Pixel Pixie alerted me to this awesome live performance from the 1995 Dissonance tour. If you’ll pardon me, I’m going to go kick myself for missing it in 1995.

Moss Love – Terrariums and DIY kits featuring moss.

Black Metal Cats – Twitter feed featuring cat pictures captioned with appropriate metal lyrics.

Tattoos Inspired by Neil Gaiman – There’s some lovely artwork here.

“Always” Necklace – A Snape tribute necklace by EPBOT.

Spiderpodium – Dock for cellphones, iPods, and other electronic devices. Shaped like a spider with poseable legs.

Chocolate Mice – Easy-to-make candies that would look adorable peeking around the edges of a cake.

Modern Murder Weapons – I’m rather taken with the idea of organic, locally-sourced cyanide.

Art Nouveau Bat Pin – Gorgeous enamel brooch. The bat’s body appears to be a large natural pearl.

Metal Kitchen – Metalcore singer Linzey Rae sings a parody heavy metal tutorial for making shepherd’s pie. (via Cat)

aLexLibris – Etsy shop full of lovely handmade journals, like this amazing coffin-shaped one.

That Holiday is coming up soon, and Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena has the cure:

Valentine’s Day does not have to be the most dreaded holiday of your year anymore. Stop by after 7pm and join us for our Anti-Valentine’s Day party. Make your own voodoo doll, swap stories of dates gone wrong, and enjoy a little food and drink!

This would also be a fun party theme to try at home: Supply your guests with the materials to create their own voodoo doll pincushion and let them decorate as desired.

The photo above is Valentine, the patron saint of “romance-resisting, Hallmark-hating, Cupid-cursing folks everywhere.” He was originally featured on a site called IndieSpotting, which sadly seems to be as dead as chivalry, but fortunately WonderHowTo has a materials list and a copy of the original pattern. There aren’t any instructions, but the photo makes it reasonably clear how it should all go together: Sew buttons on one of the body sections and then add a stitched mouth and a few “scars.” Stitch the two heart pieces in place, then blanket-stitch the two body sections together and stuff with fiberfill. If you’ve never worked with felt before, Lit’l Brown Bird’s Ideas has instructions for basic hand stitching, and you can find lots of tutorials by searching “DIY felt toys” (look at this adorable felt clam!)

Serve conversation heart sugar cookies with messages like “Drop Dead” or “Meh.” Make Stupid Cupid cocktails with extra bitters. Play a party mixtape like I Hate Valentine’s Day or have a movie marathon featuring Fatal Attraction, What Lies Beneath, and My Bloody Valentine.

If you want to be a little more ambitious and throw a dinner party, start with a salad featuring chopped hearts of palm and artichoke hearts. The main course could be jerked chicken or back-stabbing shish kebab (for extra points, shape your favorite meatball recipe into little hearts, bake or fry as usual, then serve on skewers as “shots through the heart.”) Finish up with chocolate skulls (linking more for the shape rather than the recipe, since I’m still not sure how I feel about chocolate-covered bacon).

Send your guests home with tainted love soap or a broken heart pendant. Much more satisfying than pink rosebuds and lace.

It’s time for another bunch of random stuff I want to share but can’t hang a whole post on. Some of them have no attribution, so if you happen to know the source for any of these please leave a note in the comments. (Click to view larger.)

	Tarot Card Collar This is another custom job by Nez of Darkspectre Custom Couture, featuring real tarot cards.
	Coffin Bookcase Found via Jes, this was originally posted on Imgur. MAKE has instructions for building a coffin bookcase, if you’re feeling ambitious and want to try something similar.
	“Time Flies” Clock This awesome wall decoration is by Mr. Kate, and there’s even a tutorial. I love the black butterflies, but this would look great with bats, too.
	Spooky Signpost This would be a neat outdoor Halloween decoration. I can’t find the source for this one, but there are easy directions for a somewhat similar one here. You could also make a lightweight prop version with insulating foam (the sort used for prop tombstones) and a long piece of PVC pipe.
	Sealed with a Spider This is attributed to the Zakka Life blog, but I can’t actually find it on that site. It’s certainly easy enough to DIY; just drip some sealing wax on an envelope and press in a fake spider before it cools. These are obviously too fragile to go through the mail, but they’d be a neat touch on hand-delivered party invitations.
	Obi Wine Kenobi This isn’t goth, it just made me laugh. The little glowstick lightsaber is the perfect finishing touch.
	Halloween “Wreath” This was made using an old picture frame and some dollar-store decorations. The netting appears to be cheesecloth.
	Halloween Lamp Similar idea to the frame above, and using the same gauzy fabric. This is a five-minute way to add a little Halloween ambiance to a room.
	Baby “Allo! Worm” This was made by Wa’Ou Creations, and there’s even a video tutorial. This is so stinkin’ cute.
	Bottle of Boos This appears to be an empty bottle turned into a light, but it would also be fun to paint on a bottle of wine or other spirit before giving as a gift.
	Lace Doily Spiderwebs Here’s another super-simple decorating idea, turning inexpensive crocheted doilies into elegant spiderwebs. Instructions are at What a Bloom.
	Dark Angels I always enjoy seeing twee little figurines get a gothy makeover. There’s a tutorial at The Anticraft.

“A Crow Scout is kind, odd, honorable, spooky, thrifty, and irreverent.”

Daniel and Dawna Davis run Steam Crow, which sells “good monster goods” like T-shirts and prints. A couple of years ago they wanted to foster a community of monster-loving folks, so they created the Steam Crow Scouts:

The Steam Crow Scouts were founded in 1903 by Baron Davis, who created a Monster Scouts organization to help Youth BELIEVE, LEARN and SEE the MONSTERS that surround us.

Today, the Crow Scouts continue DISCOVER and AID MONSTERS against the oppression of vile Monsterology.

MONSTRIFERIS CONFIDIMUS

You can become a Monster Scout–they appear to use “Steam Crow Scouts,” “Crow Scouts,” and “Monster Scouts” fairly interchangeably–and mingle with like-minded monster lovers. They even have uniforms.

Members can earn achievement badges for various activities, chat with other scouts in their forum, and even go camping at the annual Shindig in Arizona.

If you’ve been looking for some way to make life a little more monstrous, this looks like an excellent way to do it. Just remember to abide by their code of conduct:

I shall hurt neither Monster or Man.
I will behave with Uncommon Sense.
I pledge to have fun with my Crow Scout friends, imaginary or not.
I shall laugh first at myself.
I will celebrate my flaws, oddities and broken nature.
I will strive to make the 2 worlds less ungood.

“An undaunted Sheriff’s Deputy sets out on a solo mission to find a missing girl in the eerie backwoods of East Texas.”

This creepy short by 3rd Identity is particularly noteworthy for having been shot in 24 hours.

Regular posting (and once-a-week link dumps) will return on Monday. But you knew that already.

Jack of the Dust – Skull-related sculptures, including some neat “bonsai skulls” planted with artificial foliage.

@AwfulFantasy – A Twitter feed of greatness. “Diala drank a potion of healing. Then, she drank a potion of invisibility. Next, she drank a potion of detect traps. Then, she had to pee.”

The Afflictions – BoingBoing reviews an audiobook which describes various imaginary diseases.

Prehistoric Wreath – Decorative wreath festooned with dinosaurs; the volcano spurting “magma” ribbons is what really makes this. (The photos are toward the end of the post.)

Adopt a Bat – The Australian Bat Clinic is offering the opportunity to sponsor the rehabilitation of a bat.

Renegade Truffles – Limited-edition Vosges chocolates in a black spiked box.

Free Historical Costume Patterns – Large list of free patterns, including medieval, Victorian, and Renaissance. (via Charlyn)

Bowie Beauties – Playlist by @robdelaney, who said, “I made a playlist of some of my favorite Bowie tracks for any #teens who need a starter kit.”

Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep – Scans from an old book of creepy poetry for children (the 70s were a weird time). It’s recently been reprinted, along with a sequel.

Dark Fairy Wedding – Some interesting wedding ideas from Offbeat Bride. (via WitchArachne)

The Changing Portrait Hall that Never Was – The Long Forgotten blog looks at concept art for several changing portraits in Disney’s Haunted Mansion.

Design a Wig – Splendid interactive site that lets you design and decorate an 18th-century powdered wig.

Instructions – A guide to navigating fairy tales by Neil Gaiman. It’s also been made into a graphic novel.

I tried to make a new mom friend. Here is what happened. – You don’t see the phrase “clothing rodent” used often enough.

Taxiderpy – Site devoted to stupendously bad taxidermy. There’s a related Tumblr tag.

Plague Inc. – Strategy/simulation game in which you try to engineer a deadly pandemic.

BillionGraves – Resource for cemetery and headstone records, including photos of gravestones and GPS data. Volunteers can photograph requested graves and upload the photos, which are often helpful in genealogy research.

How The Addams Family Does BDSM Right – 1) Apparently, Offbeat Bride has a sister site devoted to home and life. 2) This is a pretty good rundown of Gomez and Morticia’s love life. (via Jes)

The Gothic Shoe Company – Purveyors of “handmade winklepickers.”

Star Wars Calaveras – Various Star Wars characters drawn as traditional “Day of the Dead” figures. Little Darth Vader is adorable.

Jabberwocky – A dramatic reading by Benedict Cumberbatch. Unfortunately he pronounces “borogoves” with the nonexistent second R so he gets a failing grade. (At least the Muppets got it right.)

Monster Dressup – Cute little web thingie that lets you create a custom monster.

Encase Your Friends in Carbonite – Enormously detailed instructions for creating a life-size “Han Solo in Carbonite” prop. It occurs to me that this general idea might be adapted as a Halloween costume by sticking your head and hands through cutouts in a cardboard frame.

Parasite of the Day – Unusual site devoted to parasites. Come for the squicky pictures, stay for the interesting commentary.

Agnoistrology – Horoscopes for people who don’t believe in horoscopes.

Ikea Dog Bed – Gothy “hack” for turning a chest of drawers into a bed-and-storage area for small dogs or cats.

Feminist Cthulhu – Amusing idea, mediocre execution.

Play With Me – Click on the glowing objects to make the doll do increasingly creepy things.

How I Wear My Corset – EPBOT talks about “everyday corset” wear.

Patronage Prints – The Century Guild art gallery sells limited-edition prints of macabre vintage advertising posters. A few of them are discussed in more detail here.

Goth Music for Baby Bats – YouTube playlist of kid-friendly goth-ish music.

3D Printed Trilobites – These trilobites, modeled from fossil data, are just gorgeous. I want earrings.

Dictionnaire Infernal – A whole alphabet of demonic illustrations. The full book is available several places online.

Chris Haas – Artist who creates mixed media “trophies” of impossible-looking creatures. There are more pieces on his Instagram feed.

5 Evil Plants We Should Probably Get Rid Of – An interesting roundup.

My Little Pumpkins – Dollhouse miniature enthusiast Bözse decorated a bunch of 1:12-scale pumpkins, including an eensy Cinderella’s coach.

Bran Muir – Artist who specializes in creepy animated images.

Sheldon – This comic explains why we don’t have to worry about ghosts.

Giant Inflatable Tentacles – DIY for making giant tentacles to decorate your house. There a short video too.

RecyclEARS – This isn’t precisely goth, but there’s so much potential inspiration I wanted to share it. This artist decorates Mickey Mouse ear hats with themes ranging from the Haunted Mansion to Doctor Who. EPBOT showcases some additional examples of her work.