Literature:  —  dorian Gray  { The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde }

Mervovignian brooch, made in copper alloy covered in gold,set with S W garnets and a sapphire, 700 A.D. [560 x 860]

― Kait Rokowski [insp]

“Is it the blood? The desert has dried up more blood than you could think of.”

aurens; a playlist inspired by seven pillars of wisdom

mumford&sons: nothing is written // raise my hands, paint my spirit gold

mumford&sons: awake my soul // lend me your hand and we’ll conquer them all; but lend me your heart and i’ll just let you fall 

pj harvey: the big guns called me back again // there was laughing and i could not laugh; there was singing and i could not sing

the wright brothers: blood on my hands (vocals) // oh lazarus, how did your debts get paid

choir of young believers: hollow talk // darkness rises in all you do

sara lov: my body is a cage // i’m standing on a stage of fear and self-doubt; it’s a hollow play but they’ll clap anyway

the civil wars: poison&wine // oh, i don’t love you; but i always will

shearwater: i was a cloud // into the burning eye of the sun without feeling

A Man Escaped By Robert Bresson 

is the cannibalism a joke……

hannibal, s02e13 // giuseppe giorgetti, saint sebastian

Hunger is obviously a major theme in Hannibal—it’s literally the cannibal show—but the difference in how that’s portrayed with Hannigram is intriguing.

Hannibal was starving for connection before he had Will, and then everything changed for him. As Bedelia tells Will, “Did he daily feel a stab of hunger, and find nourishment at the very sight of you? Yes.” Hannibal’s hunger is sated by so much as the sight of Will. A mere look at him is enough to satisfy him.

But Will is different. Rather than being sated by his connection with Hannibal, it is the very thing that makes him hungry. There’s a frame in the Italy chapter that makes it look like he’s trapped in a starvation cage. In the script for his sailing scene, he’s literally described to look hungry:

Both Hannibal and Will have a possessive, obsessive, all-consuming love for one another, but it affects them quite differently. Hannibal is nourished by the very sight of Will, but for Will, no amount of the profound attention he experiences from Hannibal can fully sate his hunger—it’s a high he can’t help but chase. It fuels his pathological need to return to Hannibal again and again, no matter how self-destructive it is. I think this is why Will is more outwardly possessive of Hannibal than Hannibal is of Will. Hannibal wants Will to be his; Will wants Hannibal to be no one else’s. Both forms of possession, but Will’s is more jealous because of the way he experiences Hannibal’s attention. It’s a high, it’s a hunger—it’s a need, not a want.

tbh I’m never not thinking about how lawrence of arabia tricked the audience into thinking the white dude would be the moral heart and center of the movie, but nope! it’s ali!!! he literally becomes the audience surrogate by the end of act 1, and he’s definitely the moral and heart of the movie by act 2. our heart breaks because his heart breaks. lawrence is the main character, but ali is the sympathetic figure of the film in the end.

“is this character good or bad” “is this ship unproblematic or not” “is this arc deserving of redemption or not” girl…

hecate  /ˈhɛkətiː/  goddess of witchcraft, necromancy, magic and ghosts. “a ghost can be a lot of things. a memory, a daydream, a secret. but most times, a ghost is a wish.”