stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood

Art, photography, quotes , graphics, etc.

[im-the-voodoo-child]

Rooney Mara (pre-production photoshoot) as Lisbeth Salander.

[heureux]

saintlilithhh

[charnel-grounds]

The Vampire Dancer | Vampyrdanserinden | 1912 | dir. August Blom

[twixnmix]

Josephine Baker with her pet cheetah Chiquita, 1931.

[perfil-de-um-cidadao-comum]

Os Bórgias - Alejandro Jodorowski & Milo Manara

[giallolooks]

Della, one of exploitation’s few feminine “predatory lesbians” - whose advances are reciprocated and doesn’t die in the end(!) - in Bad Girls Go To Hell (Doris Wishman, 1965).

[roserosette]

Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice, 1988, Akio Jissoji

[marypickfords]

Woods Are Wet (Tatsumi Kumashiro, 1973)

[creaturesofnight]

by Nagato Iwasaki

[jonroxton]

@viticomus

[chat-oy-ant]

Distressed Wood Figures, Aaron Demetz

[lady-arryn]

THE FALL costumes appreciation: 2/8 (costume design by Eiko Ishioka)

[studentofetherium]

columns of kelp underwater are so gorgeous. absolutely one of my favorite things in the natural world

[studentofetherium]

these are equal parts underwater city and underwater forest

[freshmoviequotes]

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

[150151]

no thoughts. just anya taylor-joys anatomically correct heart cakes at her wedding

[website-com]

daughters of the dust 1991 | dir. Julie Dash

[detournementsmineurs]

Mia Sara dans "Legend" de Ridley Scott (1985), décembre 2023.

[thevictorianlady-blog]

Lady Ottoline Morrell photographed by her husband, Phillip Morrell, 1909.

I have never seen her with her hair down, and she looks like she’s in some sort of nightgown. Doesn’t she just look like a perfect Pre-Raphaelite beauty here?