Atlantic Canadian Gothic

chrisisoninfiniteearths:

• You leave the house in the morning, it’s snowing. You go out for lunch, it’s raining. You go home at the end of the day, it’s snowing and raining. It’s June.
  
• Sometimes the fishermen won’t talk about what they find in their nets. And sometimes they don’t go back on the water for a long time afterward.
  
• You  have to go west for work. You have to go to south for work. You have to go overseas for work. You have to go to other dimensions for work.
  
• The deer gather in your backyard at night. Sometimes they eat your flowers. Sometimes they stare into your windows for hours while you sleep.
  
• You go out of town in the summer to pick wild blueberries. That old hunting shack deep in the trees looks long-abandoned, but you feel uneasy when it’s in view. You feel more uneasy when it’s not in view.
  
• Everyone is always polite. They know what happens to the rude people.
  
• In the deep winter, the men build shacks on the frozen river. They say that they’re fishing, but you know that while fish come out of the ice, sometimes other things get put in.
  
• The line at the Tim Horton’s drive-thru in the morning goes out of the parking lot. The line at the Tim Horton’s drive-thru in the morning goes down the street. The line at the Tim Horton’s drive-thru in the morning goes outside the town limits. The line at the Tim Horton’s drive-thru in the morning goes back in time.
  
• The moose are always out there. Waiting.
  
• You know that when the fog comes in off the bay on a summer night, sometimes people can get lost out there. And sometimes extra people come back.
  
• You moved away years ago, but sometimes you still hear a foghorn or see the flash of a lighthouse, even though you don’t live near the ocean now. Sometimes you can smell the salt in the air, and it makes you feel cold and damp.
  

edens-blog:

perfecly:

Stop planting your flowers in other people’s gardens if you know they aren’t going to water them.

is this metaphorical or are we talking about animal crossing because i

chokkilissa-nahollos:

rhaenys-martell-targaryen:

anthropolos:

It haunts me that celebrities are just theater kids that made it

#it haunts me that theater kids think they’re just celebrities that haven’t made it

this explains everything about theater kids in a way that was beyond my grasp until this very moment

cheskamouse:

official-europa:

You: seeing six crows is bad luck and an omen of death

Me, an intellectual: seeing six crows is great luck because you get to see six crows

Originally posted by dreams-in-metaphors

waywardwarlocks:

tips for walking in an abandoned graveyard

• if it’s dark, don’t shine your flashlight into the trees.
• if a child approaches and asks you a question, don’t tell the truth.
• you may find some harrowing artifacts (i found a ribbon on a tree and some bible pages) pick these up and keep them. they belong to you.
• if you walk down a long, straight pathway, you will feel someone behind you. don’t look
• you may see people in your peripheral vision; these are the spirits. they won’t hurt you.
• if you wish to communicate with the spirits, do not do it alone. cast a protection circle. only ask polite questions.
• you will feel bursts of dread and terror. ignore them.
• don’t read too much into what the graves say. some things are best left unsolved.
• research the history of the graveyard beforehand. you need to know what you might encounter.
• some beings may not want you to leave. should you come into contact with one of these beings, leave immediately.
• don’t read the hidden graves.
• if you find a headless angel statue, don’t look for her head.
• if you find a tipped over angel statue, leave her be. she’s only resting.
• don’t listen to music. this will distract you from them.
• don’t look in the bushes. you will find something that you weren’t supposed to.

puncromancer:

i say it’s time to bring back overtly sexual masquerade parties

byrneing:

friend: how are you
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