“Down In It” Live Requested By @spiraling-halo

Why is this hannibal coded

“Nothing quite like the feel of something new.”

NINE INCH NAILS - THE ONLY TIME London, UK // May 24th, 1994

i actually want to kill myself because im so far behind in life.

TRENT REZNOR ‼️‼️

disco elysium 🤝 cloudpunk: the heart of the city is talking to you. she knows you. she loves you. she has seen you become and end. the world is you and you are made of the world. save her.

disco elysium 🤝 night in the woods: there is a hole at the centre of everything. your dreams guide you towards it. the world is the negation of the nothingness swallowing it up. the unraveling of reality is imminent. nonetheless, you are here.

disco elysium 🤝 kentucky route zero: you are the ghost haunting the halls of unfulfilled dreams and broken promises, wandering the wasteland of lost hope incarnate. it haunts you right back.

disco elysium 🤝 hollow knight: our false gods have failed us and we live in the ruin of their unholy regency. did we elect them because we thought they could save us? from ourselves or from the loneliness?

kim you’re such a bitch I want to kiss you

Hard to believe Nine Inch Nails' classic The Downward Spiral is 30 years old today! Here is some detail photography I took of the original album cover painting by Russell Mills for the 10th anniversary deluxe edition release, which I had the unique honor of designing, and somehow that is now 20 year old.

Everyone has that one album that hit at just the right moment of adolescence to change their perspective on music and get them through their teenage angst. The Downward Spiral was that album for me, released as it was in 1994, when I was a freshman in high school (and an absolute banner year for music/films/games all around). I must have stared at the artwork for hours over those years, without even much detail to draw from on its tiny 5” CD slip case. So five years later, when I found myself inexplicably working for Nine Inch Nails, it was surreal to see the actual original painting in the flesh, hanging as it was at the time in Trent Reznor’s office at Nothing Studios, New Orleans.

I was struck by how much dimension and texture there was in the artwork that never translated on that tiny slipcase printing, how much detail was happening in the physical materials of the art: Flies, moths, wires, blood… I had been staring at this “painting” for so long, yet suddenly it was like I had never seen it before. I also noticed that it had aged - the wires had wilted over the years, drooping down from their original position as captured in the original album cover (interestingly, judging by the photo posted today by NIN, the piece has since been restored); a tooth was missing from the other main piece.

That experience stuck with me and it was the first thing I thought about when the task of re-imagining the album package fell upon me in 2004. I wanted to re-photograph the artwork, subtly updating the cover to show that ten years had changed it physically, much like our perceptions of art and music and memories change over time with perspective. I also wanted to dig into the previously unseen details of the work and explore it with my macro lens, so that fans like me, old and new, could have new layers of texture to pore over for hours while listening to a legendary album.

Happy birthday, old friend.

“It is literally impossible to be a woman. You’re so beautiful and so smart. And it kills me you don’t think you’re good enough. Like we have to always be extraordinary. But somehow we’re always doing it wrong. You have to be thin, but not too thin, and you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin! You have to have money, but you can’t ask for money, because that’s crass. You have to be a boss, but you can’t be mean. You have to lead, but you can’t squash other people’s ideas. You’re supposed to love being a mother, but don’t talk about you kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman but also always be looking out for other people. You have to answer for men’s bad behavior which is insane but if you point that out you’re accused of complaining. You’re supposed to stay pretty for men but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you’re supposed to be a part of the sisterhood but always stand out and always be grateful. But never forget that the system is rigged so find a way to acknowledge that but also always be grateful. You have to never get old. Never be rude. And never show off. Never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line. It’s too hard! It’s too contradictory! And nobody gives you a medal or says thank you! And it turns out in fact that not only are you doing everything wrong but also everything is your fault! I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie ourselves into knots so that people will like us.” -Gloria (America Ferrera, BARBIE)

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I’m seeing patterns again

Terrible Lie

Marie Itami the Mink (NOT A WEASEL!!! A MINK!!! M.I.N.K!!!), from BNA (Brand New Anima), a Studio Trigger anime and Netflix Original.