Common Brimstone

Perfume, inspirations, ideas, and miscellaneous nonsense.

[lucifelle-deactivated20241017]

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

Rumi (via lucifelle)

[victoriousvocabulary]

VIDUAGE 

[noun] 

the state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively. 

Etymology: from Latin vidua, “a widow”.

[Leslie Ann O’Dell - Widow]

[achillics]

modern mythology: diyan masalanta

Diyan Masalanta is the Philippine goddess of love,conception and childbirth and protector of lovers and stopper of storms and deluge. The guardian of Mount Makiling, its flora and fauna, and and of Laguna de Bay, she is often described as kind, gentle and approachable, gifting the poor villagers with gold, and singing so sweetly that ‘golden leaves from surrounding trees showered the audience like petals from the heavens.’

[kashilascorner]

Greek mythology: Iphigenia.

“I was cut off from hope in that sad place, Which yet to name my spirit loathes and fears My father held his hand upon his face; I, blinded by my tears, Still strove to speak; my voice was thick with sighs, As in a dream. Dimly I could decry The stern black-bearded kings, with wolfish eyes, Waiting to see me die. The tall masts quivered as they lay afloat, The temples and the people and the shore; One drew a sharp knife through my tender throat Slowly, and—nothing more.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

[cave]

Sweet Little Soul | DN

[incorrecttshquotes]

Oh, so you like Homer? Name three of his albums.

Henry to Richard (via mythaelogy)

[dvkev-alentino]

e n t e r  t h e  s u b l i m e: a playlist for The Secret History

1. Lana Del Rey - Gods and Monsters | 2. Bat for Lashes - Glass | 3. Bastille - Bad Blood | 4. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon | 5. Oh Land - Wolf and I | 6. Florence and the Machine - Leave My Body | 7. Christine Guldbrandsen - Elf Dance | 8. Christina Perri - Tragedy | 9. Florence and the Machine - Bird Song | 10. Oh Land - Numb | 11. Delta Rae - Bottom of the River | 12. Portishead - Wandering Star | 13. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die | 14. Charlotte Gainsbourg - In the End | 15. Thirty Seconds to Mars - Depuis Le Debut

L I S T E N 

[thediverismylove]

"Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

[foggydevils]

LITERATURE MEME  |  THE SECRET HISTORY BY DONNA TARTT

Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he’s worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.

[reyynas]

Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.

[marcuscrassus]

Ivan Aivazovsky - The Birth of Aphrodite (1887)

[thewritersramblings]

mythology series → the rainbow goddess iris [Ἶρις]

have you seen her dressed in blue? see the sky in front of you and her face is like a sail speck of white so fair and pale have you seen a lady fairer? have you seen her all in gold? like a queen in days of old she shoots her colours all around like a sunset going down have you seen a lady fairer? she comes in colours ev’rywhere she combs her hair she’s like a rainbow

[beholdingslut]

GODDESSES OF WAR: Sekhmet

 I battle, my roar meant slaughter.

[jaded-mandarin]

Water Lilies, 19th Century. Detail.

[lamus-dworski]

Landscapes of the Wisła river, Poland. Photos © petrelpiotr.

The river Wisła (Vistula) is the longest and largest river in Poland, rising from the mountains in the south of the country and flowing into the Baltic Sea in the north. It forms the characteristic “S” shape in the middle of the map of Poland.

[andrea-the-great-deactivated201]

BLACK WIDOW by Yayashin

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art by yanadhyana