Insect
August 23, 2023 at 9:58 AMCaught an insect yesterday, quite similar to a mantis in form and color, with great crystal wings. It would comb its antennae like a girl wringing and brushing her hair with long, delicate gestures.
Sonnet I.
And why the silence, and why your wintry night,Poor heart? Will you not give me a single rose?Did I neglect your hearths and faded torchlights?Your lone fields lay smothered in unyielding snowsWhere walks no moonlight, and your constellationsDetach and blow as scintillating blizzardsDown darkness h…
Beatrice
I never saw Transformers: Dark of the Moon, but recently I found this post online showing one of its scenes, and explaining the amount of effort and resources it took to achieve such an astonishing level of detail for its spectacle of destruction. Driller from Transformers: Dark of the Moon had 70,…
Broken twigs
I always return to this page of Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta when I think about the meaning and origin of fascism, the most wretched and debasing form of politics the human race has ever conceived. Alan Moore and David Lloyd's V for Vendetta, Vertigo, 2008The word fascism comes from the Latin fasce…
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