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[aokayo]

🪞Mercury in Capricorn: That Dry, Cutting, Sensual Edge

Capricorn Mercury brings:

• Measured delivery — Her jokes land because she paces them like a pro. That calm-before-the-bite. That stare before the absurd punchline.

• Deadpan genius — Mercury in Capricorn speaks in crisp structure. Each word is chosen. Her humor might feel spontaneous, but it’s sharp and architected.

• Sensual restraint — She has that firm mouth + slow eyes combination. It’s like her thoughts crawl over your skin instead of flooding your brain.

• Eyes that assess — There’s weight behind her gaze. She reads you. Not with flutter, but with force. She’s clocking everything, cataloguing, calculating — and still being gorgeous about it.

This Mercury turns her into a slow-burn arousal factory. Like you want to hear her say something mean and insightful about your childhood while smirking.

[morticiaaddams13]

Saint Stanislaus Cemetary, Boswell, PA Photos by: Kristy Lawson

@bluekristyal

[the-dream-hunter]

[appolyon666]

[unusual-suspects]

[sparkdailylife]

[michael-loos]

Les ardennes, Belgium

[whitneybarkman]

[the-art-archive]

Melancholy (1876) by Odilon Redon

[morganathewitch]

August forest, Skottvång Sweden.

[rosieandthemoon]

vintage French heraldry

[sirkayleeofcamelot]

*becomes a knight strictly because the local bard is cute, and I want him to write songs about me*

[yocalio]

“Well personally I think he’s filthy, rude, a complete scoundrel. I don’t like him one bit.” The Mummy (1999) Dir. Stephen Sommers

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

This is an extremely niche and nerdy thing, but “The Divine Comedy was fanfiction” and similar takes are...Reductive? Like the cool thing about old literature is that it’s from a world very different from the one we live in today, so I don’t understand the motivation to retroactively label classics as fanfic, which is very modern. I’m all for people joking and having fun, but I’ve seen that sentiment repeated here and on twitter in complete seriousness and it’s just a wacky framework with which to approach literature from a context centuries removed from the idea of fandom. Dante, a medieval Christian, did not think of himself as a “fan” of the Bible. Christianity isn’t a fandom lol. Dante did not think of the Bible as a work of fiction, and the Divine Comedy was not viewed as fiction by his contemporaries, either. When he went and recited that shit, it was as testimony to something he claimed he witnessed.

Medieval European dream visions are an entire genre of literature; there are many examples of people using a “vision from god” seen in a dream (or so they claimed) to criticize political/religious figures that were otherwise untouchable to them. Thus all of those popes being punished in Dante’s hell, for example. Vergil’s presence in the Inferno functions as 1) a mouthpiece and 2) an appeal to the authority of a revered poet. Vergil was a device, not the canon character in a self-insert fic. Isn’t that so much more interesting than “it was fanfic about Dante and his pal Vergil”? Imo it’s so much funnier that the safest way to criticize, say, a king was to be like, “I had a dream where Jesus himself called the king an ugly slut. Dreams come from god so it must be true”.

[arcusxx]

photography by david bellier

[artkool]

the witch of the waste: ive been dismembering bodies and putting them back together to make the perfect man and he will be king once he has howls head

sophie: ok first of all, people are not jigsaw puzzles and second of all, howls head ? are you sure ?? what good would his head do ???

[personalphilosophie]

sophie: *shakes howl back and forth* you can hear the rattling and every fourth shake he dyes his hair a different color please reconsider

[aslowyear]