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Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) dir. Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid

they're both about to learn that two things can be true

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lookingforsaints

binary star systems // lucy dacus and julien baker in the ‘sylvia’ vid // come out lyrics

houseof1000gods

having some thoughts

calliopeprelude

could you explain the point for me?

i feel like it’s very clearly explained in lucy’s press release in that very post you sent me. i’ll try to put it into words.

the quote lucy’s put in the sleeve is “to love a mortal being is to cast one’s lot with the temporary.” as explained in julien’s favorite love song, options by pedro the lion, you never know if a relationship is going to work out for sure, and acting like it’s certain is sort of impractical. having an exit strategy can be good, because love is always a gamble. it’s uncertain and impermanent and human, because the people involved are human. but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it again and again, that you shouldn’t try, that you shouldn’t surrender to it. see best guess, as well as julien’s songs ringside and bloodshot for her more pessimistic take on that same theme.

this album’s thesis is lucy’s attempt to reconcile that idea with her conviction that true love exists and is real. in fact, it permeates everything. it comes into her life again and again. see direct address. it’s inescapable, fated—it defies death and lives on in reincarnation. see please stay, we’re in love. and in some cases, it’s the “great disruptor”—so extreme as to live on for years and ultimately provoke the kind of yearning and realization that forces her to overturn her life and that of her lover’s. see big deal, limerence, ankles.

she said it herself: she wants love, warm and forever. but how is a romantic like her to reconcile a desire for a true love that lasts forever with the knowledge that nothing so mortal ever could last forever—and a partner who is so preoccupied with anxiety about its temporary nature?

so here’s the thesis: forever is not an amount of time. forever is a feeling. forever exists in the in between, as you make the most of the time you have with the person you love the most. after all, calliope’s son orpheus experienced true love, didn’t he? and for the moments he and eurydice had, it felt eternal. and it was: we still tell the story today. of course you’ll lose each other—to death, if nothing comes between you sooner. but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t forever.

natureell

wideyedgays

@lavendercaffeine

zegalba

Robert Mapplethorpe: Tulip & Thorn (1985)

nightbecomeseclectic

darkmacademia

my morning coffee / jupiter

wideyedgays

this is so important to me because for the first 10 years in school i was in the Jupiter “house” so i have an unexplainable attachment to this planet

stargirl092

Songs Lucy dacus writes about men are like “yeah I dated this guy when I was 13 and he sucked what a fucking loser” and “I will jump out of this car and walk home 4 miles in the snow” but the songs she writes about women are like “hey, I will kill your dad if you want just give me the word” and “if you marry your dumbass boyfriend I’ll throw my shoe at you on your wedding day”

filmsnevermade

lock broken slur spoken wound open game token i didn’t know you were keeping count // ended with the slam of a door, then he’ll call her a whore, wish he wouldn’t be sore