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At first you love what hurts you because you don’t know anything else is possible, as though it were intuitive to hold a knife by the blade. You do this long enough and your wounds may not heal but they do grow familiar. You do this your whole life, and the handle becomes a weapon in its own right, the blood-letting extension of your grasp. Now you are no longer so helpless. Now you are a calloused palm wielding a bludgeon, and that’s not nothing. You cannot cut, but you can strike. You cannot sever, but you can crush. That can be the way you reach out and touch whatever it is that you need from the world. That can get the job done.

Julian K. Jarboe, from Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel.

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what's a little ritualistic bleeding between friends

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JESUS CHRIST’S DEFORMED CROSS

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i was hollowed out and emptied of my self and all i got was this obsession with seeing god in everything

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“Margaret Atwood says, “if you get hungry enough (…) you start eating your own heart.” Mine ate me. What does that make of this hunger?”

— i’ll bite the hands that feed me, Grace Moloney

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a body in trouble saying “but i am not sick enough” so often that it begins to sound like a prayer

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Ann Demeulemeester F/W11 Claw Bracelet

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Undercoverism.

[ FULL SCAN : ’Undercover - Cream, 2006’ ]

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“Rage is not to be avoided, diminished, belittled. Rage is God. Better believe my rage is steeped in love.”

— Shira Erlichman, as quoted in Jacqui Germain’s When the Ghosts Come Ashore

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do you ever feel like you’re not the only living thing here? do you feel like objects can see you?

no, that can’t be right.

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The saint, especially the female saint, needed some very real protection. Treated as a curiosity by some, and as a walking reliquary by others, the saint could find it hard to protect her privacy and even her person. Both were seen as not entirely hers. It was acceptable, even laudable, to spy on the saints. The hagiographers again and again reminded their reader, the candle must not be hind under a bushel basket. Saints were not supposed to have backstage behavior; they were expected to be constantly saintly. Saints could not excuse themselves by saying that they were not aware of being watched. It was assumed that they would try to hide their sanctity, adding humility to their catalog of merits, but depriving others of their rewards. This pious selfishness was not tolerated by spectators who did their best to catch the saint in flagrante sanctitate. As for their bodies, the saints were seen as mere custodians of their miracle-working flesh. The saint’s relics (pieces of clothes, blood-stained material) could be torn away from the saint with or without his or her permission. When the followers of St. Romauld learned of his intention to move to another place, they planned, ‘impia pietate,’ to kill him to avoid losing his body.

Aviad M. Kleinberg, Prophets in Their Own Country. Living Saints and the Making of Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages (via zielenna)

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Nosferatu the Vampyre by Werner Herzog (1979)

The Monk by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich (1808-1810)

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coach 1941 | fall 2018

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Possession (1981) dir. Andrzej Zulawski

#possession

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To write is to be eaten. To read, to be full.

Natalie Diaz, from Postcolonial Love Poem; Snake-Light.

#natalie diaz #postcolonial love poem

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Come blend into my death. Death is always ready to accommodate you. Should anyone run after you, then stand behind my death.

Han Yong’un, from Come to Me; The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry. Tr. Sammy Solberg.

#han yong'un

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As if softness were proof of anything but a promise to rot,

Franny Choi, from Soft Science; In the Morning I Scroll Myself Back into America.

#franny choi