To Helen.

XXII • sagittarius • she/her

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Giuseppe Mentessi (Italian, 1857-1931) Pace, 1907 Museo dell'Ottocento

[flowerytale]

“Why life is so blank, brief and bitter I do not know — Why younger and far better than I are snatched from it with projects unfulfilled I cannot comprehend.”

Charlotte Brontë, from a letter to W S Williams, talking abouth the death of her siblings Emily, Anne and Branwell

[metamorphesque]

Jean-Joseph Perraud, Le Désespoir (Despair) 

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

hand details of ‘Henry Cabot Lodge’ (1890) by John Singer Sargent and ‘Zwei Hande Mit Stock’ by Wilhelm Leibl

[phases-and-frases]

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

Ghismonda with the heart of Guiscardo detail, (1650) by Bernardino Mei

[e-liebesleid]

In Deep Thought

Alfred Stevens (1823-1906)

[detailedart]

Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle, 1850, by James Sant.

[feral-ballad]

Yves Olade, from Bloodsport; “When rome falls”

[thefugitivesaint]

Langston Hughes (1902-1967), ‘Tired’, “New Masses”, Vol. 6, #9, Feb. 1931 Source

[happyheidi]

ode to ophelia 🍃 x

[metamorphesque]

― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

[arinewman7]

Angel Playing the Lute

Rosso Fiorentino

oil on wood panel, ca. 1521

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Fountain of Diana and Actaeon by Paolo Persico (18th Century)

[happyheidi]

watching the moon from my window. x

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

Camellia sinensis, Chinese variety, 十八学士shi ba xue shi (eighteen scholars)

[jiangwanyin]

— vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to véra (trans. olga voronina & brian boyd)