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MeditationInTheMuseum

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:46 -0400

MeditationInTheMuseum

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Mon, 20 May 2013 13:15:37 -0400

cunty: Nico, These Days

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:09:20 -0400

cunty:

Nico, These Days

crashingwavesroaringthunder: I WISH MY PROBLEMS HAD FACES SO I COULD THROW MY FIST THROUGH THEM AND...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:58:28 -0400

crashingwavesroaringthunder:

I WISH MY PROBLEMS HAD FACES SO I COULD THROW MY FIST THROUGH THEM AND SHATTER THEM INTO A MILLION PIECES

YA! TAKE THAT, LIFE! TAKE THAT AND SHOVE IT IN YOUR SOCK! YA, OI OI OI!

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Mon, 20 May 2013 12:55:10 -0400

rurouni-kusuri-uri: Rokurokubi by...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:54:47 -0400

rurouni-kusuri-uri:

Rokurokubi by ~tot3mica

Are monsters in Japanese folklore. By day, nukekubi appear to be normal human beings. By night however, their heads detach at the neck smoothly from their bodies and fly about independently in search of human prey. These heads attack by screaming (to increase their victims’ fright), then closing in and biting.

While the head is detached, the body of a nukekubi becomes inanimate. In some legends, this serves as one of the creature’s few weaknesses; if a nukekubi’s head cannot locate and reattach to its body by sunrise, the creature dies. Legends often tell of would-be victims foiling the creatures by destroying or hiding their bodies while the heads are elsewhere.

By day, nukekubi often try to blend into human society. They sometimes live in groups, impersonating normal human families. The only way to tell a nukekubi from a normal human being is a line of red symbols around the base of the neck where the head detaches. Even this small detail is easily concealed beneath clothing or jewelry.

In a folktale collected for his book Kwaidan, Lafcadio Hearn relates that the nukekubi can be misidentified as Rokurokubi, an error that also appears in the Fighting Fantasy book, Sword of the Samurai, and in Stephen Dedman’s novel The Art of Arrow-Cutting. The rokurokubi is a similar but slightly different being from Japanese folklore belonging to the same overall class; instead of heads that completely sever, the rokurokubi have necks that stretch to enormous lengths during night-time. The book Even More Short & Shivery by Robert D. San Souci has a tale called Rokuro-kubi, but, again, the descriptions in the book are nukekubi, not rokurokubi.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 12:53:49 -0400

my-h-e-a-r-t-s-not-in-it: sometimes i ramble and rant

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:48:42 -0400

my-h-e-a-r-t-s-not-in-it:

sometimes i ramble and rant

It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world.

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:46:58 -0400

I was meant to be a Geisha.

I'm beginning to enjoy licorice.

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:41:22 -0400

I just saw The Great Gatsby.
Yes I will admit, I walked in expecting disappointment.
And yes I will admit, I was thoroughly impressed.
Holy shit, it was marvelous.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 12:38:51 -0400

labellefabuleuse: Winona Ryder photographed by Craig McDean for...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:36:13 -0400

labellefabuleuse:

Winona Ryder photographed by Craig McDean for Interview, May 2013

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Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:51 -0400

nevver: Since you’ve been gone

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:30 -0400

nevver:

Since you’ve been gone

"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:34:39 -0400

“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”

- Franz Kafka (via wolf-cub)

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Mon, 20 May 2013 12:33:17 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 12:32:41 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 12:29:53 -0400

“I can’t change”

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:29:48 -0400

“I can’t change”

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Sun, 19 May 2013 16:18:38 -0400