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I go through this before you wake up so I can feel happier to be safe up here with you ― Bjork I'm Olivia, a college student who uses this blog as a vain attempt to inspire herself to write more. This blog is all about art, film, video games, literature, poetry, bjork, technicolors, mythology,cityscapes, dreamscapes, feminist critique, some fandoms (Hannibal, Orphan Black, Game of Thrones, and others), women, galaxies, women who have galaxies inside them, and the occasional cat. Enjoy your stay. Find my poetry blog here.

[ducissatenebrarum]

An “initiation well,” used in magical rites, which was excavated at the Quinta da Regaleira estate in Sintra, Portugal.  

[flagellant]

@cryptotheism

I feel like you’d love to know that this is from a literal palace that a Freemason built with an occultist buddy with the express and explicit purpose of embodying different occult traditional principles. The Freemason built an 88 foot deep inverted tower-well with a compass and cross at its lowest point because he wanted to be able to use it for magic.

[cryptotheism]

The fuck it connects to a whole labyrinth under the property

[rottingfacade]

i love those blinking red lights they put on top of radio towers and windmills and skyscrapers etc, theyre like electronic flowers or something to me

[rottingfacade]

[headspace-hotel]

kind eyes of angels

[transgenderer]

never not thinking about giant cisterns. THATS immanentizing the eschaton. when we get to heaven and its a bunch of giant wet concrete tunnels with vast columns holding up the ceiling, then you will see...

[official-kircheis]

you know about the tokyo storm drains, yeah?

[transgenderer]

yeah that's what inspired this post :)

im very exited to go here when i die :)

[1rakus]

basilica cistern in istanbul

[toothsalad]

houston’s is pretty spooky

[arkashas]

Hannibal 1.12 Relevés + TVTropes trivia

[lets-get-murdered]

Bloody Will Graham

Rotoscope Animation

32 hours total

[bluecapsicum]

Red hours of the night

[waistofthebeast]

Georges Bataille, Blue of Noon

[kuutamosonaatti]

The Anatomical Machines, Giuseppe Salerno, c. 1756-64

In the Underground Chamber of the Sansevero Chapel, housed in two glass cases, are the famous Anatomical Machines, or Anatomical Studies, i.e. the skeletons of a man and a woman in upright position with their arteriovenous system almost perfectly intact. The circulatory system depicted on the anatomical machines was artificially fabricated with waxes, an iron wire and silk fibers, probably following techniques commonly used by anatomists of that time

These disquieting objects were kept in a room in the palace of the Prince of Sansevero called “the Apartment of the Phoenix”, as a number of travellers and the Breve nota di quel che si vede in casa del principe di Sansevero, an anonymous eighteenth-century guide to the Palace and the Sansevero Chapel, attest. This source describes the Machines in detail, from the blood vessels of the head to those of the tongue and adds that at the feet of the woman was placed “the tiny body of a foetus”, alongside which there was even the open placenta, connected to the foetus by the umbilical cord. The two anatomical studies were moved to the Chapel, and in this way saved from destruction or loss, long after the death of the Prince. The remains of the foetus were still visible up to a few decades ago, when they were stolen.

[itscolossal]

Vivid Botanics and Butterflies Encircle Photographer Fares Micue in Striking Self-Portraits

[frankencain]

Disco Elysium / Midnight Mass 1x7 / Long Journey Home - The Bedquilt Ramblers / Druck 5x5 / Friedrich Hölderlin / Could Never Be Heaven - Brand New / Cowboy Bebop / Minecraft, Ending Poem /  Heraklitus, DK B36, from Clement Miscellanies 6.17.2 /  Song of Myself, 6 (a child said, what is the grass?), Walt Whitman / Heraclitus, DK B88. from Pseudo-Lutarch, Consolation to Apollonius 106E / Arrival (2016) /  Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson / La Clairvoyance, René Magritte, 1936, Oil on Canvas / Heraclitus, DK B103, from Porphyry, Notes on Homer, on Iliad 24.200 / The Green Knight (2021)

[catilinas]

I Have Developed My 35mm Film And It Is Once Again Extremely Haunted

[catilinas]

ghosts! ghosts! ghosts!

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Sun Knight by Dominik Mayer

This artist on Facebook

[erythaia]

🌗 i am creation both h̸͕̰́̔̽̒ã̴̞̯͆͆̌̚ư̵̧̺̗̜̦̜͎̓́́́̒́͝n̶̰̦͎̠͈̰̿͒́̌̈̍͆̿̄ṭ̵̡̡͈̳̱͖͓́̄͛̅͝ͅe̵̞̓͆͗̍̐̐̀̚͝d̷̢͉̠̄͊̂́̅ and h̶̥̹̲̫͆̆ở̸̢̤̗̪̙̭̣̀̎̉̽̋͛̈́͘l̷͓̗̹͓͂ý̶̡̡̛̫̹̼̘̬̦͙͆

made in glory 🌓

[bazaardotco]

Untitled, early 1970s — David Lynch

[forthegothicheroine]

I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains.  Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does.  Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be.  Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does.  This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

[via-appia]

Reclining Sappho, 1797-1802

Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758-1841)

[catilinas]

had a dream that the cool new trend was to drink water but only while standing in doorways because that made the water “more liminal” which was a good thing for unclear reasons