Heartbreaking. This Baby Was Aborted Before Ever Having The Chance To Smoke A Cigarette

Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Just casted a powerful curse on you.

my carapace has been so lustrous recently

Medieval stained glass fragment incorporated in a later window at the church of All Saints, East Barsham (Norfolk)  

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“I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”

— Sylvia Plath, from ‘Elm’, Collected Poems

David Lynch “The Angriest Dog In The World” || Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy 

Wang and Lai (2014)

“Of all the female characters in the Arthurian legend, Morgana is the most powerful, even more so than Merlin. Merlin may be a powerful prophet, Morgana is the practitioner. Merlin sees what can go wrong, Morgana accomplishes it. Morgana considers Merlin a somewhat tiresome old man, and it is fitting that it is her derivative character, Nimue, who finally divests Merlin of his power and confines him to his crystal cave. Morgana must still be smiling through the mists.”

— Sara Douglass, “The Betrayal of Arthur”

always coming home (1985) by ursula k le guin

ever since i was a little girl i always knew i wanted to be some sort of horrendous freak