how heaven is a slaughterhouse

emily. 20s. medievalist.

[flowerytale]

Maggie Smith as the fairy queen Titania, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1977)

[borderepisteme-deactivated20260]

"Anyone who has ever tried to recount a dream to someone else is in a position to measure the immense gap, the qualitative incommensurability, between the vivid memory of the dream and the dull, impoverished words which are all we can find to convey it: yet this incommensurability, between the particular and the universal, between the vecu and language itself, is one in which we dwell all our lives, and it is from it that all works of literature and culture necessarily emerge."

Fredric Jameson, Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan

[stlamb]

[mournfulroses]

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

[theinternetarchive]

linen center with bobbin lace border; average: 38.8 x 38.8 cm; flanders c. 1800s.

[louisegluckpdf]

average 9 year old girl internal monologue

[frostedmagnolias]

Lace Slip

c. 1900-1915

Museum of Vancouver

[postcard-from-the-past]

Jeanne d'Arc

French vintage postcard, staged and photographed by A. Bergeret

[yuna-is-tired-sm]

― 𝘈𝘯𝘢ï𝘴 𝘕𝘪𝘯, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘯𝘢ï𝘴 𝘕𝘪𝘯.

[thesoldiersminute]

Carnival of Souls dir. Herk Harvey | 1962

[surfeit-of-stoats]

Can the cellar that a kidnapper throws a child into be guilty or innocent? The lake that a killer drowns his women in? I’m not a person but a place where bad things happen.

— Model Home, Rivers Solomon

[naldibutnice]

Helen Lee Worthing by Francis Bruguière, 1920

[romanceyourdemons]

in the club begging strangers for forgiveness and proving incapable of articulating what for when asked

[velvetdoll]

marie, the doll (1976)

[marche-aux-puces]

Liberté, Albert Serra, 1999

[bebemoon]

from @ashistudio on ig . "A dress with a plaster corset is hand-painted in the manner of an 18th-century oil painting, then sealed in treated latex to appear aged and wet. Below, the hem unravels into tendrils of latex, as though the canvas itself has come undone.

Look 17 from « The Beginning », Ashi Studio Spring/Summer 2026 Couture Collection."

[wildchildskyhigh]