Was That Your Voice Or Was That Me?

[image description: a quote from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.

woke: most eyewitness accounts of merpeople come from 16th and 17th century sailors, who would probably have assumed that they were all women just because they have long hair and look pretty

Favorite romantic w/w films of the decade

in alphabetical order

Billie and Emma (2018), dir. Samantha Lee 

Carmen & Lola (2018), dir. Arantxa Echevarría 

Carol (2015), dir. Todd Haynes

Disobedience (2017), dir. Sebastián Lelio

Elisa & Marcela (2018), dir. Isabel Coixet

Good Manners (2017), dir. Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra

The Handmaiden (2016), dir. Park Chan-wook

Hearts Beat Loud (2018), dir. Brett Haley

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), dir. Céline Sciamma

Rafiki (2018), dir. Wanuri Kahiu

San Junipero (Black Mirror episode, 2016), dir. Owen Harris

4. Alpendohle - They say when the jackdaws stop circling the summit of Untersberg, Kaiser Karl who sleeps within the mountain will awake and the last battle of battles will commence on the fields below.

On 18 April, 1943, four boys (Robert Hart, Thomas Willetts, Bob Farmer and Fred Payne) from Stourbridge were poaching in Hagley Woods near to Wychbury Hill when they came across a large Wych Hazel, a tree often confused by local residents with a Wych Elm.Believing this a good place to hunt birds’ nests, Farmer attempted to climb the tree to investigate. As he was climbing, he glanced down into the hollow trunk and discovered a skull, believing it to be that of an animal. However, after seeing human hair and teeth, he realized that he was holding a human skull. As they were on the land illegally, Farmer put the skull back and all four boys returned home without mentioning their discovery to anybody.

On returning home the youngest of the boys, Tommy Willetts, felt uneasy about what he had witnessed and decided to report the find to his parents. When police checked the trunk of the tree they found an almost complete human skeleton, a shoe, a gold wedding ring, and some fragments of clothing. After further investigation, a severed hand was found buried in the ground near to the tree.