the anatomy of human sadness

A sleepy high schooler with a paper heart and knack for things that glow.

[wheatfalls]

“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?”

— Janet Fitch, from White Oleander (via lifeinpoetry)

[notyobabygirl]

[heavensghost]

Nicole Dollanganger - Phantom pains

IG: griefmother

[weltenwellen]

Sylvia Plath, from “The Rival”, Ariel

[antigonick]

Hi, dear! I'm so bored due to the quarantine. Could you recommend me books/movies to read/watch? Any genre, any length - it doesn't matter. :)

Aw, I feel you. Okay, totally random recs, you sure? I gathered some of my favourite horror movies recently for a solid candle-lit marathon, so I’ll start with those—Robert Eggers’ The VVitch, D. R. Mitchell’s It Follows, Robert Wise’s The Haunting of Hill House, Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods, Neil Marshall’s The Descent, Yeon Sang-ho’s Train to Busan, Ari Aster’s Midsommar, Jack Clayton’s The Innocents (or Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others), Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On series (The Grudge), Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Scott Derrickson’s Sinister, James Watkins’ The Woman in Black, Stuart Rosenberg’s Amytiville Horror. I also like Argento, but he makes me laugh rather than fret. Also, within this year—A Quiet Place and Ready or Not were lovely. (Wait, no. Lovely isn’t the right word.)

To be honest, I have only two modes when it comes to films, and they are—horror galore, or exquisitely crafted period dramas (often based on books I love). There are no in-between. Let’s just say you can not go wrong with Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice, Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship, Joan Craft’s Anne of Green Gables miniseries (1972), Joe Wright’s Atonement, Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre, and Andrew Davies’ BBC Pride and Prejudice (1995). 

Also, huh, Avatar the Last Airbender and Gravity Falls? (Apparently I do have an in-between mode.)

As for books, completely off the top of my head and based on my current clutter, please check out Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, Sarah Water’s The Paying Guests, Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems, Philip Pullman’s Daemons and Other Voices, Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, Anne Carson’s Plainwater, Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, A. S. Byatt’s Possession, or Umberto Eco’s Baudolino. 

(or you could also go and read/play Fallen Hero: Rebirth and Retribution). 

[milanoromance]

[kafk-a]

Anne Carson

[wineandphilosopia]

Playlists to get you through self-isolation:

[ataelantes]

“The witch-burnings did not take place during the “Dark Ages,” as we commonly suppose. They occurred between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries– precisely during and following the Renaissance, that glorious period when, as we are taught, “men’s” minds were being freed from bleakness and superstition. While Michelangelo was sculpting and Shakespeare writing, the witches were burning. The whole secular “Enlightenment,” in fact, the male professions of doctor, lawyer, judge, artist, all rose from the ashes of the destroyed women’s culture. Renaissance men were celebrating naked female beauty in their art, while women’s bodies were being tortured and burned by the hundreds of thousands all around them.”

— Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor in The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (via lunamtenebris)

[shattersstar]

hi i made a quiz about which liminal space do you need to visit because i’m pretentious and bored

[depetal-deactivated20210529]

my favourite time is when it’s summer and the suns just starting to set and the sky is a pinky colour and the air is still warm from the sun. It makes me feel so nice and whole

[silkdiary]

take this quiz to find out which modern feminine archetype you embody 💘✨💐

reblog ur results along with ur sun + rising sign if you’d like xo

[stlowens]

so i recently read bright dead things by ada limón and haven’t been the same since

[olivermarys]

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[stlowens]

mary oliver’s blue iris, house of light, red bird, devotions, felicity, upstream & a thousand mornings are all worth a read

[lacetulle]

Paolo Sebastian | Spring/Summer 2020

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Else Lasker-Schüler, tr. by Michael Hamburger, from “Georg Grosz,” written c. June 1917 (x)