[cruellheaven]

“We have never been as happy or as miserable. Our quarrels are portentous, tremendous, violent. We are both wrathful to the point of madness: we desire death.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Henry and June

[fungusamongusblog2]

Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman

[slowdec4y-deactivated20231011]

[salomi]

Details of Dionysus Statue

Dionysus, Hadrian-era marble sculpture, Roman civilisation, 2nd century AD.

(Roma, Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme.)

[peopleinpolaroids]

[filmaticbby]

Fallen Angels (1995) dir. Wong Kar-wai

[ohevoyev]

(i) i samuel 20:4 / (ii) gustave doré, david and jonathan, c. 1886 / (iii) pirkei avot 5:16

[trash-rules]

“I don’t think that there’s anything worse than being ordinary.”

American Beauty (1999)

[humanoidhistory]

Planet Saturn, observed by Voyager 1 on this day in 1980.

[lifeinpoetry]

God is singing in my head again in the howling voice of a she-wolf that’s just eaten her young.

— Ari K. Castañeda, from “Self Portrait, During and After O Face,” published in glitterature for the mobs

[tri-ciclo]

John Liggins Untitled, 1975

[fuckyeahcourtneylove]

Courtney, 5 week old Frances Bean and Kurt.

In their bedroom at home in L.A. September 23, 1992. 7 months after they got married.

Shot by duo Guzman.

Besides this shoot, the three of them were never photographed professionally ever again.

This quote from Courtney is from nearly a year after Kurt’s death.

[pusluktalaratlasi]

if you don’t remember, it will be something that never happened.

[lisaaolivia]

“we are slaves to the gods. whatever gods are.” - euripides, orestes

[showings]

“Christ rots in my mouth.”

— Anne Sexton, “Speaking Bitterness”

[poboh]

Lincoln Cathedral Choir, ca 1890, Francis Frith. English (1822 - 1898)

[letzternachtzug]

Liv Tyler by Ellen Von Unwerth for Vogue Italia. 1996