
Big black cats howl as naked witches ascend into the night over the city. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923)

Big black cats howl as naked witches ascend into the night over the city. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923)

“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”
— Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
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Imma post this on this side account because period dresses and ships tattoos and because why the hell not.

Soot tags gather after fires in areas with low circulation. They are not, as commonly believed, ash covered spider webs.
I had no idea these existed and am surprised something so ominous and beautiful isn’t a more common image in art and fiction.