* DEATH'S HANDMAIDEN .

ind. sel. myrtha of giselle. navi

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Irina Kolpakova as Giselle and Tatiana Terekhova as Myrtha

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“The Wilis have cornered a terrified Hilarion. They use their magic to force him to dance until he is nearly dead, and then drown him in a nearby lake”

Bolshoi’s Giselle

Photo by Ekaterina Vladimirova

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Corps de Ballet, Giselle.

Photograph by Gilles Tapie from Sylvie Guillem’s book Invitation.

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I think THIS is one of the most magical things I’ve ever seen

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Mariinsky’s Giselle

Photo by Natalia Voronova

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Maria Vinogradova in Bolshoi’s La Sylphide

Photo by Ekaterina Vladimirova

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a  girl  betrayed.  a  fury  risen.  a  monster  created,  shrouded  by  a  crown  of  lilies … 

ind  ,  sel  ,  multiverse  ,  queen myrtha  of  the  ballet  ,  GISELLE

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hey y’all !!!! i’m moving this queen to a main blog. stay tuned (:

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Marina Moschen as Selena in Deus Salve o Rei (2018)

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Unusual questions for your muse

🛌- Does your muse prefer to sleep under many layers of blankets or only under a few? 🎀- Does your muse like to accessorize? What are their favorite pieces of accessories? 🎐- Does your muse like to collect/hoard anything? 🛋- Does your muse like to have company over? 📱- Is your muse the “oversharing” type? 🐰- Does your muse prefer soft, plush textures or smooth and glossy textures? 💎- Is your muse drawn to things that sparkle? 🔖- Is your muse a daydreamer? What do they tend to think about? Have they ever caught themselves while lost in thought? 📰- Does your muse like to read the news? 📇- Is your muse a gossiper? 🕹- What does your muse do to occupy themselves when bored? 🏚- Does your muse like to explore dangerous places? 🌋- Has your muse done something stupid and not regret it? ⛪️- Does your muse enjoy attending churches they don’t belong to? 🛣- Is your muse considered a wanderer? 🐺- Would your muse consider themselves a lone wolf or a social butterfly? 🤝- Does your muse forgive others easily? 🖖- What “Fandoms” would your muse belong to? 🎖- Does your muse enjoy praise? 🎟- Do they like “so bad it’s good” movies? 🎠- Does your muse like amusement parks/carnivals/festivals? 🏝- Could your muse survive on an uninhabited island all by themselves?

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hot gold on hot skin, arancia rossa di Sicilia, staying in the sun for a little too long, swimming and dancing as the sun sets

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“I know her kind,” Myrtha spits the word out like a sour grape. Power, and the quest for it, are, by design, ravenous forces. Their ability to corrupt is as unstoppable and as dizzying as the black, churning depths of the ocean. No body, no cry, no history can stop the sea foam from filling the lungs of any who dare to dance with the waves. 

She knows the kind well, as well as the power. It is to the victim of those waves that she has suffered, and become a victim herself. 

“Who she is matters naught,” says Myrtha coldly as her eyes rake over the hanged man like a midwinter’s wind. “She surrendered that when she betrayed you, along with any lingering trace of what she was to you and what you were to her.”

For a moment, her body seems to feign corporeality, and the flames lighting the disused passage gleam in her dark eyes. Her anger diverges in two. Part of her desires for massacre. She knows who this man is and what he has done and what he is capable of. Bloodbath is his specialty. 

However, her own violent delights aside, there is vengeance to be exacted. Vendetta. What the woman with the hair of sugary beach sand committed was an act of barbarism, of which there is only one cure --- an even greater ruthlessness. Myrtha knows they must cut her allies down one by one until only she remains, waiting for her own fell with the blade. The bite of silver would never come, leaving her alone, with the weight of her guilt crushing her bones to powder. 

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ind.   ,   highly sel    ,   multi - verse    queen myrtha of the ballet, GISELLE. est 13 sept 18

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Life, in Velen  → requested by: @loga-boga

No gods nor masters watch over Velen. The land is no man’s. He who wants to survive must seek his own protectors.

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“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.” - Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

via @love-diaries

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🎐- Does your muse like to collect/hoard anything?

Headcanon Meme

In life, Myrtha liked to collect seeds from fallen plants and flowers with the intention of planting them. However, she never found she could let any go, so they stayed in a small, wooden chest with rusting brass hinges and a fresco - style painting of Prosperina eating a pomegranate on it.

In death, Myrtha became something of a minimalist. Her epiphany at the futility of life and the meaninglessness of everything in it made an aversion for materialism in her. She saw no point in collecting things as she knew how easily they could be lost. Ironically enough, Myrtha almost embodied the idea of carpe diem, and she existed in the afterlife with that genre of reckless abandon, therefore shunning the concept of collection. 

However, Myrtha does still have a blanket woven and used by her late lover, Iona, that she keeps in her bedchambers. It is rare when she sleeps with it, as, even though Myrtha can control her own physical constitution, she fears marring the lingering traces of her late love. Myrtha only snuggles with it when her mood has truly tanked, or when she finds she is losing her memories of Iona.