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Mary Karr, “Predictions” [ID in alt text]

Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov, Осенний пейзаж с заболоченной рекой при луне, 1871

“Here lie the seeds of Gothic fantasy, in that desire for the ‘other’, perceived as needed to complete the ‘self’, is transgressive desire which leads to self destruction.”

— Avril Horner & Sue Zlosnik, ‘Family Gothic’ in Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination

Emily Carey as Alicent Hightower and Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower in House of the Dragon (2022-) || Electra by Sophocles (tr. Anne Carson)

twin peaks “there is a sadness in this world” / richard jackson “sometimes I don’t know how to live in the world. why is there always this scent of sorrow?” / hayden carruth “I had always been aware that the universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it” / padraig o tuama “not all sadness comes from you, but sometimes you are just wearing the world’s sadness for a while and trying to figure out what to do with that” / ada limón “there is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce” / rainer maria rilke “don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness and give it back to the earth’s own weight; the mountains are heavy, the oceans are heavy”

Group marching in Toronto Dyke March | 1996

She always attempted to be orderly, to catalogue her thoughts and feelings, so that when the awful, anarchic inner voice caught her out, her mind was stocked with efficacious replies. "What am I doing here?" could be answered with lists. She had another stock of replies to "Who the hell do you think you are, attempting to be alive?" She justified herself by saying that she was of service, that she ordered fragments of other lives.

⸺Marian Engel, Bear

Liu Xiaodong: Relaxing in Water (1999)

the best part abt classical music is that if youre like oh i like this piano and cello together good news theres 17 more minutes of it

an ode to summer I youtube link

The Jacaranda Years by Yiwei Chai

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Caitlin Bailey, Solve for Desire; from 'Unfetter'