Weeping And Crying

Gem Cities by Neave Bozorgi

Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun // Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still

but the class protector award is such a beautiful moment of recognition of all that Buffy does to keep people safe. she doesn’t always succeed, some people still die, she makes mistakes, but she never stops trying. and despite all the weird looks and comments over the years, this scene shows her goodness and her fierceness and the lives she ensured is all acknowledged. every good deed she’s done spirals out and she is seen and loved.

Anselm Kiefer — Rapunzel (oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac and lead, on canvas, 2017)

to me willow rosenberg is the epitome of a character who's used to thinking of herself as kind and good because she's always been percieved that way by other people, but when other people say "kind and good" what they really mean is "competent yet unassertive." which isn't really a moral value, it's just the kind of personality that makes authority figures like you. so she's in the precarious position of believing herself to be a Good Person while having never really felt the need to develop a moral backbone. and this is of course the main reason why she's a little fucked up sometimes. i love this about her, to be clear.

I unfortunately cannot appreciate the Buffybot for the comedic relief it is bc all I can ever think abt is willow spending hours desperately trying to recreate her best friend bc she refuses to accept she is gone.

The Source of Life (2024) by Clayshaper — bases on “The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice” (circa 1842) by Ippolito Caffi

Esoteric arts: Archaeologists at Pompeii in Italy have found what they believe is a female sorcerer’s box of objects. The magnificent little miniature amulets, gems, and other items were found in the remains of a wooden box at Casa del Giardino, and were most likely used for personal ornamentation or protection from evil forces and bad luck. Among the objects found were crystals, buttons made of bones, phallic amulets, and a glass bead engraved with the head of Dionysus.

Béla Lugosi - The Black Cat (1934)