AESTHETIC MEME: list your muse’s aesthetic from tastes, smells, outfits, and sceneries. add as many subjects as you like, it can help with people tagging you in aesthetically pleasing things towards your muse! (repost, don’t reblog!)
TASTES: the bitter copper taste of blood, melted snow on a tongue’s tip, rain water that you swallow as it drips into your mouth, the punch of cheap vodka and bitterness of beer, salt and pepper, tasteless watered down coffee, cold gruel and old bread, Schweinsbraten and cabbage salad, fresh milk and crisp apples at midday of a hot summer, the high class bourbon and aged wine that was luxury and is even more so on days of war stricken famine.
SMELLS: moist soil and hard soil, then smoke as it rises from smashed craters, gunpowder and smoke from an old rifle, the moist grass in the early morning, the wilderness and the spruce and sap of snapped twigs, the freshness of mountain air, a female’s perfume that lingers on your skin after night
SIGHTS: the world below and the world above while you ascend a mountain, snow peaked mountains, white edelweiß petals dancing on the wind and smashed between dirty fingers, roughened hands, rope and a man’s shadow plastered against stone, Johanna’s glimmering gray-blue eyes like the heavens on a stormy winter day, frost in the windowsills, dewy grass in summer days, powdery grounds on winter, lined paths of fallen leaves in Salzburg streets, Russian fields, wheat dancing in windy rhythm with far away farms, a woman’s eyes of rancor as they march by dusty roads, rust and steel, gutted buildings, expensive furniture lines neatly and dustless, the filtered light through laced curtains that hits you in the face each morning, a warm glow from a lamp through a smudged window in a rustic house, a thunderstorm rolling in, a snowstorm’s haze, her fingertips and plump lips, bright blood on snow, smoke rising from a fire across the land, blue eyes filled with melancholia, splinters of trees and ground turned black, the glimmer of liquid morphine
SOUNDS: distant gunshots in a war zone and gunshots that whisper right by your ear, tree limbs creaking in the forest and at night by a window, marching boots that pound concrete, the sucking sound of mud, a river’s song as you cross it, German voices and voices of foreign tongues, his heartbeat whispering in his ear, a loud scream that freezes blood, pebbles and gravels, a rock’s tumble down a craggy fall, the crumbling of a mountain’s side, landslides and the dropping of melting snow from the eave’s of a house, the shattering of a frozen lake as it’s being crossed
SENSATIONS: the chill of an early morning dew on the skin, crisp fresh air from the mountainsides, lips trailing the soft skin of a neck and shoulders, the harrowing cold of Russian winters, stark hunger, the comfort of the past and uncertainty of the future, the chill on sweat broken skin, the warmth of coffee and hot meal in the cold months, the roughness of rope, cold steel, snow against your belly and steel against your cheek, wool dirty and muddy, the heaviness of cloth, a bullet’s burning poker-hot pierce, a whirring dizziness, the relief as morphine paves its way through the blood stream, acute senses, the shaking of limbs, a needle’s tip breaking through skin into a vein, the bite of shame
OUTFITS: field gray wool stained gray and brown, mountain boots old and worn with a couple missing hobnails, wool putees wrapped tight around the ankles, a Bergmütze with a short visor and an Edelweß pin whose stem always faces the right, a wind jacket that comes and goes of his shoulders with the seasons, stone gray trousers
BODY: broad shoulders, eyes like the skies of winter, strong calloused hands hammered as so by mountain ranges and war, valley lines of scarred tissue, a weathered face with one wintry eye, nightshaded eyed ripped by vultures shaped like bullets, night sky colored hair of raven wings, dusty and sweat broken, be-speckled silver by snow and stress, a strong foundation meant to smite a weak inside, muscles well defined and carved to carry the world’s weight