 #witchywednesday

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Stefan Rousseau @StefanRousseau

4 weeks ago

Photo du Jour: Members of the press photograph a dead mouse caught by Larry the Downing St cat (left). By Stefan Rousseau/PA

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Larry the Cat @Number10cat

4 weeks ago

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

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MΛЯIПΛ @oscillate23

4 weeks ago

The Absinth Drinker, c.1907 Léon Spilliaert A haunting portrait explores themes of addiction, isolation, and psychological unrest. The sitter's ghostly pallor and haunting gaze, combined with Spilliaert's muted palette and dreamlike style, create an atmosphere of quiet unease.