MIDNIGHT MASS 2021 | Cr. Mike Flanagan

when oscar wilde said 'i am tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else' and when sylvia plath said 'i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart' and when rilke said 'this heavy humanness'

Me watching this when I was six like “sure hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me

Bless me, Lord, for I am going to sin.

“Saintliness is the negation of life through heavenly hysteria. How does one negate life? Through uninterrupted lucidity.”

— Emil Cioran, excerpt from Tears and Saints

Sky & Clouds painted by Théodore Gudin ☁️

If you would just show up and ask me, I would have taken this collar off and I would have gone with you. I would go with you anywhere in the world. I was never going to do that, John.

Tempio di Esculapio. x

“Red lips. You don't know whether it's lipstick, wine or blood. And I want you to dare to come and taste it, but promise me you won't run away when you find out.”

– Devon (c.l)