A pistol kisses a bible in the nightstand drawer—

Southern femme poet, educator, taper candle enthusiast 🕯️ 20s. they/she 🌹 "Love abjures in order to adore. It burns in your breast and the world is burned" —Cixous 💌 Find me up a magnolia tree reading Stone Butch Blues, or writing poems on cocktail napkins in pearls in some speakeasy backroom

[mademoisellemort]

Heart-shaped bear lumbar vertebrae at the Hunterian Museum, London

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Royal funeral rites from medieval manuscripts

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

An illuminated page from the 16th-century manuscript "Hours of Jean Lallemant the Younger"

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Wedding rings from the Byzantine era

[angeleternity]

The Anatomy of Melancholy (2017) by Laura Makabresku

[hypotenussy]

the number 1 rule of fanfic is have fun and be yourself. the number 2 rule is the average healthy adult male can lose roughly 2 liters of blood before dying.

[thecharmingquirksofothers]

incredible prev tags

[codes-and-stuffs]

i do think we should normalise being like. platonically enamoured with someone. perhaps i love and admire you dearly and there's nothing romantic about it

[weepingwidar]

Courtney Brims (Australian, d.o.b. unknown) - Scylla (2026)

[jame7t]

im like if there was a wretched little thing

[1five1two]

'The Light is Coming'. Michael Malm.

[sorrowsofasoul]

[medievalfeed]

Saint Hildegard with her nuns, illumination from the “Omne Bonum” encyclopedia by James le Palmer, 14th century

[gothredy]

[skullxcrusher-deactivated201501]

nostalgia is a liar. nothing was ever as good as you remember it to be. there’s a reason you don’t talk to that person anymore, there’s a reason you’re not part of each other’s lives. don’t trust nostalgia. grieve. reflect. move on.

[horrorcitos]

Lucas Deshazer

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[naldibutnice]

Mae Murray by Marjorie Mouat, 1917