~ from the Edge of the deep green Sea ~

[fuckyouverymuch]

[ichigoumi]

[chloe-seviche]

nicolebusch TT. June 2018.

[newendy]

[vulnerable-nymph]

[detournementsmineurs]

Hannah Kern by Greta Ilieva for Under The Influence magazine #8.

[genterie]

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[genterie]

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina (2012)

[genterie]

@li_bash

[genterie]

Taylor LaShae

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She is the cause of the rain. She could not stop weeping and the sky obliged to follow.

Patti Smith, from Written By a Lake (via wishbzne)

[bienenkiste]

“Unfolded Love”. Aweng Chuol & Nyaluak Leth photographed by Barbara Ayozie Fu Safira for Vogue.it

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

Violets resist the perfumer’s art and always have. It is possible to make a high-quality perfume from violets, but it’s exceedingly difficult and expensive. Only the wealthiest people could afford it; but there have always been empresses, dandies, trend setters, and extravagants enough to keep perfumers busy. The thing about violets, which many people find cloying to the point of nausea, is that no response to them lasts long; as Shakespeare put it, they’re:

Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute.

Violets contain ionone, which short-circuits our sense of smell. The flower continues to exude its fragrance, but we lose the ability to smell it. Wait a minute or two, and its smell will blare again. Then it will fade again, and so on. (…) No scent is more flirtatious. Appearing, disappearing, appearing, disappearing, it plays hide-and-seek with our senses, and there’s no way to get too much of it.

— Diane Ackerman, ‘Smell: Of Violets and Neurons’ A Natural History of the Senses

[tutu-fangirl]

Alina Somova as Odile in Swan Lake

© David Makhateli.

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Hyde Park London , 1956

Photo by Bert Hardy ©

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NICOLA DEL ROSICO‘ s Apartment and Studio, Gaeta, Italy, 1979