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Tag: Myths and Legends

Here's the Thing
Rob's black cat Finley, adorably resting his chin on a carpeted cat tower.

The False Myth of the Black Cat

By Rob Rich • June 15th, 2023

While the times have changed, black cats are sometimes still saddled with unfair stigma – and Rob rants about why that’s ridiculous.

Forms in Light
A prime example of Capriccio, the painting depicts an idyllic countryside with several structures displaying different architectural styles.

Fantastic Follies

By Justin Reeve • June 14th, 2023

These wildly impractical structures were made for purely aesthetic purposes, perfectly complementing their pastoral surroundings.

Always Autumn
The sparely-lit stage of a punk show, camera moved during shuttering to create a purple and yellow-blurred portrait of a drum kit, a guitarist, a singer.

Last Night I Went to a House Show

By Autumn Wright • June 13th, 2023

Folded arms, cold gazes, straight couples dressed like they wanna be at a club in Williamsburg, which is to say “Kind of gay, but don’t be mistaken.”

Casting Deep Meteo
A grandiose painting of the famous Trojan horse from The Illiad being wheeled through the gates.

Threading the Timeline

By Levi Rubeck • June 9th, 2023

What is myth and legend other than image control, public relations, bending truth into natural blondness (or just that if one’s hair is blond they are a blonde).

Area of Effect
A man in a puffy periwinkle jacket and tall yellow boots peers downwards into a rock pool in front of a pink-hued sunset.

Flooded Memories

By Jay Castello • June 8th, 2023

What traces will our current sea level rise leave in the record? Cities under the water, yes, but what myths emerge from real Atlantises?

Rookie of the Year
The QVC logo in red and black.

The Legend of T2419

By Matt Marrone • June 7th, 2023

We tried every dumb thing you might think of, and more. But none stood the test of time like T2419.

The Burnt Offering
American composer Laurie Spiegel seated at several synthesizers and computers in her electronic music studio.

The Kosmische Cosmos

By Stu Horvath • June 6th, 2023

Electronic music is thoroughly modern music. And the truth about the folklore that these sorts of projects score is that it’s thoroughly modern folklore.

Interlinked

Mythology of the Commons

By Phoenix Simms • June 2nd, 2023

While there isn’t necessarily an overtly intersectional EcoGothic tone to Folklore, it does deal with bodies irrevocably changed by nature, binaries and transformed bodies.

Noise Complaint
The member of Ghost Bath, clad in all black, pose stoically in front of a huge stained-glass window.

Black Metal Mythmaking, Gatekeeping, and Points In Between

By Ben Sailer • May 31st, 2023

Black metal musicians have long used secrecy and controversy to generate notoriety.

Mind Palaces

Our World and the Others

By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2023

Our scientific mindset, our modern rationalism is a handicap when attempting to represent the premodern, where the boundaries that we consider so key for understanding our world have no presence.

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