[cristian-1975]

[gael-garcia]

The Handmaiden (2016) || Monster (2023)

idea from @dandelionandkrindle!

[psikonauti]

Émile Friant (French,1863-1932)

Angelus

Oil on canvas  

[luthienne]

“The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die, was but a type of me.”

— Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein

[louisegluckpdf]

marty scorsese cosmic guilt tuesday everyone give it up for marty scorsese cosmic guilt tuesday

[oldpaintings]

An Idle Moment, c.1885 by John White Alexander (American, 1856–1915)

[beguines]

Cain killed Abel; he killed a brother, the Other. Upon killing the Other he committed fratricide. Every fratricide since the Incarnation has amounted to theocide. Theocide is a prevalent notion at the moment in European thought; the "death of God" is often spoken of. It was Nietzsche who said, "God is dead." Like the genius that he was, he pointed out that "Our hands are stained with the blood of God." In effect, to kill the brother is to kill the epiphany of God; it is not as if God died but that he disappeared, because Abel—"Holy Abel" as Jesus called him—is the poor person in the Beatitude sense of the word "poor". Abel is the epiphany of the absolute Other, of God.

Enrique Dussel, Ethics and the Theology of Liberation, trans. Bernard F. McWilliams

[primulaceas]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; entry no. 102

[coweyed]

“Well, the Gothic can be conducive to suppressed voices emerging, like in a haunted house. At its core, the Gothic drama is fundamentally about voiceless things—the dead, the past, the marginalized—gaining voices that cannot be ignored.”

— Carmen Maria Machado, interviewed by Theodore McCombs for Electric Literature (x)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Cupid's Hunting Fields by Edward Burne-Jones (1885)

[random-brushstrokes]

Francesco Longo Mancini (Italian, 1880-1954) - Harlequin

[feral-ballad]

Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn: Poems; “Journeystones I-XI”

[Text ID: “my heart grows / confused / between your need for love / and your need for destruction.”]

[readmydesire]

the final piece of dialogue from mary shelley's frankenstein

[everdeenxmellark]

christ in the desert (1872)

by ivan kramskoi

[oldsoulsarah]

"You could say that Laura Palmer is Marilyn Monroe, and that Mulholland Drive is about Marilyn Monroe, too. Everything is about Marilyn Monroe."

— David Lynch to Vanity Fair, 2017.

[thecloudiestday]

Kees Van Dongen, The Sea

[thefugitivesaint]

Paul Manship (1885-1966), ‘Diana’, “The Studio”, Vol. 82, 1921

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