kylie

✧ all about hedonism and decadence ✧

[ovid]

but is it even poetry if it doesn’t haunt you a little?

[erewinweik]

“But it was always the Red Room.”

[vouyeurism]

haunting of hill house has been one of the best tv shows i’ve watched in a while. i love when horror is the vehicle and not the destination. these writers carry characters to full term and with such care, it’s so beautiful that it is so terrifying.

[deeliescroco]

[nemfrog]

“Milton’s division of universal space.” Chaos, chaos, chaos. Hell. Milton’s astronomy, the astronomy of Paradise lost. 1913. 

[la-reine326]

Classic Novels as John Mulaney Quotes

Brave New World: I’ll keep all my emotions right here and then one day I’ll die.

Little Women: Which is funny because I’m probably gay based on the way I’ve walked and talked for 28 years

The Great Gatsby: I had to stop drinking because I would black out and ruin parties

Frankenstein: I also don’t want me to be doing what I’m doing

Lord of the Flies: Thirteen year olds are the meanest people in the world

To Kill a Mockingbird: I’ve never talked to my dad about that, but I figured I would tell all of you

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Was there ever a ghost mother? Or was the dead victorian girl me all along?

Animal Farm: He’s allowed to do that? It feels like he shouldn’t be allowed to do that.

[brinnanza]

don’t let anyone dehumanize you

dehumanize yourself

be the creeping eldrich horror you have always longed to be; rain furious vengeance down upon those who would unmake you

[rudimentarylabia]

[ne0ntigress]

-Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

[lifeinpoetry]

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

— Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” Deaf Republic

[sheglows]

Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

[hypnagogic-logic]

“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow.” —  Anne Sexton

[eliminated]

[stardustch0rds-deactivated20210]

i pull up at the gas station. the bass is thumping in my car. people stare. they think i’m listening to something hardcore. i open my door. it’s the phantom of the opera soundtrack

[aseaofquotes]

Brian Andreas, “Before Dawn”

[women-loving-art]

Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology Of Water: A Memoir

[roserosette]

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer, 1972, Nina Companeez

[lavenderichtus-deactivated20180]

okay get this: perfumes with the names of classical pieces