life's daughter, death's bride

Miccaeli, 28, AUS. Enthusiast.

[apriki]

Happy new year! About ten years ago you blessed Tumblr with a guide on how to start using torrents which changed my life. Now I desperately need to know where I can download books. (Project Gutenberg doesn't have Dire Bound and my local library has a waiting list of 50+ people)

happy new year bestie!!! my grandma taught me to torrent and i will always be here to help you thru the cossie livs, NEVER get multiple streaming subscriptions okay 🫶

anyway the best place to get books is annasarchive, which will cover you for most things. if it's a super new release get a mobilism account (it's free or was like 10yrs ago when I made mine!!) and check there. If all else fails literally just google the book name + epub + vk. i just did this and found a link for your book:

i love u. happy 2026. enjoy

[chernobesov]

Truth is irrefutable and untainted by bias. Sunrise, Abram, death: these are truths.

[apriki]

I know you’re probably too mature for this show but watch The Summer I Turned Pretty (if you want, have time, etc)… I know I’m just an anon but I would love to hear your thoughts on it. I know it isn’t prestige or anything but I just know your commentary always makes me laugh or entertains me.

Again totally get it if it doesn’t appeal to you at all… glad to see you back on Tumblr!

listen ill take it under advisement but i do want to remind you that im a bad person who loves a toxic relationship so i will be actively rooting for her to end up with whichever boy is worse

[apriki]

you ever just sit in the office in the middle of the day and suddenly think 'why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this'

[buckysteve]

Lots of girls were into me. None of them wanted to marry me. That's not what I was for. — What were you for?

Challengers (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[d-m-nagu]

Sunflowers (2024), six reshuffled jigsaw puzzles, 18,5x20,5cm

Paper Works by D.M. Nagu

[ghost-in-the-library]

rest in peace forum thread deleted before its time

[apriki]

My initial gut response here was something liturgical - a beautiful incense like Cardinal by Heeley or Incense Extreme by Tauer - but that's Sebastian remembered, sanctified, and not as he lived. We want a perfume that smells like sweat and devotion and desperation, earthy and of the flesh and yet transcendant all at once. Though frankincense will always evoke the divine it's difficult to find a perfume that parses that with more human smells without falling into nag champa territory - which is perfectly fine, but not St Sebastian.

Ambilux by Marlou is the ultimate arrow pierced flesh scent, vividly alive and yet dying all at once with its sweaty-musky cumin base note. Anatolia Anatolia by Prissana has a wounds-and-tears kind of smell, Sebastian being bandaged up by Irene, and I'm even leaning towards Mitsouko by Guerlain, the chypre of all chypres, because it smells like hopeless love, like the devotion of Sebastian to Diocletian, despite his cruelty - or maybe because of it?

I know - Rien Intense Incense by Etat Libre d'Orange. A leathery masterclass is contrasts between clean aldehydes and dirty, musky labdanum-oakmoss-patchouli accord simmering in the base. It's all there - looking up to heaven as you're being tortured on earth - the flesh and the divine. A little perfumed tragedy in three acts, top and heart and drydown....

A scent that you could picture wafting down the halls of a church as easily as steaming from the gladiator pit where they threw the early martyrs.

[art-is-art-is-art]

The Kelpie, Herbert James Draper

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

if you’re not ending your emails with “kill me! your slave and enemy,” then what are you doing with your life

[whitedogblog]

The wonderful gothic art deco American Radiator Building, New York

[myfairynuffstuff]

Augusto Sezanne (1856 - 1935) - The Lagoon Lighthouse. 1912. Oil on canvas.

[lovealtars]

illustrations by skip liepke for wuthering heights

[apriki]

The celebrity fragrance is only acceptable if you acknowledge it cannot and should not be worn alone; it is only acceptable if you pair it with a luxury product. If you do not own a $200 perfume to layer with Curious (Britney Spears, 2004) or Fancy (Jessica Simpson, 2008), that’s when it becomes embarrassing.

I confess to you: I don’t want to smell like a cupcake. But sometimes when I walk past the celebrity scents in the chemist, I kind of wish I did. The woman who wears Fantasy is the woman who gets drunk after two Smirnoff Blacks: she’s happy and she paid a lot less than you to get there.

My article, A Cultural Autopsy of the Celebrity Perfume, is live. If you ever wore any of the Britneys or the Rihannas or the Beyonces, you should read it.

[apriki]

My first substack is live! (not paywalled. never paywalled.) In it I discuss the latest YA book scandal, fake Russias, kdramas, and four leather perfumes.

[apriki]

My review of Le Lion de Chanel, and how it contains a hundred years of perfume history, is now live. I would love if you read it! ❤️ "Though Le Lion contains no synthetics meant to mimic the traditional perfumery ingredients taken from animals like hyrax or civet, it does smell animalic. That strange, earthy, slightly disgusting but also comforting smell of living things — that’s what animalic perfumes smell like, and that is present in Le Lion. Animalic doesn’t always mean a horrible funk, and can in fact be quite wonderful — butter smells animalic, honey smells animalic. But more than that it is the smell of us, of humanity, of other people’s bodies. An animalic perfume is always marketed as sexy, and they are, but more than that they are intimate. It’s that quiet moment in the morning when you wake up before your lover and are surrounded by the smell their slightly dirty hair. Le Lion remains at every stage slightly animalic, slightly medicinal, golden and strange."

[apriki]

A few fragrance reviews from Perfumes: The Guide (2008 and 2018 editions), Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez

[apriki]

Perfume photography in Sali Hughes’ Pretty Iconic: Poison by Dior (1985), Shalimar by Guerlain (1925), Angel by Mugler (1992), Youth Dew by Estee Lauder (1953)