we found each other hungry

thank you my wonderful darling! how i adore you

notbecauseofvictories:

for Ari, the original God Queen, on her birthday

My black-eyed fire, the knives in the kitchen
are singing for blood, her brother whispers, his mouth hot
against her godhead. They are champagne-slicked,
drunk on adulation; his skin tastes of bloodiron
and he calls her by the secret names stars sing
to their sisters. She lets her head fall back, inverts the world.
(what else is a crown for?)
Above, her city flames, an electric asterism falling
into the dark-dappled sky. Ad astra per urbem, the one
truth she shares with the rat-messiah whose followers burn
her effigy, tongues forked and still bloody from the scalpel.
This is how the false god dies, he tells them, in flesh and fire.
He is not wrong. But she is a fixed star, and her throne
will not be upended with Cassiopeia’s—
hers are the spires of cathedrals, the cool marble pillars,
the cold blaze of immortality that goes forth
before all of astral blood—
burning, burning, burning.

bizarre-sugar:

#HQ - Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton attend the ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ premiere during The 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 25, 2013 in Cannes

 

O.M.G!!! asdfghjk

1. ahhhh, yes she’s one of my absolute favourites! actual performative self-lionizing woman king. thank you!

2. All of my favourite things, anon you know me so well! /twirls. i have not had people cake yet, though i have had my favourite pomengranate studded quinoa for brunch, so it is shaping up to be a wonderfully persephone-esque birthday if nothing else.

3. asdfghj my head is literally exploding with glitter and rainbows, thank!

4. best birthday wishes ever, or best birthday wishes ever? however my parents are quite smug enough as it is they don’t need to know their daughter already has a cult. <333333

5. thank you! oh god, this means so much to me!

seriously you guys, and everybody else who has sent me wishes. this is just too wonderful, you are all too brilliant to say. thank you thank you.

ilvalentinos:

fic: let slip the dog of war; thor, loki, jane foster, odin

for okayophelia

the old ways are done. — the brothers renegotiate.

what a good message to get on my birthday, thank you so much! i love it when my words have such an impact on people, it’s my favourite, most wonderful thing in the world. go forth and have ~feelings!

YESSSSS

that’s the damn poem i got my tumblr title from

and i know; it is beyond Not Okay.

i’m mad about it.

thymoss:

S T A R C R O S S E R   {  mix for space empresses }

(dedicated to ari for her 23rd)

there are the godtouched; and then there are the godkillers, and then there are those in between. some say they have been born and reborn generation upon generation, have seen the suns burn behind their eyes, seen alien galaxies burn, seen civilisations rise and fall and fall into each other. they were never really born, and they will never truly die. they were made for this. and they will remake all of creation in their image. she will part her lips and swallow galaxies, this siren song of the abyss incarnate, and in the echoes of her melodies cults will gather like the dust of supernovae. she will unfasten the galaxies and affix narratives afresh; with her unholy eyes she will stare down the gods themselves. her revolution is bloodless, even as she plunges her hand into the beating heart of eternal consciousness the geometry of divinity. it is not merely enlightenment she offers: her commandments demand first and foremost a bacchanalian glory of humanism, tessellated against the eternity of time and space. in her wake interdimensional cathedrals are architected; blueprints of the holy flux of faith and reason and celebrated truth.

LISTEN | DOWNLOAD

01 SCYTHIAN EMPIRES | andrew bird

02 HELL COULD FREEZE | angel haze

03 SUNSPOTS | julian cope

04 THE FAR ROAD | nick cave & warren ellis

05 THE APOCALYPSE SONG | st vincent

06 VERSIONS OF VIOLENCE | alanis morisette

07 THE PRAYER | bloc party

08 TRANSFORMATION | cinematic orchestra

09 WE ARE ON FIRE | cocorosie

10 THE SECRET OF LIFE | the dead milkmen

11 RUN RIOT | def leppard

12 TRUE BELIEVER | dragonette

13 GIRL ANACHRONISM | the dresden dolls

14 TIMEFLOWS PART 1 | the eden house

15 IF I BURN | emilie autumn

16 ACROSS THE UNIVERSE | fiona apple

17 ATOM BOMB (FIFTH ELEMENT MIX) | fluke

18 DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT | the glitch mob

19 WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE | guns n’ roses

20 QUEEN OF THE WORLD | ida maria

21 O DEATH | jen titus

22 THE SURFACE OF THE SUN | john murphy

23 STARTING OVER | lsd and the search for god

24 POWER AND CONTROL | marina and the diamonds

25 THE VIRGIN QUEEN | mediaeval baebes

26 SOMETHING IN THE SKY | mothlite

27 WILD WEST  | the prodigy

28 CROWN ON THE GROUND | sleigh bells

29 THE BEGINNING IS THE END | the smashing pumpkins

30 CONQUEST OF SPACES | woodkid

31 TEMPEST | yoko kanno

32 HYPOCRATES | marina & the diamonds

metalshell:

tfortravis:

May 25, 2013 Cannes Film Festival HQ

ADOTTATEMI

britclo:

This GQ photoshoot is really hard to handle.

ilvalentinos:

In truth, despite the retention of numerous sci-fi elements, this new Thor, with eyes on the streets and pubs of Asgard rather than its palace, now leans more towards the grit and boiled leather of George R. R. Martin’s Westeros than the Flash-Gordonian glitter-pomp of the first film. “When I had that first meeting with Marvel I said, ‘I liked the first one, but for me the world would look different, it would feel different,’” Taylor reveals. “I mean, I really respect what they did. It was a conscious choice to say, ‘These are not ancient gods, this is an alien race that’s been mistaken for ancient gods.’ Which is an intriguing way to do it, and it’s supported by Marvel mythology. But it had the effect of making everything new and shiny, and that was what bugged me the most. So I came in thinking, ‘Okay, let’s look at the ancient and see what happens.”

In the two years since Thor smashed the Bifröst while battling Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Asgard’s realms have sunk into a state of war against brutal invaders when long-forgotten enemies surface: the Dark Elves, commanded by Christopher Eccleston’s silver-haired Malekith. “Our stories are quite separate, parallel to each other while we do our own thing,” Hemsworth says of his deadly new nemesis. “And then we collide at the end.” The Asgardians, from Odin down, have, Taylor says “gotten scuffed up a little bit”. He’s had “the freedom to re-envision some things”. It’s the same language, essentially, but a “different vocabulary”.

I JUST MOANED

ohne-dich:

Nicole Kidman and Ang Lee attend ‘Nebraska’ Premiere during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May 23, 2013)

ohne-dich:

Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston attend the photocall for ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ at the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May 25, 2013)