go for the throat

Loki — god of mischief. 

“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

painted this while procrastinating my various responsibilities 😔 tempera on paper, 19 x 27 cm. sold

“The stage is empty, and you watch as the figure of Medusa steps into the gas-light. Her body is dressed in a crimson traversed by the golden branches of willow trees, colour and light held into shape by sharp black borders. Lifting languidly her hands, she reaches towards you. Her emerald vipers, in the cohesive movements of unseen mechanisms, weave loops about her head. Music is beginning, and from the shadows off-stage the narrator speaks. “Medusa had a beautiful name and a lovely voice, though no one cared to listen; seeking only the gaze of those famous eyes.” — Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Me and books!

— Franz Kafka

"A villain will always be the villain, if a hero tells the story"

Ah… I get it now

"you can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."

Gothic Academia

M.L. Rio (If We Were Villains, 2017)

Actually had a productive day at the library going through my materials and writing notes on Mary Shelley