australian gothic

21 // she/her // melancholic reminiscing on the bones of brisbane

[deathandmysticism]

Midsummer Eve, a fairy tale of loving and being loved, 1870

[nemfrog]

A living person's skull, negative and positive x-rays. Radiography and radio-therapeutics. 1917.

Internet Archive

[enchantedbook]

“Her Majesty Led This Strange Orchestra” by Rosina Emmet Sherwood. Originally published in 1888 as an illustration for the children’s magazine Harper’s Young People.

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino featured in Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

[firstfullmoon]

Todd Dillard, “How to Live”

[estateofinsanity]

La papesse / A Woman Possessed (Mario Mercier, 1975)

[shisasan]

“Hands”, He Lihuai

[batstolovers]

𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠 𝔄𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠 (x)

[nemfrog]

Injected arteries of the thorax.  Medical electricity and Röntgen rays. 1910. 

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,

[unhelpfultarot]

Ten of Cups and Justice

It worked out beautifully for you, and set a useful precedent for future occasions.

[corrodedparadox]

Baby needs smoko

[salopeplastique]

Locks of Virginia and Edgar Allan Poe’s hair

[alicedeadacc]

plying out the teeth from the lil dead baby seal i found a few weeks back

[amoklaeufer]

[sendrecv]

[amycvdh]

NEW UFO CATCHER (Pieta)

[ano-uno]