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.”
And these... having led them here, have you no care for them?
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!”
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964 (x)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein)
Duomo di Siena, Siena, Toscana, Italia | Christie Lanzilotti
Susanna and the Elders, Tintoretto 1555 - 1556 oil on canvas 146 cm × 194 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Hannibal 2x10 - “Naka-Choko”
detail Medusa - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1630s
it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010
Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton at the Ambassador Hotel in New York, February 1956.
In Hell there grew a Judas Tree
Where Judas hanged and died
Because he could not bear to see
His master crucified
Our Lord descended into Hell
And found his Judas there
For ever hanging on the tree
Grown from his own despair
So Jesus cut his Judas down
And took him in his arms
“It was for this I came” he said
“And not to do you harm
My Father gave me twelve good men
And all of them I kept
Though one betrayed and one denied
Some fled and others slept
In three days’ time I must return
To make the others glad
But first I had to come to Hell
And share the death you had
My tree will grow in place of yours
Its roots lie here as well
There is no final victory
Without this soul from Hell”
So when we all condemned him
As of every traitor worst
Remember that of all his men
Our Lord forgave him first
- The Judas Tree, D. Ruth Etchells
The Vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri, illustrated by Gustav Dore, 1892