Savage Garden

Sofia || 18 || ENFP || Lesbian «Literature, Dark Academia, Vampires» || English Major || «Greek Mythology, Magic, Architecture»

[kuutamosonaatti]

Étoile (1989) | dir. Peter Del Monte

[peter1rose]

[headspace-hotel]

why is it that whenever I am disillusioned with the world I go back to the epic of Gilgamesh

“It is the story of their becoming human together.”

This is it. This is the oldest written literary work that we know of, and it’s a story of becoming human together.

This is a story about love, and it’s a story about death, and we told this story thousands of years ago, THOUSANDS of years. We have always, always, always been wrestling with this profoundly beautiful existence and with knowing one another, while knowing that we all will die and be forgotten.

We become human by loving, but we also become human by knowing death.

And I’m just sitting here touching other human beings, another human experience, from across millennia, feeling a bit more human too through it, and I am trying very hard not to cry.

[kiefbowl]

“Of all the female sins, hunger is the least forgivable; hunger for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love. If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings. We do not need food: in many ways, we are food, trainable meat, lambs queueing up to buy mint sauce. We consume only what we are told to, from lipstick to life insurance, and only what will make us more consumable ourselves, the better to be chewed up and swallowed by a machine that wants our work, our money, our sexuality broken down into bite-sized chunks.”

— Laurie Penny (via monstersinmirrors)

[moonnaiden-deactivated20210329]

If not, winter fragments of sappho - anne carson

[jojordan-art-deactivated2025120]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Witches - William Mortensen (1920s-1930s)

[damianmcgintleman]

“i’m so proud of you,” i whisper as my favorite character undergoes well written character development

[andersonandperry]

THIS BOY

[aliciavikander]

JOEY BATEY as JASKIER in THE WITCHER SEASON 1

[veelyra]

river phoenix and keanu reeves

[carnationsandpages]

This is a reminder to myself that recovery is not a one way street and healing takes time. I will get through these problems and I’m grateful for those around me who love and support me despite the ugly sides of my experience. I do not owe anyone a quick and easy recovery.

[witchys-stuff-deactivated202005]

Good morning 🌱🍄🐁

[weltenwellen]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[classichorrorblog]

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Directed by Neil Jordan (1994)

[tvandfilm]

ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[ezamean-deactivated20181025]

[ruzekburgess]

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

The Goldfinch, 2019 dir. John Crowley