BRIGHTFIRE

visual companion to @ drakonorphosis .

[filmreveries]

Isabelle Adjani in La Reine Margot (1994)

[aqua-regia009]

The Battle of Ivan Tsarevich with the Three-Headed Serpent (Detail), 1912 - oil on canvas. — Viktor Vasnetsov (Russian, 1848-1926)

[robertwire]

The most interesting of this work—past, present, or future—is or will be that which dismantles, boycotts, ignores, destroys, takes liberties with, or at least pokes fun at the avant-garde’s long commitment to the idea that the shocks produced by cruelty and violence—be it in art or in political action—might deliver us, through some never-proven miracle, to a more sensitive, perceptive, insightful, enlivened, collaborative, and just way of inhabiting the earth, and of relating to our fellow human beings. For as Arendt puts it succinctly in On Violence, “The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.”

maggie nelson, from "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning"

[orpheuslament]

Agamemnon, Aeschylus (tr. Robert Fagles)

[codyfernsource]

Michael Langdon, fashion icon.

[calisverse]

𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐏 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐓 as 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐙 𝐉𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐇 𝐈 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐀

Netflix's The Empress. Season 1, Episode 1

[oldwinesoul]

[greengableslover]

EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

[payne2481-deactivated20260202]

The “excuse me what did you say? I can’t hear you I have an ear disease called i don’t fucking care” mood.

[de-morte]

“On the palette of a nefarious blood laden meal, I bite my tongue at the silhouette.”

— Channing M Vault of My Books    

[aridante]

JUDE LAW as Lord Alfred Douglas in Wilde (1997)

[grindhousecellar]

[theoptia]

Ingeborg Bachmann, from Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems; "Of a Land, a River, and Lakes"

Text ID: crowned with smoke, [...] / ablaze, / loved by the fire,

[xshayarsha]

“There’s some kind of burning inside me, it’s kept me from falling apart; and I’m sure that you’ve seen what it’s done to my heart, but it’s kept me from falling apart.”

— Mitski, from the lyrics of Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart.

[matthew-s-j]

[bobbole]

Vivienne Westwood

[heavy-serenade]

Jackets from Vivienne Westwood MAN Fall 1996 ‘Martyr to Love’ Menswear Collection

[lovecrumbss]

Le héros romantique