wind of march

my nails are broken, my fingers are bleeding, my arms are covered with the welts left by the paws of your guards - but I am a queen. | daniela, italy

[sadnessdollart]

Portrait of a woman said to be Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Detail.

[girlfictions]

Mary Oliver, from Upstream: Selected Essays

[beardbriarandrose]

Edward Burne-Jones, Love Among The Ruins (detail), Watercolor Version, c.1872

[marcuscrassus]

Girl with a Pearl Earring (detail) - Johannes Vermeer (c. 1665)

[nymphastral]

Lady Anne Pope (1615) and Portrait of a Woman (ca.1615), both by Robert Peake the Elder

[oldpaintings]

Guinevere, c.1910 by William de Leftwich Dodge (American, 1867–1935)

[mysterium-solis]

St. Jerome and St. Catherine of Alexandria (detail) by Anonymous (c. 1480-1490)

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

[luthienne]

Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

[ID: There are things that can only be understood retrospectively, when many years have passed and the story has ended. In the meantime, while the story continues, the only thing to do is tell it over and over again as it develops, bifurcates, knots around itself. And it must be told, because before anything can be understood, it has to be narrated many times, in many different words and from many different angles, by many different minds.]

[luthienne]

Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

[girlfictions]

Emily Wilson, in conversation on her translation of The Iliad with Madeline Miller (x)

[heateron]

adrien brody in the brutalist (2024) dir. brady corbet

[weltenwellen]

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “Sand & Silt", Water I Won’t Touch

[pierppasolini]

Suspiria (2018) // dir. Luca Guadagnino

[armchairarchivist]

Valentin de Boulogne, Judith with the Head of Holofernes

[soft-lovely]

[thestandrewknot]

Valentino Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2018-2019.

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)