give me a bitter glory

she/her 🌹 lore, aesthetic diary, and crime menagerie for a certain warrior of light. 🌹

[dancingwillows]

run along now, little willow, brittle willow, and do not look back.

[aqua-regia009]

The hunt for the Mermaid, 2023 - oil on canvas — Guillermo Lorca (Chilean, b.1984)

https://www.guillermolorca.com/

[shawnfreki]

Artwork by Arthur Rackham.

[inter-ax]

The 6th Examined Life (1989)

Ross Bleckner

[dancingwillows]

shadowbringer in training

[simena]

Florent Willems (detail)

[catonhottinroof-deactivated2023]

Olga Wisinger-Florian (1844–1926)

October 

[catonhottinroof-deactivated2023]

Paul Swan (1883 - 1972)

Water Nymph, 1907

[metamorphesque]

though i am heavy, there is flight around me

wendell berry, the fall of icarus, f. scott fitzgerald, christophe vacher, hozier, galileo chini, mahmoud darwish (tr. catherine cobham), rubens, akwaeke emezi, alfred schwarzschild

[hachimitsubani]

[shawnfreki]

Artwork by Arthur Rackham.

[dancingwillows]

daughter of dust, where did you go?

[dancingwillows]

daughter of shadows, come here, come home.

[mysterium-solis]

Now Was the Day Departing by Gustave Doré (1890)

[20thcenturystarlet]

New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

[desescrita]

“I will not say: that is because I am a city that does not want to surrender. Beseige me. It is because I am a deep, cool pyramid. Go through me. Pass through all my rooms and know my subterfuge. But you are passing right by the little room that I want to keep closed, and you don’t see it. There is a secret. I myself do not know it, I just know it exists.”

— Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea (trans. Betsy Wing)

[brujasvascas]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (details) — 1870 John Simmons