CHERUBIC.

God creates man. God abandons man. Man creates evil. Asuka. 19.

[heavnheart]

since i just kind of opened tumblr and this blog on a complete whim i kinda miss the whole tumblr rp format and might make a new blog for a certain character ive been itching to play.

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Undersong, ‘The Evening News’ (1979) by Audre Lorde

[ID: any wound will stop bleeding / if you press down / hard enough.]

[mmayisa]

Sibylle Peretti - Rising Fawn II

[shephaestion]

detail from Caravaggio’s Saint John in the Wilderness // 1604

[plasmapop]

09/03/21 • poem made from the handout for a lecture on the fragmentary historical sources and missing tomb of alexander the great

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[heavnheart]

damn wow remembere when i rped on tumblr?

[c0llar-bones]

Gian Lorenzo Bernini The Ecstasy of Saint Therese , Cappella Cornaro, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

[nemfrog]

The morning song. 1883. Book cover, detail.

[brittlebodies]

Saint John the Baptist (detail), 1602-1603, Caravaggio.

[vintagepales2-blog]

Gdańsk, Poland

[gnossienne]

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V Scene II

[soracities]

Euripides, from “Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Sometimes solace won’t do, / and there’s no sleeping with what / you know, and advice / is obscene. / Sometimes there’s a pity / only the self can give, amniotic, / a total curling in.”

— Stephen Dunn, from Between Angels: Poems; “Clarities,”

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Song Of The Angels” (detail) 1881. William-Adolphe Bouguereau

oil on canvas

[illuminosity]

we sin as devils do, we love as angels

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I chase ghosts until the sky is an ember / And cracks,”

— José Angel Araguz, from Everything We Think We Hear; “The Beautiful Poems,”

[hvmnbaby]

Light and flight and all that was holy, holy, holy.