[bonda9e]

[redsel]

[theegrandhorizontal]

[superprettyx]

[2headedtrout]

[2headedtrout]

[2headedtrout]

[2headedtrout]

[aletheyass]

On Ugliness, Umberto Eco (2007)

The Hollow Crown – Richard II, dir. Rupert Goold (2012)

Sex, Violence and Faith: The Art of Caravaggio, Amelia Arenas (2016)

The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew, Caravaggio (1599)

Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi (1620)

The Torture Garden, III, 3, Octave Mirbeau (1899)

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[freudarchives]

Ruth Perry, Incest as the Meaning of the Gothic Novel

[puffsaddy]

[giveherswords]

Jenny Holzer, Black Book Posters, 1979

[derekisme]

[guiltfactory]

i would like if something horrible and invasive was happening to him and his boundaries were violated and he was uncomfortable and scared

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

Hot. The days are yellow—heavy with the yellow ripeness of apples ready to drop if you but touch the tree, if you but look or blow. The lindens and the lilacs lean their breasts over the fence of her garden like those Russian beauties of Yaroslavl, Ryazan, Zamoskvorechye, who look out of their windows on sultry evenings, crushing their opulent bodies against the windowsills.

– Yevgeny Zamyatin, from “In Old Russia,” The Dragon: Fifteen Stories (The University of Chicago Press, 1976)

[boyangelics]

[crucifiedlovers]

Lauren Berlant on the Freudian model of love, Desire/Love

[nemfrog]

“The rabbit raiser soon learns the names of the principal points of animal anatomy.” Rabbit raising, a handbook. 1953.