Aristocratic Elegance

She herself is a haunted house.

[nuveau-deco]

Three Red Glass Perfume Vials Connected in the Form of an Anchor. The engraved silver junction serves as the lid for the main vial, while the two secondary vials have their own silver caps. The chain attachment suggests that this may have hung from a chatelaine. Dated 19th century.

(Source: collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)

[mtn-maiden]

[milksockets]

'alexander mcqueen's gold-painted fox-skeleton wrap, seen at london fashion week, february 2001' in 100 ideas that changed fashion - harriet worsley (2011)

[robert-hadley]

The Tea Cottage at Mellerstain House, Scottish Borders.

[frostedmagnolias]

Gown in Black Silk Cloth

c. 1900-1905

Italian workshop

Pitti Palace

[toiich]

Justice - Jean Delville, 1914

[velvetnightgallery]

christian dior by john galliano, look 2, evening dress of golden armor with embroidered gold “chain mail”, haute couture autumn/winter 2006

brigitte niedermair

[mementomauri]

I do have a fondness for how gothic and erotic lit had a certain barrier to entry. Like I do love more ppl getting into the vampire chronicles and I'll always be happy to have more Loustat fans but those books are weird and melancholic and erotic and philosophical and constantly testing boundaries and asking questions. And it feels like ppl are expecting or wanting "the vampire diaries but gay". The books have uncomfortable moments and the characters will do and say and believe things that make you double take but so much of the books are just "how moral can I be when nothing matters and I'm immortal?"

This isn't just a tale of gay vampires. It's a haunting philosophical treatise about life, mortality, morality, death, depression, incest, rape, love, regret, and the Pain Of Time. It can be fun and it can be gross and it can be wonderful but it's not for the timid.

[crow-caller]

I understand the transition away from the term "comorbid" (any medical terms with morbid in it sounds more scary than it should) but also I love the word. Co-morbid. Me and my morbids are co. My company of morbids. My medical condition, my statistically likely to be present medical condition, and me.

[vividplanet]

fairy glen, scotland

[venusiansex]

johfra bosschart zodiac series collection. 1975.

[romanceyourdemons]

lmao i’m reading this essay from the 1580s that mentions how if you were wearing a big elizabethan ruff and you got caught in the rain it would flip up in the wind and hit you in the face, and then you’d have to spend the rest of the day with your stupid soggy ruff all flaccid on your shoulders. can you imagine. whole new potentials for pathetic unlocked

[aristocraticelegance]

I need Mercury Retrograde to be over like now

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[wishbow]

A second illustration for the Swords Without Master ttrpg, so much good art is being made for this thing. I'm very happy to contribute to it, I'm in good company.

[evilspaceprincess]

Yuima Nakazato FW24 Haute Couture

[idlelizard]

shapely sugar bowl