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asoftepiloguemylove · 1 year

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SHE HATED HER LIFE, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS BAD, BUT BECAUSE WHEN YOU HATE YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR BODY, IT'S HARD TO ENJOY THE REST.

Franny Choi I Guess By Now I Thought I'd Be Done With Shame / Erika L. Sánchez Amá / Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors / Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance / Richard Siken Birds Hover over the Trampled Field / Hélène Cixous The Selected Poems of Hélène Cixous / Alberto Zamboni Ovunque / Oscar Nin / Richard Siken Crush

i. Franny Choi I Guess By Now I Thought I'd Be Done With Shame [ Somewhere, / there is a version of me that isn't neck-deep in her invented filth. ]

ii. Erika L. Sánchez Amá [ Amá, I leave because / I feel like an unfinished / poem, because I'm always trying to bridge the difference. ]

iii. Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors [ I don't feel particularly proud of myself. / But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well. ]

iv. Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance [ I've run out of language to explain the avalanche of anguish I feel when faced with this world, and so if I can't make sense of this planet, I'm better off imagining another. ]

v. Richard Siken Birds Hover the Trampled Field [ The enormity of my desire disgusts me. ]

vi. Hélène Cixous The Selected Poems of Hélène Cixous [ You horrify me. But at the same time, I horrify myself. We are horrible. ]

vii. Alberto Zamboni Ovunque [ The silhouettes of two human figures stand in a room. The background is blurred around them. ]

viii. Oscar Nin [ Distressed painting portrait of a man. ]

ix. Richard Siken Crush [ a gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it. ]

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dysphoresque · 1 year

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“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.” ― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

“A burnt child loves the fire.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

#Anaïs Nin #Delta of Venus #Oscar Wilde #The Picture of Dorian Gray #quotes

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everydayesterday · 3 months

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I doubt it got any serious traction as a potential Academy Award nomination this year because of the type of film it is, but imo the Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross score for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is probably their best work, and is as good as anything Reznor's put out since The Fragile (or maybe Ghosts I-IV). [side note: is the beat from NIN's "March of the Pigs" sampled in "Attack on a Titan" ...?]

It's far more interesting than The Killer, Gone Girl, or The Social Network (won Oscar), and especially Soul (also won Oscar). The movie provided a wealth of different scenarios; it wasn't a one-note thematic narrative like The Killer—it's a dystopian action-comedy cartoon with sadness and drama. The song titles themselves are hilarious ("Grand Theft Ice Cream Truck," "Better than Mark Ruffalo," "Puke Girl").

I hate that the Oscars basically shortlist the same 5-10 films over and over across all categories (e.g., Oppenheimer—you honestly think it deserved 13 nominations? It really wasn't that perfect of a film. Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon are also nominated for score.), regardless of whether they're truly deserving, instead of appreciating more variety. You'd think that members of the Academy watched a good number of films, but I have my doubts.

The film itself was pretty decent, too; I watched it with my son at the theatre (one of only 2 films I've seen at a theatre in the last 5 years or so—the other was No Time To Die). It features a vibrant punk style of animation (similar to Across the Spider-Verse in that sense).

Those are my thoughts for this morning.

#trent reznor #atticus ross #nine inch nails #NIN #music #tmnt #donatello is my ninja turtle #childhood throwback #oscars #academy awards #also... cowabunga dude!

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hypnosbrumalis · 2 years

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books i recently thrifted!

#anaïs nin beloved #emily dickinson #arthur rimbaud #oscar wilde #virginia woolf

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persephonediary · 2 years

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When people ask me what’s my favourite book? The panic, the anxiety, the torture: how am I suppose to pick only ONE book?!

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manie-sans-delire-x · 2 years

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Having parasocial relationships with dead writers

#op #oscar wilde #sylvia plath #franz kafka #albert camus #anais nin #my homies

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helianthus-tarot · 1 year

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Quotes that remind me of the planetary archetypes

Sun: “You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so that others won’t feel uncomfortable around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.” — Marianne Williamson

Moon: “If you think about why any story moves us, it’s because of a quaking moment of recognition. It’s never the shock of the new, it’s the shock of the familiar.” — Joshua Oppenheimer

Mercury: “I didn’t say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.” — Oscar Wilde

Venus: “I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brush her hair, wash her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more.” — Michelle K.

Mars: “I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” — Henry David Thoreau

Jupiter: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Saturn: "There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in middle of the suffocating dust.”— Heather Havrilesky

Neptune: “When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.” — Anaïs Nin

Uranus: “We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.” — Hildegard von Bingen

Pluto: “You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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thefirstlivingart · 1 year

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it's scary when things change, its scary when things stay the same.

pinterest / john steinbeck, journal of a novel: the east of eden letters / holly warburton / pinterest / john elizabeth stintzi, "saluta-tions from the storm” / henri barbusse, the inferno (boni and liveright, 1918) / jeanie tomanek / @swarnpert on tumblr / junot díaz, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao / sylvia plath, the unabridged journals of sylvia plath / amy casey / pinterest / hilma af klint / mary oliver, upstream / anaïs nin, the diary of anaïs nin, vol. 6: 1955-1966 / @thepersonalquotes on tumblr

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dearorpheus · 1 year

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(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

#eroticism #asks

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holybibly · 17 days

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Hello Mommy, I'm new on your blog and I'm a bit embarrassed because it's my first time to send someone a message here… but I’m delighted with your works and I’m very curious what inspires you to create. Do you listen to music while writing, or maybe you are inspired by the fantasies in your head and you simply put them on paper? I wish you a great day <3

Hello bunny, welcome to our naughty little house. I hope you feel loved and adored.

Ideas… hmm, my brain works in a very strange way, I can literally get the most unique idea out of anything, I'm in a constant flow. But my bunnies also give me a lot of ideas with their requests.

For example, my last ff with Emperor Hwa was inspired by my bunny's request for the unholy hour. So do not hesitate to send me your wishes and your most depraved dreams, my sweet bunnies, I am always ready to make them come true.

Music helps too, yes. If you have noticed, all my works have a kind of unique style - I really like the exquisite literary style. I take inspiration from poetry and books. My favourite literary genre is the gothic novel and I really dream of writing something for Ateez in the style of Bram Stoker's Dracula. As for poets, I have recently discovered Baudelaire, Poe and Pablo Neruda. I can also recommend writers such as Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin, Nabokov and Oscar Wilde.

I am also inspired by some photos or fanarts. I think you will see this influence in the near future.

In general I just live in my own world of ideas and am happy to create different universes for you.

#bunny questions #sugar and sin

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gecnawan · 1 year

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BARU CORMORANT in THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT

Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 Florence + The Machine, King Oscar Wilde, The Duchess of Padua Caitlyn Siehl, Cut Clementine von Radics, There is a Lion in my Living Room Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

#baru cormorant #the traitor baru cormorant #the masquerade

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woundthatswallows · 1 year

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what are your favorite books? / books you recommend to your followers?

first 14 are my faves!! then the rest r also beloved ones off the top of my head that i think everyone should read

frankenstein by mary shelley

rebecca by daphne du maurier

the bell jar by sylvia plath

the carnivorous lamb by agustín gómez-arcos

the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek

the diary of anaïs nin vol 1 (highly recommend all of her work, she's my favorite author!)

wilderness by jim morrison

autobiography of red by anne carson

angels in america by tony kushner

carmilla by sheridan le fanu

blood and guts in high school by kathy acker

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

the goldfinch by donna tartt

lolita by vladimir nabokov

the inseparables by simone de beauvoir

book of longing by leonard cohen

death comes for the archbishop by willa cather

on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

the bluest eye by toni morrison

devotion by patti smith

oh and right now i'm reading and absolutely loving moby dick by herman melville + beautiful losers by leonard cohen and would prematurely recommend them for sure

#asks #recs

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burningvelvet · 1 year

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writers as lana del rey songs that remind me of them bc i’ve been listening to her music a lot lately

sylvia plath - hope is a dangerous thing, born to die, beautiful, wildflower wildfire

anaïs nin & henry miller - burning desire, the other woman, black beauty, arcadia, blue velvet, carmen, summertime sadness, she’s not me, queen of disaster

walt whitman - body electric, happiness is a butterfly, get free, yosemite, cherry blossom

charles bukowski - wild at heart, west coast, how to disappear, american, yayo, go go dancer, kinda outta luck, velvet crowbar

jack kerouac - ride, cola, blue jeans, thunder, nectar of the gods, off to the races, diet mountain dew, looking for america, live or die, starry eyed

allen ginsberg - not all who wander are lost, brooklyn baby, living legend, dark but just a game, terrence loves you, religion, looking for america, love, children of the bad revolution

ernest hemingway - salvatore, florida kilos, the blackest day

oscar wilde - young and beautiful, gods & monsters, roses bloom for you, young and beautiful

f. scott & zelda fitzgerald - young and beautiful, art deco, money power glory, old money, the greatest, national anthem, hundred dollar bill

mary & percy shelley - dark paradise, lucky ones, swan song, beautiful people beautiful problems

lord byron - venice bitch, high by the beach, freak, million dollar man, music to watch boys to, 24, lust for life, 13 beaches, cherry, salvatore, kill kill

vladimir nabokov - lolita, mermaid motel, queen of the gas station, off to the races, big bad wolf

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birthofvcnus · 1 year

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@fr0ntier’s vibes: a visual moodboard

painting credits:

1. Oscar Sancho Nin

3. xòjira

5. Matthias Dornfeld

9. Véronique Chanel

#u said u liked emerald green and teal so i went w a mix #fr0ntier #aesthetic #moodboard #eerie aesthetic #eerie moodboard #creepy aesthetic #creepy moodboard #goth aesthetic #goth moodboard #alt aesthetic #alt moodboard

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cold-black-and-infinite · 1 year

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These two women at work saw my NIN shirt and said they loved NIN but then asked "Isn't Trent Reznor dead?" Jejsjsjsj TRENT DIDN'T GO TO REHAB TWICE, REPLACE DRUGS WITH WEIGHT LIFTING AND WIN TWO OSCARS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO THINK HE'S DEAD

#nin #trent reznor #shut up jamie

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halloweenvalentine1997 · 5 months

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A recommended list of books I own and read

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Fatal Flowers by Rosemary Daniell

Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes

The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes

The Old Contemptibles By Martha Grimes

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes

Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes

And Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

The Truth about Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

The Doll Master by Joyce Carol Oates

Night Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates

The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates

Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates

High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates

I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan

The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell

Dead Run by Erica Spindler

Carrie by Stephen King

The Shining by Stephen King

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul

A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

The Third Twin by Ken Follett

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

When Shadows Fall by J.T. Ellison

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

My Sweet Audrina by by V.C. Andrews

The Cutler series by V.C. Andrews

The Logan series by V.C. Andrews

The Hudson series by V.C. Andrews

Ruby by V.C. Andrews

Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

The Elizas by Sara Shepard

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

Wait for Me by Sara Shepard

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Summer by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule

The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh

Slenderman by Kathleen Hale

Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

#books #personal

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