SOS

The finest "refined goth" aesthetics interspersed with video game nonsense.

[nemfrog]

The moth and the flame. Divine emblems. 1867.

Internet Archive

[discovampyr]

feeling watched?

[undinesea]

A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.

Susan Sontag, The Art of Fiction No. 143, from The Paris Review, issue no. 137

[ejemehi-deactivated20260228]

runway makeup at jean paul gaultier spring 2009

[ddestroyangels]

Saint Jerome in Penitence by Carlo Dolci, 1655

[castanhadecajuu]

I cannot even begin to unpack the genius songwriting of “oh but she loves, like sleep to the freezing, sweet and right and merciful” it gets me every time

[7pleiades7]

Statue de Mercure (Statue of Mercury)(1794-1795) by Charles Meynier (French, 1768 – 1832), oil on canvas, 300 cm (118.1 in) x 153 cm (60.2 in), Musée de la Révolution française, Vizille

[shisasan]

“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[gacougnol]

Clarence John Laughlin (American, 1905–1985)

Memento of the Mae West Period, 1940

[ducissatenebrarum]

Insomni custodita dracone — “Guarded by an ever-wakeful dragon.”

[daughterofchaos]

Domenico Fetti, Sleeping Girl, detail, ca 1620-1622

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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[catch57]

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

(via @prisonhannibal )

[lineandstanza]

[paddington-two]

find your age on your spotify top 100 and tell me what song is there. mine is bedroom hymns by florence + the machine

[aura-eden]

John William Waterhouse, Miranda and the Tempest - 1916

[typhlonectes]