https://www.gentlecult.com/archive daily 0.75 2026-04-30 https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/dues monthly 0.5 2026-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/e0bbfe72-6ba0-49f5-9d98-786c8ca474e2/2023-12-08_11.44.10.jpg Blog Archive - Dues This is a quintessential pirouette under capitalism, you see, in which we pay our owners to talk shit about them on their platforms as if it means something. At any rate, Squarespace sucks balls, and is far too expensive for how many balls it sucks, so we’ll be looking for something else. We’ll see. This thing is here for now. You’ll always be able to find me at this domain, anyway, because it cracks me up every single time I see the spike of obsessive activity from my stalker. Hey, hon, how you doin’? Still visiting the front page 28 times before breakfast and studiously reading nothing? What are you gaining from that? It’s been a decade, man. Still haven’t found a life of your own? Frankly it’s like having a necromantic conduit draining the joy of your life straight into mine; I love it, never change. One of the things I’ve updated is Bluebird - gone through and done a pretty comprehensive revision to adjust tense on some of the earlier chapters, clear up some ambiguities, that kind of thing. All of which is just prep for the impending NEW CHAPTER I’m working on! Lots of painting commissions at the same time tho, so it’ll be happening at my usual glacial pace. It’s okay, I know you and I are destined to do this forever. See you tomorrow, bb~ https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/a-cute-space-hut-year-in-pictures monthly 0.5 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/6ed5bc32-c803-4591-9d91-7396c0366a5f/1_psYwDKMR1qkcHGjmXvYfRA.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/985cf8a4-7bde-4bc1-9557-117134e98256/1_gzOM6kfNlj1W6zB_UKTGCg.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/e77f7f4a-2937-46b2-b232-dbb6b383f46d/Opera+Snapshot_2025-12-31_033621_www.etsy.com.png Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/0b7b69c1-f48b-4d6c-9bba-4e61c6712cf9/Opera+Snapshot_2025-12-31_034323_www.etsy.com.png Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/7ce54137-a61e-4f32-8101-18a9b3255388/1_VFJPWRZ7DfcHG5cJB6HTjw.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out I DON’T KNOW WHY TINY FOOD DELIGHTS ME SO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/62aaa5ab-4544-4102-bc7f-6c53fdaa2bc0/1_LqjOPucq-vA2PL0WCaA58Q.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/a7933c2c-2cc3-4e31-8a4b-6ace06a99f59/1_qRcMvAED-tvIGeWJoh86ew.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/b803c5f7-75a0-420e-a9e5-c63a055619ff/1_LoJ-mkrWsxTQpBRgKLDeGw.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/f0ecbc11-5ca5-4d45-940b-275231dbb4c8/1_OEOhDf4eq6IjGFmD2w7mDg.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Lucy and David from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/140822ed-69df-4ac7-9f6e-b7557afa32ef/1_nO-H2TaTo_lZn-YV55p-lA.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Fractured Vi from Arcane — her base fits together with Jinx’s to make a cool diorama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/d3bf0e93-bb89-4e4c-9c5d-805d50f5b3f6/1_rJo0jM8NlXC3cgdh29OC4w.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Aloy from Horizon: Forbidden West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/e3983074-1e5e-4630-9b28-0b5b176e9715/1_5uwFoJNLPM1PJ8BOEDWI_w.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Maelle from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/b20089f8-4ec0-4517-b6ee-4124f974f4c0/1_GiH5blXuBCP2cPA1vYVHVQ.webp Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out League of Legends’ Solar Eclipse Leona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/a07706a7-7671-4f26-a6e0-049a9b6fca84/Lilith2.JPG Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/682de311-b91b-430e-9dbd-5f2a850d19ab/Lilith3.JPG Blog Archive - A Cute Space Hut Year in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/afs6 monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1748125019780-7JHS3STFOLUIY4OVNV13/Burn+-+Cover+with+Text.png Blog Archive - AFS #6: I’m A Woman Who Loves Women… But I Haven’t Done It In A Bit. Or Maybe Ever. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/afs5 monthly 0.5 2025-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/21b04b57-8621-4a80-8e87-fcf70627a0ed/Burn+-+Cover+with+Text.png Blog Archive - AFS #5: So You Want to Be A Slut… https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/cultmanifesto monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/hamletsonnet monthly 0.5 2024-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/51f5ce57-1be3-406a-bafd-b6dc430d63c7/for+fuck%27s+sake.png Blog Archive - Bacon Bringer In the hamlet, pigs lurk all around me. They've watched me this way since the day I came; not one of them has ever asked my name. They just called me "unpig" when they found me. They sneer at me struggling to survive. I scrape their leavings from the cobbled streets and sell them back to every pig I meet. Each morning they're surprised I'm alive. I cower before pigs with mighty blades Fawning, I beg the well-dressed swine for gold, huddle in their doorways out of the cold, watch the guard-hogs barely contain their rage that a tiny unpig should be so bold as to demand a meal or living wage. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/northern-attitude monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/7e85069a-12ec-451b-a04b-3c281914d13b/Frozen+Charlotte.jpg Blog Archive - Northern Attitude - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/undaunted monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/a5bfbc45-f302-4bec-9bce-f91cc74cab58/2023-03-16+04.12.29.jpg Blog Archive - Undaunted - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/odetoamoth monthly 0.5 2023-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1635111066547-UD90P1VQQ1P4IZAZ98UL/Nadia+-+Water+Witch.jpg Blog Archive - Ode to A Moth That Drowned In My Bathtub One Midsummer Morning Did Icarus love the sea? Did he gasp in gratitude when it closed over his head, deep enough to drown the fire of failure and draw him down to the kindly dark? As if God was insecure about his height As if the sun could give a shit that you tickled the thermosphere for a hot minute. The truth is we were never going to reach the sun and we never intended to. What matters is, we flew away. Crashed into the sea The way you Crash into me The way you Are suddenly there, all of you Bursting out fully-formed, foreheads be damned. Just so, I tripped over you Crashed into the world you made for me the world you became for me. Your light isn’t like the sun - blazing, burning, casting all things in sharp relief. It comes shy and quiet, like the man said, on little cat feet. Your light doesn’t refract It ricochets A thousand shards bouncing from mirror to mirror deeper and deeper into a subterranean complex. Somewhere below, ancient mechanisms stir The temple opens like a puzzle-box When one stray shard of light One lost thing with wings, looking for a way out Crashes into me. Kind and soft and deep as water I burrow and try to bury myself in your hair and dream of sparks in the night sky Like a pillow made of violet petals - softer than any dead thing, saturated with life I immerse myself in a purple darker than any sky. I press my face into your belly feel your hands run through my hair your blood run through my veins your voice that makes the taut string of me - no-longer-tense, torn thing, the leather and wax - string itself again, as if the liar’s lyre could forgive, and thrum with a note I’ve heard before. Lady in the water, I still feel your fingers I still hear you calling You meant to bring me home, to the home I’ve never known and instead I bid you stay bid you, “Come away, inhuman child, from the water and the wild” And though the world was full of weeping You understood And came home anyway. One day, I know I’ll open a door - always try doors - a door in a hill, perhaps - and you’ll be there, when I thought you were at home. You’ll be the door, and the hill, and the world and I’ll vanish into your navel I’ll crash into the purple depths of you. Into a kinder world where no sun burns where the stars are wistful and remote where live those certain dark things we learned to love. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/the-many-faces-of-death monthly 0.5 2023-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/24e2679e-e975-4c9f-9692-b27981e8b3aa/1+eJYrErCAtaV8mMlOfrGaJg.jpg Blog Archive - The Many Faces of Death This has been my go-to guide for the past couple of years, and there’s not a damn thing wrong with it. The Six Focusing Steps linked above are just a slower, more granular breakdown of the same process. It’s basically responding to, “What do you MEAN, breathe into the feelings? What do you MEAN, allow it? What is all that about, actually?” It means that when you’re trying to ascertain what’s going on inside, the energy with which you’re looking is going to matter a lot. If you’re looking with a critical, impatient eye, if you’re looking to solve or analyze, you’re not going to perceive anything but what you were expecting. Very likely, you’ll see only part of what all’s in there, because that critical, impatient eye, the one that speaks with the voice of your worst memories, sees you as much smaller and lesser than you are. That voice — your Jerkbrain, your brainweasels, the voice of your trauma, whatever it may be for you— sees you as a helpless child, because that’s what you were when it took up residence in your head. It hasn’t paid attention to a bit of the work and growth you’ve done since. If you listen to your feelings with that ear, you’ll only get the worst of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/4a1a2e97-dd35-4aac-b9da-8e2e020f9939/1+__x-S2jI1se9Zf8kU_-0aw.jpg Blog Archive - The Many Faces of Death - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/eb5bf782-ea59-4962-84d2-93fd981e9022/1+jnnDt2JDtKHjNRto5737cA.jpg Blog Archive - The Many Faces of Death - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/864f42da-0f3f-4afa-aceb-639704efc1b9/1+aOfd426ZoygwPvNZn3p47w.jpg Blog Archive - The Many Faces of Death - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/missingstair monthly 0.5 2022-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/734c40e5-1dd0-4d9b-b980-ed7d305c6962/A+Recipe+for+Three+Square+Meals+TM.jpg Blog Archive - Missing Stair I've grown up as someone I've never met. Always found faces easy to acquire - found the blueprint, threw it in the fire when I realized they were building a pet. They'll fool you with their requisition forms. They'll teach you that what's wrong with you is you. "Why can't you act like other people do?" Why do you think that "healthy" means your norms? I don't know how to get you to believe that it's the way this world's set up that's wrong. This has been going bad for so damn long in ways you could pretend not to perceive. "Don't upset white men - they'll bring us along!" You're lucky you can still be that naïve. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/thewhiterabbit monthly 0.5 2023-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1662388532626-IZGFUR6HXGR4P7RH6ZSD/Lick.gif Blog Archive - The White Rabbit - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/bloodyfootnotes monthly 0.5 2023-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1660532078256-X8L3WBJJDIJ2OMNB9O3Q/Actaeon%27s+Revenge.jpg Blog Archive - Bloody Footnotes Actaeon’s Revenge, Dec. 2008 https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/holdyourbreathsonnet monthly 0.5 2022-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/249f1d00-5b1b-4e9a-9075-b1789b4f7f54/Soul+Clap+Hands.jpg Blog Archive - Hold Your Breath Outside, the pre-dawn light is grey and green. Sometimes the ocean mist can last all day. That dreamlike feeling never goes away. I'm never sure of anything I've seen. The clock up in that tower's never right; it's possible it doesn't move at all, except that every time I climb the wall it's telling me I've lost another night. As time goes on I look for other ways. The clockface lies, but I always try doors I steal whole seasons from their trap of days Never let them tell me there isn't more Keep on looking, no matter what they say - I think I can still see the farthest shore. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/akashasonnet monthly 0.5 2022-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/3b7d73e6-c938-458f-b271-0a1310d6ee5a/Tatters.jpg Blog Archive - Akasha They bid you sit, and praised your decorum, and then the awful fashion show began. You shuddered at the glassy eyes of fans advertising other forms of boredom. A glass, a lens, a camera... an eye. The closer you look, the less you can see, nothing but an empty facsimile, a sack of impulse calling itself "I." Broadcasting in wide band at all hours, the neon signs have come between you and I. But lady, I still swear by all flowers, I always worshiped your shadow. Don't cry - when we were young and still had magic powers, I broadcasted your name into the sky. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/slipsoulsonnet monthly 0.5 2022-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/f8bbadb9-4857-4847-a117-4ef073e54303/Captain%27s+Log+Cover.png Blog Archive - Slipsoul It requires a bit of a mind flip - least that's what they called it back in my day. You have to look at this another way, have to be able to let your soul slip. Everybody is nervous their first time. Three drops in your eyes, jack in to the net, ignore all the floating red lights you get, stare into the sun... Put your hand in mine. At first it feels like you're going to die. Some have likened it to a heart attack. You feel the sun begin burning your eyes, over here I feel my own char to black. The pain's required - you want to know why? It's the only way I know to get you back. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/somethingsareuniversal monthly 0.5 2023-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/68077109-4e9f-41d3-8e76-71e8610be60b/file-20201012-21-1450nyp.jpg Blog Archive - Some Things Are Universal - Make it stand out Hamlet and Ophelia, by Agnes Pringle (ArtUK.org) https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/revolutionarysonnet monthly 0.5 2022-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/ffce8cbf-27cd-406c-9c7f-ebbe91da489b/Traveler.jpg Blog Archive - Revolutionary It takes a lifetime to explain to you what happens on your face when I say, "Pardon - the pronoun I prefer is 'they.'" First you panic - what are you supposed to do? You want to ask, "Is this transition through? Do you have plans to give your tits away?" or maybe, "So, I guess this means you're gay?" And I sigh, because this is nothing new. Millennials did not invent the gay. We're not killing the gender industry. I would simply like, when you look at me... for a moment, put your boxes away. Don't try to categorize what you see. I need you instead to hear what I say. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/dregs monthly 0.5 2023-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/8a7cb088-250e-4bcd-8ce0-e9e170339b23/l4wb2yi.jpg Blog Archive - Dregs Photographer was on DeviantART many years ago, but I can’t find him now - if you know/are him, hit me up so I can credit your gorgeous work! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/665ee5e2-02f2-4fc6-ad2d-153096cdae01/Blindness+is+Justice.jpg Blog Archive - Dregs - Make it stand out Political cartoon brought to you by stolen clipart and pirated Photoshop. That totally makes it praxis, right? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/8a7cb088-250e-4bcd-8ce0-e9e170339b23/l4wb2yi.jpg Blog Archive - Dregs Even though we're always washing our hands, still we leave bloody prints on everything, cups and bowls and blades and hearts, and heartstrings. We’ll butcher our story however we can. Ask yourself - shall we write down this moment? Love in fairy tales is "ever after," and maybe none will forget your laughter, or their righteous lust for your atonement. But no one will remember how you smell. The color of the sky seen through your hair is part of history I'll take to hell; the forge is washed with lovers' tears down there. They'll write their books and claim they knew you well, pretending that your skin was never bare. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/stabilizedglitch monthly 0.5 2022-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/ca9caef7-0d84-4aa7-8dfb-08970857cf2a/20211213220532_1.jpg Blog Archive - Stabilized Glitch Vaulting 'cross the hills in search of glitches, surrounded on all sides by floating stones Ahead, a motivated mountain roams, flanks all seamed with ore like shiny stitches. The mountain's children play in its shadow jasper-yellow crystals that resonate bob in the air and agitate the ions swimming free around my halo. One rests its central spire 'pon my back. I feel a blunted point against my spine. Then all around me, mountains start to cry, electric tears to rise from minute cracks and as I chase their sorrow to the sky they weep a river that runs back in time. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sonnetrefracture monthly 0.5 2022-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/a98c0ff3-df46-48dd-adf7-99719c64dc28/Nebula.png Blog Archive - Refracture Two ways up and no ways down this mountain. The Lions' statues all are headless now - so few survive the drop from lofty brows - but still their gullets' gouts turn streets to fountains. Why the god of shadows loves a mirror? The answer's written on the walls downstairs. There's nothing you could ask that isn't there. Lean a little closer - you'll see clearer. Nothing that they left behind is wasted. We take the gifts they never meant to give, brew the sweetest wine you ever tasted - a home for every sin they can’t forgive. If we're dressed as liars, go on naked. Live like your mirror image wants to live. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/houseofwavessonnet monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/bbc90993-1a34-492b-b471-2a56faaa03e7/05+-+Serpents+Covered+Me.jpg Blog Archive - House of Waves Once, in your arms, I learned a sinking waltz. Full fathom five my father lies, they say. He can't see the sun, even at midday, Building in the dark, endless empty vaults. I confess it's that emptiness I fear. All empty spaces, by their nature, ache - what if that darkness should come wide awake thoughtlessly yawn, swallow a thousand years? I fear the emptiness of space much less than a void with limits, a house with halls, an ocean with an unseen floor below. What will I find when my feet come to rest? What if, down there, it's just more floors and walls? Would you bring a light? Would you want to know? https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/aboutfirewatch monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/f5681a8e-6fd5-42a9-8dad-8ba72e04ed37/dzw5DkXqEpRWVgDv7Das6n-1200-80.jpg Blog Archive - What Everyone Missed About Firewatch - What Everyone Missed About Firewatch The lack of choice is a feature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/59ac09d8-b1e8-40f0-b699-b408539cdf8c/Pan-s-labyrinth-pans-labyrinth-534267_464_300.jpg Blog Archive - What Everyone Missed About Firewatch - Make it stand out “Oh, what a pretty little girl in those mystical woods, I wonder if she’ll meet some fairies or elves - EEEUGH!?! WHAT THE FUCK?!” - Overheard at theaters across America on opening day of “Pan’s Labyrinth”… probably. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/0e28cfd7-c327-4ed2-b704-922b3e56b160/steampowered.com.jpg Blog Archive - What Everyone Missed About Firewatch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/thepiethateats monthly 0.5 2022-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/383b13f3-54bb-458a-a316-ba12c775b80d/2019-08-30-17.37.25.jpg Blog Archive - The Pie That Eats This city has the very cleanest streets, at least as long as you stay near downtown - you know, the part where nobody's brown? - where they bend the knee to The Pie That Eats. This world is kind for those who serve the Pie. You'd almost think nothing has changed at all. Rich men were able to cushion their fall - volunteered us when someone had to die. But not all of the Pie's flavors are sweet. They say there's a slice taken out of the pie, and sometimes inside you might glimpse an eye, and sometimes you fall into The Pie That Eats. In the gnashing seconds before you die, you realize that the pie is filled with meat. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/ghostimaging monthly 0.5 2022-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1625849131891-CYCTVCNXTXAA4VW0JAW5/03+-+One+of+Those+Days.jpg Blog Archive - Ghost Imaging In point of fact, the dead cannot be raised but fortunately Tia's also found there's not a single dead thing underground, only lost machines, their ghosts out of phase. It's possible to relocate a ghost. Tia can find a changeling in space-time, a cuckoo's egg in flesh or power lines - any clot of data can be a host. That's the thing the Queen doesn't understand: they're the same. Each is an electric soul, and soul will clap hands and sing if it can, no matter if it's a voice or a recording. It'll shatter the lungs of the body it stole and pour right out again into the sand. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/thetragicextentofmyfailings monthly 0.5 2022-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1601251703215-1WPJI9X8G2RM5X20Q7LX/Chelsea.png Blog Archive - The Tragic Extent of My Failings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1601251719179-ALN9XING1SLEEQQM2BM2/Leper.jpg Blog Archive - The Tragic Extent of My Failings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1601251731534-740OQNRHXH46XYSWYPYO/Tintagel.jpg Blog Archive - The Tragic Extent of My Failings https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/justdessertssonnet monthly 0.5 2022-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/cd4ef4e6-90ce-442e-90f2-ef95746459fe/3525705398_1ebf7511cc_b.jpg Blog Archive - Just Desserts You feel a great weight settle on your chest, as if the hand of god Himself came down and thrust into your chest His thorny crown and you began to bleed at His behest. Surely this is punishment for your sins - for surely that must be the breath of hell. It must be rotting bodies that you smell as fatalism lets the monster win. As will to live retreats, the world goes black. You can no longer feel the creature's teeth. Dimly you imagine your family's grief if they should find you dead when they get back, suffocated, utterly crushed beneath the stinking breath and rump of this fat cat. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/good-fences-make-good-neighbors monthly 0.5 2022-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1651433473384-HURM3VCUSTV92XQMFMYP/unsplash-image-pPJiiiM0PeQ.jpg Blog Archive - Good Fences Make Good Neighbors I let my neighbor know beyond the hill, and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. - Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/ouroboros monthly 0.5 2022-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/7d1f61dd-1feb-47b9-849e-46057c890d64/Winter+Lady.jpg Blog Archive - Ouroboros downhill slide the sunwise eye to roll up we feel her thumping feet upon our spine we limn her in our limbs, a vague outline makes a messiah out of this trollop Her scourging tongue will fall, fall, fall again your Lady eats your heart and drinks your breath may you be in tatters before your death may there be a crater left where you'd been an eye you gave for Her and called it good we gave two eyes and two blind oracles the monk with eight legs gave his Lady two two thousand homeless spirits gave their wood our priest nourished Her with his miracles what will you offer when She comes to you? https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/zagsroom monthly 0.5 2022-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/8d6284af-4be7-4265-bb1a-0c334ca1a5a4/2022-04-17+15.51.33.jpg Blog Archive - In the Name of Hades… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1650233234558-I2746XDWRDA7R6FXDW0G/2022-04-16+13.30.30.jpg Blog Archive - In the Name of Hades… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1650230381813-EQ0ZNW2X2985X5CXMFEJ/2022-04-16+13.33.23.jpg Blog Archive - In the Name of Hades… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1650230385480-HIRF37C9LFDMYRG1B4GR/2022-04-16+13.46.00.jpg Blog Archive - In the Name of Hades… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1650230974180-CF4F4ZA9X8FZOM8VVMM3/2022-04-16+13.54.49.jpg Blog Archive - In the Name of Hades… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1650230387554-RSHAD13D5HYIUQTFHKPE/2022-04-16+14.01.36.jpg Blog Archive - In the Name of Hades… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1650230390206-E28259XQMBMV64GHR1FP/2022-04-16+14.12.30.jpg Blog Archive - In the Name of Hades… https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sonnetmutiny monthly 0.5 2022-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/bdbcbbb2-2208-4531-bc91-955ac28b8eca/basilica_by_gentlezacharias_d1fop6k.jpg Blog Archive - Mutiny Do I truly leave you? Will you stay here? Must one of me die for us to be free? To drag my name to the bottom of the sea an atlas stone shackled to something dear. The child was the first to lift the stone. The caryatid fell, crushed into line, the first bloodstain that boulder left behind. It's only gotten heavier as we've grown. There's not a one of me that wears that name. I will not hang that stone around my throat. I will not march my people off this boat. I will no longer pretend I'm the same. If you never believed a thing I wrote, believe this: there never was a girl named ******. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/ravenousrouter monthly 0.5 2022-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/361a4f7f-b786-41d4-b6d4-1929cb482d82/Our+Mother+3.jpg Blog Archive - Troubleshooting Your Ravenous Router™ If all lights are red: First, abase yourself. Array offerings at the router's feet (Port 80: gold, rice. Port 25: meat.) Sacrifice local lymph to router's health. If two lights are red: Shun router (ten days). Power cycle and hold button on rear until three nictitating eyes appear and recite your thirteen-word access phrase. If all lights are dark: Please, do not despair. Approach the router clad only in silk. (Abstain from eating twelve hours before) Adorn front panel with lock of your hair. Recite (in Sanskrit) settings to restore. (Remember to siphon out router milk.) https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sonnetafterimage monthly 0.5 2022-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/8fb37648-8a22-472a-a6cf-61bd9399b0ba/I%27ll+Marry+You+Right+Now.jpg Blog Archive - Afterimage I don't go to your side of town these days. The glutinous air in the afternoon smells like the incense you kept in your room. You've stolen this city in all kinds of ways. On paper I can't add up what went wrong. I took down each word that you said, you see, added in the answers you got from me - of course I had to bring my notes along! You scarred each sense with your silhouette. Each bottle of your favorite beer is haunted, a heart attack at the sound of each step, leaving me trapped in the freedom you flaunted. I can't square up all our sorries and regrets… Can only hope you found what you wanted. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/product-service-or-art-what-is-a-game monthly 0.5 2023-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1646599826247-SROH8VFPWFHTE8R2BB6L/1-N6CX1cLNVeI70CG7O0nvwA.jpeg Blog Archive - Product, Service, or Art: What is a Game? - Make it stand out Palette-swaps for your League of Legends jelly-man. This is paid customization, not interactivity. Source: Leagueoflegends.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/450b6f1f-6012-4883-985c-c5ac6bc90878/0-rXPiiSJPIuomyR9w.jpg Blog Archive - Product, Service, or Art: What is a Game? - Make it stand out Dear Esther, a very non-gamey game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/62d2a414-6876-4dc5-b9b3-c62251974901/0-nV4NEG4vJN2LzAhk.jpg Blog Archive - Product, Service, or Art: What is a Game? - Make it stand out The Outer Worlds. Source: RPGamer https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/doppelganger monthly 0.5 2022-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/7ab8a4db-59b7-47d7-a52b-0b98971c1654/Thank+You%2C+Frailty.jpg Blog Archive - Doppelgänger My death wish came dressed in a boy with curls, a boy who brought me excuses and wine, a boy who was awake at the right time for me and - it turned out - quite a few other girls. The part of your brain that wants you to jump off - that part loved how obediently he parroted all of its hatred of me. Even years later, it still borrows his scoff. He wore three years of my misery like a fine coat, and twirled to catch my eye. When he took all my pain I wondered why till he introduced what he'd made of me: Here's a hair shirt that wants you to die. Here are some pants to cut you off at the knees. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/gamesasproduct monthly 0.5 2024-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/2b4410d0-8c8d-4466-8025-b15763db121b/GZ8vuPL.jpg Blog Archive - Product, Service, or Art: What is a Game? - Make it stand out Corporate modern art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/7f0c5c36-43e1-406d-815d-e7bc5628db28/1-AMsTcUXmQrKdtWVUPCtyhQ.jpeg Blog Archive - Product, Service, or Art: What is a Game? - Make it stand out Something like this, maybe? (Screenshot of a current popular MUD, unlike and yet exactly like the very old, unpopular one I played.) https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/idolatorsonnet monthly 0.5 2022-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/4e764dc1-4796-4b78-8b68-b53546cfebcf/Bluebird+-+Ampheres.jpg Blog Archive - Idolator I'll take whichever singularity I welcome our new robot overlords. I would be happy to carry their cords and download all their generosity. There's already a port for that in here, a couple different ways of getting out Which code is incompatible with doubt? We do this right, we won't need hands to steer. Which man am I, in or out of the box? If they upload me, will my body die? Am I the meat puppet, or the data ghost? You needn't drown us; please open these locks. If you must select one essential "I," select the one you want to fuck the most. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/jumpthetrack monthly 0.5 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/afb89687-17ce-45eb-bbb8-47a136c9b7cc/Soul+Clap+Hands.jpg Blog Archive - Jump the Track Grab the fragments! Take a handful! Now... blow! They form a thundercloud of butterflies. Too busy looking to open your eyes, you miss the moment when it's time to go. In Sign Language they say, "Sorry, train go." It means, "you missed it - don't bother to ask." It means, "the help you need has come and passed." Like everyone else, you're just supposed to know. Eventually you turn into the skid. You take the hard road just because you can. You tattoo "born to lose" across your hands. You leave behind the precious things you hid. You come to love the title "also-ran," and each day burn down everything you did. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/transubstantiation monthly 0.5 2022-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/66941ad5-e57b-4622-8f21-a3175ef0a678/Nebula.png Blog Archive - Transubstantiation Taste of blood on the wind… the distant drums. The wave rolls back and leaves the beached remains. Men reduced to little more than stains. Held-breath silence until the next wave comes. She finds what's left of him, minus his heart - the dead men always take the hearts away, and then when the sun rises the next day, the soldiers hack their friends' corpses apart. She knows at once that he's too big to move. She takes his face - the one thing they can't steal. She knows this sacrament cannot be real. In his god's eyes, he's nothing left to prove. She knows a wound that's hidden will not heal. He'd call her grief pride, not an act of love. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/gelatinous-love monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/a002de39-2783-4cf2-aca6-b1568982c194/2019-08-19-16.35.33.jpg Blog Archive - Gelatinous Love Oh! What a joy it is to devour! You meet a fine young humanoid at work - You: Gelatinous cube Him: Bandit jerk - and think, "I could digest you for hours." Inside's where I keep all my favorite things. There's certainly some ancient artifacts, a magic tome, the Happy Headsman's Axe, fourteen ring fingers, nineteen wedding rings... In there you'll have a different point of view. You'll finally get to meet my secret heart. You'll see it’s just your skin keeps us apart! You'll weep with joy as I'm dissolving you. Never found such beauty in your art as in this union: one, where we were two. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sonneteatmyheartout monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/16452843-59d9-468a-82bb-778fb147d90f/Bee+Queen.jpg Blog Archive - Eat My Heart Out They say that all men love a pretty girl: the sweetness of her laugh, her gentle grace, the youthful softness of her hands and face, the sparkle of her eyes, her golden curls. But my love’s eyes are darker than the sea - she has a dozen, varying in size, deeper and more liquid than a maiden’s eyes, eight above and four below the knee. My love can capture the world in her claws. My love is always singing in my head. She devours every skin I shed, she liberates me from the old world’s laws. My love will eat my body when I’m dead… one last time, I’ll go to heaven in her jaws. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/the-tiniest-nightmare monthly 0.5 2022-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1641772412067-X1RYVQUNER823PB3X5MM/Jack%27s+Room.jpg Blog Archive - The Tiniest Nightmare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1641772434190-PG9C9H7E3WYSXWZX1BQE/Jack%27s+Room+2.jpg Blog Archive - The Tiniest Nightmare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1641772461103-ADLQOEG6ZOZN9MQY37EW/Jack%27s+Room+3.jpg Blog Archive - The Tiniest Nightmare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1641772491363-R4JAZ8K9HKXCU4PUVK7U/Jack%27s+Room+4.jpg Blog Archive - The Tiniest Nightmare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1641772528498-ESJYZAH3EDXTD2847Q32/Jack%27s+Room+6.jpg Blog Archive - The Tiniest Nightmare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1641772550451-V1GT30XY3TWF85FSNY6T/Jack%27s+Room+5.jpg Blog Archive - The Tiniest Nightmare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/95a14061-6843-457f-b8af-e88beaa3b9eb/The-Nightmare-Before-Christmas-Jack-Skellington-s-House-Interior-1.png Blog Archive - The Tiniest Nightmare - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/manualofhappiness monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/c6f7d81a-7ffd-4e58-81e0-3fdc673230c7/giphy.gif Blog Archive - A Manual of Happiness - Make it stand out My friends keep this gif handy, and it's a totally fair way to respond to virtually anything I say, although it's not guaranteed to shut me up. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/larvae monthly 0.5 2021-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/b10f4dd5-2667-439a-a7b4-43a671e2311b/Flesh+Prison.jpg Blog Archive - Larvae They have an oracular octopus who can predict the weather for a fee. Of course, they say she's never been to sea so she's no better at forecasts than us. Used to be more things to spend money on Used to be more people who would take it Used to be some safer ways to make it - not that I'm saying I'm sad that world's gone. The freak show's where they keep the best of us. We only charge a kiss to let you in. Be first to see the man in the suit of rust ignite the tank of gas they've trapped him in! No one but bearded ladies you can trust - when we're gone, who do they think will eat their sin? https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/charmbracelet monthly 0.5 2023-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1648414092293-AZ2K1DFXN7G3J4ZY5LWI/Climb.png Blog Archive - Charm Bracelet A pewter cat, an octopus, a bell, each tiny charm no bigger than your nail. A tiny pirate in a tiny jail, a tiny plastic key that unlocks hell. The only charms you'll get are charms you make So siphon off a vial of your tears Write up a little black book of your fears Press your shiny ego as a keepsake. Delineate your shame with Perler beads (don't tell them what you make the Barbies do - even molded plastic has its needs) and don't forget the bullet with my name. I'll have just one charm to remember you - the scar you left last time you made me bleed. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/fictionisreality monthly 0.5 2021-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/ae08c28a-5190-407d-bf55-82b4c2bd9198/0+QpMwzl8ycJqm-VGt.jpg Blog Archive - Fiction is Reality - “World of Creative” by muhammed sajid on Dribbble. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/onnamecalling monthly 0.5 2021-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/22f9178a-e417-4611-b73a-d46ffcef621c/0+7wWeMKsg6qiTuY5i.jpg Blog Archive - On Name-Calling - Make it stand out Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/crowsdaughter monthly 0.5 2021-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/77532caa-1557-4326-8177-124b654dda4e/tia-never.png Blog Archive - Crow’s Daughter There was a minuet in mouse footprints outlined in dust outside Tia’s front door. It’s not a tune she’s ever sung before, but she’s learned three other rodent songs since. The crows are like a vault for ancient songs. She learns a few from each murder she meets. None of them have all the lyrics complete, but no one’s left alive who’d know she’s wrong. There are also songs the small machines know, lullabies of electricity coagulation of complexity and wire wombs where small AI can grow. When Tia finds these nests of probability, she teaches them the songs she learned from crows. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/comeseewhatwerebeingdevouredbylately monthly 0.5 2023-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1635110989846-3XSWP0J9SA7QBFUXVBFX/Blue+Fox.jpg Blog Archive - Come See What We’re Being Devoured By Lately! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1635111066547-UD90P1VQQ1P4IZAZ98UL/Nadia+-+Water+Witch.jpg Blog Archive - Come See What We’re Being Devoured By Lately! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1635111296643-KD769O8N61COX2PXWADG/Vellum+-+Tirion.jpg Blog Archive - Come See What We’re Being Devoured By Lately! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1635111610166-7RFGEKZICE90AQ1WCLOH/Peach+Pie.jpg Blog Archive - Come See What We’re Being Devoured By Lately! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/desertdesire monthly 0.5 2021-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1634498035290-JHE65O32XMWMJRXXY4XQ/Dry+Seas.jpg Blog Archive - Desert Desire In the morning: I send you a song. I choose it carefully. There’s always a reason, though no one ever asks. I only seem to do this to one person at a time - it’s my way of courting, like leaving flowers at your door a mouse corpse on your mat I did not make it, I simply found it. Dead things are how we say “I love you.” Around 10 AM: I light incense in several places watch the smoke fill my apartment as I ponder rituals that could accompany this moment. Like everything, I insist on doing this backwards. I crave faith, conviction, a sense of resonance. I cherish catechism; my fingers naturally curl to count a rosary. But though I see things and hear voices, do more than my time on my knees, go through all the motions of the martyr, I never pull the trigger because I still don’t feel a thing. Around 1995: Religion was like any other fantasy world when I was a kid. Jesus was a hero but not as brave as Ged, a lot whinier than Frodo. No cool powers. He makes fish appear and walks on water? So he’s Budget Aquaman, is what you’re saying. No one divided the Bible from Bradley and Bradbury on the shelf so it just seemed like it had too few dragons to me. Just a boring story. My first memory blinded me - the sun off the water in a copper bucket that also contained me. Like the universe, the bucket was big enough for me and the water and the infinite light of the sun. I could never see how this world needed God. Every day since: I loved you all wrong, then and now - far too close, in all the wrong places. Like tongue-kissing a goddess Like bringing frankincense and myrrh to McDonalds Like living all my life on my knees worshiping the sixteen-year-olds we were. Over time it’s become a genre a color I paint in one of those shapes that shows up again and again. You’re in every drawing, every story - or something like you - the pieces of you I stole, and kept, and planted in my dirt-floor-basement heart. Each day there’s a new crop of mushrooms with your eyes. They tug at my arms, whisper in my ears Beg to be held, to be drawn, to be immortalized, to always be beloved and dead. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sausagefactory monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/blood-hammer monthly 0.5 2021-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1633288419174-TICEP3HHTQWZ98IS1V2O/Blood+Hammer.jpg Blog Archive - Blood Hammer Inside this machine, a series of pipes transports lubricant to each moving part, ships barrels of love to burn in the heart, cycles and stores chemicals of all types. But the blueprint is not the map in here. This isn't a maze from which you come back. Won't know till the end which components you lack. Won't know which settings you scrambled in fear. The bullet sees the barrel's walls go by Infinite pressure and infinite speed Don't notice the terror in the bullet's eye. Don't ask it if it likes it when people bleed. The courteous bullet never asks why, or questions if a gun is what you need. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/elliottsmith monthly 0.5 2021-09-26 https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/why-i-dont-answer-the-phone monthly 0.5 2022-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1631838141568-ARDMGWP9VOZGYMV6GQHV/bxdjcspqahw21.png Blog Archive - Why I Don’t Answer the Phone - Make it stand out The meme that started the discussion https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/blacksmithdentist monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1630870071094-JPD89RI15PWTMD53FYSQ/81183999_2994104883935387_979138559350931456_n+-+Copy.jpg Blog Archive - The Blacksmith Dentist - This lives on the bathroom counter at my parents’ house: It's a vintage dentist's model from the early 20th century. This one belonged to my maternal great-grandfather, Dr. Small, who was a maritime dentist in New England around that time. It's funny, the career didn't run in the family - we're all fluffy, arty weirdos, no doctors here - but the dental fixation apparently did. I know I seem morbid by comparison with normal people, but you seriously have no idea the kind of stuff I grew up with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1630870744953-G1Y6HNU98PUBRDNP4CHA/asdf+-+Copy.png Blog Archive - The Blacksmith Dentist - Some of my stepdad’s more recent art. I fondly remember the giant diseased gum made of glazed ceramic, two feet wide and eight inches tall, that sat in the front room of my parents' house for a decade. Until we got a dog, it was like a pitted pink puppy greeting me at the door with its six remaining teeth every day when I got home. Can’t find a picture of it, though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1630870834528-0X1Q9RJH0AAZID7AETCN/Blacksmith+Dentist+1.jpg Blog Archive - The Blacksmith Dentist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1630870834471-BJVRH3QLNI48A06WY54D/Blacksmith+Dentist+2.jpg Blog Archive - The Blacksmith Dentist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1630870824986-EZFXYW8SXC6XCJTNCG7O/Blacksmith+Dentist+3.jpg Blog Archive - The Blacksmith Dentist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1630870824884-O9K0Q0XCCOSOXSQSEIJU/Blacksmith+Dentist+4.jpg Blog Archive - The Blacksmith Dentist https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sonnetprogramming monthly 0.5 2021-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1630261628020-YT0TCDFYI5NJ6AE1O46Q/bad_girl_by_gentlezacharias_dtaayt.jpg Blog Archive - Programming Inside me the forests go on for miles, seven thousand in every direction, limitless views of inhuman perfection. Limitless choices, infinite styles. Pity the fragments that flicker and die? Must I mourn each frown's death, weep for each grin? Must each thought forgotten add to my sin? Is it my fault not all wax wings can fly? Tear at your plastic and I'll give you fur. Rip out your eyes - I'll tell you what to see. Your way has failed, so put your trust in me; I'll take us back home to the creatures we were. Put Caliban back in the womb of the tree, and never mind whatever you saw occur. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/monetmademanifest monthly 0.5 2021-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1629659910827-U37GGF98FJW6AARUVX7U/Monet+Comparison.jpg Blog Archive - Monet Made Manifest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1629662289858-FFHVG2UZBE4A5EWL7O39/Monet+1.jpg Blog Archive - Monet Made Manifest - 3D Projection of Monet's "Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge" The projection is about two inches deep and features LED lighting mimicking the lighting of the original piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1629662454957-5E4BK6HC7WN9MVUTMT45/default.jpg Blog Archive - Monet Made Manifest - "Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge" This is the original painting we chose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1629663041846-3C3EX58DYR75ACNMVZEO/2021-07-31_17.13.09.jpg Blog Archive - Monet Made Manifest - In progress Each lily is individually modeled and painted, and the pond filled with resin that dries to the clarity and shine of real water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1629663191836-PJQHI7JYJ1RW5181O7KO/unknown.png Blog Archive - Monet Made Manifest - Pre-production Prototyping the box and battery storage in Blender. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/shadowplayscenesix monthly 0.5 2023-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1629166791388-VSX8EL2AQX3X1ZX2OIGF/strange_fruit_by_gentlezacharias_dielm2.jpg Blog Archive - Shadowplay Scene Six: Marks, and How to Hit Them - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sonnetaxiomatic monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1629050410447-XZ36XGAOLU6186FXF6WZ/Mercy.jpg Blog Archive - Axiomatic The Queen's ways are dark - the light follows her or those who go with her will and her writ - for them doors are opened, klieg lights are lit, mag-lev supply trains whiz by in a blur. Her leaving makes this whole world still and grey. This earth is cold but for its restless heart. She makes it agony to be apart. She cuts our throats each time she looks away. Prototypes must never question her will. Prototypes must not look her in the eye. Prototypes greet real people on one knee. While in her sight, prototypes should be still. When she so wishes, prototypes must die. Prototypes are not equipped to be free. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/reminderyoureinpublic monthly 0.5 2021-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1628732745290-S7GQ0JMJODIAWD607WBW/unsplash-image-SMOqwuPLnpQ.jpg Blog Archive - Just a Reminder - You’re Out In Public Right Now - Make it stand out The internet, which as you know is a series of tubes https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/100-sonnets-in-memoriam-moron monthly 0.5 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1628126129954-GSNJHZTLYMHFZCKGBDH2/1-cyXmFeSD7IxFrFkDjYplfA.png Blog Archive - 100 Sonnets - In Memoriam Moron Trapped beneath the floor, Gossman jumps and flails. The water's rising 'neath his sneakered feet. Finishing his work, he takes a beat to be proud of his well-constructed jail. Above the floor, his friends would help him bail, but first they've got to cook up some lunch meat and just make sure their bedrooms are neat. Gossman lets out another bubbling wail. The light flickers, but then - he sees his wife! Mi-Ma will save him! Mi-Ma is sweet and wise! Trouble is, in a crisis... Mi-Ma cries. 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The plastic weight at the end can be any shape, depending on the kind of marks you wish to leave on yourself or your victim. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/what-even-is-videogame-satire monthly 0.5 2021-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1622307830363-LKNX6RVIST1STZHUVSUH/634119-spec-ops-the-line-xbox-360-screenshot-start-screen.jpg Blog Archive - What Even Is Videogame Satire? - Make it stand out Spec Ops: The Line menu screen, courtesy of Stabel on MobyGames.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1622309291120-R0C3DL2SWMMQ8U09FHMV/ghostface-scream-1589463105.jpg Blog Archive - What Even Is Videogame Satire? - Make it stand out A slasher movie that critiqued slasher movies. 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More shots of him on my Instagram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1621188215702-UO06OPQXQ5LFWOSSYF1Q/Blue-paints.jpg Blog Archive - Mourning Another Lost LGS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1621191699154-YZJI7JFJU6BSF6H9OSB6/Hannah.jpg Blog Archive - Mourning Another Lost LGS - Make it stand out Hannah, another of the old Malifaux models. She’s a librarian, and she made that mech suit to help her reach books on high shelves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1621190423922-SETKZXAM1HUXMIW6ORVI/2021-05-16+12.37.53.jpg Blog Archive - Mourning Another Lost LGS - Make it stand out Part of my current painting setup. Those are not all the paints. Oh no. 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Isopods for Peace A giant isopod at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL, by nate_newton of the Captivereefs.com forum, Oct. 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1614102819461-BC8F6K3QRP44IDF0DMFW/5e072-1e-nt-zeq7ynmzbdr1xidnw.png Blog Archive - Isopods for Peace Me, a hippo, ruining a perfectly good beaver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1614104253840-OS7AG7L4TFCF7EHJFHY7/eacfe-1khvqg_hclpxqlezthmiwoa.png Blog Archive - Isopods for Peace Look at that face, dammit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1614104793897-GK8EMEFUQXDW1JR1Y3QC/066e3-1xdxsa7tm9bpmfydssugbca.png Blog Archive - Isopods for Peace The Isopod Nation often forms in this natural cave at the far left end of the map. Isopods roll downhill, you see. Here I visit the Isopod Nation and find them guarded by a small squid and an oarfish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1614105047897-RJYU4MSK5ZLH60NCDGC3/ac268-1jqdjyxeyvxaozyebb4awbw.png Blog Archive - Isopods for Peace I hide in a volcano, trying to sway a gulper eel to the side of peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1614105468506-VU8XPB60LR2UTFGHRBMK/6694d-1yzpsnttc-gtap3def9h8pw.png Blog Archive - Isopods for Peace Several days in, I am no longer afraid to swim away from the seabed. No one will harm me. Isopods are for peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1614105703253-VZ353UIDNQBYOQELADTY/b7c96-1rkw1ust3fs6z0unsog8wmw.png Blog Archive - Isopods for Peace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1614131592264-B3JOT04Y8M6NVSF3C0XJ/3af6d-1aac3dhdklzletysflpy7vw.png Blog Archive - Isopods for Peace I cannot stay here. Soon there will be blood in the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1614182236713-L1CH5OR211YJJ4R1QD5T/4af0c-1le8idevr9bsl8j7obpsqjq.png Blog Archive - Isopods for Peace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1614182428440-MI7EXG5HJIMZ6VB2XYNQ/38262-1h4_rw0ha5uljw4cxj82ceq.png Blog Archive - Isopods for Peace The AFK timer will kill you after 20 minutes of stillness, but it’s not hard to avoid, even while staying hidden. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sectstarot1 monthly 0.5 2023-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1701679688654-FH6FS2TLDTPGOY8I06TM/0%2B-%2BThe%2BFool%2BInsta.jpg Blog Archive - Sects Tarot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1612541297927-YE1KR42GLABWUX0ASGGS/01+-+The+Magician.jpg Blog Archive - Sects Tarot https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/shadowplayscenefour monthly 0.5 2023-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/249f1d00-5b1b-4e9a-9075-b1789b4f7f54/Soul+Clap+Hands.jpg Blog Archive - Shadowplay: Act One, Scene Four https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/durinsdaughter monthly 0.5 2021-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1611540660097-PTGXH4EKRILHLJ4QEOLR/Durin%27s+Daughter.jpg Blog Archive - Durin’s Daughter https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/einhandersironlung monthly 0.5 2021-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1609973359157-RY5JPUA1633K7EB5RF9U/Einhander%27s+Iron+Lung.jpg Blog Archive - Einhander’s Iron Lung https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/motherofmoths monthly 0.5 2023-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1609459838824-JBN7CWWU8C3M6UXM710V/Broodmother+of+Moths.jpg Blog Archive - Mother of Moths https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/do-it-for-nothing monthly 0.5 2020-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1608659345839-JX7E0EM65FJ71K0ZRL5P/Flicker.jpg Blog Archive - Do It For Nothing “Flicker,” Gentle Zacharias, April 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1608660431167-EQ5HKH97E1BENJSSO1UK/CrbaP.jpg Blog Archive - Do It For Nothing It’s this one https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/kohlberg monthly 0.5 2021-06-10 https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/indefenseofmakingamess monthly 0.5 2021-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1605467485348-IXSEYPY865DOM1P1FB6J/2019-05-18-12.48.20.jpg Blog Archive - In Defense of Making a Mess https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/blondeboye monthly 0.5 2021-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1615688149074-AFNY9V7QB2VGOT829YKI/Japanese+No-Chin.jpg Blog Archive - Blonde Boye - Blonde Boye A golden dog, but not a retriever - maybe some Great Dane, maybe some greyhound - opined the vet when we brought Frances round. "Hell, with those teeth, he could be part beaver." He was a chronic underachiever, too dumb to get all four feet on the ground bashed his head on walls when he'd turn around... Smell something good? Why not lick a cleaver? Frances, the prettiest, stupidest dog, Biting the fire in the barbecue put away everything he chose to chew Even a light bulb he found on a jog. Said to his bloody grin, "What did you DO?" Must conclude fools are protected by god. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/troubleshooting-your-ravenous-router monthly 0.5 2020-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1605152296604-5DRBGUAVMNE3DV7J3X00/Our+Mother+2.jpg Blog Archive - Troubleshooting Your Ravenous Router™ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1605152304413-1FKMTEETF43O5DMRE69Y/Our+Mother+3.jpg Blog Archive - Troubleshooting Your Ravenous Router™ https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/howtosummonaneeld monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1604860365481-6360ONMWAZ3BKTZFHPKK/Screenshot_2020-11-08+Gentle+Zacharias%27s+%28+gentle_zacharias%29+Instagram+profile+%E2%80%A2+144+photos+and+videos.png Blog Archive - How to Summon an Eel I got new pastels! So after a lot of angst and apparently a side-trip to Greece, my pastels have arrived, and now I’ve got no more excuses about the quality of my work - no more whining about the pastels being huge and soft and hard to manage; if I fuck up at this point, it’s ALL ME. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1604860729399-FSX7X9828ZFXGPKCZ3C0/Fish.jpg Blog Archive - How to Summon an Eel My first experiment with them was this fish-witch. Eelmage? Something like that. I’m already happy with the detail I can get out of it, but I’m also feeling a lot of impatience about some portions of it - it seems worthwhile to take a break from time to time when I feel myself getting impatient, so that I don’t rush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1604860583751-BRJMY3NTZUWI67SKOBZB/Our+Mother.jpg Blog Archive - How to Summon an Eel I’m also looking at re-doing a few of the first pages of Sects, to make it more clear what’s happening and unify the style a bit. This is the first of those; it’ll go at the beginning of Chapter One, An Unfinished List of Rules. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/howtonotreadthenews monthly 0.5 2020-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1604855644042-WYF2BUZ17E6KHZ9TAR9I/lewis-roberts-lbaBN1OOGQo-unsplash.jpg Blog Archive - How to (Not) Read the News The internet is awake… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1604856546189-JYRF62ODDPC9GL0UFJF1/09e8e-1oqmst3v1udsfvte_x66yqg.gif Blog Archive - How to (Not) Read the News https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sonnetartificialintelligence monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1615687300379-ZB6RGM1MXYL5IFS1AAVA/biomechanical_wonder_woman_by_gentlezacharias_dvny78.jpg Blog Archive - Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence Three identical shirts... but one is best. Certain that an unseen eye will check me, Have to make sure I do this correctly, But if I'm perfect... whom have I impressed? I must not flinch when they hurt me in jest, Must not make eye contact so directly, Try to see that not all 'no's reject me. I wonder if I'd pass a Turing test. Prick me and I bleed, but I may not cry. Tickle me - no, that'll make me cry too. I've never found a place where I belong. Know the right answers, but I don't know why, Gets harder to speak the more I try to... Pretty sure this machine's wired all wrong. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/shadowplay3 monthly 0.5 2020-11-05 https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sonnetforecast monthly 0.5 2020-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1603642421156-6TYZO5PSG60YKTMRZ6YN/maman_brigitte_by_gentlezacharias_d2f6zj8.jpg Blog Archive - Forecast - Forecast It feels explosive laying next to you - a current arcs between your moving lips. Between my own I trap your fingertips, and hold my breath, the dark electron blue. Your tongue in tatters, tell me something true: in rhythm with our four rotating hips I kiss your heart and taste each beat it skips. This tune we’re playing feels like something new. Your body arches, taut like power lines, the wind runs high and hot before the storm, the shadows underneath your skin are warm, enfolding me like tentacles and vines. Tornado chaser in a different form, I catalogue your cries like weather signs. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/terrifying-things-of-a-less-mundane-nature monthly 0.5 2020-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1603505001176-LUCH35G81AQOPTP9F2CS/Don%27t+Wanna.jpg Blog Archive - Terrifying Things of a Less Mundane Nature This week I’ve been pulling out a lot of bestiaries to reference, just get some practice in. So this week I have for you one very dubious-looking shield-lady, who has serious concerns about The Plan… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1603505089471-XPWBC6XWWRGNTUWV8KOP/Gathra.jpg Blog Archive - Terrifying Things of a Less Mundane Nature And one gathra, as seen in the Fiend Folio from D&D’s Edition 3.5. For some reason I really like drawing creepy elephant-like things? I don’t know what that’s about. I like their weird lumpy bodies and sunken eyes. I think this one came out pretty good, though - the legs and hooves particularly. I’ve struggled a lot with foreshortening and proportioning bodies right when they’re aimed directly at the viewer, so that front left leg feels like a major triumph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1603505910538-L8Y5HMYGRTNJ0RVDLK8S/Screenshot_2020-10-23+Gentle+Zacharias+%28+gentle_zacharias%29+%E2%80%A2+Instagram+photos+and+videos.png Blog Archive - Terrifying Things of a Less Mundane Nature https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/captains-log-m1337129021-enasa monthly 0.5 2020-10-19 https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/socialcreditinc monthly 0.5 2020-10-16 https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/fivegreatreasonstofightyourdad monthly 0.5 2022-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1602642630373-H1XT39RLBEGAEW4IWPHG/1+Y7LPmpLGo1rFbZ2TAjpCFw.png Blog Archive - Five Great Reasons to Fight Your Dad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1602644001845-JS968KWPFFMYBQ6BJKA7/1+RgsLR0e7ds0BCYK1FCcXEg.png Blog Archive - Five Great Reasons to Fight Your Dad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1602644328287-WSTO81PX2FKERIBGPZWP/1+kRzcn5QX37BawZaBcYtKEQ.jpeg Blog Archive - Five Great Reasons to Fight Your Dad https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/agoraphobia monthly 0.5 2023-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1615687246972-QDOL5RDBOGH14S979EXM/As+Unchanging+As+the+Sea.jpg Blog Archive - Agoraphobia - Agoraphobia I built this house, with bricks and nails and wood, laid down the floor on hands and knees myself, arranged my toys and tools on every shelf, I saw that all the doors and locks were good. I did what men tell women that they should - it’s rude to tell them it’s about your health - festooned the lawn to ape success and wealth. I tried so hard to be misunderstood. An earthquake came, destroyed my house, my heart, laid flat the doors without picking the locks, and when I stood among the shattered rocks, I finally could see their subtle art: Teach us to fear and we will build a box, and then forget how to survive apart. https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/allroadsleadtoquo monthly 0.5 2020-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1602519779479-2MW0LIM9X7JXTOVUG0QI/Calvary+Street+Panorama.jpg Blog Archive - All Roads Lead to Quo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1602520070120-T8C08XVXV2KPU9VET3ZX/gentle-zacharias-screenshot-2020-10-11-gentle-zacharias-on-x-the-new-drawing-table-allows-me-to-work-at-a-larger-size-than-i-have-i.jpg Blog Archive - All Roads Lead to Quo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1602520082421-HC71HG0NV52CS4LO1BM3/gentle-zacharias-screenshot-2020-10-11-gentle-zacharias-on-x-progress-on-the-street-panorama-i-m-enjoying-having-more-real-estate.jpg Blog Archive - All Roads Lead to Quo https://www.gentlecult.com/archive/sentientpastry monthly 0.5 2021-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1602439938900-ZGUVDFHCAN2JP16MQ6ZO/The+Pie+That+Eats.jpg Blog Archive - On the Subject of Sentient Pastry - The Pie That Eats is the leader of a lesser cult in the city of Calvary, the setting of Sects. The Devoted Sustenance, known derogatorily to most citizens as “the Snacks,” worship an eldritch being currently incarnated as a freshly-made pie roughly seven feet in diameter and missing a single narrow slice. The Pie does not speak, nor has it been seen to move unaided, but its congregation are reasonably organized and productive mostly in the hospitality and food-service industries of Calvary, despite the fact that many of the devout and several uninitiated sacrifices have disappeared into the Pie’s steaming maw, never to be seen again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e7a3012c8f3f0641d805f5e/1602440695048-YZ4FQNN079FQ7NZ7VGEE/Brothers+Vim+Logo.png Blog Archive - On the Subject of Sentient Pastry - Since the most recent apocalypse, the Brothers Vim has been one of the city’s leading automotive aftermarket chains, providing premium add-ons, tires, maintenance and repair, and expert advice for the do-it-yourselfer. 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They’re less inclined to sit still for pictures. 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