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blood meridian is so good i need at least a week to sift through my thoughts and feelings in order to articulate what it did to me… suffice to say my copy will be well loved and annotated and many times re-read.

i can’t remember who said this but i was thinking a lot about that quote about prose being words in their best order and poetry being the best words in the best order, or something to that effect. for me the way blood meridian is written feels almost more like poetry than prose for its complete and visceral evocativeness. sentences that not only paint vivid pictures in my head but also tug at my insides in a way i can’t describe at all.

truly one of the most slowgoing reading experiences of my life for the way i kept having to stop to take sentences in and for the way i kept flipping back to reread favorite passages… i must’ve returned to the legion of horribles a dozen times before i finished the book and in my memory it’s like i really saw it.

and there’s something about the way it’s both deeply grounded (clearly meticulously researched, and nothing is more real than a good old fashioned language barrier, than thirst and pain and the brutal heat of the sun) but for all its hyper-specificity in depicting the wild west, it’s also so enormous and weirdly mythic. walks right up to the line of magical realism, of something cosmic maybe. certainly the last few chapters read like a dream.

also the way it plays with language and structure and time, the way an entire paragraph will be devoted to describing the rising sun but then decades can pass in the span of a single sentence… don’t even get me started on all the spanish (claro yo encantado de leer la versión más completa) or the lack of quotation marks around the dialogue so as to not “blot the page up with weird little marks” or the oddly compelling inscrutability of the kid— and i’m not even going to try and talk about the judge. or the violence. actually i’m just going to stop now as i worry i could continue on forever. anyways. good book.

#if i think about it too hard i will simply start screaming at the top of my lungs and never stop <3 #blood meridian #the evening redness in the west #cormac mccarthy

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- Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness In The West, 1985 R.I.P. Cormac McCarthy

#feeling unwell. #blood meridian

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do you want to live inside of my heart locket 

#literally me to award winning austrian director michael haneke

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Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke

#:}}}}}}}} #🥚

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“Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.”

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian

“You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay.”

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

#actually. yeah. #blood meridian #house of 🌿

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#meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee #i just finished this and i am forever changed #blood meridian

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“So, what now, then?”

“I’m gonna eat my omelette is ‘what now then.’”

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is there also a bunch of girldick in bram stoker’s lair of the white worm or was that all ken russell?

#my money is on the latter i think. #either way ten outa ten stuff and we should put girldick in every movie ever #lair of the white worm #ken russell #bram stoker

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~Happy Halloween!~

Here's a mock up poster I made for "Lair of the White Worm" (1988, dir. Ken Russel). A delightfully campy and sexy film based on one of Bram Stoker's lesser known works, filled with fake gore, surreal dream sequences, an incredibly fashionable lesbian, and a baby faced Peter Capaldi <3

#really really really good

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Ringu (1998)

#HEY GIRL I LOVE YOU #ringu

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Mad God (2021) Directed by Phil Tippett

#one of the most impressive feats of animation if not the most impressive feat of animation ever of all time. christ

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#this girl looks exactly like a chayote to me. is the thing

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the butch/femme scene of 1990s san francisco by chloe sherman

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from gay semiotics (1977) by hal fischer

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Quick Braid by Conair (2001)

#saw trap for curly hair #hairs

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#lmaoooo dryheaving and sobbing in the men’s bathroom at [redacted] right after landing to attend best friend’s funeral. what a time

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genuinely astounding to me how many people don’t understand that a business’ top line and a business’ bottom line are very different things

#homie i promise u if i kept every dollar u paid me i would charge a lot less <3 #and let’s be real if i didn’t have bills i’d straight up do it for free lmao #hairs