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after j.g. ballard’s the drowned giant (and watching the love death + robots ep): i’m reminded of the industrial-scale slaughter in dishonored and in moby dick in the sense that those inhabiting these stories are mutilating larger-than-life creatures that you’re positioned to feel reverent towards. there’s an ineffable gloom and also a grotesque beauty to these narratives, and in these dead and divine beings. 
moby dick is a colossal sperm whale; in dishonored the whales more closely resemble that same prehistoric livyatan melvillei than our modern whales; and then, in ballard’s story—“although his heels were partly submerged in the sand, the feet rose to at least twice the fishermen’s height, and we immediately realised that this drowned leviathan had the mass and dimensions of the largest sperm whale”
an excerpt from philip hoare’s leviathan:
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dearorpheus · 17 hours
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a bottomless curse, a bottomless sea.  accepting of all that there is, and can be.
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epigraph from John Langan’s The Fisherman
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dearorpheus · 18 hours
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from Lovecraft's Shadow Over Innsmouth
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dearorpheus · 18 hours
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“The sea hides its dead. Because what lies below must stay below.”
— Alejandra Pizarnik, The Shadow Texts; from ‘The Green Table’, tr: Yvette Siegert (via derangedrhythms)
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dearorpheus · 18 hours
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The Oseberg ship, at the Viking Ship Museum, Oslo, Norway.
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dearorpheus · 4 days
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dearorpheus · 4 days
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[…] you please me, and you master me—you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced—conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win. 
Charlotte Brontë, from ‘Jane Eyre’
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Indian steel and silver mace, 18th or 19th century.
from The Jorge Caravana Collection
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dilara findikoglu rtw autumn 2o23 .
#a.
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dearorpheus · 5 days
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BLOODBORNE (2/?) ↬ The Hunter’s Dream
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dearorpheus · 5 days
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It’s the night of the white lilies. About ten o’clock, the flowers lightly move to and fro. Nocturnal butterflies pass with brilliant little stones on their wings and they make them kiss the flowers.
— Marosa di Giorgio, Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, transl by Ronald Haladyna, (2010)
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...for Simone Weil, the dark night of God's absence, is itself the soul's contact with God. When she speaks of an 'ineffable consolation' that fills the soul after it has renounced everything, renounced even the desire for grace, she does not mean that supernatural love is something distinct from the acceptance of the void. To endure the void, to suffer evil, is our contact with God."
— Susan Taubes, The Absent God
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today I took pictures of the inside of an Ox’s heart … It was bigger than my head 
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Ave Maria ( Bloodborne )
Hey everyone ! New Bloodborne piece ! :)
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