The Fact That Dante Created The Most Popular Image Of The Afterlife With Absolutely No Theological Basis

Cows/kor in Edsåsdalen, Jämtland, Sweden (September 10, 2018).

Les films rêvés (2010) dir. Eric Pauwels

Book stall in  Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

Photo by  dastan khdir

im such a stupid victorian whore i see a man with his sleeves rolled up and get the vapours 

on a haunting, D. E. / Nicolo Carozzi, A Tale of an Empty House

“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is, essentially, the story of a 12-year-old who starts cussing, masturbating, and disobeying her mother—in other words, going through puberty—it becomes apparent to the feminist-minded viewer why two adult men are called in to slap her around for much of the third act. People are convinced that something spooky is going on with girls; that, once they reach a certain age, they lose their adorable innocence and start tapping into something powerful and forbidden. Little girls are sugar and spice, but women are just plain scary. And the moment a girl becomes a woman is the moment you fear her most. Which explains why the culture keeps telling this story.”

— Rookie, The Season of the Witch (via brimalandro)

Miles Johnston

“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts Or does each man’s mad desire become his god?”

— Virgil, The Aeneid