This Swallow's Empire

紅顏禍水

[fripperiesandfobs]

Robe à la française ca. 1775

From Cora Ginsburg

[greengableslover]

TJ MIKELOGAN's HALLOWEEN HORROR 2025 EVENT Day 21 ❥ Haunted houses

A house as old as this one becomes, in time, a living thing. It starts holding onto things… keeping them alive when they shouldn't be. Some of them are good; some of them bad… Some should never be spoken about again. ALLERDALE HALL | CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[enchantingimagery]

We’ll mount so high that they can’t catch us, and quite at the top there’s a hole that leads out into the wide world.

A Kay Nielsen illustration for the Hans Christian Andersen fairy-tale, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep My scan.

[dollykadulha]

“I believe this is the one night when everyone can be themselves. But you never remove your mask, do you?”

–A Royal Affair (2012, dir. Nikolaj Arcel)

[mjalti]

‪i’m bitter but like. just enough to be dark chocolate. nothing too detrimental. i’m good for ur health, is all

[skam-y0uth-blog]

Iman Meskini

[tooloving-deactivated20160614]

A lonely bitch ….. A loner ….. I love isolation AND detachment

[lifeinpoetry]

you are death. you are desire

Scherezade Siobhan, from “my soldier, my stranger,” Father, Husband (via malglories)

[arsantiquis]

A Paddle-steamer in a Storm (detail) J. M. W. Turner

[setheverman]

toto - africa is such a great song.. a fantastic song….. such a good song… an excellent piece of music…… a wonderful tune…. a very

[ceiun]

https://instagram.com/p/BRoFj3wl2wH/

[lifeinpoetry]

I want him to suffer as I have suffered. I think I could fit the sky inside the hole he made in me.

Nicola Maye Goldberg, from “A Woman Surveys a Treacherous Mountain Pass,” published in Nailed Magazine (via lifeinpoetry)

[414lilj-deactivated20170902]

I’m at the “we’ll see” stage in my life. With everything and everyone. We will see.

[browngurl]

Solange’s performing at Guggenheim 

[chellmetra-deactivated20220515]

Eurovision victories

Fake victory: getting first place. True victory: becoming a meme. Petty victory: getting more points than your neighbors.

[pigmenting]

Give me blood and rage and a heart for horror; teach me to be tough enough to face this world still standing. Make a Fury of me.

Elizabeth Hewer, from “Finding Ariadne” in Wishing for Birds (via pigmenting)

[naiadereverie]

Blanca for Vogue España Novias S/S ‘17 ph. by Nacho Alegre