#Jenny Hval

[flowerytale]

Jenny Hval, from Girls Against God

[oldwinesoul]

Tell me, in your darkness, in your ocean, am I ever there?

Have we ever reached each other?

// Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

[palahnyook]

But my dreams are full of apples, and in the dark my body slowly transforms into fruit: tonsils shrinking to seeds and lungs to cores. I dream of white flowers blossoming under my nails, as if under ice. Then my nails break, open up like clams, and in the finger flesh there are little sticky fruit pearls.

— Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval

I will travel far beyond the path of reason Take me back to Eden, take me back to Eden

— Sleep Token, Take me back to Eden

[punk-rockdyke]

[nofatclips]

Spells by Jenny Hval, opening track of The Long Sleep EP - Director: Constance Tenvik

[hairtusk]

Jenny Hval, shot by Jenny Berger Myhre

[invaive]

ONE TON PREY

a lion attacking a horse – george stubbs / scheherezade – richard siken / pig – sparklehorse / sabbath – jenny hval / racehorse: get married! – jordaan mason and the horse museum / cop car – mitski / harmony – nancy conant

[lazyydaisyyy]

Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

[surebabyholdback]

Queer books I’ve been reading for pride month

[flowerytale]

Jenny Hval, from Girls Against God

[seriseriously]

Hi flesh and corruption nation if you like sapphism (I know what you are) you should read Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval it is literally if a Norwegian girlie moved in with an Australian avatar of the corruption with a taste of the flesh in Melbourne and then they were gay and it’s so so so good

Like imagine if a statement was 200 pages. That’s literally Paradise Rot

[mychaotic-academia]

Just started reading Paradise Rot this morning. 10/10 so far.

I’m here for odd girl autumn

[nofatclips]

Female Vampire by Jenny Hval, live at Primavera Sound Festival 2016, Barcelona

[primordialll]

Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval

[phaedraismyusername]

2022 was a soil, rot, and fungus kind of reading year for me and I regret nothing

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley

A post-apocalyptic novella following a group of isolated men years after a plague killed off all of the women. Its told from the perspective of a young man who's place in the group is to tell stories of what was, and when they stumble upon a secret in the woods, what could be. Its weird, mildly distressing, kinda gross, but super super interesting. Highly recommend.

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

Translated from Norwegian by Marjam Idriss, it follows an international student studying in Australia who finds herself in a bizarre living situation with an older woman in a converted space with no internal walls and no privacy. It focuses on sexuality, exploration, and obsession, with some of the most viscerally tactile descriptions I've ever read. It's uncomfortable and frequently gross in that way only female authors can be, but I don't regret reading it.

Eartheater by Dolores Reyes

Translated from Argentinian by Julia Sanches, this book is about a young girl with a compulsion to eat earth which gives her visions of missing people and victims of violent crimes, and how this ostrasices her from her family as a child, and how she chooses to use this ability to help the community when she's older. I found this one a little harder to connect with, translated novels often feel drier and more distant to me because of what's lost from the native language, but reading the authors note really really helped contextualise it and increased my appreciation for what the author was doing so I recommend reading it too.

Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

It's short, it's weird, it's a five star read, what else can I say. It follows a young healer, living in a small community with her father, as she learns to exist amongst people who are scared of what she is, but need her skills, and how far she'll go to protect that connection when she thinks she's found it. It's full of the healing power of nature, moral ambiguity, ethical greyness and dark themes. I loved it.

What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher

Possibly my favourite author of the year, This is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe (which I have not read) and follows main character Alex as they return to the home of their childhood friends after learning one of them is sick and possibly dying. T Kingfisher is an author who's style either works for you or it doesn't, and for me it really really does. The blend of humour, dread, and body horror was a joy and I read it in one sitting with no effort at all. And it's chock full of fungus, which is apparently my jam now.

[thesilverolfactory]

Jenny Hval Paradise Rot (trans. Marjam Idriss) [via. thesilverolfactory]