renaissance

somewhere

[themoonsaid]

And all that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune

But the sun is eclipsed by the moon,

There is no dark side in the moon really

Matter of fact it's all dark.

— Eclipse, Pink Floyd

[vintagemarlene]

the sorrows of satan, 1926 (via tsutpen.blogspot.com)

[mygothicheroine-deactivated2023]

the sheer level of galaxy brain jane austen was on when she wrote “if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more”

[mjalti]

nothing is real and then all of a sudden everything is very real with no warning

[ohdionysos]

what are some movies you’d recommend?

oh hard question, i’ll try to make a..top 5 ? but not in order. 1. fallen angels (1995) 2. chungking express (1994) 3. the favourite (2018) 4. the handmaiden (2016) 5. anna karenina (2012) bonus : lady bird (2017), in the mood for love (2000), elisa y marcela (2019).

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Jules Laforgue, tr. by Kate Flores, from Poems & Writings; “Tears Flow In My Heart,”

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Still Life with Azaleas and Apple Blossoms 1878. Charles Caryl Coleman

[valtsv]

*sexily runs through the big gothic castle*

[whatagrump]

tumblr users: alright let me tell you a little something about history

tumblr users: *uncritically repeats absolutely absurd 500-year-old propaganda that has never been verified and is widely understood by historians to be either an exaggeration or a total fabrication*

other tumblr users: why didn’t they teach this in my school???

[eastcoastdruid]

my severe aversion to math is seen as a weakness today but it definitely would have kept me safe from being burned at the stake in the 1600s so you tell me what's more valuable: survival or pEmDaS

[luxwing]

I think it is brave and also very sexy of me to continue living

[deadpoetwilde]

- dorian gray long after his portrait has decayed

[fruitsaladchewits-deactivated20]

i enjoy mornings that you wake up to silence and no one is asking anything of you, you’re under no pressure to exist and its just wonderful

[dahliaborne]

haunted by my own heart

[dreamy-slytherin]

If only Claude Monet knew he'd be trending on tumblr in 2019. If only

[notesfromtheundergroundman]

“Maybe man does not love well-being only? Maybe he loves suffering just as much? Maybe suffering is just as profitable for him as well-being?”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via notesfromtheundergroundman)

[thelegendofclarke]

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”

— Stephen William Hawking, in memoriam (January 1942 – March 2018)

[derangedrhythms]

William Shakespeare, from ‘Macbeth’