cry wine

[funeral]

Damned If You Don’t (Su Friedrich, 1987)

[franzkavkas]

July 1st-5th, 1914

Franz Kafka, Diaries (1914-1923)

[nhlh-95]

[opticalspirit-deactivated202006]

Étoile, Peter Del Monte

[khayriya-deactivated20250830]

Brianna Wiest, 101 essays that will change the way you think

[membergeorge]

open up to the total experience.

[cafe-solo]

[conquered]

[simena]

Nick Alm (detail)

[die-rosastrasse]

Godesses of night in paintings part 2.

Jules Louis Machard (French, 1839-1900) 

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (French, 1774-1833)

Carl Schweninger, Jr. (Austrian, 1854-1903) 

[part 1.]

[yourlocalnymphh]

D.L. Smith

[simena]

Domenico Fiasella (detail)

[weltonboys]

[thewildetyme]

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”

— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

[anillusion-deactivated20231008]

video

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

— Angela Carter, from The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography, c. 1978.

[dearorpheus]

In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women “give birth astride of a grave.” 

— Caitlin Doughty, from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

— Samantha Hunt, interviewed by The New Yorker

— Claudia Dey, ‘Mothers as Makers of Death’

[oneinchbarrier]