Can't recall if I mentioned Farscape already, but it really is a perfect show for inspiring Planescape + Spelljammer campaigns.
http://www.henson.com/fantasy_scifi.php?content=farscape
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Some great stuff from KQ Newsletter, will likely go back to these from time to time ->
My Elven Kingdom is a tumblr of fantasy related images:
http://myelvenkingdom.tumblr.com/
Atlas Obscura has various, wondrous travel destinations from our own world:
Weaver
by JT Stewart
Woman
eat rapidly and dream truths
Dream of weaving kente cloth
Take the red silk threads
in your hands
slim and firm as new trees
Take also the threads of bright
yellow silk and give your
cloth a name
Name it River of Gold
Or
if the king comes w/ his wife
name your cloth
When the queen comes to Accra
Woman
eat rapidly your black-eyed
peas and grits
Look out over the project roofs
the suburban lawn
Remember weaver woman
your home name reads Ashanti
Dream this into truth
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Forest, short film by Designer's Apartment:
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Incredible Fragmented Sculptures Convey Powerful Strength:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/matt-buckley-edge-sculpture
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Joy Ang:
Rain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RS0mpDh5aO4
Two spirits, a boy and a girl, who can only be seen in rainfall. Something is hunting them.
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Final Fantasy, Lightning Returns Opening Cinematic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14tPjDYUrUc
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Wonder Woman short by Rainfall Films:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XATiV3gmy-Q
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31 Haunting Images of Abandoned Places That Will Give You Goose Bumps:
http://www.boredpanda.com/abandoned-places/
2nd Update 4 2-Day:
Trailer for Disney's Frozen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Jw-AeaU5WI
Looks like a variation on the idea of the Snow Queen?
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Second Trailer for Hobbit Movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mbOEknbi4gQ
CGI seems much improved from the last trailer for this film?
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Daphne Arthur’s Landscape of the Fantastic:
http://weirdfictionreview.com/2013/09/daphne-arthurs-landscape-of-the-fa...
"Daphne Arthur’s Smoke Drawings takes us into an other-worldly landscape that is both recognizable and yet beautifully foreign. Many of the objects in her artwork border on appearing animated, thus creating a narrative of the fantastic..."
Trailer for Disney's Frozen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Jw-AeaU5WI
Looks like a variation on the idea of the Snow Queen?
Yes, it's The Snow Queen. As with Rapunzel/Tangled and A Princess of Mars/John Carter, Disney thought they'd have an easier time getting boys to go see the movie if the title seemed less feminine.
Though it looks like they changed the plot completely.
Breaking news (not really)- any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone
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Farscape- Still one of the most visually arresting sci-fi series ever created, low resolution of this link be damned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBZmWFgeeI
John Crichton does the whole clueless thing, in a multi-faction party made up of escaped alien convicts on the run from the ironically named Peacekeepers.
Lexx- ...but if anything, I think Lexx captured the Planejammer dynamic even better than Farscape-- much more hokey and pulp-- to the point of the writers probably having had a nodding acquaintance with AD&D at the very least. From chaotic, imperfect life pitted against stultifying dead order, a whole universe being dismantled piece by piece by a cybernetic lich possessed by the essence of a dead insect civilization, to a third season spent entirely on two planets which are the actual heaven and hell of a previous universe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hs6uUN6FEQ
Cowboy Bebop- They're bounty hunters who don't catch anybody, in the future, in space. The show is both highly episodic and deeply wrapped up in the past. This segment contains some of my favourite brief few minutes of establishing character moments in any series, ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVhM0FTgseg
I always loved how the series could shift from the noir to the ridiculous without questioning itself. It really captures a sense of the mundane in the fantastic (and vice versa) that I think was a big part of Planescape-- and nineties specfic in general.
Ah, thanks for the info Rip!
Good stuff Unsung. I think they changed the "turn animals to stone!" headline because it was inaccurate. Still interesting and definitely fits in with the lower or inner planes.
Heh, great minds think alike as I mentioned Farscape above. 
I need to check out Cowboy Beebop and Lexx, thanks for those!.
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Special Containment Procedures:
A collaborative fiction site where people write about creepy objects/places/people.
Here's an example excerpt:
Description: SCP-056 is a human being of variable size, gender, and appearance, which changes in response to the environment around it, especially in regards to living and sentient beings. Its most common form is of a handsome man in his middle twenties, dressed in a garb of similar appearance to that of the personnel guarding it but of a higher quality and aesthetic value. However, it has been recorded as taking these forms:
A large, well groomed Labrador Retriever (when exposed to Doctor █████ ████'s dog).
A woman of similar appearance to famous actress Scarlett Johannsen when passing by a group of younger female staff.
A female doctor in a white lab coat when speaking with various researchers. When asked to take an IQ test, the subject scored nearly thirty (30) points higher than the highest scoring researcher available.
A male bodybuilder, who was able to lift nearly two-hundred and fifty (250) kilogrammes twice on a bench press machine in the Sector's gym. This was thirty (30) kilogrammes heavier than the strongest security guard's maximum at the time.
A couch of extremely pleasing aesthetic value (when left alone in the subject's room).
These changes will generally occur the moment all people in the area lose focus on the subject, which occurs immediately upon exposure to a new object or person ''(See Addendum 3)''. Filming these changes has proved inconsequential, as any viewing the tapes or feed suffer the same momentary confusion. Clothing will also change during this time, though 056 has yet to manifest any sort of tools or weapons.
It is theoretically impossible to view SCP-056's original or "natural" form. When left in an empty, concrete cell and under closed-loop video surveillance, it took on the form of a higher quality camera, and appeared to monitor the camera watching it. Further attempts to yield its natural form discovered that when alone, it had no readable life signs, including body temperature, heart beat, or weight. It is assumed by researchers that it could not exist without any sort of perception.
Personnel in contact with the subject often report feeling "jealous" or "unsatisfied", yet will often give a great deal of both positive and negative attention to SCP-056, which can be predicted by their personality types. Security staff will often claim that they wish to follow the subject's commands, even if they dislike it or its current form, while researchers in extended contact with it will often try to argue and verbally abuse it, which usually results in the subject sending them out in shame.
SCP-056 is quite capable of speech, and can apparently communicate in any language, verbal or not, and has shown fluency in over 200 dialects, including those invented by cryptographers and hobbyists. It frequently treats the staff around it with disdain, though is generally willing to do whatever is asked of it, so long as the inquiring does so in a submissive way. It expresses interest in magazines, fashion, automobiles, theoretical science, sports, and a multitude of other subjects, usually expressing greater knowledge and understanding of the topic than the person communicating with it. Personnel will generally become angry, disenchanted, or disgusted with SCP-056 after speaking with it for great lengths of time, though they will try to speak with it again if possible. When questioned about other SCPs, it showed fear and occasionally hatred, and refused to speak about any of them, even objects classified as Safe.
'''Additional:''' Subject was found to be working for the clothing design company [DATA EXPUNGED], after an unusual number of homicides, suicides, and mental breakdowns of other models when working around SCP-056. When Class E personnel attempted to detain it, their mannerisms provoked it to change into what appeared to be the form of [DATA EXPUNGED] resulting in the deaths of seventeen (17) agents and ten (10) civilians. The incident was covered up by claiming an employee suffering from psychopathy brought a firearm to work and attacked other workers.
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Cover to Fables #136:
"There are wolves in there, prowling behind the words. Sometimes they come out in the pages. Sometimes they wait until you close the book. The musky wolf-smell can sometimes be masked by the aromatic scent of rosemary. Understand, these are not today-wolves, slinking grayly in packs through deserted places. These are the dire-wolves of old, huge and solitary wolves that could stand their ground against grizzlies."
-Neil Gaiman, excerpted from his "How to Read Gene Wolfe"
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Mond Cards:
http://indiegames.com/2013/10/browser_pick_mond_cards.html#more
"Mond Cards is a terrifying, disorienting experience (at least, it was for me). It's also original and compelling...You spend the game sitting across a table from an eyeless man who is more powerful than he appears. Behind him stand an insectoid thing in pink bikini briefs who is regularly vomiting blood and a bipedal elephant with pinwheel eyes, obviously whacked out of his mind on something. They could be employees, spectators, or losers of previous card games."
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Dan Dos Santos, who did the Fables cover in the last post:
http://www.dandossantos.com/gallery.htm
Karla Ortiz (a revisit?):
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The Wanderer's Library:
http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/
The Wanderer's Library is a collaborative fiction exercise. It's a collection of stories that explore strange and fantastic corners of the world, hidden from ordinary eyes. Some of the stories take place in the distant past, taking the form of legends and fables. Others are from the modern day, hiding in the shadows just out of sight. The basic premise is that there are strange things that are not quite of our world. Some are dangerous, some are merely fascinating. They are all in some respect extraordinary.
A big game hunter searches for hunting in other worlds.
A creature lives in alleyways and junkyards, collecting bits of trash to disguise itself.
A red thing of many parts promises everything you have ever wanted.
Stories here should try to evoke a Sense of Wonder, a sense that there is a larger world beyond the one we know. In the world of the Library, these wonders are hidden, but never truly far away. But never forget that this is a wilder world than our own, and it's never entirely safe, either. Tread with care.
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Song for an Ancient City
Amal El-Mohtar
Merchant, keep your attar of roses,
your ambers, your oud,
your myrrh and sandalwood. I need
nothing but this dust
palmed in my hand’s cup
like a coin, like a mustard seed,
like a rusted key.
I need
no more than this, this earth
that isn’t earth, but breath,
the exhalation of a living city, the song
of a flute-boned woman,
air and marrow on her lips. This dust,
shaken from a drum, a door opening, a girl’s heel
on stone steps, this dust
like powdered cinnamon, I would wear
as other girls wear jasmine and lilies,
that a child with seafoam eyes
and dusky skin might cry, there
goes a girl with seven thousand years
at the hollow of her throat, there
goes a girl who opens her mouth to pour
caravans, mamelukes, a mongolian horde
from lips that know less of roses
than of temples in the rising sun!
Damascus, Dimashq
is a song I sing to myself. I would find
where she keeps her mouth, meet it with mine,
press my hand against her palm
and see if our fingers match. She
is the sound, the feel
of coins shaken in a cup, of dice,
the alabaster clap of knight claiming rook,
of kings castling — she is the clamour
of tambourines and dirbakki,
nays sighing, qanouns musing, the complaint
of you merchants with spice-lined hands,
and there is dust in her laughter.
I would drink it, dry my tongue
with this noise, these narrow streets,
until she is a parched pain in my throat, a thorned rose
growing outwards from my belly’s pit, aching fragrance
into my lungs. I need no other. I
would spill attar from my eyes,
mix her dust with my salt,
steep my fingers in her stone
and raise them to my lips.
2nd Update For Today ->
Alice Russell - Citizens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1CoPJEaV-o
"Citizens of planet earth don't get caught in the act
Don't strive to destruction the flash it's just that
There's something behind these walls, something under the sheets ,I stay
A truth that's been locked in way down in me
You've got to get up , around your space
And take a, take a little time to contemplate
Will we ever see what it's like behind these walls
And are you, are you still moving up everytime you fall, you fall?"
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Some SCPs that might be worth incorporating into a campaign:
The Witch Child - cool way to contain/trick a young reality bender:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-239
The Stairwell - Corrupted section of the Infinite Staircase?:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087
A Situation Comedy - Belongs in the Abyss (shudder):
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1743
13 Places on Earth Thought to be Entrances to Hell:
http://io9.com/13-places-on-earth-thought-to-be-entrances-to-hell-144162...
"While in some belief systems, the afterlife can only be accessed by spiritual means, in others, the underworld could be accessed directly from the Earth. Here are 13 real spots that people have thought (and in a few cases, still do) lead straight to the lands of the dead."
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TRI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rmEm07zbZG4
Another possibility for a less mundane dungeon.
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ElinJ
http://io9.com/game-of-thrones-ladies-get-melancholy-mucha-style-theat-1...
Secundo quia hodie Update (blame Google for the Bad Latin!):
Excerpts from the Wandering Libraries Groups of Interest:
http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/thearchivistslog
“Ye know me, Elias, I’d have decked him then and there if it weren’t for that little lass he had on the leash! He was tuggin’ her about and havin’ her look at things to tell him when they’d die or disappear. I swear now, if it weren’t for the fact that her life was in danger, I’d have decked him right there, but I wasn’t gonna risk letting her get hurt, nosiree! Nosiree!”
“What did I do? Well, I waited ‘til he weren’t lookin’, and I turned myself into a pen knife and laid myself at her feet. Hehe… Sweet little thing knew just were to put it too.”
—From Cordany Wood’s “Madmen Bleed Better”
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Of the Remnant:
The cast off gods, drifters, and vagabonds from worlds that have moved on to other things. Living nightmares and forgotten divinities joined together by a single purpose: being remembered. Most of these creatures believe that if they add a book to the Library telling of their life, belief system, or power, they will achieve immortality. While this is true after a fashion2, most fade away during the writing, as they come to the Library only when at their most desperate. 3
A small legion of these beings joined together at one point4, calling themselves the Remnants, professing that they would believe in each other to achieve their goals.5 Occasionally, a deity long thought dead will be seen wandering through the aisles of the Library, searching for their holy book to remind themselves of who they once were. Often, these beings are recruited by the Remnant, who take them to some place deep beyond the Ways for reasons unknown. 6
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"Their torches are not new to us,
Though they bring a newer sorrow,
When ink was first set to page,
The flames were soon to follow,
Knowledge is feared, and we are they
Who keep and hold it sure,
So remember, when the burners come,
We've seen their kind before."
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Of the Neverwere
There are things that are older, more dangerous, and more terrible than anything that exists, and those are things that never did exist, and never will exist, and don't exist. But they want to. We call these beings the Neverwere. They drift in the hidden corners of places, always just out of sight, "made up remnants of forgotten stories, lost epics, and abandoned dreams."2
In the ancient times3, the Ways were bright and clear as far as you could see, with fruit trees offering a bounty to travelers in exchange for legends of their worlds. However, as more and more people dreamed and lost, told stories that were forgotten, and died without ever knowing themselves, the Ways grew darker and darker, and then, it is claimed, the Neverwere appeared.4 Others claim that the Neverwere are merely the souls of those who honored dead gods, searching for a chance to call upon another for salvation5, while others still say they are merely figments of the imagination given elementary form and body by the Ways.
At any rate, travelers of the Ways began to vanish, and beings started to appear that should not have existed. A fully realized Neverwere has not been seen in millennia, though, as they also prey on each other. One achieving existence is normally devoured by its kin almost instantly.
I, Frankenstein Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXc5epxOH_c
Love the were-gargolyes.
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When the Portal to a Fantasy World Never Opens: Bridge to Terabithia:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/09/banned-books-week-bridge-to-terabithia-...
"Bridge to Terabithia has the dubious distinction of being one of the most frequently banned and/or challenged books in the United States, supposedly because of its references to witchcraft and atheism and a lot of swearing. I have another theory: it’s just so completely tragic and heartbreaking...."
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The Amber Throne:
http://indiegames.com/2013/10/the_amber_throne_looks_like_a_.html
"Things start strong with the story. Long ago, the Amber God saw a prophetic vision of his death during a rebellion and knew the power of the throne couldn't fall into the wrong hands. He raised his kingdom into the sky and encased it in an impenetrable cloud. His vision came to pass and the rebellion claimed his life. Sealed away, the uprising died where it began. However, before he removed his realm off from the land of mortals, he hid his sleeping daughter away with the hopes that she would someday awake and destroy the throne. His daughter is named Arra, the game's main character, and your time with her begins as she wakes up in an unfamiliar era. Her goal is to finish her father's work and destroy the Amber Throne.
As your journey begins, you experience everything for the first time just the same as Arra. Your progress through this strange world is somewhat guided through messages from your father, who wrote them before he died. You'll meet all manners of beings on your quest, from humanoid birds to reptilian soldiers. Some may even join your party. As should be expected, you'll eventually find that there are powers that scheme to use the Amber Throne for their own ambitions, providing an opposing force for you to contend with....
...The actual geography of the world's four provinces has been warped over time by previous Amber Gods. While there are forests and deserts, there is a floating mountain chained to the earth beneath it, lest it drift away. These areas contain dungeons for you to explore, and while their purpose currently remains a mystery, each of them will have some sort of theme. One of the earliest dungeons focuses on the manipulation of time. We're told that careless players may find themselves repeating battles they've already won if they aren't careful..."
With Many Voices:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-939
Fiendish or aberrant creatures with a freaky reproductive method. You can probably skip over the containment stuff and just read the description and reproduction documents.
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Robot Koch:
https://soundcloud.com/robot-koch
Some interesting music, maybe what celestials listen to while chilling.
I like "Waiting Like a Wolf".
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Pinkabsinthe:
http://pinkabsinthe.deviantart.com/
League of Legends Cinematic: A Twist of Fate (revisit?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnsqpThaFg
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The Last Magician of Moscow:
http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-last-magician-of-moscow
Tikhon bent over the strange creature and looked it over. A narrow, fur-covered head, terminating in a thin, crooked beak. The creature's fingers had grown long and pencil-thin and had begun to sprout feathers. There was no mistaking it.
"It seems that your friend here was subjected to a spell of transformation. Magicians like to booby trap their books for unwary fools," he explained, glancing at the creature. It looked down to avoid his gaze...
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Hanna Yata:
Lead Me:
Benevolent Aberrations?
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Sleep Walk With Me:
Dead lovers passing through the Heart of Dream?
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Contrast (revisit?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p1Zyo-ZufnE
Shadow dancing
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Preview: Julian Callos’s “Cosmos” at WWA Gallery
hifructose.com/2013/10/10/preview-julian-calloss-cosmos-at-wwa-gallery/
Another Contrast Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r9RrRt1krP8
"Introducing Didi, a little girl trying to reunite her parents with the help of Dawn, her imaginary friend. Didi is an independent, adventure-loving, spirited little girl who lives with her mother, Kat. Her father, Johnny, left Didi and Kat some time ago, but Didi yearns for her father's return every day and compensates for his absence through Dawn, a friend, who always seems to be by Didi's side when no one else is around."
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Guild Wars 2 Official Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8VrQMIX8M
Aberrant crabs, possibly undead dragons, leopard people, cyclopses, centaurs, rat men, ice worms, and more!
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Mr. Nobody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJAP8q_iPOw
"I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I haven't been alive enough."
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Gilly Face Photos:
https://www.facebook.com/gillyfacephotos/photos_stream
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/gillian-woods-gillyface-photog...
2nd Update For Today:
Arcadias no Ikusahime Soundtrack:
http://kotaku.com/a-great-looking-game-with-a-beautiful-soundtrack-to-ma...
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Olav and the Lute:
http://www.olavandthelute.com/
http://indiestatik.com/2013/10/10/olav-the-lute/
“Dive into the post-apocalyptic fantasy world, solve puzzles, discover melodies, change the game-world with your mystical lute and .. fix it?
It’s kept simple and mysterious and has a sense of Germanic dark fantasy about it, but is grounded in the harsher realities of a post-apocalyptic reality too. Play Olav & the Lute for free, either in your browser, or you can download the game separately (Windows only) if you wish. ”
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Daviddleonluis:
http://daviddleonluis.deviantart.com/gallery/
Kotaku "Take A Look" covering the horror game Knock Knock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vd0xfsQonh4
Could be an interesting one shot involving children PCs?
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Grim Games: The Wishing Table, the Gold Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack
http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page16940.php#.UlmH_SSE5w8
...“The Wishing Table, the Gold Ass, and the Cudgel” is a great example of how to use folktales to give magic items a history. If you are playing a game system that uses a great deal of magic items, you shouldn’t rely on tales too often, but if they are rare, or if you are using artifacts in your game, a folktale is a great tool for adding flavor to them. Short tales are even more useful when you want to emphasize an item’s importance and don’t want to see it sold off in the next trip to town...
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Constellaction (short film):
https://vimeo.com/pangenerator/constellaction
A festival in a Gate Town to the Upper Planes?
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Rachel Koscica:
http://www.rachaelkoscica.com/
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/sweetly-surreal
Today's Update, Second of its Name:
To the Makers of Music:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1342
"A radially symmetric organism...is shown in various stages of development. Fully grown, the organism is approximately 2 m tall, and has three legs and three elongated arms, with each hand having three fingers, positioned around a central axis on a roughly cylindrical torso.
Three snout-like protrusions exist in place of a head, each ending in a beak. 82% of the encoded images show SCP-1342-3 in a wide variety of presumed cultural settings. Scenes identified include agriculture, manufacturing, urban crowds and the playing of music on a string-and-bow instrument....
...One planet shown has a partially Earth-like surface consisting of approximately 60% liquid water, 4% urbanisation and plant life and 36% apparent desert and wasteland. The planet has larger than expected storms and icecaps than would be suggested by physical quantities supplied by SCP-1342-2, and appears to be undergoing massive ecological collapse. An outline of a specimen of SCP-1342-3 is shown next to this planet."
"...We learned from you. The scientific revolution following our meeting was miraculous. We lived beyond our natural years and we lived well. Humans uplifted us into an Elysian state, but we could never thank you. From our far away place we quietly deciphered your secrets and over time our technology became your equal.
Together we went, advancing our mastery of the universe. We shared our technology with your leaders in secret, to try and re-pay you for all you will do. In time, came the Gates. At a great expense of energy, we could obtain limitless velocity. With time dilation preserved, we could fly to the universe's birth, and its death. The entirety of creation was within our mutual grasp..."
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Ships That Pass In The Night:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1522
You can skip to Description. GOC stands for Global Occult Coalition, whose site is here:
http://goc.wikidot.com/mission-statement
The Loss
By Mari Ness
Later, what she missed
was never the wings: the constant tending,
the endless preening, the heart-loss
of each and every feather-fall, but rather
the silence of the open sky,
the thunder of the raging storm,
of how sometimes on the clearest nights
she knew her wings had touched the stars.
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Almiraj stats from Paizo:
http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lfbf?Little-Bunny-Fufu
"The almiraj is a surprisingly dangerous predator. Almirajes' strong affinity with witches, magical gore attacks, and susceptibility to hexes suggest they have arcane origins, perhaps the result of experiments by witches seeking to deliberately create a new kind of familiar."
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Polkip:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/polly-forbes-gower-polkip-patt...
Thoughts on the Unreal, Part 1: Anticipation
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/01/thoughts-on-the-unreal-part-1-anticipation
"How can a literary form so self-consciously unreal have even more appeal than a tale set firmly within the bounds of the real world?
Well, my English major’s brain couldn’t resist the chance of a little analysis...."
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SCP-1446
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1446
SCP-1446 is any of a number of examples of an acrylic based, spray paint graffiti. SCP-1446 can appear in any format which can be depicted by this medium on a conventional surface, making instances of SCP-1446 difficult to distinguish until their anomalous properties manifest.
When a person observes an instance of SCP-1446, and consciously focuses on the art, it will immediately begin to spread, expanding over all available surfaces rapidly, introducing new themes and elements as it grows. This effect will last as long as it continues to be both visually and consciously examined by a human being. This can quickly grow hazardous as the expanding area covers buildings, vehicles, even people, spreading over skin, eyes, and into orifices.
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Diggie Vitt:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diggie-Vitt-Photography/354254997987107
Marcin Kołpanowicz:
http://www.kolpanowicz.art.pl/
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/marcin-kolpanowicz-the-invisib...
http://tadeo-art.pl/galeria/artysci/KOLPANOWICZ-Marcin/99
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Explore our Changing World:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/national-geographic-your-shot-...
http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/assignments/explore-our-changing-...
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Food Art:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/samantha-lee-pop-culture-food-...
The Random DM: NPC Descriptions:
http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page16998.php#.Ul8MCCSE5w8
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SCP-1913:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1913
"SCP-1913-1 is a sentient ceramic statue depicting a cat, measuring 20.5 cm in height and weighing 8.3 kg. SCP-1913-1 has the name 'Agatha' etched on the bottom, and is decorated with white gloss paint on the nose, ears, and forehead, and a black, wet ink-like substance around the object's eyes, mouth, and paws. SCP-1913-1 is capable of communication, emanating a young female voice from its interior. SCP-1913-1 has shown disdain towards Foundation personnel, but is cooperative when threatened through the shaking of its container. SCP-1913-1 has given considerable information regarding other SCP-1913 instances' abilities and reasons for pursuit, but has also been known to withhold information or give false statements relevant to its own containment, such as it not detailing its detestation towards sulfur.
The ink covering SCP-1913-1's eyes, mouth, and paws is composed of 50.9% water, 48% ash, 0.9% salt, and 0.2% silver. Upon contact with a living subject's epidermis, the substance will be absorbed by the subject's pores."
"SCP-1913-2 is an animate humanoid skeleton covered in dark hair and ash, which gives it the physical shape of a female humanoid. SCP-1913-2's skeleton is human in structure, with the exception of its skull and digits, which appear to belong to a large canine. SCP-1913-2 is capable of moving at speeds of up to 65 kph, despite lacking the tissues required for motility."
"SCP-1913-3 appears to be adolescent, male black Labrador retriever (Canis lupus familiaris), lacking a mouth, nose and eyes. SCP-1913-3's face consists of several ragged holes mimicking a grinning visage, which reveals a dim white light. SCP-1913-3 is sentient, and refers to itself as 'Freddie'. SCP-1913-3 refuses to elaborate on its reasons for its pursuit of SCP-1913-1 beyond 'family matters', but it has been reported that SCP-1913-3 does not want to harm SCP-1913-1. Information from SCP-1913-1 suggests a physical change in SCP-1913-1's form, but has not been confirmed."
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Incredibly Close Details of Creatures Below the Sea:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/todd-bretl-underwater-photography
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Michal Janowski:
http://hifructose.com/2013/10/16/michal-janowskis-mixed-media-work-plays...
SCP-1193:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1193
I especially like the author breaking down the four possible explanations:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/ophite-s-personnel-file
"That's what the barely-disguised contempt by the voice on the other end of the phone is. We could help it climb out of its oven, or get its hand out of the jelly jar, if only we understood a few basic facts about the universe. The same facts which the person who installed the telephone understood to a degree that he thought the arm was unremarkable. And that's the terrible part: how commonplace our misconceptions are, and how desperately wrong our attempts at grasping the nature of the universe have been."
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At the Twilight
At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;
Then it landed on earth to look at me.
Like a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey;
That moon stole me and rushed back into the sky.
I looked at myself, I did not see me anymore;
For in that moon, my body turned as fine as soul.
The nine spheres disappeared in that moon;
The ship of my existence drowned in that sea.
-Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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God and the Theological Problem of Evil in Yoruba Belief:
http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v2/v2i1a1.htm
"In all the previous works which have relevance to the religion of the Yoruba, the Deity has been assigned a place which makes Him remote, of little account in the Scheme of things. Very few people who really know the Yoruba can escape the uneasy feeling that there is something inadequate, to say the least, about such a notion; and it is the "uneasy feeling" that led to my investigation of what the Yoruba actually believe about the Deity"
1,200 Whimsical Stone Statues at Buddhist Temple in Kyoto:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/otagi-nenbutsu-ji-temple-rakan...
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Striking Organic Sculptures Made of Bird Feathers:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/kate-mccgwire-feather-sculptur...
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Elena Dudina:
http://elenadudina.deviantart.com/
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Stars Cold Night:
http://starscoldnight.deviantart.com/
Liber Vampyr, free Path Finder supplement:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/119501/Liber-Vampyr
" Designed to be a player character race and intended to have access to a wide array of different vampiric “blood powers,” Liber Vampyr invited players to build their own vampire, based on whatever interpretation of vampires they preferred, and was fully designed with vampire player characters in mind, allowing them to progress through their vampiric power the same way that a sorcerer progresses through arcane magic."
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Beast of a Thousand Broken Hearts (pay what you want):
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/88460/Beast-of-a-Thousand-Broken-H...
"“You have summoned me, you who would destroy love. This is the last time you will ever have the choice of opening your heart to another. If you speak a name now, you are damned in this life. Be silent and I will depart. You will never summon me again.
Speak now a name and I will seek them out and destroy them and you will have lost all that is worthy of beauty in this world.”"
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Download Five Years of Tor.com’s Original Fiction for Free! (revisit?)
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/07/download-five-years-of-tordotcom-stories
Note that registering is free.
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Dion Banks:
Toren Trailer (puzzle game):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4u6VjOpTQyc
A little girl braving Ysgard, Arborea, or the Outlands?
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Book of Wonder, a free pdf of Lord Dunsany's short stories:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/28942/%28Fantasy-Classics%29-The-B...
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A sculptor carves his final work as the last humans turn to crows:
http://io9.com/a-sculptor-carves-his-final-work-as-the-last-humans-tur-1...
"The city of Bet She'an is undergoing a mystical apocalypse, neglected as its last human inhabitants transform into crows. But a lone sculptor pushes aside the strange terrors of the increasingly lonely city in order to complete his final tribute to humanity."
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DanilLovesFood:
http://danillovesfood.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&sort=popularity
"Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?"
-William James
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Here With Me - Susie Suh x Robot Koch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzR8BCmV9Ew
"Caught in the red tide
I was searching for the Truth
There was a reason
I collided into you.
Calling your name in the midnight hour
Reaching for you in the endless dream..."
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Omar Rayyan:
http://hifructose.com/2013/10/21/the-fantastical-paintings-of-omar-rayyan/
http://studiorayyan.com/index.php
Sunday Without God brings a strange new world to life
http://kotaku.com/sunday-without-god-brings-a-strange-new-world-to-life-...
Apparently it's a future Earth where death only comes if a gravekeeper collects your soul, and wish spells abound to be abused.
Free on Hulu right now.
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Bag of Lost Things:
http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page17022.php#.UmaoyiSE5w8
"In an attempt to make money, a misguided wizard was experimenting with a way to connect one bag of holding with multiple others, as well as portable holes, through extradimensional spaces. Knowing the risk involved, he did so in secret not only to protect others, but to protect his investment should his experiments work. But because of a misspoken word during his testing, he accidentally created a new pocket dimension and filled it with the contents of every bag of holding, portable hole, secret chest, and any other extradimensional space at the time."
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Bizarre Furniture Inspired by Animals and Bugs:
http://io9.com/bizarre-furniture-inspired-by-animals-and-bugs-1448963652
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Tyler Jacobson:
http://www.tylerjacobsonart.com/#home
http://tylerjacobson.blogspot.com.au/
The Devil's Dictionary:
http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/
"Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary was a newspaper weekly first collected as a book in 1906. While the book represents diabolical appetites, and derides pretense, it should be noted that Bierce generally reserved his severest ridicule for those who benefit most from the status quo..."
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Malekith Rises* in Thor 2:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=48524
*I thought I posted this earlier, but when I search for it nothing comes up.
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The Riddle of the Ruk:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1433901524/the-strange-a-tabletop-rp...
"Although biological form—through a series of relatively quick genetic redesigns and modular grafts—is relatively fluid among the natives of this realm, they revere the original basis of their race, which they call the true code. Ruk scientists constantly look for fragments of their lost genetic origins. Ruk religions, such as the Church of the Embodiment, honor their ancient ancestors and some believe that a “scion of the true code” will arise and make himself or herself known as a messianic figure.
The All Song sings through every cell of every engineered tissue on Ruk. A biological data network, it allows those of Ruk to store information and communicate over vast distances. The presence of the All Song—some might say, the consciousness of it—encourages more and more development in the arts of genetics and bioengineering through facilitation and advice. There are those who fear that the All Song is a direct contradiction to the true code—a viral presence literally unwinding the natives of Ruk from their original heritage and taking them farther and farther into a future away from their revered past.
The so-called “riddle of Ruk” then, of which philosophers, poets, and priests speak, is the juxtaposition of the true code and the All Song—the call toward the past and the impetus toward the future—and its effect on all the natives of this world/craft. They embrace the contradictions of their nature, the contradictions they find in life, and even the contradictions of the situation in which they find themselves wanting to see Earth as both friend and foe."
Elegy for a Dead World (game trailer):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fhY200ZiZ2c
"Write what you can imagine...Your words are all that keep these worlds from being forgotten."
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Pathfinder stats for Tooth Fairy:
http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lfd4?Bestiary-4-Preview-3
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Liten (short film):
New celestial for the Beastlands?
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Naoto Hattori:
http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery.html
http://www.indiesart.com/artist/28-naoto-hattori
DDN's revised take on Succubi/Incubi:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20130917
"Succubi and incubi are neither demons nor devils. Like such creatures as night hags, they operate freely throughout the lower planes and can often be found in the service of powerful devils, demons, night hags, rakshasas, and yugoloths. They are as common in the Nine Hells as they are in the Abyss. Asmodeus, Lord of the Nine Hells, uses them to tempt mortals to perform evil acts, while the demon lord Grazzt keeps succubi and incubi as concubines and advisors."
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100 Demonic Summoning Mishaps (Pay what you want):
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/110465/100-Demonic-Summoning-Mishaps
15. Dead, twisted trees sprout from the ground, their limbs showing the twisted features of witch souls.
69. Summoner must complete an autobiography, to be deposited in the libraries of hell, within the month, or die.
96. The summoning is accompanied by clothes made from human skin that the summoner must wear for 1d100 days or fall ill and die.
p.s. Here's the entire product line of lists:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=5027
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Hanna Jaeun:
http://hifructose.com/2013/10/24/the-surreal-animals-of-hanna-jaeun/
Imagine portal stations like subway stations, maybe in the bustling city of Union:
Waiting at the airport on my suitcase, a girl traveling from Spain became my sudden friend, though I did not learn her name.
And when the subway dimmed
a stranger lit my way.
This is the brotherhood of man.
I never can say what I mean
but you will understand,
coming through clouds on the way.
This is the brotherhood of man.
-the innocence mission, brotherhood of man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFhtzFNEX1o
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Steven Universe Full Pilot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5Ab4rs8Jo
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Randy Ortiz:
https://www.facebook.com/randyortizDTD
Rum pours from the nostrils of this massive devil horse cake:
http://io9.com/rum-pours-from-the-nostrils-of-this-massive-devil-horse-1...
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Steampunk Frankenstein's Monster is full of grotesque details:
http://io9.com/steampunk-frankensteins-monster-is-full-of-grotesque-d-14...
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Kankodraa, Scion of the Abyssal Lord Dagon:
http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page10780.php#.Um1a7CSE5w8
Taller than two men, this massive creature stares down from a crazed woman’s face of cerulean skin, the color of the deepest seas, wreathed in a wet tangle of blue-green, kelp-like hair.
Her eyes are obsidian, her mouth a twisted, oversized gash of 2-inch ragged teeth. The distended jaw does not mask the wicked, open grin of brutal hunger or a long, serpentine tongue. About her hips hangs a belt of waterlogged heads, some missing a nose, eye, or ear.
Four arms, tipped with razor-sharp talons stained black with blood, unceasingly claw for prey. She pauses to sniff the air, then strides past your hiding place, her shark-like tail subconsciously swaying from side to side....
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benjamin collison:
http://benco42.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/
Reset:
http://kotaku.com/5905471/this-games-trailer-is-too-pretty-to-be-real
'Reset's creators describe it as a "single-player co-op first-person puzzle game." You travel back in time to solve puzzles cooperatively with yourself.'
Second Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g063gr1SPWU
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Demonic Cults for D&D Next:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20130514
"One of the things we want to accomplish in D&D Next is to develop the groups that serve the various demon princes and archdevils. We want to flesh them out into groups that are distinct from each other, each with its own look, agenda, and membership. So this week’s column is basically a stab at that—looking at the ways that mortals worship three different demon princes."
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Lin Shih Yung:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/linshih-yung/with/9182139958/
https://www.facebook.com/shihyunglin/photos_stream
Carina Round's For Everything A Reason:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR5tvgGj6SI
"...And so they say lord, for everything a reason
My house is haunted by wrong desire
And on my skin left the scent of indignation
And so they say baby, for everything a reason
Don't call me back, I had everything I needed
For every lie, honey, the truth lay underneath it
Oh so they say baby, for everything a reason..."
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Wolf Children Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8SlB-SpDMKI
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13th Age Monster Sighting: Dybbuk ->
http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=13257
The stories surrounding dybbuks are often contradictory, probably muddied by the dybbuk themselves. For your game decide which one or more of the following ideas are true:
Dybbuks are demons who seek physical bodies to do evil deeds. They imitate the recently departed to confuse demon-hunters who hear about them. [demon]
Dybbuks are the souls of the dead who wish to continue living in warm bodies. [undead]
Dybbuks are strange visitors from another realm who use the memories of the dead as their guides and the bodies of the living as their vessels. [aberration]
Dybbuks are possibility-echoes of those who never were, people who could have existed if not for the birth of another. [aberration]
Dybbuks are the souls of those who were rewritten out of existence by magic. [undead]
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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? ->
http://io9.com/noam-chomsky-has-officially-become-a-science-fiction-ch-1...
" This is a documentary about nothing less than how we perceive reality. It's from Michel Gondry, who directed the mind-melters Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, and it stars controversial linguistics professor Noam Chomsky.
Called Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, the movie is also animated by Gondry, with whimsical illustrations that help illuminate difficult philosophical concepts about how we categorize objects and come to know the world by giving things names."
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Roby Dwi Antono:
http://hifructose.com/2013/10/28/the-unsettling-dreamy-paintings-of-roby...
That Elusive Choice Point:
http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=12714
Robin D. Laws explains how to make your players feel like they have choices available to them in your scenario.
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To Leave, where you're a boy flying around via a door that's also a portal:
http://indiegames.com/2013/10/trailer_to_leave.html
http://freakycreations.net/projects/?project=to-leave
"We use surreal artistic elements with imaginative elements that make you feel like you're in some kind of dream, maybe a nightmare? We leave that answer to the player."
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Perttu Saksa:
"My interest is in the way of being with hyenas – man has not captured them for statement of his masculinity and power. His relationship between the animal is a strange meeting of true affection and genuine respect for hyenas in the wild. The hyena is wild, it comes from the night and it must remain itself.
By stating this he displays to the locals his mystical power – to be able to charm wild and precautious hyenas by calling them by name from desert’s darkness to his home."
"Modern city culture has turned the old tradition in to eerie and haunting act of cruel street theatre where animals become something else, never able to reach our expectations."
"The ways of seeing and reading these posing animals have many layers – historically, scientifically, culturally, linguistically and esthetically. Echo questions how our histories are written and represented through photography and natural science. These different ways and possibilities of investigating the pictures make them more alive and interesting, not only to be tied to one specific interpretation of nature, rather about human condition, ways of writing history and relating on ourselves."
Into The Strange Itself:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1433901524/the-strange-a-tabletop-rp...
"Composed of what physicists and astronomers on Earth call dark energy (or, more precisely, dark energy is the expression that the network takes as it intersects our own universe), the Strange exists on the principle that everything—all of reality—is simply information. Thus, it exists as a data network capable of hosting almost limitless amounts of information, and it is always expanding.
Over its billions of years of existence, entire worlds have taken seed within the Strange, grown, and flowered with their own unique sets of rules to govern them. These rules have no boundaries, but once they are set, they are set, firming up a portion of the Strange with a new reality called a recursion."
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Banksy's Street Art Comes to Life in Clever Animated GIFs:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/abvh-animated-banksy-street-ar...
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Lucy Hardie:
The World's Strangest and Most Magnificent Gardens:
http://io9.com/the-worlds-strangest-and-most-magnificent-gardens-1453572364
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Elevators of Valparaiso:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/elevators-of-valparaiso
"The neighborhood built on Bellavista Hill features one of the city's most unique features with its system of boxy elevators that ferry people up and down the steep, closely-packed hill. Known as "funicular" elevators, the unusual public transit method consists of a cable car which is pulled up and lowered down a steep incline. Looking like small boxcars that are delicately balanced as the metal cable drags them up the hill, the elevators recall American railroad engineering put to some off-kilter purpose."
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All Teasers for American Horror Story 3: Coven ->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXhDLbONO6o
This season is a crazy mess, though I was glad the practitioners of Voodoo aren't villainous caricatures.
Note there was a video on Voodoo in New Orleans that felt sorta informative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g_9so4pmAg
As always, I'm not endorsing or refuting any faith. Just thinking it might inspire elements of a game.
"Do those things, god damnit, because nothing sucks worse than a girl who reads. Do it, I say, because a life in purgatory is better than a life in hell. Do it, because a girl who reads possesses a vocabulary that can describe that amorphous discontent of a life unfulfilled—a vocabulary that parses the innate beauty of the world and makes it an accessible necessity instead of an alien wonder.
A girl who reads lays claim to a vocabulary that distinguishes between the specious and soulless rhetoric of someone who cannot love her, and the inarticulate desperation of someone who loves her too much. A vocabulary, goddamnit, that makes my vacuous sophistry a cheap trick. Do it, because a girl who reads understands syntax. Literature has taught her that moments of tenderness come in sporadic but knowable intervals. A girl who reads knows that life is not planar; she knows, and rightly demands, that the ebb comes along with the flow of disappointment."
-You Should Date a Girl Who Doesn’t Read:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/charles-warnke/2011/01/dont-date-a-girl-who-re...
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World's Largest Buddha Statue Carved into a Cliff:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/leshan-giant-buddha
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Tara McPherson:
"A rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan.
Often mistakenly referred to as “female samurai”, female warriors have a long history in Japan, beginning long before samurai emerged as a warrior class."
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Carina Round - 'Do You'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-jTN7r_fww
"I walked in circles, walked the line
Tripped through tangled heart strings
Made an enemy of time
Made a mess of all things, all things
I have thought and think about, what and how to tell you
I have lived it seems without learning how to be true
But I meant every word I said, from deranged to divine
And I would do it all again, as if for the first time, the first time"
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Yozartwork:
http://yozartwork.deviantart.com/
Anklesocks:
http://anklesnsocks.deviantart.com/
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"Karma, in the original Buddhist scriptures, is a blind machine; in fact, it is functionally identical with the scientific concept of natural law. Sentimental ethical ideas about justice being built into the machine, so that those who do evil in one life are punished for it in another life, were added later by theologians reasoning from their own moralistic prejudices.
Buddha simply indicated that all the cruelties and injustices of the past are still active: their effects are always being felt. Similarly, he explained, all the good of the past, all the kindness and patience and love of decent people is also still being felt.
Since most humans are still controlled by fairly robotic reflexes, the bad energy of the past far outweighs the good, and the tendency of the wheel is to keep moving in the same terrible direction, violence breeding more violence, hatred breeding more hatred, war breeding more war. The only way to "stop the wheel" is to stop it inside yourself, by giving up bad energy and concentrating on the positive. This is by no means easy, but once you understand what Gurdjieff called "the horror of our situation," you have no choice but to try, and to keep on trying."
-Robert Anton Wilson
New Hobbit Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfflhfn1W-o
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The Creepy GM: Dark Teleportation and Other Horrors:
http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page17068.php
"Teleportation magic is inherently creepy, and movies such as The Philadelphia Project and The Fly can vouch for that. I have a player in my home game who is intensely aware of her character’s vulnerability as a wizard, and she works hard to make sure her character is surrounded by tough allies. She also makes use of mage eye and other viewing spells. When that character learned the spell teleport, I played up the possibility of accidents, mainly as a way to minimize its casual use without preventing the players from using it when important or necessary. I also had read a short story by Clark Ashton Smith."
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Gorgeous Turquoise Pools of Pamukkale, Turkey:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/pamukkale-turkey-turquoise-pools
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MTG Art:
http://theartofmtg.tumblr.com/page/3
The Cult of the Charun: Initiates of the Mysteries:
http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page16955.php#.UnqQCY2E5w8
"The Initiates of the Mysteries are a confederation of lesser Charun death cults. This cult’s Master Undertakers are often of noble blood or hail from the clergy of less persecuted religions, while lower-ranked Undertakers and Initiates are recruited from all walks of life. Through ritual, these cultists seek both to prolong life and to ease their own death, all while gaining standing among the minions and servants of Hades—God of the Underworld and King of the Dead. Membership brings an assurance that the gold obolus each cultist wears upon a necklace will be placed beneath their tongue before burial. Initiates are predominantly neutral, and, like the Charun, revel in expressions of both good and evil, especially when occurring simultaneously and accompanied by pain."
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Jarmusch's Vampire Romance 'Only Lovers Left Alive' Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BN6jVUW2XZM
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IRON MAIDEN DREAM OF MIRRORS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyoZkUzaUV4
"
Have you ever felt the future is the past, but you don't know how...?
A reflected dream of a captured time, is it really now, is it really happening?
Don't know why I feel this way, have I dreamt this time, this place?
Something vivid comes again into my mind
And I think I've seen your face, seen this room, been in this place
Something vivid comes again into my mind..."
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Powerful Portraits of Secluded Cultures on the Brink of Extinction:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/jimmy-nelson-before-they-pass-...
Might be a bit heavy for a casual game, but I think it is possible to intellectually explore cultural extinction within an RPG. Especially within Planescape.
One World to Rule Them All: The Six Pillars of Middle Earth (article)->
Part 1:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/08/story-worlds-lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-...
Part 2:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/08/story-worlds-lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-...
"Why did The Lord of the Rings become such a classic? There are many answers to this question, most more sophisticated than anything I’ll be able to conjure up today. So instead of going deep with the book, I’m instead going to use it to lay down some broad fundamentals about what goes into creating a story world, which in turn should give us some talking points for future articles."
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Black Sabbath - A National Acrobat (1973):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WW9r4cokws
"I am the world that hides
The universal secret of all time
Destruction of the empty spaces
Is my one and only crime
I've lived a thousand times
I found out what it means to be believed
The thoughts and images
The unborn child that never was conceived"
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Jeff Soto (revisit?):
While I have contributed nothing to this thread, I keep meaning to congradulate Sciborg on the sheer volume of material (most of it pretty excellent) that you are able to find
Thanks! I've admittedly broadened what I think of as relating to Planescape. Sometimes I see artwork that would belong in a planar gallery or the home of someone like Estavan, sometimes it represents a scene I'd expect to encounter while traveling realities.
Sometimes a quote might be something someone said or just gets to the feel of the setting, and so on.
For my part I've begun to think of Sigil as accessing far more planes than the Great Wheel.
So really if anything gives you that numinous feeling or makes you think about gaming I'd consider posting it. What is irrelevant for some might be really useful for others
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7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding:
http://io9.com/7-deadly-sins-of-worldbuilding-998817537
"Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it's the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole story, and leave your characters feeling pointless. Here are seven deadly sins of worldbuilding."
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Fly through paintings in Serendipity (Game):
http://indiestatik.com/2013/11/07/keep-momentum-fly-abstract-paintings-s...
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The Dark Technological Metropolis Of NaissanceE (Game):
http://indiestatik.com/2013/11/06/naissancee-2/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_6DTjWX7rh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uDSi1-lACNk
A decaying Plane of Law that was a precursor to Mechanus? The remnants of a dead power's realm? A dungeon crafted by spellweavers?
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Alexandre Chaudret:
http://eyardt.artworkfolio.com/
The Candlelit World: The Dark Roots of Myth and Fantasy ->
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mahon_08_13/
"Three concepts appear over and over: the wilderness, the thresholds between man and the world, and the dark. These are the elements that define the candlelit world, which now permeates fantasy so deeply that it has become inseparable from the genre."
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American Horror Story : Asylum - All The Teasers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOL454k0RWs
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Mattias Fahlberg:
http://mattiasfahlberg.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/
Morrigan, Keeper of the Undead:
http://www.accursedrpg.com/2013/09/the-morrigan-keeper-of-undead.html#more
"...While the Morrigan has outlawed any trespass into the Blackroot Wode, there are many stories of travelers and adventurers making their way there. Few ever return, but there are legends that the Witch has chosen to ignore her own rules from time to time, particularly for the purpose of hearing a story or song she has not experienced before. It is said that there are a number of clan bards that she has kept frozen in ice within her court, releasing them once per turning of the moon for a contest of her favor. The winner is released and banished from the wode, whilst the others are returned to their frigid cages..."
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The Void Corebook (Pay What You Want):
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/117563/The-Void-Core-PDF?src=s_pi&...
"2159 AD. It is a good time to be alive. The nations of Earth still exist, but they have become more civilized, and humanity has expanded into the rest of our solar system. But, alas, it is not to be our time. Something approaches, a thing on an orbit from far away. Seemingly a mysterious shard of dark matter, this object is known in obscure prophecy as the Chthonian Star. It is awakening things long thought lost or dead, things that have slumbered awaiting its return. The Unified World Council sends out special teams of sanctioned Wardens, whose job it is to ascertain the new threats to human life, to learn everything they can about them, and fight them wherever they are found...."
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Images from Mike Carey and Peter Grossman's Unwritten:
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