EXCELSIOR

— probably daydreaming —

[asystolle]

PRIDE & PREJUDICE + earth tones

[terrorignitis]

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

[random-brushstrokes]

Olga Wisinger-Florian - Im Schilf (1902)

[winslowat3am]

Fidèle, the most photographed window dog in Belgium 🐾

[louisegluck]

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

[dailybridgerton]

BRIDGERTON S04E08 "Dance in the Country"

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson in a letter to Elizabeth Holland, wr. c. 20 January 1856

[laurens-german]

"Here it’s always winter, never Christmas. It’s been a long winter."

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE — 2005, dir. Andrew Adamson

[dailyclassicart]

Anshelm Schultzberg - "Midwinter evening by a forest road, Dalarne" (1913)

[mischief-managed]

HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE 2001 | dir. Chris Columbus

[random-brushstrokes]

John Bauer - Sleigh ride to Christmas Eve - Cover image for the magazine "Julstämning" (1908)

[petaltexturedskies]

Christmas is a kind of realization of the dream of love of family and friends which sustains us with more power than we know, through travels and wanderings. Each gift is not so much important in itself as because it brings with it the time, thought, and love of the giver.

Sylvia Plath, in a letter to her mother Aurelia, dated 10 December 1955, from Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

[thepunkpanther]

LITTLE WOMEN (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong

[cant-wait-for-christmas]

[petaltexturedskies]

L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

[ormundshightower]

Elizabeth and The Creature — Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[ohmovie]

Stay with me. Share my food and fire. I would be delighted to share what little I have with you and would be greatly helped by your companionship. And you… you could read to me. Make this your home and I your friend. Friend. Friend.

The Creature & The Blind Man FRANKENSTEIN│2025