Dedicated To Solving This Grave Situation

| MORS VBI GAVDET SVCCVRRERE VITAE | | a prolonged agony is preferable to an inglorious end. |

[cursed-and-haunted]

web weaving for my oc, Graves

Re-animator dir. Stuart Gordon / No Ghost Abandoned, Tyree Daye / Another Last Day, Aex Lemon / Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Willem van Der Meer, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt / Jenny Holzer / Practice of Autopsies, G. Reign / The Book of X, Rose Etter / haruspice, Yves Olade / self portrait as a murderer, Juliusz Lewandowski / Love via Purpose, I.B. Vyache / Anatomy Lesson by Dr. F. Ruysch, Adriaen Backer / Blood Wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca / The Gross Clinic, Thomas Eakins / On The Romance of Cannibalism, Silas Denver Melvin / Blood Tin Straw, Sharon Olds / All the Wrong Colours, Yrsa Daley-Ward / Bride of Re-animator dir. Brain Yuzna / Baby Teeth, Laura Villareal / I Keep a Strange List, Talin Tahajian / Hannibal 1x05

[weepingwidar]

Hyman Bloom (Latvian, 1913-2009) - The Hull (1952)

[wavesofundoing]

Mark Rothko, address to the Pratt Institute

[melanqole]

sleep

[jovishark]

day 1 / blood & organs, autopsy

"dont bother to dissect my failure in front of me."

im using zosiaverse as my focus for burakhovsky week. tl;dr a dog lives there now

[pmamtraveller]

"Waiting Gradually Eats The Soul"

by A.F. Vandevorst.

[alyxwal]

Day 1 | Surgery

[thegraininessofitall]

"That's why through disease we can reach God."

[eesirachs]

something happens, in the bible, when you get too close to death but re-turn anyway. this 'something' has a phrase: לֹ֣א נָכַר. it translates to "can't be recognized," "was not registered," something like that, but why translate it at all? keep it semiotic. keep it leaky, risky, muddy. in the bible, when god tells you to die but then lets you live anyway, you come back and are not recognizable. job is brought to the brink of death, and his friends לֹ֣א נָכַר him. jacob, about to lose his blessings, becomes לֹ֣א נָכַר to his father. joseph, mock-killed by his brothers, is too לֹ֣א נָכַר. moses comes down from spending 40 days with god. becomes לֹ֣א נָכַר. you can't translate what these men looked like after they didn't-die. their didn't-dying is above register; it, in and of itself, cannot be recognized. sometimes god tries to kill you and you live. and you'll only know it once you see it

[ducissatenebrarum]

Memento Mori Coffin Pendant c.1880–1900 ✨

An extraordinary Victorian novelty pendant crafted as an ornate gold coffin opening to reveal a finely carved miniature skeleton...who is very happy to see you!

Decorated with engraved enamel, faceted purple crystal, and meticulous hand engraving, this remarkable jewel embodies the Victorian fascination with memento mori, transforming mortality into a profound work of wearable art and exceptional craftsmanship.

[concupiscience]

[precevazia]

Dool-Hoff (Claes Braau - 1705)

[oresti-s]

Dedication to Hunger, Louise Glück.

[minormalady]

I am the surgeon & I am the patient & I am the technician handing over the scalpel & I am the scalpel & I am the pervert touching themselves in the corner

[funeral]

If the intelligibility of the world must thus imply a 'face to face' coupling of the soul with the body qua dead, then intelligibility is the epiphenomenon of a necrophilic intimacy, a problematic collusion with the rotting double which brings about the possibility of intelligibility within an inert cosmos. The intelligibility allotted to the body as corpora cadavera by ratios of the intellect (or reasons)—each inherent to a different type or gradation of the soul—animates the world according to the intellect. Yet in doing so, reason reanimates the dead rather than bestowing life upon it; for in terms of the Aristotelian body qua cadaver, intelligibility is the reanimation of the dead according to an external agency. Reason grounds the universe not only on a necrophilic intimacy but also in conformity with an undead machine imbued with the chemistry of putrefaction and nigredo.

Reza Negarestani, “The Corpse Bride: Thinking with Nigredo” in Collapse Vol. IV: Concept Horror, ed. Robin Mackay

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Death is only looking inward. Death is our ancient mother, our first mother.”

— Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr by Robert Bly, from “Death Is Looking Inward,”

[sizeofyoursoul]

Let the young sing songs of death. They are stupid.

Pandora, Pandora by Anne Rice

[nonlynear]

i’m haunted i’m unfuckable and i love you