Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979

used to be people would say things like "avast" or "hither and yon". nowadays folks mostly say stuff like "ethernet cable"

“(…) a wild thing caught in a woman’s skin, monstrously alone,”

— Nightwood, Djuna Barnes (via decreation)

my carapace has been so lustrous recently

Francisco Infante-Arana & Nonna Gorunova, The Life of the Triangle, 1976

“Of all the female characters in the Arthurian legend, Morgana is the most powerful, even more so than Merlin. Merlin may be a powerful prophet, Morgana is the practitioner. Merlin sees what can go wrong, Morgana accomplishes it. Morgana considers Merlin a somewhat tiresome old man, and it is fitting that it is her derivative character, Nimue, who finally divests Merlin of his power and confines him to his crystal cave. Morgana must still be smiling through the mists.”

— Sara Douglass, “The Betrayal of Arthur”

An abandoned potato sorting station near Krasnosilka, Ukraine with a unusual, cantilevered design. The concrete block at the end forms the counterweight of the structure, creating the impression it floats over the fields.

literally destroy superabundance. starve the flesh, shave the hair, expose the bone, clarify the mind, define the will, restrain the senses, leave the family, flee the church, kill the vermin, vomit the heart, forget the dead. limit time, forgo amusement, deny nature, reject acquaintances, discard objects, forget truths, dissect myths, stop motion, block impulse, choke sobs, swallow chatter. scorn joy, scorn touch, scorn tragedy, scorn liberty, scorn constancy, scorn hope, scorn exaltation, scorn reproduction, scorn variety, scorn embellishment, scorn release, scorn rest, scorn sweetness, scorn light. it’s a question of form as much as function. it is a matter of revulsion.

babygirl i’m deficient in vitamins scientists haven’t even discovered yet

Needle ice overtakes an apartment in Yekaterinburg, Russia (Anastasia Popelka)