soon, all of this will be lost to the sea

[kuutamosonaatti]

Hannibal 2.06 Futamono / The Flower Paintings of Vincent van Gogh

Almond Blossoms, 1890

Sunflowers, 1888

Irises, 1889

Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses, 1890

[kitchen-light]

“Not all writing is cursed, but surely all of it is haunted. Literature is a catacomb of past readers, past writers, past books. Traces of those who are responsible for creation linger among the words on a page; Shakespeare can’t hear us, but we can still hear him (and don’t ghosts wander through those estate houses upon the moors unaware that they’ve died?). […] Of all of the forms of expression that humanity has worked with—painting, music, sculpture—literature is the eeriest. Poetry and fiction are both incantation and conjuration, the spinning of specters and the invoking of ghosts; it is very literally listening to somebody who isn’t there, and might not have been for a long while. All writing is occult, because it’s the creation of something from ether, and magic is simply a way of acknowledging that—a linguistic practice, an attitude, a critical method more than a body of spells. We should be disquieted by literature; we should be unnerved.”

— Ed Simon, from his essay “Who’s There?: Every Story Is a Ghost Story”, published in The Millions, August 18, 2021

[innerchildabortionclinic]

mind palace that was formerly a palace until the ruling family was killed mercilessly for its crimes. and now it's the thinking woman's socialist republic.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

mind palace that was formerly a palace until the ruling family was killed mercilessly for its crimes. and now it's the thinking woman's socialist republic.

[oldpaintings]

Sleeping Beauty, 1864 by Bertha Froriep (German, 1833–1920)

[apocryphics]

Walt Hunter

[anitanh]

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Heavy”

[wovi]

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simone weil

[wovi]

*

ursula k. leguin

[oldpaintings]

Allegory of Tragedy, 1897 by Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862--1918)

[amuseoffyre]

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

[aqua-regia009]

mvddrak_atmospheric

[tomhoppusdelonge]

[wellwickedstuff]

[weltenwellen]

Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

[havingapoemwithyou]

Goatsong by Leila Chatti