[earlymoderngothic]

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

ig: warmdayswillnevercease

[neverbrushmyteeth]

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

horatio, a commoner, foreigner, and stranger, goes up to the ghost of the king of denmark and immediately uses “thou.” that’d be like seeing the ghost of Barack Fucking Obama and being like “yo dude”

[mukuharakazui]

well, if you were dating obama’s son,

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

me reading dorian gray: that’s wilde

[unchildhood]

ANAÏS NIN

from a diary entry featured in The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

original photos and edit

[apparealization]

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[apparealization]

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Novalis, tr. by Mabel Cotterell, from Selected Writings; “Hymns To The Night,”

[apparealization]

“i dig my nails into the forest floor and pull up cobblestones.

there is no part of anything that has remained untouched.”

- alison malee “ask the wind”

[mysharona1987]

[whiskey-priestess]

“Writers and artists have always been fascinated by how language is inherently an approximation of things. You would have to be mad to think that every word has a specific, immovable referent, and that every thing has a specific word to describe it. Literature is born, precisely, out of the slippages between materiality and textuality, between the world and the word.”

—

Heloise Afferez in “Waiting for Hopper”

Heloise Afferez is our director of web design!

Read the rest of the piece here.

(via wintertangerine)

[georgiansuggestion]

no offense but dorothy wordsworth is better than all of us

[busket]

they should have done the live action lion king with actors instead of cgi lions…but i guess lions can’t really act so might as well just make them people. and why not put them in denmark just to spice things up, in the middle ages too. i dont think anyones done that before

[alcoholicanarchist]

[theclassicsreader]

“Sometimes one meets a woman who is beast turning human.”

— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

[cecily-cardew-blog]

reading classic novels outside of school is gay culture you can’t read the classics if you’re straight

[varandra-deactivated20230907]

when jane austen said “what are men to rocks and mountains?” my lesbian ass felt that

[lilacsanpeonies]

Someone make the hand holding meme with lesbians and geologists

[varandra-deactivated20230907]

brilliant meme idea. thank you