Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Rookish

adj.
feeling a vague longing for some sort of monarch to look down upon us from a high and distant castle, which you’d imagine would pacify the squabbling chaos of civic life and drastically narrow the range of choices and issues you have to think about, finally freeing you up from bearing the microscopic fraction of a crown that forever hangs over your head.

From the chess move of castling, which is when a rook rushes to protect the king, nearly swapping places with him.

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Watashiato

Cover image for the Watashiato word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Fool’s Guilt

Cover image for the Fool’s Guilt word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Monachopsis

Cover image for the Monachopsis word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Arroia

people standing on a stage

Deep Gut

Cover image for the Deep Gut word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks