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[iwilleatyourenglish]

a great tragedy of this world is that many things that are bad for you also look very sexy. smoking. riding a motorcycle. that crazy shit they did to saint sebastian

[rosie-tyler]

Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro + paintings

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[phantom-threaded]

FRANKENSTEIN 2025, dir. Guillermo del Toro

[zegalba]

Yohji Yamamoto: Y's for Men autumn/winter 2005

[deviika]

Nizar Qabbani // Franz Kafka

[bebs-art-gallery]

Art by Inferior Amphibian

[lamemoirepoetique]

Count Dracula (1970), directed by Jesús Franco.

[liivn]

[sofysta]

Nike di Samotracia ~ Museo del Louvre

[mournfulroses]

Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Song,"

[cigarettesaaftersex]

[deviika]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Alanis Morissette

[ohevoyev]

the messenger: the story of joan of arc (1999) / anne llewellyn barstow, ‘joan of arc and female mysticism’ / saint joan, george bernard shaw / the passion of joan of arc (1928) / anne sexton, consorting with angels / angela barrett, joan of arc, (1998) / excerpt from the trial of joan of arc / saint joan (2018 production), starring condola rashad

[goetiiavacuum]

i wanna hold hands in a place like this

[sacred-portal]

[strobesence]

Bath (Sep11) Bath Abbey Angels

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.