the catholic to goth pipeline

i was planning this from the very first picture (which was k with chains) and now it’s complete

I’m amazing.

First completed commission of 2019! I don’t often get to do more conceptual pieces so this was so much fun to do 💀 💗

shrike  -  hozier

Honestly

ayumi tanabe

Mihaly Zichy - Romantic Encounter (1864)

Marguerite Duras, from Practicalities: Marguerite Duras speaks to Jérôme Beaujour

Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee

Thinking of the extraordinary and beloved River Phoenix, who was born on this day in 1970. Here he is giving one of his finest performances in Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho (1991), a moving look at unrequited love & life on society’s margins.

“I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or, who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you, to make each day count.” Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

Eastern Ratsnake, Oatland Island Wildlife Center.

where is the room for the absence of god? no corridor for kiss no revenue for pain, only thirst and the loose pants of pining heading south, past mexico, past happiness, on geese atune to the slap and caress of love’s blue vowel sound.

— stephanie roberts, from “Hades,” published in L'Éphémère Review