I Feel Like I'm Going Italian

CATS IN HORROR

Black Christmas (1974) Hausu (1977) The Sentinel (1977) Alien (1977) Friday the 13th Part II (1981) Cat's Eye (1985) Pet Cemetery (1989) Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) Doctor Sleep (2019)

I Saw the TV Glow (2024), dir. Jane Schoenbrun.

“I was born of song and story, of spell or speech with power of oracle.”

— Kathleen Raine, from The Collected Poems of K. R.; “The Wilderness,” (via alcrepuscolo)

...she sits alone at her table, shuffling her tarot deck compulsively.

Erin Morgenstern, from 'The Night Circus'

Oh yeah, I know them, we grew up together on tumblr.com

“Don’t / Accommodate: write in blood or don’t bother.”

— Sina Queyras, from “I Know a Queen That Swallowed a Sword, I Don’t Know Why She Swallowed That Sword, I Guess She’ll Cry,” My Ariel (via lifeinpoetry)

❛ Looks  like  we're  stuck  together.  ❜

with  a  subtle  ᵇᵃʳᵉˡʸ  ⁿᵒᵗᶦᶜᵉᵃᵇˡᵉ  tilt  of  her  head,  the  witch’s  gaze  grew  sharp  and  focused  as  she  studied  the  smug  looking  woman  before  her.

❝  stuck,  huh?  ❞

her  voice  was  calm,  but  there  was  an  edge  of  intrigue  buried  beneath  the  coolness.  emilia  had  seen  enough  of  the  world  to  recognize  that  nothing  was  ever  truly  random.  not  with  people  who  carried  themselves  the  way  her  self  proclaimed  ally  did.

❝  you  wanted  this.  ❞  Emilia’s  eyes  lingered  on  the stranger,  assessing,  as  if  trying  to  unravel  a  hidden  layer  beneath  her  exterior  before  she  continued.  ❝  did  you  not?  ❞  her  posture  remained  controlled,  wary,  but  there  was  an  undercurrent  of  something  deeper  —  something  like  …  ᴵᴺᵀᴱᴿᴱˢᵀ.

lucrezia guides emilia's bloody hands under a faucet / water source and begins washing them clean.

the water was too warm. it made the blood feel thicker somehow —  less  like  something  to  be  washed  away  and  more  like  something  that  had  sunk  too  deep  to  ever  really  leave.

emilia  didn’t  speak.  her  eyes  remained  fixed  on  their  hands  beneath  the  faucet,  the  red  swirling  down  the  drain  in  ghostly  ribbons.  lucrezia’s  touch  was  steady,  reverent  even,  like  a  priestess  performing  a  ritual  rather  than  a  someone  scrubbing  sin  from  skin.  ❝ you don’t have to do this, ❞ emilia  murmured  finally,  her  voice  low,  almost  hoarse.  not  from  pain.  from  restraint.  ❝  I'm not some frightened girl in ⁿᵉᵉᵈ ᵒᶠ ᵃᵇˢᵒˡᵘᵗᶦᵒⁿ. ❞ but  she  didn’t  pull  away.  because  for  all  the  blood  she’d  spilled,  there  was  something  strangely  disarming  about  lucrezia’s  hands  —  so  calm,  so  sure,  as  if  she’d  done  this  before.  maybe  she  had.  maybe  that’s  why  emilia  stayed  still.  why  she  let  her.  because  only  someone  with  her  own  share  of ʀᴜɪɴ could  understand  what  it  meant  to  do  terrible  things  …  and  still  want  to  be  touched  gently  after. her  gaze  finally  lifted,  meeting  lucrezia’s  with  a  quiet  defiance  —  and  something  else  flickering  behind  it.  not  regret.  never  regret.  just  …  weight. ❝ are you always this gentle with ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀs? ❞

“[…] dark garden, dark garden, with your olives and your wine, your medlars and mulberries and many almond trees, your steep terraces ledged high up above the sea, I am leaving you, slinking out.”

— D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia