𝔈𝔩𝔢𝔲𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝑦𝔬𝔰

Literature • Witchcraft • LGBTQ+ • Art “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” — George Eliot.

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Edward Hopper - Boy and Moon (1906-07) [1450 x 1785]

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Souleymane Bachir Diaw, Sutura (Senegal)

[wanderthewood]

by Ibolya Mester

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“Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can know that better than you—but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”

— Henry James, from a letter to Grace Norton dated July 28, 1883 (with thanks to Letters of Note)

[pierppasolini]

Raw Talent (1984) // dir. Larry Revene

[daimiyamoto]

HER PRIVATE HELL (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2026)

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PAUL NEWMAN Torn Curtain (1966) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[herheartwasintherightplace]

Jane Eyre 2011

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga

[didanagy]

ISABELLE ADJANI as EMILY BRONTË, ISABELLE HUPPERT as ANNE BRONTË and MARIE-FRANCE PISIER as CHARLOTTE BRONTË

THE BRONTË SISTERS/LES SŒURS BRONTË (1979)

dir. andré téchiné

[robertmitchum]

CARY GRANT in GAMBLING SHIP dir.  Louis J. Gasnier

[niimph]

“I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing,”

— Walt Whitman, from The Complete Poems of W. W.; “A Song of Myself”

[jagiellonczyk]

DALGLIESH | SHROUD FOR A NIGHTINGALE | S1E1&2

[charnel-grounds]

William Daniell (1769–1837)

“The Edystone Light-House during the Storm in November 1824”

aquatint, 1825 — source

[newloverofbeauty]

Lucian Freud by Walker Evans  (1950s)

[pmamtraveller]

Lucifer — Franz von Stuck

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[undinecissy]

James Wilby as Uncle Alan Kitson in Tom’s Midnight Garden (1999).

Calm, gentle, and effortlessly elegant.