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No babe sorry I don't want to hook up I want to nurture a decades-long erotic obsession that blurs the lines between friendship and love if that's cool with you?

#thoughts

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Evgeny Sergeev - Eifman Ballet - photo by  Karina Romanova • Фотограф СПБ

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Artists being role models are all well and good...but sometimes you've got to let them go through money like water during a debauched swan song of an endless summer while engaging in emotional affairs to really get them cooking.

As an artist, I wasn’t meant to work a day job and answer my own emails and pay rent. I was meant to pursue sensation and transcendence at all costs, lounge louchely in my friend’s summer homes, and carry on a variety of scandalous romantic correspondences historians will squabble over.

#thoughts #dark academia

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J. Kirk Richards - Goddess Dreaming of Her Temple In the Woods

#so me #esoterica #theology

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As an artist, I wasn’t meant to work a day job and answer my own emails and pay rent. I was meant to pursue sensation and transcendence at all costs, lounge louchely in my friend’s summer homes, and carry on a variety of scandalous romantic correspondences historians will squabble over.

#thoughts

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Shadow of a Doubt (1943) // Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression by Jenny DiPlacidi

#tw: incest #the horror was for love

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Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975) dir. Peter Weir

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I know Narnia is widely considered to be twee, baby’s first allegory stuff, but I’ve got to hand it to C.S. Lewis, he was really cooking with that “he’s not a tame lion” bit.

#I think a lot about Lewis’ appreciation for elements of paganism #and even though he is largely remembered as Orthodoxy Granddaddy #he really said you will NOT domesticate God on my watch #theology

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Hans Zatzka (detail)

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and yet we dance!

#theology

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Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - A Woman from Bern, Switzerland (1887)

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Ceremonial magic: reach god through pageantry

#theology #esoterica #yup

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#the photo that inspired Magdalena #a dowry of blood

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Romaine Brooks, Femme avec des fleurs (1912)