Presence. Power. Warmth.

“he bears her such love and keeps such faith to her that all of his subjects … say that she has bewitched him, and they call her … the witch.”

[bergamotbarbie]

For your eyes only...

Alienation displaces you from your sense of self. A refugee, left to reckon, "who am I?"

Much can be said about one's early twenties. The idiocy of youth. How tragic everything seemed. The worse part is, everything really was as bad as it seemed.

In returning home, one finds enough strength to see past one's own trauma. This essay examines a young woman becoming over and over again until she, and her beauty, became legible to each other.

This essay asks, is suffering inherent to a beautiful woman's experience on Earth? To which it answers, "don't let them say they were successful in killing you."

An Investment Bank Is A Bad Place To Find Out You're Sexually Attractive | @diouanawoman | Substack | Tik Tok | Upcoming Lecture on Pretty Privilege and Class

[cosmicanger]

Serena Williams at the 2011 Espy Awards

[derangedrhythms]

[…] we continually fascinate each other.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956–1963 ⁠—  Aurelia Schober Plath, 29th November 1956

[bergamotbarbie]

i love when men inconvenience themselves for me. extreme consideration remains the highest form of love

[bergamotbarbie]

I told him I want my own apartment as an engagement gift

[bergamotbarbie]

I told him we’re not having sex until our wedding night lol

[bergamotbarbie]

i want the most valuable things to be a testament of his love for me

[redstarovermoundcity]

“His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable.”

— Ursula K Le Guin, the Dispossessed

[bergamotbarbie]

Best thing I read today:

“…cherished a tradition of self-effacement and obedience, which diluted their personalities and was due, possibly, to men’s reluctance to make mistresses out of their wives.”

[bergamotbarbie]

Second best:

“He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures. He took her to dinner at the cabinets particuliers of Paris, to the big restaurants, where all the waiters thought she was his mistress.”

[bergamotbarbie]

he indulges me endlessly

[tkkatherineblog]

[fembroder]

Alexander and Cleopatra at the Sundance Film Festival ✨

[svckerpvnchpsycho]

Ifykyk

[maudelynn]

Wednesday’s Kiss ~ Good Morning, Love ~ 1920s Biederer Postcards

[bergamotbarbie]

love the addams family:

morticia to debbie: “you have enslaved him. you have placed fester under some strange sexual spell. i respect that.”

[mechamedusa]

dick from a man who has waited lifetimes to meet me again in my reincarnated form

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