#supervert

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“I am Death, and when I love you it's forever.” 

— Supervert, "Necrophilia Variations"

[straydogsickness]

necrophilia variations by supervert

[raayllum]

—Supervert

[warningsine]

Alex Michaelides, The Maidens, 2. Cormac Mccarthy, The Road 3. Danez Smith, Acknowledgments, 4. Supervert, Necrophilia Variations, 5. Mary Shelley, Matilda, 6. Federico García Lorca, Elegia a Doña Juana la Loca (trans. Alan Wheatley), 7. Apollonia Saintclair, Death Is My Lover (2020), 8. Blue Öyster Cult, The Reaper, 9. Janet Aulisio, Realms of Fantasy, Vol. 4, #4, 1998, 10. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 11. Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, 12. Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 13. Gwendolyn Bennett, Sonnet 1, 14. Myriam Gurba, Painting Their Portraits in Winter, 15. E.E. Cummings, I Spoke To Thee, 16. Christina Rosetti, The Poor Ghost, 17. Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Match

[awkward-sultana]

Dance Macabre, 1918, Robert Warren Harrison/atticus/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, J.K. Rowling/Tiktok: Mary/Garden of Death, Hugo Simberg/ O' Death, Frances Molina/Nāve (Death), 1897, Janis Rozentāls/@rumpledspinster/Kinder Than Man, Athea Davis/Death and the Maiden,1908, Marianne Stokes/@liliesabounded/Mother and Child, Xi Pan/Sadegh Hedayat/@babymancatman/@Jenny_Jinya/@booktheif1/The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde/The Blind Owl (trans. D.P. Costello), Sadegh Hedayat/The Angel of Death, Evelyn De Morgan/Necrophilia Variations, supervert

[aworsening]

death and the maiden

crave - sarah kane / the young woman and death - henry lévy / death and the maiden - egon schiele / necrophilia variations - supervert / death and life (death and the maiden) (the loving woman) - edvard munch / suicide's note - langston hughes

[dearorpheus]

(that last anon again) Thank you so much for the recommendations! I'm truly in awe of how well read you are and how thorough your answers are. May I ask if you have any fiction recommendations with the same themes?

(following on from this ask)

hi!! you're very kind, apologies for taking so long to get back to you! i've been snowed under with assignments+readings for uni and the slowly encroaching exam crawl... but yes absolutely♡

- The Story of O, Anne Desclos - The Bloody Chamber ; The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman ; The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter -> Angela appreciated and referenced symbolist artists like Rops:

Woman Putting on Costume, 1848-1898, Rops; The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter; excerpt from Romana Byrne's Aesthetic Sexuality: A Literary History of Sadomasochism (mentioned in previous ask) which seems esp pertinent given the Bloody Chamber is a Bluebeard tale (but which is actually referencing Story of O)

I also mentioned Giger in the previous ask, and Hans Bellmer was an influence of his whom I enjoy viewing alongside Rops...

this is Sans Titre (Jeune Fille et la Mort), 1963

- The Torture Garden, Octave Mirbeau

(Le Jardin des supplices (1976) dir. Christian Gion; screencap from estateofinsanity)

- Exquisite Corpse, Poppy Z. Brite - Necrophilia Variations, Supervert - Story of the Eye; My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man; Blue of Noon, Bataille - Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue ; Juliette ; 120 Days of Sodom, Sade - The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Anne Rice -> supplement w Sleeping Beauty (2011) dir. Julia Leigh - Venus in Furs, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Monsieur Vénus, Rachilde - Le Necrophile, Gabrielle Wittkopp - The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P, Reiko Matsuura - The Damned ; Against Nature, Joris-Karl Huysmans - Empire of the Senseless, Kathy Acker - Crash, J.G. Ballard (+ the Cronenberg of course) - Salomé / Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal, Oscar Wilde - La Morte Amoureuse, Théophile Gautier

^Romuald bitterly remembers his lost love, 1904, Eugène Decisy—his etchings for Gautier's story are beautiful (x, x)

- The Image, Jean de Berg - Trois Filles de leur mère, Pierre Louÿs - House of Incest, Anaïs Nin - My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell - Naomi, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - “Dolores”, Algernon Charles Swinburne:

-> first of many stanzas^ ; I also like his “Laus Veneris” - Trouble Every Day (2001) dir. Claire Denis - Belladonna of Sadness (1963) dir. EIichi Yamamoto

(screencap from eternal--return)

- Nekromantik (1988) dir. Jörg Buttgereit - Thirst (2009) dir. Park Chan-wook -> supplement w Zola's Thérèse Raquin and In Secret (2013) dir. Charlie Stratton

[milksockets]

We are amputees in the realm of sex, and depravity is the prosthetic we use to stagger around the pleasure dome.

Supervert

[erotomox]

The Red Means I Love You

Where Are My Fucking Pills? -Death Spells//Bodysnatcher 4 ever (What's a Pulse Got to Do with It?) -Leathermouth//Give Me a God I Can Relate To - Blythe Baird//Necrophilia Variations by Supervert//Taboos and Transgressions: Georges Bataille on Eroticism and Death by Renee Fuchs//Till We Have Faces -C.S. Lewis//Black Mamba -The Academy Is...//Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West (1910-1921)

[monstraduplicia]

heyy could you recommend some films or books idk, I know you have good taste

since you didn't give any details on what you like or what you're looking for, I'll just list off some favorites

movies: chained 2012, the cell, mysterious skin, the dreamers, velvet goldmine, deadgirl 2008, shame, magnolia, antiviral, dazed and confused, hard candy, sex lies and videotape, the devils, belladonna of sadness, amelie, possum, the loved ones, the devils candy, empire records, American mary, the piano teacher, knife + heart, all that jazz

books: lost souls by poppy z brite, drawing blood by poppy z brite, necrophilia variations by supervert, pin by andrew neiderman, blood on the tracks by shuzo oshimi, women out of control by linda g stunell, tranny by laura jane grace, the sparrow by mary doria russell, mysterious skin by scott heim, the devil all the time by donald ray pollock, knockemstiff by donald ray pollock, house of leaves by mark z danielewski, goodnight punpun by inio asano, choke by chuck palahniuk, brother by ania ahlborn, bath haus by pj vernon, any man by amber tamblyn

[tenderperversion-moved]

ive heard a lot of conflicting opinions about supervert but i do appreciate him for running a website dedicated to different translations of les fleurs du mal its been really helpful on my current heroes journey. anyway its kind of crazy to me that some translators dont make their versions rhyme... so many sonnets in here, whats even left of them if you take away the rhyme scheme. you just killed that thang. (<- hope everyone is enjoying my incredibly enlightened literary analysis). they can be easier to digest but at what cost!

[moorishflower]

I am sick so I am in desperate need of something to do! Do you have any book recommendations? What have you been reading lately?

Oh nooo! I hope you feel better soon <3 Make sure to drink lots of water and eat something even if you don't feel like it?

I've been considering getting the PDF of Necrophilia Variations by Supervert, because I saw that Hysterical Literature video with Stoya. I've also been rereading my copy of Beowulf. <3

For fanfic I've read recently:

Generous by @softest-punk

treat me like a slut, by Dream Murphy, PhD by @beatnikfreakiswriting

All I Have to Do is Dream~ by @violetequus8

There's a theme running through all of these see if you can guess it loool

[straydogsickness]

necrophilia variations by supervert

[oracleact]

labelling myself as an exophile is fitting, I guess I like it because it works, but I constantly wish there was a better ‘label’ that wasn’t so focused on sexual intrigue as a whole.

exophilia is "a fetishism whose object is the sexuality of extraterrestrials." in other words, it is a desire for extraterrestrial, alien, or other non-human life forms. the term was coined by the writer supervert in the 2001 book extraterrestrial sex fetish.

I’m not sure how to explain it all that well, but I use exophile in a way that nods towards romance and love, not just sex or an object of such. it has never been a focus of lust or drool for me and the fact that there’s no way to describe myself other than pointing people in the direction of a sexual definition is…rather frustrating - heartbreaking, even, because no one truly knows what I mean/how I feel about this topic.

I’m stuck in a painful cycle where I crave the warm attention and affection of beings that cannot be and that can get to me sometimes. it can make me upset, knowing that I can’t pour my love out fully and embrace what I’ve always felt in my heart. I need a label with a definition more fitting to the overwhelming pull towards nonhuman beings in this way.

is this too niche of a subject to voice? I’m not sure, I simply needed to let it out somewhere. maybe there is a better label for me out there that I just haven’t found yet!

[tussive]

Also the Bjork stalker meme kinda fucked me up because like. I wouldn't say that I consider it something that makes me emotional, and obviously y'know stalking is not cool.

But like just the act of shooting yourself and having your brain matter splatter onto a canvas with "The Best of Me" written on it is an incredible piece of performance art imo. But then he fucked that up even because he didn't get the distance right and like barely any of it actually reached the canvas? I don't know. I think any art that results in the artist's death is inherently more powerful than a piece of art that didn't.

It reminds me of this quote from Necrophiliac Variations by Supervert. "I looked at the headline: “The Devil Made Him Do It.“  It was an opinion piece about the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and the "disjointed” but “grotesque” remarks he had made at a press conference.  Lamenting the relative impotence of the arts in comparison to terrorism, Stockhausen had called the attacks “the greatest work of art that is possible in the whole cosmos."  I guess he thought of it as a Wagnerian spectacle, an opera of airplanes and towers.  "Five thousand people are dispatched into eternity, in a single moment,” he said.  “I couldn’t do that.  In comparison with that, we’re nothing as composers.”"

The whole situation is very sad but also very funny in a way.

[inuhiime]

:: 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 !

‘ death loves you. do you love me too? ’ ( supervert )

‘ surely i must be bad, the way you keep punishing me ’ ( leila chatti )

‘ you cannot follow the dead / but you can follow a legend until it stains you ’ ( sally wen mao )

‘ some things you love once & spend the rest of your life pouring salt in the wound ’ ( dante emile )

‘ you love how love sounds more than you know how it works ’ ( mahogany l. browne )

‘ if you give me the exact coordinates of my heart, i still can’t find it ’ ( victoria chang )

‘ how do i grieve the loss of something that’s been returned to me? ’ ( gabrielle bates )

‘ i want to keep who i am despite my deep exhaustion ’ ( kyla jamieson )

‘ all we have that is holy is hollow ’ ( kiki nicole )

‘ speaking to you here, like this, is the most difficult thing i can do ’ ( charif shanahan )

‘ the thing is this: the dead, they won’t stay buried ’ ( chris abani )

‘ how can you make light of what you have done to me? ’ ( elizabeth e. wein )

‘ don’t be afraid-- our whole world is dead and so can do you no harm ’ ( natalie shapero )

‘ there is no answer. why should there be? ’ ( george steiner )

‘ i’ve been waiting to be in this hell here with you ’ ( alice notley )

‘ don’t count on happiness, don’t believe anyone happy until he is dead ’ ( michael kinnucan )

‘ have you ever loved anything? ’ ( elizabeth e. wein )

‘ do you know what a ghost looks like? ’ ( valzhyna mort )

‘ if i am going to be afraid, i might as well do it honest ’ ( hanif adburraqib )

‘ it’s so hard to disappear without anyone noticing ’ ( clint smith )

‘ i was grateful you never killed me ’ ( eugenia leigh )

‘ without violence, how do i understand my life as meaningful? ’ ( gabrielle bates )

‘ you can bury anything inside these hands ’ ( mahogany l. browne )

‘ i’m so glad we both made it home ’ ( dante emile )

‘ which parts of you did you kill so you could be loved? ’ ( jody chan )