it's okay to decay.

[oliviawhen]

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

[diana-andraste]

Decretum Gratiani with the commentary of Bartolomeo da Brescia, Italy 1340-1345

[mortem-et-necromantia-deactivat]

[charnel-grounds]

Rosaleen Norton (1917–1979), “Witch’s Vortex”

coloured pencils on paper, n.d. — source

[ducissatenebrarum]

"You won't have eyes tonight; you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know: This is Hector. The fool who thought he killed Achilles."

written by David Benioff for the 2004 film Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It appears immediately before the duel between Achilles (Brad Pitt) and Hector (Eric Bana).

The screenplay draws on genuine Greek beliefs such as the dead continue to exist in the Underworld, burial rites are essential for honouring the deceased and that a warrior's reputation (kleos) survives after death.

I also love literary resonance than a direct borrowing from ancient Greek curse tablets (katadesmoi). The purpose was to immobilize or disable the victim, although Greek curse tablets generally aimed to affect the living. But Troy's quoted is parallel with ancient Egyptian execration and funerary magic. Egyptian magic often sought to damage a person's existence after death by depriving them of the faculties or conditions necessary for survival in the next world. ❤️

[unwelcome-ozian]

[enchantedbook]

From Friedrich Wilhelm Carové’s 'The Story Without End'. Illustration by Frank Cheyne Papé, 1912.

[emobanana22]

Being not a teenager on this app feels exactly like this fr

[fuckedwithoutyou]

[hataikwan]

The pit of hell at Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Rai, Thailand.

[rosieandthemoon]

Silk Headdress \\\ [•via•]

[vilelithium]

[my-dailydreams]

Bagworm moth caterpillars disguised as tiny witches🖤

@viral-random-content

[squashplant]

schiaparelli, astrology collection, 1938

[lamignonette]

[enchantedbook]

"Hermia and Lysander" (1870) by John Simmons, from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream

[geekynerfherder]

'Midsummer Night's Dream' by Seb McKinnon.