Khnos - ᜊᜓᜎᜈ͓

A hora da Estrela (Suzana Amaral, 1985)

Creative writing is way closer to engineering than I think a lot of people expect. It takes creativity and imagination to decide what to write about. It takes a lot of honed dedication to craft to really make the word-to-word prose sparkle. But all the stuff in between? Knowing how long an idea should be, what medium it should be, how many characters, and how their motivations need to interact, all that shit is basically engineering.

embarrassment has good bones

_sr_ch

The limits of the liberal imagination are going to get us all killed

Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon (c. 1954)

It's an honor killing if it happens in Asia, femicide if it happens in LaTam but it's a preventable tragedy if it happens in the USA

Grace Jones

Cong He by Zhong Lin for W Magazine China June 2024