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everyone (who can) needs to watch secrets of playboy and stop wearing that fucking stupid bunny logo as if it’s cute and aesthetic. thank you .

#it’s highly triggering for s.a.#and survivors of abuse in general #please only watch it with absolute caution #horrific nasty stuff but so very important #secrets of playboy #tw: sa #personal

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#two weeks from now i'll be laying. on. the beach #this is all i can think about

xshayarsha

“Her hair falls down like tears.”

— Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; The Lady of the House of Love.

#angela carter #queue

bebemoon

a ship of lilac sails and pearl rigging

#queue

nodovess

Ella Naper 1886-1972. Lily pad hair combs 1906.

#ella naper #naiade #queue

danish-norwegian sculptor stephan sinding's "adoration" (1903) .

#stephan sinding #art #sculpture #queue

andrumedus

“I would never tie you down, not even with garlands of roses. I don’t want anything from you that doesn’t come from your own impulse, like water from the springs.”

— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XLVI”

#dulce maría loynaz

junglejim4322

Be so completely yourself that everyone wants to kill you

violentwavesofemotion-deactivat

“July. All sensation absent. Only magic, internal magic, your sky-blue soul.”

— Velimir Khlebnikov, from Collected Poems & Writings of V. K.; “Visitations,”

#velimir khlebnikov #queue

"judith" by me, on urstyle + james tissot's "triumph of the will" (c. 1877)

#doll set #urstyle #mine #james tissot #painting #art

derangedrhythms

…she saw [the angels] as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.

Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

#oh one of my all-time faves #the subtle knife #philip pullman #queue

fawnaura

I move through the dark as though it were natural to me, as though I were already a factor in it.

Louise Glück, from A Village Life: Poems

#louise glück

bebemoon

instead of here, i think i’d like to be lying in an old orchard in tuscany in 1998, listening to opera on my cd player while the disappearing sun gilds the landscape

bebemoon

or listening to bach's cello suite no. 1 in g major on a beach in a monsoon but it's the 197o's

#crucially i am being ripped apart by a monsoon to bach

virgin-martyr

This moon was the size of a broad nail-paring; you could see the vague outline of the rest of its surface, obscured by the shadow of the earth as if the earth were clenched between the moon’s shining claw-tips, so you could say the moon held the world in its arms. An exceptionally brilliant star suspended from the nether prong on a taut, invisible leash.

Angela Carter, excerpt from "Black Venus"

#angela carter #black venus