camera obscura

v. any pronouns. 24. side blog vivi-scera

[mer-curia]

since i've been getting some new followers and mutuals (hiiiii <3) friendly note that i have a side blog @vivi-scera i'm much more active on. this blog is like the italian pizza mafia front

[fallahifag-deactivated20240722]

March 8 posters throughout the years: Happy International Women’s Day from Palestine

[filmgifs]

“Pretty on the outside, but like a fruit the bugs have eaten from within. Is that why she fascinates? Because everyone knows she'll wither?” 

ヘルタースケルター HELTER SKELTER –2012, dir. Mika Ninagawa

[virgin-martyr]

Alisson Wood, excerpt from Being Lolita: A Memoir

[lupinepixie]

[crucifiedlovers]

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Georges Bataille, "My Mother" (trans. Austryn Wainhouse)

[freudarchives]

Anaïs Nin, Incest: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

[repuls1ve]

source

[milksockets]

simon yotsuya byouin gallery (2003)

[milksockets]

secret magazine issue 6, 1994

[sonnywortzik]

“The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction. It is flesh torn apart and sewn together again in a shape other than that in which it was born. In these circumstances, I find a deep affinity between myself as a transsexual woman and the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Like the monster, I am too often perceived as less than fully human due to the means of my embodiment; like the monster’s as well, my exclusion from human community fuels a deep and abiding rage in me that I, like the monster, direct against the conditions in which I must struggle to exist. …You [the reader] are as constructed as me; the same anarchic Womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.”

— Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage”

[venerable-thief]

[gnossienne]

The haunted city

[britomart]

macintosh se/30 + jenny holzer, "someone wants to cut a hole in you and fuck you through it, buddy." ✣ iphones 7 to x + rs benedict's "everyone is beautiful and no one is horny."

[ID: The first image shows a vintage Apple Macintosh computer with a clear case, making its inside circuitry visible. It is against a white background. On top of it are the words "Someone wants to cut a hole in you and fuck you through it, buddy." pasted on top like a collage. The second image is monochromatic and shows a series of sleek modern iPhones lined along the top against a black background. Underneath is text in all caps in a sans serif font reading: "Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny." /end ID.]

[dailycognates]

“Robot” and “Orphan”

The English word “orphan” comes, via Latin, from the Greek orphanós, which derives from the Proto-Indo-European h₃órbʰos, meaning “orphan”, or “slave, servant”.  It was that second meaning which produced Proto-Slavic *orbъ “slave”, from which was derived the noun *orbota “hard work, slavery”, which produced the Czech robota “forced labor”.  In 1920, the Czech author  Karel Čapek coined the word robot from robota in his sci-fi play Rossum’s Universal Robots, about an industrialist who creates artificial humans as laborers (who eventually rebel against their masters).  It was through that play that the word “robot” entered the English language, although in the original play the robots were organic creatures, rather than the mechanical entities the word is used for today.

[heartfactory]

Richey Edwards for Select magazine, 1994 (source)

transcript under the cut:

What turns you on? Richey: "The books that I find erotic, that turn me on are stuff like Dennis Cooper's 'Frisk', or Mishima's 'Confessions Of A Mask', or JG Ballard's 'Crash'- which is very sexual all the way though. He dreams of being in a car crash with Elizabeth Taylor: auto-imagery, just piling into Elizabeth Taylor and the tail lights meshing into each other, the bonnet being ripped out. It's very violent. There's a Japanese film called 'Tetsuo, The Iron Man'. I love that film. All it is is a man turning into a machine, and in his mind he's got a girlfriend and a potential male lover. I find it really sexy. I think people are becoming more machine-like and that's the imagery I like. Also sex and death are closely linked. Sado-masochistic imagery, bleeding..." Is That Why You Cut Yourself Up A Lot? Richey: "I find it attractive. I find it... sexual."

[taohun]

Apple Macintosh 128K

+ alt