Sparrows. In the Bible it says, “The sparrow will not fall to the ground, not even a sparrow, without God knowing.” He feels every death. I was in South America, in my youth, on a mission, and I stood beneath this… great waterfall. The scale of it. The weight of it… The roar of it, it drowned out every noise in the jungle. Every bird and every voice. And then when I was older, I thought about death, how many deaths occur every second… There’s people, animals, sparrows. If every drop of water in that waterfall were a death, I thought, “Oh. That must be what it’s like for God.” Every moment of every hour of every day, a deluge of death, so loud, how could he hear my whispered prayers over that thundering roar of deaths?
BABE WAKE UP LIL NAS X JOLENE COVER JUST DROPPED
Bless me, Lord, for I am going to sin.
Moodboard: pastel Claude Monet
Objects of Desire (Japanese Screens and Panels)
1. Paulownias and Chrysanthemums, late 1700s-early 1800s Sakai Hoitsu (Japanese, 1761-1828) two-fold screen; ink and color on gilded paper
2. Detail of heron. Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer. Edo period (latter half of 17th century).Kano Eino
3. Detail. Trees. Master of the I’nen Seal (1600–30), Sōtatsu school. Japan, mid-17th century
4. Irises. Ogata Korin. Right of two six-section folding screens (byōbu). Ink and color on paper with gold leaf background. Located at the Nezu Art Museum, Tokyo
5. Detail. 伝三谷等宿筆 松と椿に鷹・柳と椿に小禽図屏風 Pine and Camellia with Hawks and Willow and Camellia with Small Birds. Attributed to Mitani Tōshuku (Japanese, 1577–1654). Edo period. 17th century
6. Detail. Flowers: chrysanthemums, peonies, etc. Japanese folding Screen (six-panel), one of a pair. Edo period, 18th-19th century. Color, gesso, and gold on paper.
7. “Trailing vines” Japanese 6 panel screen, Edo period (1603-1868)
8. Japanese Screen, Peacock and Peahen, Meiji Era, circa 1900
9. Early 19th, Japanese Folding Screen with Birds and Plum Trees, Edo period
10. Pomegranate and small birds Moriyama Kouho (b.1883) Late Meiji/early Taisho era, circa 1910. Two-panel Japanese Screen. Ink, gofun and pigment on silk and gold leaf
The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook
Traditional European Christmas time monsters, photographer across the Europe by Charles Fréger.
Constantine (2005)
I leave you on seen because I don't have the emotional energy to say anything back without feeling like it's the wrong reply but I'm crying into my pillow begging you to keep messaging me anyways so we both know we're still both here. That's flirting, right?
JOJO Magazine Spring 2022 cover feat. Jolyne and Jotaro drawn by Araki-sensei.
Released in honor of the series’ 35th anniversary, JOJO Magazine is a new publication for everyone who loves “Jojo.” Out March 19th 2022 in both print and digital. The issue features a new ‘Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe’ one-shot, new short story, interview with Issey Takahashi, special feature on the Stone Ocean TV anime, and bonus sticker pack.
"Romantic obsession is my first language. I live in a world of fantasies, infatuation and love poems. Sometimes I wonder if the yearning I've felt for others was more of a yearning for yearning itself. I've pined insatiably and repeatedly: for strangers, new lovers, unrequited flames. While the subjects changed, that feeling always remained. Perhaps, then, I have not been so infatuated with the people themselves, but with the act of longing."
-Melissa Broder, from "Life without Longing," The New York Times