Slobbering Darkness

Welcome to my Darkness. You can call me Slobbering. NSFW 18+ please :-]...

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I learn something new every day…

[moongloss]

“I want to drink moonlight and bathe in flower petals. To wear the earth, sleep in streams, and taste the stars.”

— My soul is wild, call me Witch. (via niimph)

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J. J. Grandville, Torn Between an Angel and a Devil, 19th century

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Richard Schofield / Flickr

[enchantedbook]

"Waltz (ghost and cat)" by Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi

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Art by Zdzisław Beksiński.

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Death and the Maiden - Camillo Verno (Italian 1870 - 1942) oil on canvas - 63 by 51 cm

With Death and the Maiden Camillo Verno presents the viewer with a classic vanitasor momento mori portrait. Painted circa 1895, the young woman, quite possibly the artist’s wife and model, is embraced from behind by a leering skeleton, clearly symbolic of the shortness and fragility of human life and the inevitability of death.  Death and the Maiden was a common motif in Renaissance art and finds its roots in the Danse Macabre, an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. No matter one’s station in life, the Danse Macabre unites us all. The German artist Hans Baldung famously depicted the subject of Death and the Maiden several times in his career. The theme was revived in the arts during the Romantic era, and variants of the subject occur in well-known self- portraits by such contemporary artists of Verno as Hans Thoma and Arnold Böcklin.  <Sotheby's>

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[majestativa]

I looked for you in my interiors only to find a bunch of decomposed flowers.

— Lourdes Vázquez, Bestiary: Selected Poems, 1986-1997, (2004)

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“My shadow is the last thing twilight will make and the dark will say I am not what I seem.”

— Loueva Smith, from “If I Could Give You One Impossible Thing,” Consequences of a Moonless Night (Texas Review Press, 2015)

(Artwork by Darren Hopes)

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Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. 

-- Stephen King

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“Onward noble steed”

[oncanvas]

A Memento Mori Skeleton, France, 1566

Limestone 55 ½ in. (141 cm) high

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[redlipstickresurrected]

Robert Lenkiewicz aka Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz (British, 1941-2002, b. London, England, d. Plymouth, England) - Death and the Maiden, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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Inferno: Canto 3 by Dante Alighieri

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure.

"All hope abandon ye who enter here."

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Montjuïc Cemetery

Known as the gateway to Barcelona, Montjuïc Cemetery was inaugurated in 1883 and opened as Barcelona’s main burial ground to accommodate the city’s rapidly increasing population during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The site is located on a steep hillside facing the sea, making it particularly interesting and distinctive in its design. The winding pathways and multiple levels, which span across a 56-hectare site contain over one million burial and cremation ashes in its plots, niches and mausoleums.