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These hands that are yours. They ache
To dig into your flesh
And open each blue vein
To hear your murmuring blood.
Federico García Lorca, from "Blood Wedding", Three Plays: Blood Wedding. Yerma, The Hous of Bernarda Alba (tr. Michael Dewell & Carmen Zapata)
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And, do you know, my heart swelled and ached so during the Liebestod that I thought I must truly love him. Yes. I did. On his arm, all eyes were upon me. The whispering crowd in the foyer parted like the Red Sea to let us through. My skin crisped at his touch.
The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter | The Thing Lay Still Interview with the Vampire
#don't look at me#angela carter#the bloody chamber#interview with the vampire#iwtv#iwtv amc#iwtvedit#the thing lay still#lestat de lioncourt#comparatives#webs#web weave#web weaving#tw blood#tw gore#behead#red#liebestod#knives
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[…] the room was full of the clamour of the forest’s Liebestod […]
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Company of Wolves’
#angela carter#the bloody chamber and other stories#the company of wolves#prose#fragments#liebestod#n
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they need to invent a dating app for ppl who wanna do this:
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Richie Hofmann. “What struck me most was the light that came after, / filling the whole house with itself…”
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Stathis Athanasiou, {2007} Liebestod - Tesseris praxeis (Liebestod - Four Acts)
#film#gif#Stathis Athanasiou#liebestod#Tesseris praxeis#liebestod - four acts#2007#short film#no people#seascape#sea#blue#landscape#2000s#male filmmakers#greece#colour
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Excerpts from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), sung in Italian
Giuseppina Cobelli (Isolde); Renato Zanelli (Tristan); Antonio Righetti (Marke); Ebe Stignani (Brangäne), Luigi Rossi-Morelli (Kurwenal); Aristide Baracchi (Melot)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Victor de Sabata, conductor.
Recorded live in Milan, 1930.
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Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone) [ID'd]
#lit#quotes#poetry#typography#marina tsvetaeva#poem of the end#selected poems of marina tsvetaeva#id included#russian lit#liebestod#dolor ante lucem#reading#m#x
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The suicidal murder of the double is also underscored by a sense of the liebestod, or love-death, a marriage between the ego and its shadow-self though mutual obliteration. — Kier-La Janisse
#taylor swift#tswiftedit#taylorswiftedit#tswiftgif#midnights#anti-hero#mine*#everyone else: cute birthday edits#me: this
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spuffy fic rec, pt.2
part 1
(Unintended) You Could Be by ashcrashed [14k]
No, she hadn’t lost her mind. Because the reasons that made Spike the actual worst also made him the right one for the job.
Domino Effect by Anaross [15k]
Spike slips away unnoticed after Angel gives Buffy the amulet that might help in the final battle and runs directly into a tearful Buffy with a message from the future.
AU after End of Days.
Monky Business by Girlytek [18k]
Retconning Dawn is harder than it looks.
In Remission by Quinara [19k]
In the five years Spike's been missing, the world around Buffy has irrevocably changed. The general population has woken up to vampires' existence and the kill count has dropped way down. She's sharing a house with a soulless vampire, still going by the name of Faith. But what does Spike have to do with it? And what does it mean for their future?
Devouring Time by Sigyn [20k]
An apocalypse has ravaged the world. Buffy has lost her friends, and her beloved Spike, and wants nothing more than to die, to rest, but immortality denies her that chance. With nothing more than her scythe and a hint of possibility, she seeks out a goddess of time, who offers her the chance to enter a universe of her own past, to choose a champion and save the world. Buffy knows who she would choose. But how can this Spike, paralyzed, filled with rage, and still in love with Drusilla, possibly be a champion for life, for light, and for the slayer he hates? Only time will tell.
Bring On Christmastime by bewildered [21k]
Welcome, Gentle Readers! Have you ever wondered the true meaning of Christmas? I know I have. But never fear, I, Andrew Wells -- having been privileged to bear witness to a Christmas miracle, in this the year Anno Domini Two Thousand and Two -- shall now share with you the answer, a tale that will warm the cockles of your cold, cold heart and fill you to the brim with tingly, pepperminty Christmas spirit.
There's something about Anne by Frillyria [44k]
Anne is just a regular girl until a not-so-regular boy gets a hold of her - she is thrown into a life outside her control, and has to do what she can to survive - and to choose hope over fear and distrust.
nothing safe is worth the drive (follow you home) by SummerFrost [61k]
Here's the deal: Buffy's got no idea how to beat Glory, or how they're gonna book it across the country in a moldy RV without anyone killing each other, especially now that someone broke one of the beds—and the thought of going home again kinda makes her wanna cry.
The one thing she knows is that Spike would follow her anywhere, even like this.
The Key is Donnie Summers by Girlytek [121k]
Response to tempestt's challenge, what if Dawn were Donnie, if the monks had created a brother for Buffy instead of a sister?
--complete through Season 5--
Liebestod by Iamblichus [149k]
They really should have known the First Evil wasn't done with them after Sunnydale… Enter: Time-travel, mysterious prophesies, and lots of poetry. BtVS Post-Season 7; Angel AU Season 5. All's well that ends well.
#psa: 'in remission' is not the most feel-good read but it had to be in there imo#maybe follow it up with a bit of fluff lol#spuffy#spike x buffy#buffy x spike#spuffy fic#spuffy fic rec#spuffy fic recs#spuffy ficrec#spuffy ficrecs#mine
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Good Omens Aziraphale's Sad Bastard Breakup Playlist
After the breakup, Aziraphale has a new job in heaven, having taken Gabriel’s vacant position. Aziraphale is haunted by sad music reminding him of his time with Crowley. The songs are dramatic, tragic, melancholic, angry, wistful, romantic, and sentimental. How does he listen to music at his new job in the head office? Are material objects allowed? Does he keep a secret stash of tea, cake, and records and a phonograph player in his office? Does he have a celestial radio that can tune in Earth radio stations? Does he sneak off to Earth to hang out in record shops and bookstores? Or more dramatically and emotionally torturously, does he remember every note, every nuance, every feeling, of every song and replay them in his mind? He's stuffing his face with angel food cake and tea while crying and listening to sad bastard songs and hiding from Michael and the Metatron.
See note after list on song selection process.
Songs include:
“Lacrimosa” – Mozart, Requiem in D Minor, Vienna Mozart Orchestra
“Commendatore” – Mozart, Don Giovanni, Amadeus film soundtrack
“Ja, tot katoramu vnimala” – Rubenstein, The Demon, Nicolai Ghiaurov
“D’amour l’ardente flemme” – Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust, Maria Callas
“Liebestod” – Wagner, Tristan and Isolde, Waltraud Meier
“Ach ich fuhls” – Mozart, The Magic Flute, Gundula Janowitz
“Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth” – Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Janet Baker
“E lucevan la stelle” – Puccini, Tosca, Placido Domingo
“Celeste Aidia” – Verdi, Aida, Mario Lanza
“Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” Mahler, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
“Der Wanderer” – Schubert, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
“Love is a Plaintive Song” – Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
“I am a Courtier Grave and Serious” – Gilbert and Sullivan, The Gondoliers, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
“The Gentleman is a Dope” – Rodgers and Hammerstein, Allegro, Blossom Dearie
“A Hymn to Him” – Lerner and Lowe, My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison
“Could I Leave You?” – Sondheim, Follies, Alexis Smith
“We Do Not Belong Together” – Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin
“On My Own” – Schonberg, Les Misérables, Frances Ruffelle
“As Long as He Needs Me” – Bert, Oliver, Judy Garland
“Stranger in Paradise” – Wright and Forest, Kismet, Richard Kiley and Doretta Morrow
“A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” – Sherwin and Maschwitz, Vera Lynn
“Night and Day” – Porter, The Gay Divorcee, Ella Fitzgerald
“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” – Porter, Born to Dance, Shirley Bassey
“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” – Rodgers and Heart, Pal Joey, Sarah Vaughan
“They Can’t Take That Away From Me” – Gershwin, Shall We Dance, Fred Astaire
“Mon Deu” – Dumont and Vaucaire, Edith Piaf
“Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” – Dumont and Vaucaire, Edith Piaf
P.S.: Aziraphale likes Les Mis because it reminds him of that time Crowley rescued him from the Bastille. Don't tell anyone. It's a big secret.
P.P.S.: “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” reminds him of the time he and Crowley got drunk in the backroom at the bookshop the day the anti-Christ was delivered to Earth. Basically, this song reminds him of every time they went out for drinks or stayed in and drank.
P.P.P.S.: “I am a Courtier Grave and Serious” was the song Aziraphale planned to play when trying to tempt Crowley into learning the gavotte. It reminds him of the ball in the bookstore when he finally danced with Crowley.
P.P.P.P.S.: “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” is as close as Aziraphale can get to telling the world and Crowley to eff off. He has no more effs to give. Or at least he’s trying to convince himself he no longer gives a f***. He’s going off to his new job at the head office and Do Good.
Note on song selection:
I selected songs that thematically fit with the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley. I think the songs tell a story of Aziraphale’s struggle to reconcile his conflicted motivations. They reflect Aziraphale’s fears and desires. He fears being hauled off to hell for disobedience. He fears Crowley’s death and being alone in the world. He desires to be emotionally intimate with Crowley. (Dare he risk physical intimacy with Crowley?) He feels self-righteously indignant, but he’s soft and squishy and weepy and misses his best friend.
I don’t have much knowledge of opera or musical theater, but I have some experience with choir and solo performance. I did a lot of research into opera, art songs, musicals, showtunes, and standards to create a playlist on YouTube. Selections were based on availability, popularity, and sound quality. My big question was whether or not Aziraphale is a strict originalist or if he likes different versions of songs. In some places, I chose newer versions over original versions due to the sound quality of the recordings. I tried to keep selections accessible to a wide audience with varying degrees of musical knowledge. You may not like my choices, so your mileage may vary. You can make your own playlist.
You can listen to it on YouTube.
#good omens 2#neil gaiman#aziraphale#crowley#breakup#sad bastard music#angry love songs#breakup playlist#playlist
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"If I could only burn this thing out of me!" she cried. "I didn't want to be different"
"She is...distraught. She cries out against her brother one moment, mourns him the next"
"Without a vision of the future, I could fail. Oh, what magic I could perform if only I could see as Paul saw! Not for me the bitterness which prescient visions brought."
"A leaden sensation pulsed through Jessica's body and she heard the surf of her own life within her ears. The rumors were true! Horrible! Horrible! Alia had fallen into the forbidden way. The evidence was there for the initiate to read. Abomination!"
// Devotion and Heartbreak, film by Roger Guàrdia, Performance by Eifman Ballet Company, Blood Wedding Sheva Theatre 2016, MO24 Mount Olympus Theatre Jan Fabre, Uma Thurman in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1998, Marie Claude Pietragalla, "Liebestod" Angelica Liddell, "Les Pecheurs De Perles" 2016 by the Metropolitan Opera //
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tristan und isolde / iwtv (2022)
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It's striking that the memories Obyron lets go of in Severed are all life-sustaining ones - not just Yama, but where he was born, drinking water, his father's name, the sense of taste - whereas the things he remembers are deathly, usually of things he had to kill, or perished friends. Eventually nothing but his own death will remain. The narrative is set up so that Obyron seems to be ticking down to his end with every chapter - even noting that he's attracted to the thought ('a constant temptation [...] to give in to the whispered promise of ecstasy and let the subjective hours fly past, until time swallowed him whole'), and mayhaps just wants it all to be over, because he doesn't think there's anything else out there and it is best to forget and be dissolved.
Except Obyron's love for Zahndrekh isn't a memory. It's not eliminated with his memories of Yama, so it must be a supervenient state, not stemming from any particular moment. This love has character like no memory Obyron has: it makes him covet another's death, for the sake of his and his beloved's lives, but leaves him (albeit briefly) with no regard for sustaining his own life in order to achieve this. Just the most visceral, animal murder sequence. Knowing that's the closest Obyron gets to being Severed, I wonder if it is actually possible for him to be lost in the same way Doahht's denizens are, when his engrams are powered by something much stronger and more devastating.
And to think all of this is achieved down deep in the core, in the literal darkest heart of that world. In Tristan und Isolde it is only by night, and the knowledge of their impending doom, that the two lovers could express their love. I am not normal. There's some strong Liebestod energy present in this pairing
#warhammer 40k#vargard obyron#nemesor zahndrekh#obyron#zahndrekh#severed#essay#also 100% unrelated to the post but i keep coming back to the part where setekh's skolopendrae... ate... his remains???#i wonder what living skolopendrae liked to eat. it seems they were predators/carnivores of some sort and carry the memory of the hunt#nowadays it's a fairly big deal when necrons start trying to eat things. do canoptek skolopendrae dream of electric nemesors?#idk i'm rambling i should go to bed
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What big teeth you have!
She saw how his jaw began to slaver and the room was full of the clamour of the forest's Liebestod but the wise child never flinched, even when he answered:
All the better to eat you with.
The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat.
Angela Carter, "The Company of Wolves"
Red Riding Hood in Horror
True Blood 5.01 • Trick ‘r Treat (2007) • Red Riding Hood (2011) • Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4.04 • The Company of Wolves (1984)
#true blood#buffy the vampire slayer#the company of wolves#horror#fairy tales#trick ‘r treat#red riding hood#comparatives#halloween#kind of galaxy brain of trick ‘r treat to have a werewolf dress up as red riding hood#*
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