Sable Noir

XXIV , Slytherin , Libra

[archivearchangelica]

Beirut, 2011

[avonturx]

[triflingthing]

Storefronts of Kyoto

[kitab-alf-layla-wa-layla]

11 stages of love in arabic.

1. الْهَوَى (hawa) = Attraction The beginning of love. This love can arise suddenly, but is transient, not yet firm in the heart. 2. الْعَلاقَةُ (‘alaqah) = Attachment Love that becomes attached to the heart, and loses the transitory property ofhawa. 3. الْكَلَفُ (kalaf) = Infatuation Love that begins to intensify and have a physical affect on the lover. 4. الْعِشْقُ (‘ishq) = Desire  Love that engulfs the heart of the lover entirely, and takes it as its residence, such that love and the heart in which it resides become intimately familiar with one-another.  This love blinds the lover to any faults in the beloved. 5. الشّعَفُ / اللَّوْعَةُ / اللعَاج (sha’af, law’ah, li’aj) = Passion  Love that starts to burn, but at this stage, the love is still pleasurable in the heart. 6. الشّغَفُ (shaghaf) = Affliction Destructive, all-consuming love. The heart begins to be devoured by the love. 7. اَلْجَوَى (jawaa)= Grief Love that started with the outer covering of the heart. It takes over the entire heart, and results in an inner grief and sorrow. 8. التّيْمُ (taym) = Enslavement Love to the point where the heart is enslaved to the beloved. 9. التَّبْل (tabl) = Malady Love, which was once living pleasurably in the heart, having made it its home, now turns against the heart, and so overwhelms, confounds and bewilders it, that it is as though it were its enemy. 10. التَّدْلِيْه (tadleeh) = Disorder Love when the heart is thus being destroyed from within, and begins to lose all sense of balance and reason, it goes into a state of chaos and disorder. 11. الْهُيُوْمُ (huyum) = Insanity Love that comes to its conclusion. 

[seaoflove]

haven’t had much to say lately. just collecting thoughts and letting them simmer like a good soup . waiting

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

the intimacy of having your efforts reciprocated in the same intensity and with the same tenderness

[hangsawoman]

me when i go walking on sunny days and end up on a tree lined street and look up at the gaps of sunlight and miss you more than anything

[amadryades]

Being young in the Balkans: dying on your way to university, inside a public/privatized train (Tempi, Greece), dying from a collapsing train roof (Novi Sad, Serbia), dying from a fire as you have fun inside a nightclub (Kocani, North Macedonia). This is a triple macabre coincidence, or maybe not. Being young in the Balkans means to have already been killed by a state that has done everything within its powers to show you that you are unwanted when you're alive: that if you don't abide by its corrupt rules you'll be unemployed or never rise in the ranks, you'll be thrice as educated than your western european peers to be working for 1/3 of their salary, perhaps migrate to some western country yourself where you at least gain back the bare minimum of respect, seeing your parents' pension getting eaten away by state- agreed cartels for basic goods, essentially crawling back to the family/ church because they seem to be the only functioning institutions, only to perpetuate conservatism and hate. We were never young, we are tired and angry

[lytheranoctis]

[todayintokyo]

Spider lilies at Saihō-ji (西方寺) in Yokohama, Japan, photographed by @pomu_iyashi

[colonellickburger]

Enri Canaj. Lambie by the Aegean Sea, 2022

[uroko]

A Rainy Day 小雨の日

[log6]

the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

[duncebento]

beyond that the columbia common is literally an open space during the day; the gates are open and it's possible to pass through it like you'd pass through a regular block. even after my student ID expired i was still able to walk through the commons bc ID is not requested until you enter an actual building. it's quite common to see parents, toddlers, and such who are clearly not enrolled just hanging out. so not only were the students not trespassing at a SCHOOL THEY PAY FOR, there was also not a precedent for non-students to be disallowed from the grass and walkways.

[sablenoir]

[zegalba]

Kiko Mizuhara for Kiiks (2024)

[sskeptical]

Beds I've Slept In, Orion Carloto (2012-2023)

[sablenoir]