half-goddess

somewhere between zenith and nadir

[oculuo]

[ancientcharm]

Colourful paint pigments preserved in their original pots.

Antiquarium of Pompeii 

[dame-de-pique]

Charles Corbet - Still life with carnations and poppies, c.1910

[dame-de-pique]

Ernst Meyer - In the Swiss Jura, 1904

[heavensghost]

Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

[aestheteasteria]

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written c. January 1921 in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920-1923

[dozydawn]

[femalepope]

Lamb of God mosaic in presbytery of Basilica of San Vitale (built A.D. 547) Ravenna, Italy.

[incilerden]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from “Dreams of Clytemnestra,” wr. c. 1994

[dawnsfragrance]

[mermaidenmystic]

colored pencil and acrylic paint ~ Melissa of anthemsweet

[xshayarsha]

From the 1891 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“HADES : Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because they taste like blood, like love.”

— Pauline Albanese, The Closed Doors

[metamorphesque]

— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things: A Novel

[flowerytale]

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to John Allan (November 1829)