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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1h
The greatest cat in the world
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5h
La Maison Du Porte Plume A poster for fountain pens and inks by the artist Jean D'Ylen.
jester-like figure in yellow and orange attire standing amidst giant fountain pens and massive inkwells.
"À Côté Continental, 6, Bd. Ad. Max. - Bruxelles" and "La Maison du Porte-Plume".
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5h
'A member of the Oakland Motorcycle Club during a motorcycle ball game, Oakland, California, 1924' www.ba-bamail.com/design-and-p...
man on a motor bike with a football. I mean he has the ball not the bike. He is wearing flap cap which means he is well hard and will kick your teeth out yer arse
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5h
Moscow by Night Mikhail Grachev circa 1940s-1950s www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
cars blurring by in a snowy city scene.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 6h
Times Square at Dusk Samuel H. Gottscho, 1932
 Times Square, New York City (looking down Broadway/Seventh Avenue towards the Times Building).
 The glowing signs advertise the films Hell Divers and Arrowsmith 
Wet, rainy pavement reflecting the neon lights during the early evening
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 18h
Model for the dragon in Die Nibelungen (1924, dir. Fritz Lang) by set designer Erich Kettelhut
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 19h
Goodnight “There Appeared A Great Alligator With Three Heads’, “Serbian Fairy Tales” Sidney Stanley, 1918 archive.org/details/serb...
A man waves his sword at a three-headed monster rising from the sea. He stands on a dark beach beneath a crescent moon, facing the creature as waves crash around them.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 19h
“Australian Fairy Tales” by James Hume-Cook Christian Yandell, 1925 archive.org/details/b186...
geezer in a winged chariot being pulled through the air by birds

He leaped into his flying carriage and was off to save the Princess from an awful fate."—See page 81.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 19h
“Nature’s Revenge: Eerie Stories of Revolt Against the Human Race” by Seon Manley. Jacqui Morgan, 1978
 a giant fly outside an open window over a green field with a red sun in the background.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20h
‘Don’t Kill Our Wild Life’, 1936-40
poster
car, headlights on driving through woods
deer spring off in to the trees
don't kill our wildlife
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20h
“Flemish Legends” by Charles de Coster. Albert Delstanche, 1920 archive.org/details/flem...
 It depicts a moment from the Flemish folk legend "Sir Halewyn in the Wood" (or The Song of the Head), where a severed head sings a faery song.
A woman in a long gown (Magtelt) stands on the left holding a sword.
A decapitated or magical figure holds up a singing head from the body.
In the background, ghostly or resurrected nude maidens stand near a forest gallows where others are hanging.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21h
pdimagearchive.org/images/7ad9c...
A native of the Kayaye village, dressed head to toe in boughs and leaves as part of the Kongcorong ceremony
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 08/10/2026
Mailing Envelope with Ink and Collage Peter Beard, 1984
Wildlife imagery, such as a green elephant and silhouetted figures, postal cancellations, stamps, and handwritten correspondence addressed to Mr. Matthew Riva in New York.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Goodnight.
Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Legs of Rudolf Nureyev Richard Avedon, 1967
a pair of muscular legs
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Die Sauger (The Suckers) Alfred Kubin, circa 1903
monstrous, tentacled cephalopod-like creature and a female figure intertwined
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Jenny Holzer, Survival Series, 1983
DONT WATCH THE UNDERCLASS. IT'S MORE LIKELY THAT THE WARLORDS WILL KILL YOU.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
The Charles Mingus Cat-alog for Toilet Training Your Cat www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/charles...
The Charles Mingus
CAT-alog
for Toilet Training Your Cat

a cat perched on a toilet seat
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Dragon Day at Cornell University.
Dragon Day at Cornell University, featuring a large dragon float in front of McGraw Hall and the Cornell University Library clock tower.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
'Grotesque Figures from Lincoln Cathedral' Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1885 Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection exhibits.library.cornell.edu/a-d-white-li...
a beast or devil monster on a womans back
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Sultry Day Paul Landacre, 1935 collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/413/...
 A reclining nude figure reading a book near an open window, accompanied by a cat and a glass, looking out onto a landscape with rolling hills
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Ophelia Odilon Redon, c.1903
 Ophelia from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, shown floating amongst water lilies and flowers.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Sleeve Button Union Porcelain Works ca. 1876 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
a frog shape on a lozenge shaped button
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Gordon Coster, c. 1930
steam train on tracks, a person is stood by the rails working on it, and a city is visible in the background
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/10/2026
Goodnight. Louise Bourgeois. To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere
To unravel a torment 
you must begin
somewhere

a whole bunch of hand drawn circles/loops
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/10/2026
disarm the rapist

The Dixie Dugan White Collection of Women’s Rights Memorabilia
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/10/2026
Fenton Johnson ‘Tired’, from “The Book of American Negro Poetry” ed. by James Weldon Johnson, 1922
TIRED

I am tired of work; I am tired of building up somebody else's civilization. Let us take a rest, M'Lissy Jane. I will go down to the Last Chance Saloon, drink a gallon or two of gin, shoot a game or two of dice and sleep the rest of the night on one of Mike's barrels. You will let the old shanty go to rot, the white people's clothes turn to dust, and the Calvary Baptist Church sink to the bottomless pit. You will spend your days forgetting you married me and your nights hunting the warm gin Mike serves the ladies in the rear of the Last Chance Saloon. Throw the children into the river; civilization has given us too many. It is better to die than it is to grow up and find out that you are colored. Pluck the stars out of the heavens. The stars mark our destiny. The stars marked my destiny. I am tired of civilization.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/10/2026
'Asta, a wire-haired terrier, jumps to avoid being vacuumed up.' Kurt Hutton , Picture Post, 1949
a person hoovering and a dog jumps over it
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/10/2026
Robert Lebeck, 1962
person in a telephone booth holding a spray of flowers
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 05/10/2026
Goodnight. Ostsee-Schoner Lyonel Feininger, 1924.
Cubist-influenced expressionism featuring sharp, geometric planes and translucent overlapping layers.
A lone sailing schooner with rust-red and orange sails navigating a tranquil, fractured sea under a muted, hazy sky.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 05/10/2026
www.roadarch.com/fairyparks/p...
mushroom house with chimney.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 05/10/2026
man talking to himself on a computer
If things have gone wrong, I'm talking to myself and you've got a wet towel wrapped around your head.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
Diane and Leo Dillon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_and...
 a woman with a suitcase in a room with surreal, patterned wallpaper and looming, abstract facial features in the background.a central human face filled and surrounded by smaller embedded faces, eyes, and symbolsastronaut in a spacesuit and helmet, standing behind  translucent figures of seated robed peoplea man, image is split in half the left side fainter than the right
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
‘Excalibur’, “Illustration”, Vol. 1, #6 Robert Peak archive.org/details/Illu...
a hand emerging from the water holding a sword. I am sure some wag will make the watery tart joke, and I'll nod and go 'oh so original'an intent looking wizard, below him armoured men ride outa geezer in golden armor stabbing another geezer wiv 'is massive lance
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
John Drysdale, 1967
man carrying a small donkey in a bag
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
Angus McBean by Angus McBean, 1947 www.npg.org.uk/collections/...
a smiling head on some stairs. there is a bucket and mop
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
Ed Cismondi, 1964
Cypress tree trunk in the foreground, with a misty landscape and a distant tree on a rocky knoll in the fog.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
"Unidentified buildings, possibly movie set, associated with Famous Players-Lasky." Arnold Genthe, c.1920
an old, cobblestone alleyway with timber-framed buildings
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
Santa Margherita di Belice, Sicily Ferrante Ferranti, 1987
a black horse going up a rough track or road between crumbling houses after an earthquake
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
Igor Andreev Astrakhan, Russia. ast-news.ru/node/fotokhu...
3 children sit on a porch playing cards, as a cat focuses on the spirit world, piercing the veil with a feline gaze to see the horrors beyond.a tiny kitten paws on metal railings in between tow peoples legs
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
Vieille maison (ancienne commune de Passy), 18 rue Berton, 16ème arrondissement, Paris. Eugène Atget www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-car...
 old cobblestone alleyway in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, a weathered wooden door marked with the number 18 beneath a traditional wall-mounted street lantern.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
Taxi driver in Piazza Castello in Milan, Italy Mario De Biasi, 1950
 driver resting in a public service vehicle, a large fountain in the background
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/10/2026
Its this guy.... www.tmz.com/2025/11/11/s...
'GOLDEN STATE KILLER' PENIS LENGTH IS SIZE

OF PINKY TIP ...
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/10/2026
‘Turning the Tables’, “Pearson’s Magazine” Hawley Morgan, 1919
ghost frightened by a motorcyclist.
TURNING THE TABLES.

There was a ghost on Hangman's HIll-
A highwayman masked and bold,
Who had held up many a lady fair 
Demanding her Jewels and gold.
But he and his horse no longer spring
From the depths of the gloomy ditch, 
For a motor-cyclist appeared one night,
And frightened him off his pitch
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/10/2026
Aymara by Lucius Shepard: Introduction by John Kessel. The Revelations and Pursuits of Timith, Son of Timith by Jessica Amanda Salmonson: Introduction by Thomas Ligotti. Fill It With Regular by Michael Shea: Introduction by Bruce Sterling Signed by all of them.
Axolotl special. Signatures
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/10/2026
Seaford, East Sussex Coast Bill Brandt, 1957 www.moma.org/collection/w...
 human ear in the foreground, monumental chalk cliffs and pebble-strewn beach in the background
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/10/2026
'From 1895 to 1903, photographers Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg operated a commercial studio in the Norwegian town of Horten. Høeg was an active & outspoken suffragist, & used the studio as a meeting place for fellow activists' mashable.com/feature/berg...
two people posing for a formal portraitperson posing  with an umbrellaperson posing in a tight outfit with a knife at the waist
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/10/2026
'David Norliss, a writer working on a book debunking spiritualists and fakers, vanishes from his home in San Francisco, California, leaving behind a series of audio tapes explaining his absence and recent investigations.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDsH... Yes, I made a RPG based on it.
Character sheet
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/10/2026
After the Harvest Tibor Csörgeő, 1930's
Strips of farmland punctuated by stacks of harvested hay
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/10/2026
Robert Doisneau, 1946. www.bygonely.com/robert-doisn...
bedroom, with chairs, a violin rests against one of the chairs and a small dog is pissing on it
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