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im lowkey sleepy lol But dont think im not wise

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Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, Muscles of the Back; NBC Hannibal S1 E05 “Coquilles”; Caroline Walker Bynum, “The Female Body and Religious Practice in the Later Middle Ages” from Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

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why is that snake eating its tail. doesnt seem that smart

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Xavier Mellery.

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Helena Minginowicz

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we're collectively glossing over one of the best-written, most heartbreaking parts of babel (huge spoilers ahead):

"He would never know, for instance, that there was a time when Griffin, Sterling, Anthony, and Evie had thought of themselves as a cohort as eternally bonded as Robin's did; or that Griffin and Sterling had quarrelled once over Evie, bright and vibrant and brilliant and beautiful Evie, or that Griffin truly hadn't meant it when he'd killed her. In his retellings of that night, Griffin made himself out to be a calm and deliberate murderer. But the truth was that, like Robin, he'd acted without thinking, from anger, from fear, but not from malice; he did not even really believe it would work, for silver responded only sporadically to his command, and he didn't know what he'd done until Evie was bleeding out on the floor. Nor would he ever know that Griffin, unlike Robin, had no cohort to lean on after his act, no one to help him absorb the shock of this violence. And so he'd swallowed it, curled in around it, made it a part of himself – and while for others this might have been the first step on the road to madness, Griffin Lovell had instead whittled this capacity to kill into a sharp and necessary weapon."

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Griffin Harley Lovell should be able to beat Henry Winter to death. Robin Swift should stomp on his corpse.

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thinking about the freudian binary of "dearly representable / dark continent." here, signs or bodies are either entirely, fondly, too legible, or foreclosed from legibility entirely. but god's sign, god's body, is a sub-freudian thing: the biblical god does not shirk this binary, nor does he privilege dear representation or dark continent. instead, god's sign/body is something more like a dear continent, or, dark representation. he's mixed it all up. god is an ornate golden box stuffed in a room that cannot be entered (leviticus 16:2). god is a disembodied hand (bloody at the wrist) taking up all the space in front of you only to write out words in a language you can't speak (daniel 5:5). god is the threat of death given to a woman who is "in a place with no death"(gen 3:3; cixous)

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Kim Addonizio, from “For Desire”, Tell Me

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HADES: Tell me the journey down to Hell was worth it. - Things They Want to Hear, L.H.Z

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn / Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Fredrich Nietzsche / I AM ANGRY BECAUSE OF MY FATHER - Halsey / echo - Paris Paloma / Laura Palmer Graduates - Amy Woolard / Unknown / get him back! - Olivia Rodrigo / Things They Want to Hear - L.H.Z / You / Decode - Paramore / The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde / Start Here - Caitlyn Siehl / Carry On - Rainbow Rowell / Guillermo del Toro at the Golden Globes / Caitlin Conlon / Monster - Lady Gaga / Cut - Catherine Lacey / The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Holly Black / Hair Jewellery, Dancing Girls and Other Stories - Margaret Atwood / From Persephone - Kiki Rockwell / the fruits - Paris Paloma

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LONGLEGS (Directed by Osgood Perkins, 2024) x The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Written by Jennifer Lynch, 1990)

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BENEDETTA PORCAROLI as SISTER GWEN in IMMACULATE (2024) dir. Michael Mohan

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i hate when people casually mention being in/joining the military like omg i actually think you're a terrible person now 😭🙏

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[coughing up blood] h,ey guys this book is really good

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Sheryl Lee | Twin Peaks

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Not that this soup needs any more religious imagery, but one thing the drives me a little insane is that Armand, who could be mistaken for an angel if you saw him under a shitty light bulb, was lovingly driving Daniel to suicide while Louis, who looked like a creature fresh out of the fires of hell, pushed him towards life. Something about God's easy promise of eternal rest vs the Devil urging you to live not because it's easy, but because it'd be a shame not to see how far you could get.