Hell is Chinese
︎︎︎ Asher Bentley
︎ Jan 19, 2026
Hell, it turns out, has beautiful asian ceramics.
Celadon smooth enough to convince you,
the apocalypse is kind of like a spa.
Warm diffusion pane shimmer,
Makes every ruined surface
look curated, intentional...
It’s fine,
I just didn’t know it was going to be Chinese.
In the middle of the soft terminal glow,
fragile hands move.
Angel of the quiet cataclysm.
Her laugh is a sound,
against the accelerating entropy.
When we collapse,
She’ll be the last stable node,
the final kindness before the architecture melts.
Hell has beautiful asian ceramics,
and a tungsten lit finality.
The light settles over,
like a decision already made.
Celadon smooth enough to convince you,
the apocalypse is kind of like a spa.
Warm diffusion pane shimmer,
Makes every ruined surface
look curated, intentional...
It’s fine,
I just didn’t know it was going to be Chinese.
In the middle of the soft terminal glow,
fragile hands move.
Angel of the quiet cataclysm.
Her laugh is a sound,
against the accelerating entropy.
When we collapse,
She’ll be the last stable node,
the final kindness before the architecture melts.
Hell has beautiful asian ceramics,
and a tungsten lit finality.
The light settles over,
like a decision already made.
Asher Bentley is a writer and director, frequently working under the moniker of Dead Homes.