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Of saints and organs

glorification of the feminine as inherently dehumanising, beauty as a tool, bastardisation of faith, obsessive worship, mangled bodies and bloody sacrifices, crude social constructs and crude constructions, elevation understood literally

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a picture from the promo photoshoot of season 4 of 'Killing Eve' featuring Jodie Comer as Villanelle, beautiful blonde assassin, posed as a saint in a white dress on a dark background filled with flowers and candles

'Vanity' by Frank Cadogan Cowper, a Romantic painting in Pre-Raphaelite style depicting a blonde woman, posed similarly to Renaissance depictions of Madonna with child, with a headdress imitating a halo and in rich clothing, dark background

'Bittern's Wings: study showing both sides' in the manner of Albrecht Dürer, too sides of a water bird's wing shown alongside each other symmetrically, watercolors

'Section of the Lungs' anatomy drawing from 'Illustrierte Naturgeschichte der drei Reiche' (tr. Illustrated Natural History of the Three Kingdoms) by Franz Sträßler - Wilhelm Nitzschke, Stuttgart 1888, the two lungs resemble wings

Venus medici (anatomical venus) by Josephinum – Collections of the Medical University of Vienna, a model of a blonde woman with pearls on her neck in a languid, relaxed pose with an open chest and stomach area showing visible lungs and other internal organs, but due to lack of breasts or visible outer genitals she appears modest and pure, white satin sheet, pink pillow, black background

a film frame from 'Hereditary' showing the nearly triangular candlelit interior of the treehouse with Peter/Paimon surrounded by believers, either naked or partially clothed in white, on a black background

a screenshot from the game Disco Elysium, the dark interior of the small wooden church is brightened up with the triangular stained glass window depicting Dolores Dei, a blonde woman, known war criminal, declared an ‘Innocence’, in a white dress in a saintly pose, her lungs are glowing through her body and dress, the window is badly damaged, at the bottom in front of the window – a man, tiny in comparison, kneeling

a film frame from ‘Midsommar’ depicting a dead naked body of a man, suspended by strings inside a wooden shack, his lungs have been pulled out from his back to resemble wings (legendary torture known as the blood eagle) as part of a ritual (the film’s main character is a blonde woman crowned the ‘May Queen’ by the believers and takes part in a further part of the ritual), light is seeping through the boards of the walls

a screenshot from Disco Elysium of the same, now even more visibility unkept, church interior, but with the character of a devotee known as either ‘crab man’ or Tiago climbing the wooden beams

a film frame from the series ‘Hannibal’, season 1, episode 5 ‘Coquilles’, night, Will looks up at a dead body of a man whose back was skinned to create ‘wings’ from the flaps of skin and make him similar to an angel, the body is suspended on a building’s scaffolding, there is light coming through the canvas hanging behind it

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Person: So like, how do lesbians have sex?

Me: 

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN ↳ DAY #10: SUSPIRIA (2018) • dir. Luca Guadagnino

“Why is everyone so ready to think the worst is over?”

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Kelly Reilly as KERRA in BRITANNIA, 1.02

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Dear Ijeawele | 2017

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Devil Wears Prada (2006)

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i dont have like a degree or anything but i think assigning diagnoses to every behavior is probably not good for us in the long run

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RIP Helen McCrory (1968-2021)

I don’t think I’ve ever been interested in any play about the happy, successful, lighter moments of life. I think that’s a very modern, pervasive idea in our entertainment, whether it’s on Instagram or in fiction, to show only the good and the perfect side of yourself. It’s just a lie and it’s very dull, and it’s nothing that anyone should even strive for.

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the image of virginia woolf talking to her sister about lesbian sex in the middle of a chemist’s shop in 1929 is never not going to be absolutely hilarious to me

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“Ok, I have one more.”

Sigourney Weaver for The NYTimes Style Magazine

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English literature academia aesthetic appreciation post.

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That woman, she’s the fucking Medusa of Monterey.

Laura Dern as Renata Klein in BIG LITTLE LIES: SEASON TWO

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what is one line of poetry/writing that lives in ur head rent free please share i would like to know 

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When they ask why I’m in academia