ithilienmaiden

bibliophile.musician.writer Current interests: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, books, music, costume dramas

[pmamtraveller]

"Beneath The Golden Willow"

Ed Perkins.

[foxes-in-love]

[senatortedcruz]

Listening to songs and thinking about something the songs aren’t about

[chibird]

It's easy to listen to certain emotions that might be louder. But it's good to be mindful and reflect on which emotions we actually want to drive our lives and decisions. Let's give those emotions a voice! 💖

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[zhivchik]

the decagon house murders | episode 1

[so-many-ocs]

immediately after an interaction: i have GOT to get more normal oh god i need to get more normal immediately i have to get more normal or they're going to hunt me down they're going to hunt me down and flay me for sport

during an interaction: and why not put a little spin on it? why not add some conversational zest?

[skellydun]

hey good luck today with whatever u got going on. u got this. and i hope something really nice happens to u today. u deserve it. 

[important-animal-images]

[chumbology]

Uketsu: Okay what if someone made houses with floorplans so bad they were creepy and drove people insane

Me: Like that's even -- oh my god. That house is so fucked up. Oh no no no no no no no. No. I feel sick. Take it away from me

[verbalmoonwalking]

A non-comprehensive list of media that makes me go "your house really shouldn't be doing that, man":

House of leaves

Piranesi

Blue Prince

[othellho]

julian de narvaez piranesi illustration i will think about you every day for the rest of my life

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[liivn]

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. - by Above96th

[nzbookwyrm]

A new illustrated short story by Susanna Clarke will be published on 20 October 2026!

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting illustrated short story full of medieval magic

1110 A.D. The fairy host sweeps across the North of England and the city of Durham is under siege. Wearily the Bishop of Durham, Ranulf Flambard, prepares to surrender – something which proves far more difficult than he could have imagined.

His quest will lead him through a landscape of unco-operative rivers and enchanted forests to a New Castle on the banks of the River Tyne – where, with any luck, he will be received by a court of deceptive, would-be fairy queens, shape-shifting stags and a beautiful teenage Raven King.

A long-lost chapter in the lore of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City is an enchanting and enchanted adventure into the magic of medieval England.

[thekimonogallery]

For many years, until Ichiku Kubota revealed the secrets of creating a kimono (and this happened when the artist was 63 years old), the family lived on the money earned from the sale of his wife’s jewelry.

 When the young 20-year-old artist Ichiku Kubota crossed the threshold of the Tokyo National Museum in 1937, he did not suspect that he was waiting for impressions that would change his whole life. In the halls of the museum, Ichiku first met Tsujigahana (literally, “Flowers at the Crossroads”) - Japanese 16th-century kimono manufacturing techniques that lasted only a hundred years. Kubota was so fascinated by what he saw that he decided to devote his life to the revival of ancient art. In the process of improving Tsudzigahan’s technique, Ichiku Kubota gradually transformed it into his own method, which he later called Ichiku Tsujigahana. Some kimonos created by the master were intended to be worn by connoisseurs and connoisseurs of his art, while others were used in stage productions of the No and Kabuki theater. The remaining works of Ichiku Kubota left in his collection, as they represented the key stages in the evolution of his art.

[text and images from article by Olgado of Russia]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we gotta get back into revolving bookcases i'm begging

truly we allow the pinnacles of human achievement to wither and collapse into ashes in the wind

[seaphine]

As you get older, you start to understand that peace of mind is the most valuable thing you can have.