#cosmic wonder

[yo0narchive]

Cosmic Wonder FW 2005

[herbalnature]

Under a breathtaking blanket of stars, the iconic Delicate Arch stands as a majestic centerpiece in Arches National Park, Utah. Nightfall in the desert brings a serene and cosmic splendor that truly feels out of this world.

[nyktomorphia]

Putting the "titty" in "entity"

[kalitera-stin-erimia]

Lovecraft and Cosmic Wonder

"But the thing is, for Lovecraft, cosmic-existential horror wasn’t the whole story. Not by a cyclopean margin. In fact, a look at his overall body of fiction, and also his personal development as an author, and his various essays about life and writing, and the teeming ocean of thousands of letters that he wrote to a vast network of correspondents, shows that his focus on the cosmic horrific theme of existence-as-nightmare was balanced and complemented by a deep craving for liberation into transcendent realms of beauty and bliss. As I observed just a few days ago in my latest column for SF Signal, “Fantasy, Horror, and Infinite Longing,” this pairing of horror or terror with sehnsucht, the emotion C.S. Lewis identified as the “inconsolable longing” for “that unnamable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of a bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World’s End, the opening lines of Kubla Khan, the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves,” is quite common among authors and artists, especially those working in the field of the fantastic. <...>

So Dream-Quest is fully as much about an exquisite experience of cosmic longing as it is about a wrenching experience of cosmic horror. The novel shows Carter yearning for an escape into a dreamworld and to a dream city of eternal solace and beauty, and being opposed by all of those nightmarish figures Tyson mentions. And it’s the recognition of this fact, not just in this particular novel but as it’s threaded throughout the rest of Lovecraft’s life and work, that’s missing from so much contemporary scholarship. It’s not that Lovecraft wasn’t about cosmic horror, but that he wasn’t all about it. Cosmic horror was wedded to cosmic wonder in his psyche. The one bled into the other. They were inextricably united as flipsides or complements in his affective makeup. Their paradoxical pairing was in fact the engine that drove him, since he was perpetually poised on the razor’s edge between perceiving the cosmic perspective as nightmarish and perceiving it as beautiful and liberating. This tension channeled itself into a burning desire to capture and convey both intimations in imaginative form, and the fact that the darker aspect has gotten more press than the lighter one in the popular and even the critical imagination, and has in fact become rote, is vaguely reminiscent of the smear-job perpetrated by Rufus Griswold on the memory of Edgar Allan Poe.  But in Lovecraft’s case it appears to have happened by accident, with, perhaps, some help from unsympathetic critics such as Edmund Wilson."

From Cosmic Horror and Cosmic Wonder: Revisioning Our Vision of H.P. Lovecraft by Matt Cardin.

[ermine-57047]

I got a sunburn on Monday.

It hurts, but I've got some new freckles from it.

My arms and legs are covered in many moles and freckles. I'm quite fond of them. I often compare them to stars in the night sky. Because I love my starry skin.

I often think about how we're mirrors of the world around us. Our veins look like rivers and our nerves look like branches of trees.

I often forget how little area our planet encompasses, when thinking of these things, even though our blood is made red by the hearts of long-dead stars, and the ground on which we stand couldn't have existed without their sacrifice.

Then I see our likenesses in the cosmos. The eyes of nebulae, the veins of star clusters, the moles of sunspots, how even solar systems resemble the hundreds of thousands of sexdecillions of atoms they're made from.

All this time, I was thinking that we simply reflect the stars, older and bigger than us and our meager comprehension.

Now, I look at the inverted constellations painted across my skin by the star that gives us life, and feel a tearful sense of wonder as I realize that the cosmos reflects us just as much.

So, how's your day going?

[funstealer]

Cosmic Wonder A/W 2005

[angelfshh]

Chloë Sevigny by Terry Richardson, 2005

[rodspurethoughts]

Stargazing Delight: Catch the Ursid Meteor Shower This Sunday Morning!

🌌 Don't miss the Ursid meteor shower this winter solstice! ✨ Bundle up, head outside, and enjoy the shooting stars! #Stargazing #Ursids

As we cozy up to the end of another year, a delightful celestial event is gearing up to grace our skies: the Ursid meteor shower! Set to peak in the early morning hours of Sunday, December 22, this final meteor shower of the year offers a charming opportunity for some stargazing, even amidst the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. A Little Background on the Ursids Often overshadowed by the…

[zendeedesigns]

(via "Galactic Swirl - Cosmic Swirl | Soar | Rise Above |Celestial Beauty | Cosmic Wonder | Surreal Space Theme" Art Board Print for Sale by ZenDee)

[sciderman]

well - webtoons is over, gang

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Cosmic Wonder FW 2001

[herbalnature]

Under a celestial tapestry, the iconic arch of Utah's sky frames the Milky Way, a natural gateway to the stars. Mesmeric and eternal—a desert dream cradled in cosmic wonder.

[nyktomorphia]

[pointing happily] Angel :)

[cosmic-wonders-series]

Sana Ryza

[lazyveran]

thinking back to what rio said in episode 1, i wonder if she was being literal. as in, agatha was literally able to hide from rio with the darkhold.

if so it makes rio's actions even funnier and more desperate too. the literal second her ex-wife is back on the map after magically ghosting her for however many decades she goes and breaks down her front door

[itsapmseymour]

As promised everyone

The final bonus goal for Spooky Boy

Demon Solaria