[theoptia]

Alejandra Pizarnik, from The Last Innocence/The Lost Adventures translated by Cecilia Rossi

Text ID: days gnaw at you / nights blame you / life pains so much so much / in your despair, where are you headed? / despair, just nothing else.

[ducissatenebrarum]

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota, ca. 1200.

[colossus2]

[towerofglass]

[regardintemporel]

Pierre Molinier

[youmakemenotwannadie]

[poetryconcrete]

The Taq-i Kisra - Arch of Ctesiphon, in Iraq.

[ymutate]

Cathryne Trachok (American Artist, born 1959)

"The Drama Queen", 2014.

Oil on Canvas, 24 × 12 inches.

[ronmerchant]

One of the spook house exhibits in DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN (1971)

[basichannel]

[terrorignitis]

Björketorp runestone, Bleking, Sweden c. 500–700CE.

transcription: ᚺᚼᛁᛞᛉᚱᚢᚾᛟᚱᛟᚾᚢᚠᚼᛚᚼᚺᚼᚴᚺᚼᛁᛞᛖᚱᚼᚷᛁᚾᚼᚱᚢᚾᚼᛉᚼᚱᚼᚷᛖᚢ ᚺᚼᛖᚱᚼᛗᚼᛚᚼᚢᛊᛉᚢᛏᛁᚼᛉᚹᛖᛚᚼᛞᚼᚢᛞᛖᛊᚼᛉᚦᚼᛏᛒᚼᚱᚢᛏᛉ

translation: "Powerful runes secretly – I hid here, powerful runes. Anyone who violates this memorial is constantly plagued by arghet ("angryness", social agitation / rejection). Treacherous death will befall him. I trace destruction."

[kuutamosonaatti]

A Girl’s Own Story (1984) | dir. Jane Campion

[ddestroyangels]

Venetian Ladies Listening to the Serenade by Frank Cadogan Cowper, detail, 1909

English, 1877-1958

[godsopenwound]

— Maya Angelou, “Starvation” from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

[mawmenny]

[portalibis]

Venus, c. 1539 by Sebald Beham

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[nonalimmen]

“Blood carries whispers, murmurs / From one heart to the other.”

— Ana Blandiana, tr. by William M. Murray, from “The Couple, The World,”