Do You Love Me?

Cosmetic jar, Greek, 6th century BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

raffaella cerullo & elena greco | the story of the lost child, by elena ferrante / hbo l'amica geniale / nbc hannibal's script / letters to milena, by kafka / the story of the lost child, by elena ferrante / anna akhmatova tr. by judith hemschemeyer, “poem without a hero” / bts l'amica geniale / twin flame, by weyes blood / wuthering heights, by emily brönte / my brilliant friend, by elena ferrante

House of the Dragon (2022 - ) // Dune (2021)

Annie: There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death; conjuring spirits from the past...and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Fire Keepers. And in West Africa, they were called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities. But it also...attracts evil....

Sinners (2025)

Cassandra

Credit…Parco Archeologico di Pompei

BTS of Glen Powell doing Hit Man promo via Tim Dueñas' insta stories [x]

we have to do our research this election year it’s important

mary oliver, ‘from this river, when i was a child, i used to drink’

[ID: “‘What, precisely, will you grieve for?’ For the river. For myself, my lost joyfulness. For the children who will not know what a river can be—a friend, a companion, a hint of heaven.” end ID]

This brilliant (pun intended) post by @artemideaddams comparing Lila Cerullo and Catherine Earnshaw also made me think of how complicated it is to determine whether Heathcliff or Catherine is the truly socially advantaged one in Wuthering Heights.

On the one hand Heathcliff is the one denied an education and thus ripped apart from his childhood friend like Lila. But on the other hand Heathcliff can leave Yorkshire and make something of himself like Lenu did (though in Heathcliff’s case it is because he is a man). Whereas Catherine Earnshaw probably never ever went beyond Gimmerton, just like Lila never left Napoli (until presumably at the very end of the series).

L'amica Geniale 2.08 / The Story of a New Name