Remember You Will Die

Bec. XXVI. She/her. Lover of history, literature, and dark academia. Main @kitsnicket. The world is quiet here. 18+

[wintermelancholia]

The Nutcracker

The National Ballet of Canada

[melanchol1e-deactivated20250809]

[nenan]

SAMAN BAKAYOKO photographed by Juliet Lloyd for Lloyd Magazine

[enchantedbook]

'The Sleeping Beauty ' by Konrad Dielitz, 1879

[flowerytale]

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

[mashamorevna]

15th century Italian manuscript detail of Gothic initial and lower border. (x)

[bizarreauhavre]

Devil and snake occult ceremony ritual dagger. (19th century)

[rosechata]

fran mart

[theinternetarchive]

'minuet,' frank eugene, 1900.

[rossodimarte]

Jacob wrestling with the Angel, byzantine bronze door, Monte Sant'Angelo, ca. 1070

[megamoth]

“Leo,” linoleum block print. Dragon with Sacred Datura

[overdose-art]

Details from Garofalo’s Annunciation (1481)

[hildegards-abbey]

Dragon in the shape of an “S”

From “The Sherborne Missal” (Add MS 74236) c.1399-1407

[spirit-of-art]

John William Waterhouse, Ophelia, 1894

[hspdigitallibrary]

Henry Armitt Brown’s Flower Album and Flower Journal, now with higher quality images.

[mediumaevum]

A collection of Black Books of Hours

Black Hours, ca. 1475 (Morgan Library, New York)

Horae beatae marie secundum usum curie romane, ca. 1458 (Hispanic Society of America)

Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, ca. 1466-1476 (Austrian National Library)

[cuties-in-codices]

the morgan’s black hours is fully digitized btw :) have a look at it!

NYC, The Morgan Library, MS M.493

[holespoles]

Rabbits between the staves. Cambrai BM 125-128, c. 1540-50.