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Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Pan Presenting Hare to Woman c. 330–320 BCE attributed to Asteas/Python Workshop (South Italian, Paestan, active c. 360–320 BCE)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Franz Kafka, 1912

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Giuseppe Penone, Continuerà a crescere tranne che in quel punto, 1968

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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Crying in front of my altar to Mary has to be the most cathartic thing ever. Let's all cry with Mama.

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Joseph Stallaert, 1825-1903

Polyxena on Achilles' stake, 19th century

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

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Modesty or Veiled Truth by Antonio Corradini (1752).

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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, 1980

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to be fully honest this new trend of remaking and sanitizing not only gothic fiction and its genres (hill house, dorian grey, turn of the screw) and horror movies more generally (carrie, the exorcist) point to much more serious cultural movement than the death of art or the death of horror as a genre in the mainstream. specifically it is gesturing to a sanitizing effect in which cultural authority has now deemed the subversive as worthy of living but only if it is a) commodified and b) divested of all its subversive elements. we can play-act at feminism, trans inclusion, and anti-racism as long as it serves a corporate interest and does not actually challenge cultural authorities. we can adopt its aesthetics as something to be sold without actually inhabiting it ideologically. it is the newest manifestation of cultural authorities anesthetizing effect on anything that threatens it and it is becoming more and more prevalent. anyway i want to beat mike flanagan with hammers

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Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica on set of "Dune: Part Two" photographed by Jack Davison for M Le Monde Magazine

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Mark Laver, "I'm gonna shine out in the wild silence" / "Everything looks beautiful, when you're young and pretty" / "I may never be unhappy again"

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‘The Quiet Pet’ (detail) by John William Godward, c. 1906.

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I just finished the ARC Savage Blooms and MOTHER OF GOD it was amazing!! I am asking my local romance bookstore to stock it and will definitely be buying a copy when it comes out!

YAYYYY oh my God I'm so happy you enjoyed it, and thank you for asking your local romance bookstore to stock it! I feel like it's the best thing I've written in a long time and it's also the freakiest and longiest and smuttiest and angstiest, so I'm happy it's hitting for you.

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I just finished reading your catholicism essay, it was really good. (And I'm definitely going to start listening to St. Anthony's Tongue now!)

Ahhhh so glad you enjoyed it! And yes I think you in particular would get a ton out of that podcast; it's a fave.

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House of Castor and Pollux Pompeii, Italy

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some of my lestat illustrations.

you can get both of them as prints here!