Machines in the Head by Anna Kavan - 3/5

Reading Anna Kavan during the aftermath of one of the worst depressive episodes of my life is funny because even if I didn’t like this book, I felt like I understood it. Machines in the Head is a sort of “Greatest Hits” compilation of Kavan’s short stories, pulling from 5 different collections from 1940-1975. Despite this, they all felt like part of the same big work. Almost all of the stories were in first-person, translating the most depressing despair into externally-turned nightmare imagery. The fact that they’re all in first person makes it feel like the narrator isn’t crazy, she’s just having a logical reaction to a nightmarish world. Kavan’s hopelessness isn’t fun to read, nor is it cathartic at all, but I definitely could see where she was coming from. The best stories were the ones that were the most rooted in reality, “Ice Storm” and “World of Heroes”.

Oh no! LBM got wet...

Be not afraid

The Ones Who Live - 1x01 - Years

rich people still struggling to comprehend this in 2023

:-P

Nova confirmed Florida-man send post

Nova and Fool belong to @venomous-qwille 's beautiful fic Ghost in the Machine 🩵🩷 please click for better quality q.q

Approaching Storm: Beach Near Newport – Martin Johnson Heade (detail) // Stormy Sea with Capsizing Ship – Robert Kummer // Stormy Sea with Lighthouse – Carl Blechen // Stormy Sea – Ivan Ayvazovsky // Landscape – Florence + the Machine

i read GITM by @venomous-qwille and this is my opinion on bitches who have Sol as their favourite character. (its me. im bitches...)

ALSO GO READ GITM, ITS AMAZING!!!!

Sol can hang me from the rafters but that won't stop him from being Babygirl.

It's been a decade since I took French so lmk if there's mistakes.

I binged this a few days ago and I'm quite literally enamored with the writing and characterization! LOVE! <3 Send help

GITM -> @venomous-qwille

introductions

it always tickles me that despite the fact that falin wields a literal mace as an arcane focus it's five-foot-something noodle-armed elven waif marcille with her delicately woven branch staff and bare minimum strength and constitution who is categorically more violent and destructive and unhinged. falin touden can tenderize a walking mushroom with one hit and still marcille "i cast explode your brain point blank on reflex when threatened" donato is truly something else

i just think the idea that optometry in the boiling isles is magic-based is VERY funny

Did I never post this?? What the fuck

Nova from @venomous-qwille getting some hard-fought-for lovins. I wanna hug this robot so fucking bad you have no idea-

You’re a mistake. A monster. Like me.

But I will make you strong. I will make you meaningful.

It’s time..

hehe adding to the au