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“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It’s one of the oldest urges in mankind. It’s a way of stalling death.”

— Carlos Fuentes (via lovedly)

#will never not reblog this <3

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a-quiet-green-agreement

He said something pleasant about my being the only rosebud in a garden otherwise autumnal, but I am not such a goose as never to have heard speeches like that before, and it was what he said next that made me fatally hesitate. He said (and never, never shall I forget his words): "As we are both visitants from a world that is not this one, we should know one another."

– Robert Aickman, from “Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal,” Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories (Gollancz, 1975)

#robert aickman

vizreef

Steve Wozniak // Apple Computer 1 (1976)

Love the extra space, possibly for lunch?

via

#tech #favorite

classicfilmsource

Haunted. How perfectly fascinating. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#the ghost and mrs. muir

red-ibis-red

moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound.

—L.M.Montgomery, The Blue Castle

#l.m. montgomery

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ceruleanheaven

really hate it when my dreams are just slight variations of reality that could very much happen and kinda hurt my feelings when i realise they in fact did not.... can we go back to dreaming about fairies and laying eggs

a-quiet-green-agreement

I wanted to cry, to raise my voice in lamentation, but that was impossible. I was too old and too experienced for tears. There's such a thing in the world as a sadness beyond tears—a sadness you can't explain to anybody or, even if you managed to explain it, a sadness you can't get them to understand. It can't be changed into any other form: it just piles up silently in the heart like snow on a windless night.

– Haruki Murakami, End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

#haruki murakami

mymodernmet

Sultan the Pit Pony is a 200-meter-long, raised-earth sculpture made of 60,000 tonnes of coal shale in Caerphilly, South Wales. Designed by Welsh artist Mick Petts, the colossal work of art is known as the largest figurative earth sculpture in the United Kingdom.

#art

a-quiet-green-agreement

What I will say next will lead many of my readers to laugh and shrug their shoulders. Yet I will say it anyway, because the present age has been excessive in inculcating in us the cult of "common sense." We observe inexplicable phenomena out of the corner of our eye and pretend that we have not seen them; we read in bolder authors about ghosts or the dead, and regard them as phantasms, products of a sick imagination—anything so as not to jeopardize our "common sense" or to be propelled into the ambit of another dimension, beyond the threshold of "verifiable, tangible reality." We pass through life with one eye all too sharp, yet the other blind, as if covered with a film. Is it enough just to see? No, it is not enough.

– Gustaw Herling, Don Ildebrando

#quotes

castratedvader

when the unresolved psychosexuality of the relationship is way better than whatever resolution it might hypothetically have and actually its own being unresolved is the crux and the paradigm of what the characters have going on between them:

#yeah #adansey

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jaime-lannisters

Eurylochus: What was the song of the sirens like? Odysseus: All the things you wanted to be and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you want to scratch but you find it under the skin and can't reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can't have and that the most you can't have is what you already had and lost. It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don't really want to go home.

THE ODYSSEY (2026) dir. Christopher Nolan

#the odyssey

joanna-lannister

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

#marie antoinette

only-alter-idem

never letting anyone forget about this line ever

#bluesey

clarkegriffins

for vicky ♡

#🤍🤍🤍#stancy

gouged-doll

would you ever want to share a book/essay etc list about dolls? saw you reference a few writings in your response to other asks would be cool if you shared the stuff you’ve read. I have a very similar fascination

here is a few off the top of my head: edison’s eve (highly recommend, no pdf)

on the marionette theatre - pdf

almost human - dolls and robots in contemporary art - pdf

a study of dolls - pdf

on longing - narratives of the miniature (dollhouses) - pdf

the youngest doll - pdf

puppets, masks, and performing objects - pdf

exploring the uncanny valley - pdf

the uncanny - pdf

sex dolls at sea (history of sex dolls) - pdf

the sex doll by ferguson

uncanny dolls: images of death in rilke and freud

the uncanny afterlife of dolls: reconfiguring personhood through object vivification in gothic film

anthropology: playing with dolls

adjacent topics:

a cyborg manifesto - pdf

technologies of the gendered body, reading cyborg women - pdf

how we became posthuman - pdf

the social life of things - pdf

vibrant matter - pdf

the arcades project by benjamin walter - pdf

postmodernism, the culture of late capitalism - pdf

i may be missing some but i can add to this. i may put together a list of media/technology/surveillance as well as i have quite a few collected. also i highly recommend the book “what do pictures want?” by w.j. t. mitchell. not related to dolls but it talks on the agency of the image which relates so much to dolls imo.

#reading list

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