moon_beast

So there's this community event in our village and I'm sat in a grotto hastily made out of blankets, quilt covers, tinsel and Christmas lights, wearing a naff old Santa costume that didn't fit properly and feeling rather silly. I grab a cup of tea and a biscuit just before we open and almost regret having volunteered for the job. My elf assistant takes a...
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'The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing...
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Note... None of these pictures are my own and full credit goes to the original photographers!

Druids lead the procession from the village to the festival site.

The Green Man and his entourage.

A tree of fire.

More trees of fire.

Jack Frost.

A mysterious band.

Fire performers.

This is St John's Roman Catholic Church that stood on Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1875 until its demolition in 1993. It was Lovecraft's inspiration for the brooding church that so intrigued, writer and painter, Robert Harrison Blake in 'The Haunter of the Dark', written in 1935.

You can still visit the site of the church which is now a small park.

Lovecraft lived at number 10 Barnes Street (College Hill, Providence, Rhode Island) from April 1926 - May 1933.

He included this sketch of his apartment in a letter to Frank Belknap Long dated 1931.

The address was given as the home of Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett in 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'.

'There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.'

William Butler Yates

Fleur de Lys Studio, 7 Thomas Street, Providence, Rhode Island, built in 1885 for a local artist.

Named as the home of Henry Anthony Wilcox in 'The Call of Cthulhu'.

I'm curious to know how the system works... I'm guessing from Hopeful to SuicideGirl it's got something to do with the number of likes a photoset achieves and maybe how many of a particular model's photosets go over the threshold? I have absolutely no idea how a model goes from Member to Hopeful though. I was hoping to ask the question in the private SG...
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