Dryad
We are the dryads, agents of softening, drinking sunlight, and dispersing the soil. Perhaps we too are enforcing some kind of strangeness upon the bedrock, but we were doing it long before you were.
Do you see my beacon? Do you see the tower, lit and smoking like tallow? Now the world will know…
They will know the tower’s authority is not absolute.
I have something you will never find in your encrypted archive, in your registry, in your solid state cold storage.
“This is the sword of the Order. It has no patience for petty violence, no appetite for blood and flesh. The sword‘s purpose is to cut through oppression, to cleave the chains of the mind.”
“They told me I could come out when the sky turned red and the sun turned into the moon. Finally, I can move, I can open my eyes, and I can cross the threshold.”
Do we succumb and offer ourselves as prey? Or do we become elusive and scarce, mean and jagged and toxic?
Search mercilessly for what’s inside, even if you have to unstitch yourself to get to it.
A loose, grungy portrait of an intimidating man for Inktober day 01.
with a shank / in his stocking, / a rose / in his tea, // ain’t this / a fellow / we’d all / like to be?
Welcome to Fall, don’t forget your hat and your club!
Apocalypse Dance Party