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She/Her, 28, Aotearoa ♏︎ 𖢥Fandom side blog @phantazesthai

[angelboudoir]

Mia Wasikowska bts of Crimson Peak

[rosieandthemoon]

hedge labyrinth at the Château de la Ballue in France

[chthonic-cassandra]

                         οὐ γἀρ ἢσυχος κόρη ἔλυσε χρησμῶν ὼς πρὶν αἰόλον στόμα ἀλλ᾽ ἄσπετον χέασα παμμιγῆ βοὴν δαφνηφάγων φοίβαζεν ἐκ λαιμῶν ὄπα Σφιγγὸς κελαινῆς γῆρυν ἐκμιμουμένη.

                 The girl was silent no more. She loosed the glittering voice of her oracles not as before, but now roaring, the unspeakable pouring forth, mingled, speaking from a throat filled with laurel, she imitated the dark and ancient Sphinx.

- Lycophron, Alexandra, lines 4-7, my translation

[terpsikeraunos]

what if angels had hummingbird wings and hovered in midair

[farmwitch]

“We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.”

— Hildegard von Bingen, from ‘Selected Writings’ (via letheane)

[bunnypets]

Wings sourced from beekeepers dealing with the loss of their hives due to extreme weather, the pieces are made to memorialize the bees.

"A veil lifts between two worlds: light and dark; life and death; individual and union. It is worn in ceremony of transition. It is a fabric of both grief and celebration, made up of a community, a hive." by lucijockel

[bidet-of-evil]

no! explanation of the gaps will kill Reader! she needs narrative lacunae to enjoy the story!

[violetdiabolo]

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, Andreas Vesalius 1543 - Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro 2025

[lamignonette]

[soracities]

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Con nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

[rosieandthemoon]

Olga Dugina & Andrej Dugin "The Dragon Feathers"

[wildspringday]

floating ophelia emoji when

[rosieandthemoon]

by Belgian photographer Alfonse Van Besten, 1913

[petaltexturedskies]

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.

Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

[ymutate]

EtruscanCulture VII Century BC, an extraordinary Bronze Sculpture of a mythological Siren, from the ancient Necropolis of Strozzacapponi, Perugia, Umbria, Italy.

[fuzzbby]

Noriko Takeda.

[chainsawpunk]

Domenichino, The Maiden and the Unicorn, 1602 // Anton Robert Leinweber, Dragon Resting Its Head On The Lap Of A Woman, 1912