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The Map Is Not The Territory


Charmed

The word eldritch is associated with things that are non human or otherworldly. Sometimes charming, sometimes horrifying, but always surreal.


  • Anemoia - n. nostalgia for a time you’ve never known
  • Rigor Samsa - n. a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time—and will keep growing back again and again
  • Ambedo - n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details
  • Onism - n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time,








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