Launched in the mid-1940s by British-born illustrator, photographer, and self-styled fetish visionary John Willie, Bizarre emerged from the shadowy correspondence networks of corset devotees, shoe worshippers, bondage enthusiasts, and readers who rarely saw their private desires reflected in public culture. Presented with the elegant camouflage of a “fashion fantasia,” the magazine combined photographs, letters, illustrations, advice, and Willie’s celebrated Sweet Gwendoline cartoons, carefully avoiding explicit nudity while creating a visual language charged with restraint, ritual, theatrical danger, and impossible glamour.
Its cultural impact reached far beyond its modest underground circulation: Bizarre helped transform isolated fetishes into the beginnings of a shared subculture, influenced later artists such as Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew, and established many of the silhouettes, costumes, poses, and power dynamics that still shape fetish photography, fashion, comics, and popular culture. What began as a secretive mail-order publication became one of the foundational documents of modern erotic iconography.
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"When we consider the visible world with its essence, and consider the life of the creatures, then we find therein the likeness of the invisible spiritual world, which is hidden in the visible world, as the soul in the body; and see thereby that the hidden God is nigh unto all, and through all; and yet wholly hidden to the visible essence."
— The Mysterium Magnum by Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
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Yes, I could take this time to yap about bats and how cool those little creatures are, but (tragically) I won't--and I could promise you that I will in a future post, but I tend to forget </x
(This is more of an apology note, but I will throw a few little facts your way as compensation).
I couldn't find an illustrator (womp, womp). Many sources only listed one of the authors (without proper credit listing them as anything other than writer/editor); therefore, no artist I can list. However, you can still admire the pretty photos while digesting outdated knowledge from this late 19th-century book... though I wouldn't necessarily read the link I gave as the online PDF/eBook edited the original source (this alteration is from 2017)--this is only a discretion if you wanted to consume the original thing. It seemed more that it was changed to fit the site format. Still, they even changed some chapter names, so it could be a mix of both new and old information (all I'm saying is that I didn't go through the book fully... hell, it's long... but I wanted y'all to know in case since the link takes you to a specific point rather than the index where information on the source is listed.
Now time for... drumroll please...
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~~~!~!~!~BAT-!~!~!-FACTS~!~!~!~~~
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Okay, okay. You can stop clapping now. Please, I'm blushing. Knock it off, omg, I'm serious.
The scientific name for bat is Chiroptera (1779 by Blumenbach).
They are found in every continent besides Antarctica (although imagine them next to a polar bear... how cute would that be?).
Contrary to popular belief, not all bats hibernate. Various species of bat pull a goose, opting to migrate to gather food in warmer climates.
Bats should stay far away from school zones; as the only flying mammal, they tend to reach 60+ mph while zooming in the air. Feel that wind on your face.
One of the snacks they like to munch on are moths (yes, we're closing with a less interesting one; no, I'm not keeping my bat and moth Squishmallows together anymore💀😭).
Click the links above 'n' below to view the full sources (no. 5 has the most in-depth one about pipistrelli).
U.S. DOI
The Nature Conservancy
Smithsonian
Thank you for letting me snatch your time!
Much love;
Kaiti <x
(Oh, and if you want to add anything or know the illustrator, please let me know! I'd love to credit them, despite them being dead and all).
