book of loving ghosts

Piranesi lives in the house. Perhaps he always has.

[worldsandemanations]

“Table for One” by Luca Ponsato

[poetryintransit]

Nikolai Gumilev, "An Elephant Calf" // Николай Гумилёв, «Слонёнок», 1920

[crylists]

Mirrored Gazes by Randy Alson for the National Geographic Magazine.

[old-emajarian]

Emily Majarian

‘Polly Von’

For Month of Love 2018 “White”

I shall tell of a hunter whose life was undone

By the cruel hand of evil at the setting of the sun

His arrow was loosed and it flew through the dark,

And his true love was slain as the shaft found its mark.

She’d her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan,

But it’s oh and alas, it was she, Polly Von.

- Peter, Paul & Mary, Polly Von

[fuckyeahvintageneon]

[mysticplaces]

abandoned thermal power plant | Hungary

photography by Andreas S

[clairedaring]

CLAIREBELL คลั่ง/รัก/นักโทษ — 2025, dir. Jeen Prach Rojanasinwilai

[weirdlandtv]

Pulp sci-fi illustration by Italian artist, Aldo Di Gennaro (b. 1938).

[auckie]

This is probably the most culturally important thing I’ll ever seen in my lifetime if I’m being honest. I want this affixed over my mantle, embroidered into my denim, and emblazoned into my flesh so that generations to come may never forget this 1938 gem of an illustration. Put this on my gravestone and name my children after Alfo Di Gennaro. This is what it’s all about.

[crabofdoom]

Artist was obviously a leg man, but I have never seen a female alien love interest designed as THIS alien before. She’s uniquely hairy, bugged-eyed, lines would indicate at least a partial exoskeleton, she has escaped being saddled with the mammories that a non-mammal being would not have, yet she’s got it bad for Space Force Leatherhead and he is so into her. I can practically hear his prose of her cabochon eyes of nebula violet, glowing with the passion to know and be known, in the starlight. The green of her body turning more vivid as discovery (and carnal knowledge) consume her conscious mind.

To suggest a red-blooded, human man could love Greedo’s cousin? Desire her??

This is fantastic, in every sense. How many lives did this change forever?

[cosmonautroger]

[blondebrainpowered]

Dreams (The Age of Romance, Boy Reading Book of Chivalry), 1923

Artist: Norman Rockwell

[jareckiworld]

Cinta Vidal — Den (oil on wood panel, 2025)

[academic-vampire]

𝔪𝔢𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔦𝔠 𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔶

[w1ck3dg4m3]

Red Letter No.8 by Jen Mazza

Reading opens the mind, fuels dreams, and nourishes the soul.

[a-bed-full-of-coats]

Actually romance wasn't invented until 2020 when Joey Batey wrote "Cause darling I was born to press my head between your shoulder blades at night when light is fading just to let you know I'm old, waylaid, and feels like I am wading into carpet burns and carousels, christ you'll be the death of me" etc etc

[thecollectibles]

Art by Pavel Oleinik

[klassizismus]

by Théodore Gudin (French, 1802-1880)

[godkissedme]