who up bearing the mark of cain!

oh gotdamn i’m not even the first person to make this reference

not to gesture to porpentine but damn they really couldn’t handle the hot allostatic load huh

how is this still happening is this the same group of people

(and this old nightclub stole my youth yeah, this old nightclub stole my true love it follows me around from town to town i might just get drunk tonight and burn the nightclub down)

telephones make strangers out of lovers whiskey makes the strangers all look good well my angel of the mourning is in mourning my life was misspent, don’t let me be misunderstood

wolf-alice also reminds me of patti smith’s poem Female and how she was changed by puberty from a wolf to a bitch

ligotti has the sense about him that the grotesque is already in his head and in his perception of the world, and he can only joke about it in ways that don’t diminish it. very marquez style of sort of ugly dry humor. i’m struggling to pinpoint what i mean by this but i think the comparison is there

wolf-alice is somehow both a story about a girl who becomes a woman rather against her will, and a very trans narrative. reminds me a lot of how, in the epic of gilgamesh, enkidu isn’t really aware of being not-a-beast until he has sex with a human woman

any time! glad to talk to someone who’s read a lot of the same weird stuff as me :-)