“Aperitivo,” Hannibal | “Digestivo,” Hannibal | Phoebe Bridgers, “Killer” | Sylvia Plath, “Poem for a Birthday: Who” | Erica Jong, “Where it Begins” | Mitski, “Abbey” | Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror | Li-Young Lee, “The Cleaving,” from The City In Which I Love You | deleted lines from “Ouef,” Hannibal | Ada Limón, “Lies About Sea Creatures,” from Bright Dead Things | Simone Weil, Waiting for God | Louise Glück, “Timor Mortis,” from Vita Nova | Catherynne M Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams | “The Wrath of the Lamb,” Hannibal | Anne Carson, “To Compostela,” Plainwater
to be trans is to be made in the image of god
must representation be “good”? is it not enough to watch two men destroy each other's lives
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“(…) what else burns here? Houses, and childhood, and olive trees. And still, the sun, and all this laughter and singing.”
— Zeina Hashem Beck, from And Still, The Sun in “Louder Than Hearts: Poems” (via adrasteiax)
I kept on with clenched teeth, I said to myself: it will end.
Elena Ferrante, from The Story of a New Name (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein)
“I know all too well that the story of the world is entropy, things fly apart, we sicken, we fail, we grow weary, we divorce, we are hammered and hounded by loss and accidents and tragedies. But I also know, with all my hoary muddled heart, that we are carved of immense confusing holiness…”
— Brian Doyle, “Cool Things,” One Long River of Song (2019)
Out poured each grief I have named and each grief there is no language for.
In the dream, I saw a way to survive and I did. This is how I remember it. I lost a whole river. I stayed standing.
— Clementine von Radics, from In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive
“Because Christ produced a new kind of existence in the world it is impossible ever to abandon hope. Christ’s representation is the transcendental possibility of such hope.”
— Dorothee Sölle, Christ the Representative: An Essay in Theology after the ‘Death of God’
“But you tell me something the story never did: Look back at the burning city. Still, live.”
— Aracelis Girmay, from “English Class” in Kingdom Animalia
“The world / breaks / is always breaking / our bodies / bear tremendous sorrow and still / we stay as long as we can”
— Joanna Klink, from “Excerpts From a Secret Prophecy”, Excerpts From a Secret Prophecy (via voirlvmer)
After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.
Margaret Atwood, from Oryx and Crake
Against Panic and Pandemic by Molly Frisk
les miserables, victor hugo / hannibal (3x02) / “staying or going” / @amourduloup / gravity and grace, simone weil