FEVER NIGHTS

alsu (uhl-soo). 18+ painful content.

[wovi]

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susan sontag

[heavenlyyshecomes]

there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.

—Caitlyn Richardson, 'can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?', in milk fed

[enchantedbook]

'Bells of the Night' by Carlos Schwabe, 1891

[zegalba]

Toshihiko Takamizawa's custom guitars

[zegalba]

Calcagno family burial monument at Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy. A bronze masterpiece statue lying on the steps, deposing a last flower on the grave; the personification of sorrow. Work of Adolfo Apolloni in 1904.

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

[poetic-ghost]

Understanding is way more intimate than love.

People love you for who they think you are, for who they see you as.

When they understand you, they see you and love you for who you are

[achillesinhighheels]

[killyridols]

i just want to be next to u by julia de ruvo, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 centimeters

[zegalba]

[suonko]

by Luc-Olivier Merson /detail/

[tiredandlonelymuse]

We’re in a hotel and you cannot find your shoes.

I’ve ordered coffee, just for you.

Plain white toast, for two.

“There isn’t one thing for yourself that you can do.

You’ve gotta get yourself together.

Gotta grow up soon.”

Get your camera, shoot this scene.

You tried to build a movie screen,

but bet it all on hopes and dreams.

I called the doctor about my spleen.

Show up to chemotherapy.

Kicked the coffee, eat my greens.

90 pounds are left of me.

You take the fat for kerosene.

The sadness stays, the lovers leave.

[fertileground-deactivated202512]

thermal imaging in film: the zone of interest (2023) / call me by your name (2017) / don't breathe (2016) / AGGRO DR1FT (2023) / heat (1995)

[pemberlaey]

nobody does chapter titles like charles dickens

[clarabeau]

“It’s anecdotal, but I regularly see Frankenstein’s monster described as a warning against scientific hubris, an alarm about Tampering With Things That Should Be Left Alone™. This I think is quite wrong: I think it is a story about what happens when one fails the (still at the time of writing) radical enlightenment by failing to take social responsibility for one’s actions and interventions. If it’s a warning, it’s a warning about turning one’s back, out of cowardice, on what one creates, not about creating it in the first place.”

— China Mieville, interview with the Weird Fiction Review (via brotticelli)

[suonko]

Miklos Ligeti - Ophelia

[zegalba]

Yoshitomo Nara: Time of My Life (2001)

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Enoshima (1998) ph. Louis Decamps