[ivraeas]

HELMUT BERGER and TERESA ANN SAVOY | SALON KITTY (1976) dir. TINTO BRASS

[ivraeas]

"But I have never loved another woman than you." "Love is a duty also. And your duty is to face reality."

LUDWIG (1973) dir. Luchino Visconti

[venustapolis]

The Butterfly (George Elgar Hicks, 1866)

[fawnvelveteen]

William S. Burroughs at the Met by Allen Ginsberg, c. 1953

[floridakilo]

at the met off a 20 bag like allen take my photo

[ivraeas]

you'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling

[soisaidfine]

THE RING

Nietzsche: 'Where are those who, like Brünnhilde, sacrifice their knowledge to their love and yet end up drawing supreme knowledge from their lives: 'the deep mourning, the affliction of love opened my eyes.’'

THE RING. Brünnhilde to God (Wotan): 'who this love into my heart had breathed'

'I am punished by love' - Punish, Ethel Cain

'proximity to god' - @mothercain by @corrupt-asset

Étienne-Louis Boullée

The RING. Patrice Chéreau, Pierre Boulez, Bayreuth. Gwyneth Jones: Brünnhilde. Donald McIntyre: Wotan (God)

[existential-celestial]

“I was with someone I loved, with you. I was cold, and the snow glistened. You know how the snow glistens at night when the moon shines. It was as though I was not on earth.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Complete Prose; “The Brothers Karamazov“

[illustratus]

Brünnhilde the Valkyrie by Arthur Rackham

[sisionscreen]

Devrim Lingnau as Empress Elisabeth in the third season of The Empress (2022).

[maykitz]

mfs be like i live like a prisoner of war and i'm fine

[concreteafterrain]

[ivraeas]

wisdom teeth EXTRACTED

[deanwinchesterapologist]

something either is or isnt happening to me

[segamascott]

[ivraeas]

not anaemic anymore 🎉

[deliverancefromfear]

[ivraeas]

franz joseph and maximilian have something really gay and incestuous going on sometimes in #die kaiserin

[ivraeas]

an empire stretching to the carpathians and you won't share a little with me. are you afraid i'll steal something? people only steal when they're given scraps!!! (almost smooches bro)