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VICARIOUS TRAUMA
[noun]
1. the ability to identify with another person, to understand and feel another person’s pain and joy.
2. to experience psychological or physical pain through someone else.
3. vicarious traumatisation: a transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatised clients and their reports of traumatic experiences.
Consistent with the visible watermarking, this artwork is by the artist greengriffin. The title is Guilty Pleasures. The monster depicted is (according to the artist’s tagging) an illithid, which are commonly called mind flayers. Mind flayers were created by Gary Cygax and appeared in the first (1977) edition of the Monster Manual for his Dungeons and Dragons game. Cygax once said of his inspiration: “The mind flayer I made up out of whole cloth using my imagination, but inspired by the cover of Brian Lumley’s novel in paperback edition, The Burrowers Beneath.” He’s referring to the first of Lumley’s Cthulhu Cycle Dieties novels, the 1974 Daw “yellow spine” paperback edition seen here with cover art by Tim Kirk.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
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He’s a sad Creature…..
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This tentacular beauty is the cropped and color-tweaked central portion of an artwork called Enrapture (oil and graphite on wood) by artist Audrey Kawasaki. (Her Wikipedia entry is here.)
According to the artist’s LiveJournal, the piece was part of her 2011 show Restlessly Still at the Merry Karnowski Gallery in Los Angeles. The artist also has a blog where she’s promoting her current work and shows.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
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It was a pretty embarrassing weekend for everyone, when Cthulhu devoured a bunch of microbreweries, got totally wasted, and tried pole dancing on the Space Needle.
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Image is the cover of Terror Tales (September 1934) and contains the text “Terror Tales. September, 15¢. House of Living Death, spine-tingling mystery novel by Arthur Leo Zagat. Dead Man’s Bride by Wyatt Blassingame. Hugh B. Cave, G.T. Fleming-Roberts, and other masters of eerie fiction!” Found in this gallery at The Golden Age.
This artwork is called Shriek by digital artist Adrian Velez (Age-Velez on DeviantArt). The artist calls it a “revamp” of an earlier similar piece. The model for the work is identified by the artist as Manon Kelley.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
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Ben Newman
