ROSEMARY

Young witch living in a swamp. I like to write when it's cold, and to post when it's windy.

[majestativa]

Isn’t what we call eroticism this vertiginous desire to be swallowed up, the pull-back and the attraction toward the pit, toward Death?

FRANÇOIS PERALDI — Cited in Dark Eros: The Imagination of Sadism (Ed. Thomas Moore), (1990)

[amnesiaguy]

The Long and Short of It, Richard Siken

[feral-ballad]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “You were always leaving. I always picture you with a suitcase in your hand. I can’t picture you sitting at a desk. I always see you in motion.”]

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from The Woman Destroyed; "The Monologue”

Text ID: I'm not afraid of your hatred I walk clean through it.

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[diana-andraste]

Centaur visant les Nues (Centaur Aiming at the Clouds), Odilon Redon, 1895

lithograph on chine appliqué

[weepingwidar]

Luis Xertu (Mexican, 1985) - Seclusion (2022)

[magnusedom]

Gael García Bernal as Julio Zapata Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN (2001) dir. Alfonso Cuarón

[mostbeautifulgirlscaps]

[deviika]

Alice Notley // Warsan Shire

[natalie-waite]

“I thought I understood the forest from the days when I was lost in it. Oh, proud trees, so tall and hard, I thought. You would not bend to make me feel less small. You would stand still and watch me die.”

— Keturah and Lord Death (Martine Leavitt)

[artemisia-nova]

orlok animation! this movie! has me in a grip!

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[rosechata]

fran mart

[derangedrhythms]

It was as if something was perpetually tugging her downward, toward the underworld, the mess, the dirt, and the filth, as if she was unable to feel disgust when others did and was overwhelmed by fascination instead.

Ia Genburg, The Details, tr. Kira Josefsson

[enchantedbook]

'Cendrillon' by Anne Bachelier.

[cosmonautroger]

Kate Bush, 1978

[weltenwellen]

Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against Literature)"