Goat's Rue

book hoarder, bone collector, farmer, herbwife, witch

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Bronzino, Laura Battiferri (detail)

1550-55

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Howls room is serious goblincore/mothcore aesthetic

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“in front of my mother and my sisters, i pretend love is cheap and vulgar. i act like it’s a sin– i pretend that love is for women on a dark path. but at night i dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb– i dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”

— Salma Deera, “salt”  (via virgoassbitch)

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Elaine ~ Toby Edward Rosenthal, 1917

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Lover’s Eyes (ca. 1840), brooch with miniature portrait (watercolor on ivory) and a lock of hair.

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“I have phases, like the moon. Phases to hide myself,”

— Cecília Meireles, tr. by Natalie d’Arbeloff, from Poems; “Contrary Moon,”

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Fendi | Fall/Winter 2019 Couture

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Claude Cahun.  La Chambre du Chat, 1940.

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Elaine (detail, 1870) Sophie Anderson 

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“Madness of a restless night, alone with a few books; moments reappearing from another life; memories, prophecies,”

— Valery Larbaud, tr. by William Jay Smith, from “Alma Perdida,” (edited)

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Marion Ash, an employee at the Wall Court Floral Library in Corfe Castle, Dorset, at work in the drying room, 1 October 1963, John Drysdale/Keystone Features/Getty Images ..

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pov: you’re a small woodland creature sitting on a moss-covered rock, listening to the stream without a worry in the world

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Maternal Solicitude, 1873. Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait. Oil on wood

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Frederick Leighton, Light of the Harem (details)

c.1880

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