Adapting

it isn’t fair

Joan of Arc Listening to The Voices (1876) by Eugene Thirion (1839-1910).

— Jonathan Safran Foer // Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Suffer for nothing by Ariee

ten year anniversary

“Adults guess and assume that I’m not going to understand things just because I’m a little kid.  And it can be frustrating.  Cause, like, I really want to know stuff.  Or even when they do talk to me about things, they’ll always try to ‘tone it down to my level.’  They especially avoid the heavy themes like sex and death and cannibalism and stuff.  But that’s stuff I want to talk about.  I’m really fascinated by the Donner Party.  The entire expedition, really.  What did it feel like to eat people that you knew?  I’m also fascinated by how the human mind deals with death.  It’s like people shut down the idea of death completely, and insist that heaven and hell are places after death.  But death is death.  And everyone after death is dead, because consciousness is just your brain.  And even if there is evidence of life after death, it’s difficult to assess.  We’re going to be incredibly biased toward any information that suggests there’s something more.  Because we are so desperate to believe it.”

we could live there togther or i’ll live alone, less happy but i’ll live unfortunately

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Me, who watched a 2hr documentary about the Hindenburg disaster the night before and is desperately trying to share the information i learned: yeah, a real nice day, not at all like May 6, 1937 in Germany.

From Parsifal, illustrated by Willy Pogany (1882-1955), 1912 edition. Via.

Compilation of disturbing witches, wizards, sabbath and monsters in art.