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If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.
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2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023
in spite of it all, happy 2026 pride.
you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads
you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride
these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.
final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. đ
Mutuals who I have hardly spoken with but we instead communicate through silently liking and reblogging each other's posts... I hope you're all having a lovely day âš
Horror movie about a white suburban haunted house woefully unprepared for its new Asian immigrant owners moving in because they've survived worse hauntings in Asia.
#the creepy little boy and axe murderer and old lady all in a football huddle in the haunted mirror like guys I think we need a new plan
i wanna see this from the ghostsâ pov but also they end up in a turf war with some asian ghosts that followed the family from their home country and they are getting their asses kicked soooo bad

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in this week's newsletter, i finally watched The Wire:
Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that
Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go the Odyssey?
Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.
And this doesn't mean you need to read / watch / listen to absolutely everything! (not that that's remotely possible)
It's perfectly reasonable that I have decided, based on ambient cultural information, that Ready Player One will not be my jam and I'm not going to read it. What that means, though, is that I have very little information about Ready Player One. I am not an authority on Ready Player One. If there's a discussion of the character development or worldbuilding or plot structure in Ready Player One, I can listen, but I can't really contribute, because I have not read it and thus am missing quite a lot of information about it.
There are more things in the world that I am not an authority on than there are things that I am an authority on, and that's okay! I should just be honest with myself and others about it.
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Knitting finished as of last night! Still need to weave in a few ends, wash, and block.
Was aiming for 48â x 60â, came out 39â x 60â so far, but Iâm hoping to be able to block it to a little wider and Iâm ok losing a few inches of length for that

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Folklore in Mandrake
After nearly sixteen years working in the Victorian milieu for Fallen London, Mandrake is giving us an opportunity to draw on a whole new swathe of historical and folkloric sources, and weâve been making the most of it.Â
Mandrake is set in a village called Chandley, whose people have to get along with all sorts of neighbours, some of which are far from human. There are regal woods-gods; dangerous, rootless spirits roving the wilds; and gentler, more domestic sprites that nevertheless abide by their own, sometimes obtuse, rules.Â
Here we present a selection of the folklore that has inspired us while inventing the world of Mandrake, in case any of them catch your interest as they did ours.
Sunken Lands
Atlantis might be the most famous sunken land, but itâs far from the only one. For Mandrake, weâve taken inspiration from folkloric examples closer to home: lost Lyonesse that lay beyond Landâs End in Cornwall, and became associated with Arthurian legend. The lost Brittany city of Ys (or Kaer-Ys), drowned by mortal folly, which features in the collection of Breton folk-songs known as the Barzaz-Breiz. Cantre'r Gwaelod, a land said to lie off the coast of Cardigan, in Gwynedd.
In Mandrake, our drowned isle is poor Oleas, which lay just off the coast near Chandley, and was home to the Rose dynasty â the historic rivals to the Mandrakes, our protagonistâs family house. The locals say that on quiet evenings, you can still hear the bells of Oleas ringing under the wavesâŠ
Seal-Folk
Haunting the sunken streets of Oleas are the korrigan, who swim through the sea in the shape of seals, but can take human form on the shore. They are attuned to the tides of fate, dangerous to cross, and have magics of their own. The local sea-fisherman, Ruan, knows to treat seals with the utmost courtesy.
These seal-folk are of course primarily inspired by the Scottish legends of selkies, with their seal-skins, and their troubled relations with mortals. A favourite modern version of the archetypal selkie story can be found in Kevin Crossley-Hollandâs short collection Outsiders, which retells a half-dozen folktales from the point of view of those who donât fit in. But their name and their sorcerous inclinations were inspired by the korrigan, another bit of Breton folklore: deadly, capricious fey beings whose demands were dangerous to defy.
Tolkien wrote a great, grim, possibly unpronounceable poem about a âcorriganâ called The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, which has been released in a recent edition along with drafts of a couple of earlier poems he wrote about the corrigan. They obviously made an impression on him!
Chimney-gods
You might have seen our friendly-faced character Hob Halfling, who lives in the hearth of your recovered family lodge.
As a helpful domestic spirit, Hob is largely inspired by brownies: shy fairy creatures who lived in a home and came out at night to keep the house in order and do chores⊠as long as they were well-treated, and you didnât offend them with an inappropriate gift. There are countless brownie stories, but one of my favourites is one from Sunderland: the Cauld Lad oâ Hilton. According to Robert Surtees in 1820, the Cauld Lad would cause chaos if Hylton Castle, where he lived, was left in good order â or tidy it immaculately if it was left in a mess. He played largely harmless pranks on the inhabitants, but was eventually banished by the traditional method of leaving out a set of clothes for him. As soon as he found them he put them on, admired himself in a mirror, and left the house never to return. âHereâs a cloke, and hereâs a hood; the cauld lad oâ hilton will do no more good.â
Surteesâ version seems to consider the Lad a brownie, but says that it had become identified with the ghost of a murdered servant whose bones were later found in a pond on the grounds. Folklore is rarely neat â stories tangle with each other, or spin off new threads.
Thereâs no murder in Hobâs origin, anyway. Heâs less mischievous than the Cauld Lad, too, but itâs still best to keep him friendly with the occasional gift of food.
Ancient Medics and Scholarship
One of our characters, Malory Rosevere, is currently a pigkeeper, but is descended from a long line of doctors who were famous in the region. This concept was a later addition to their character, inspired by the Meddygon Myddfai, or Physicians of Myddfai. The physicians were a famous lineage of doctors in Wales, practiced medicine in an unbroken line from the 13th century to the 18th! Famous throughout Wales, their services were often called upon, and as time passed, so great was their reputation that they became associated with magical remedies and practices, too. Claiming a remedy was one used by the Meddygon Myddfai was a way to grant it a high pedigree.
Malory is also something of a scholar, and proudly owns a small collection of books. Perhaps theyâll lend you one â weâre working on a scholarship system for Mandrake, allowing you to study in the evening to discover more about the settingâs history and myths. Some of the books youâll be able to read draw inspiration from historical texts, like the medieval Welsh Triads.
Restless Spirits
The lands around Chandley are plagued by an unusual number of roving, restless spirits, which without a place to make their own, grow increasingly eccentric and perilous. Josselin, the local witch, calls them the peregrini, and implies thereâs a reason theyâre so common hereabouts.Â
Each of the peregrini is inspired by different folklore. Anyone familiar with kelpie mythology will recognise the Salt Mare, who only runs on water, and who carries anyone foolish enough to mount it to the bottom of the sea. And wizened old Granny Jakes might seem friendly, but why is she so keen to hide her feet from you? And for you to try a cup of her delicious, homemade, apple-y avalack? Beware: one of her inspirations is the Russian story of Misery. In the version of the tale I read, Misery is a pitiful creature found in a hole who â if you help him â will scramble up onto your back and make himself comfortable. Once heâs there only you can see and hear him, and every time you take a drink, Misery demands another. Before long, he drives you to ruin, all the time claiming heâs your only friendâŠ
Other Sources
There are many more inspirations we could talk about, like the fact that the many gods of the sea in Mandrake are partly inspired by the Irish Voyage of MĂĄel DĂșin, with its magnificent list of completely bizarre islands (tag yourself: Iâm âThe island of the horse-like beast who pelts the crew with the beachâ).
But if youâre looking for some good modern folklore to read, in addition to the books weâve mentioned already, we can highly recommend Amy Jeffâs evocative and ingenious books Storyland, Wild and Saints, which retell medieval folk stories from overlooked perspectives. Iâve also been enjoying Kym Deynâs unsettling, visually rich and occasionally lightly traumatic collection of poetry, Folkish, which often draws on folklore from the north of England, and includes poems about the Lambton Worm, St Hild, Old Mother Shipton and Janet oâ the Dales (who weâd never come across before).Â
We hope thereâs something in this list that stirs your interest, and weâd love to hear about any folklore from where you live!
iâve been going jstor dumpster-diving a lot so hereâs a collection of articles: haunted house edition <3 iâve put them all here, but let me know if anything doesnât work and iâll fix it!!Â
contents:Â
- Emma Liggins, The Haunted House in Womenâs Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850â1945 - Richard Pascal, Walking Alone Together: Family Monsters in the Haunting of Hill House - Amanda Bingham Solomon, Haunting the Imagination: The Haunted House as Dark Space in American Culture - Roberta Rubenstein, House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic - Cristiana Pugliese, What Does a House Want? Exploring Sentient Houses in Supernatural Literature - Elizabeth Jean Hornbeck, Whoâs Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Domestic Violence in The Shining - Emma Zimmerman, âAlways the same stairs, always the same roomâ: The Uncanny Architecture of Jean Rhysâs Good Morning, Midnight - Emma Short, âOne Is Somehow Suspendedâ: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield and the Spaces in Between - Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely - Elizabeth Wilson, Haunted Houses - Aspasia Stephanou, Helen Oyeyemiâs White is for Witching and the Discourse of Consumption
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Happy pride, everyone! I made a joke about my embroidery and now I've made it reality.
Want to use this as an icon? Consider tossing me, an unemployed trans person, a kofi donation! I'm still looking for a job and in the meantime any support at all really helps me to keep stitching projects.
I'm more stable now than I was this time last year, but have a cube on your dash again.

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One of my books coming up is gonna have me painting SO MANY BACKGROUNDS.
I'm trying to get ahead of the curve and strengthen those muscles before it becomes the only thing I can afford to think about.