Margaret Atwood, Power Politics

“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”

heartbreaking. this baby was aborted before ever having the chance to smoke a cigarette

Needle ice overtakes an apartment in Yekaterinburg, Russia (Anastasia Popelka)

Wang and Lai (2014)

A fawn curled up beside a fake deer which is used for target practice. 

WE ARE ALONE // 1940 CLARENCE JOHN LAUGHLIN [ferrotyped gelatin silver print | 13 ¾ x 10 5/8″]

Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Merlin 1x07 The Gates of Avalon

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”

― Franz Kafka, The Castle