war criminal slash

(koopa paratroopa IRL via retrogamingblog on tumblr)

" 'Oh, must we be quite so honest with ourselves, my dear?' 'We do not know how to avoid it,' said Terence. 'That is why there is horror in every heart, and a resolve never to be honest with anyone else.' " --Ivy Compton-Burnett, Elders & Betters (1944)

Joanna Russ study.

the road that is not going to fail
evaporates in the still heat
broken as a fate
where the whitecoats cease to heal
the road that contains its close
our other roads try to trace
so very close
ambition itself betrays
the road whose within is won
feels the wind of all things wail
for making fun
of a test made of parts that fail

"Meanwhile the internet tropification–as ruin tourism and edgeland porn–of almost every symbol in the major arcana has left me with nowhere exciting to look."