Homebody Alchemist

I am a mismatched china plate on a maximalist European tablescape 

[19th-century-angst]

current mood: mary magdalene with skull

[takhayyul]

Duha

[infected]

Photo by Ben Chiu

[marthajefferson]

Cleopatra, details, 1524 - 1526, by Giampietrino (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli) Oil painting. Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. High Renaissance.

[soft-lovely]

manifesting reaching all of your reading goals

[velvetcloak]

valentino | spring 2015 (ph: gianni pucci / indigitalimages.com

[saintjoan]

When we un-packed it, the Paris curator was embarrassed to discover lipstick marks on its cheek: someone in the Louvre had played at being Pygmalion—or Hadrian—and kissed it. And who could blame them? Up on a pedestal, center stage, the effect of its beauty was jaw-dropping.

[19th-century-angst]

‘Don’t look down as you’re flying, or you’ll realise the impossibility of it all.’

– She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

[19th-century-angst]

“Nobody will ever end me. I’ll be so great that no one will be able to touch me, or come near me, for fear of becoming nothing”

– She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

[19th-century-angst]

‘All things, O priests, are on fire ... And with what are they on fire? With the fire of passion, say I, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of infatuation: with birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair are they on fire.’

– She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

[19th-century-angst]

“The greater the desire, the greater the suffering, and now she desired greatness itself.”

– She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

[modelsof-color]

Yoon Young Bae by Hong Jang Hyun for The Wow Magazine , March 2021  

[fashion-beepbeep]

moschino fall/winter 1995

[etherealacademia]

“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.” — catherynne m. valente

[melaninblackmagic]

[isabelladjanis]

AUDREY HEPBURN Love in the Afternoon, 1957

[19th-century-angst]

Oh, to be a postgrad student at a dreamy university