il dolce far niente

• rachel • 20s • rome •

[flowerytale]

I'm still alive (just not very interesting anymore)

[seaphine]

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.

[xtroor]

All roads unfortunately lead back to tumblr.

[flowerytale]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (January 20, 1959) Virginia Woolf’s cat Sappho, from the Monk’s House photograph album (1947)

[velvetcloak]

Elle Fanning (ph: Szilveszter Makó)

[mothprincess]

Mary Oliver, from The Fire

[flowerytale]

[violettes4roses]

i am her, she is me

[saintweaver]

Bob Kaufman, Darkwalking Endlessly

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

c. 1820

British

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[heavensghost]

Words from nettles by Ethel Cain

[pnwander]

mama + fawn

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Incest: A Jounal of Love; The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[metamorphesque]

musings on touch

margaret atwood, natalie diaz, ocean vuong, susan sontag, anne carson, marya hornbacher, mary oliver

[flowerytale]

Emma. (2020), dir. Autumn de Wilde

[atdawn]

Sleep, Eowyn. Sleep, while you still can.

THE RETURN OF THE KING

[charmingnotion]

Jean Cocteau’s La belle et la bête, 1946