~Secret Splendour~

Mediocre Aesthete. Lavender Menace. ~on indefinite hiatus~ The gorgeous background is by Cryptovolans~

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July 2017 TCA Press - Sagiri Seina Special

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*ﾟ:+.｡☆ 9月18日ちぎさんお誕生日おめでとうございます ☆｡.+:ﾟ*                        09.18 Happy Birthday, Chigi❣❣

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Sucretia 🍡🍬🍭 (As in, Lucretia made of sugar 😅) Her hair is candyfloss, as is the floofy decoration on her skirt; the bows at the bottom are candy necklaces; her overskirt is icing and twisty marshmallows~ And she has a pet sugar mouse named Marilyn 🐁

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I’ve end copper brooch inspired by Crowley’s tattoo 🐍

What do you think about it?

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Three Of Her 😱😭❤️

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Snake headbands as seen on Valentino 2016 couture

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My latest video, using Ryuk and Rem’s duet from Death Note and footage from Elisabeth (2007) and Lucifer’s Tears (2006)

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art by animvs ( my edits )

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Crowley Soundboard™

Bonus:

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde (via quote-junkies)

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Jesus

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This is so satisfying to watch

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A rare dagger for esoteric rituals, dating: mid-19th Century, provenance: France

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Dragons! For the printable September Calendar

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I pride myself on always having words to describe something and yet they have failed me, I feel at an utter loss to describe the glory of this gown.

The romantic in me notes the symbolism of the butterfly. The metamorphosis from a child to a married woman. This gown reverberates with life and brings tears to my eyes.

I worry that sometimes I am to sensitive. I find that in my line of work I often have to think of the costume as it’s own entity, wondering about the life of the person who these items once adorned lead to so many questions. Many times I have wished that I had not pursued those thoughts to find out more on their life. I have been moved to tears of sorrow and anger at the unfairness of the treatment of women who came before me. I have discovered that they were prisoners in their beautiful silks, ensnared in brightly woven textiles, pinned alive and struggling for all to admire until at last they accepted their crepe veils and widows weeds before leaving this plane a broken being.

Yet I find myself hoping with every fibre of my being that whoever this woman was she had a beautiful and happy life. That the butterfly that graced the bodice on her wedding gown symbolized more than decoration, that it was true freedom from the cocoon. I’ll never know for sure but I will hope.

Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum

c. 1890

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tricertops do a conversations!

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koike shuuichiro keeps directing the same musical