Fitching

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Fitching

v. intr.
compulsively turning away from works of art you find frustratingly, nauseatingly good—wanting to shut off the film and leave the theater, or devour a book only in maddening little chunks—because it resonates at precisely the right frequency to rattle you to your core, which makes it mildly uncomfortable to be yourself.

From bitching, markedly good + fitch, the European polecat, an animal that often cripples its prey by piercing its brain with its teeth, before storing it alive in its burrow to return and eat sometime later.

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Immerensis

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Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Zverism

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Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril