ignus aurum probat

saula. she/her. 19. slytherin. lover of all things beautiful & tragic.

[stlowens]

Anna Akhmatova, tr. by D. M. Thomas, from “The Road is Black.”

[assyrianjalebi]

Rekha in Umrao Jaan (1981)

[dramagifs]

The Prisoner of Beauty | 2025

[natalieironside]

My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.

And I said "Damn, this is exactly like in the Iliad"

[rebels-cairn]

#explanation: this references the scene where Hektor the prince of troy goes to his wife after a battle and leans in to kiss his son #(who is still a baby and being held in andromache's arms) #but his son cringes away in fear of his father's battle helmet #it's a gut wrenching scene about how war dehumanizes you and separates you from the people you love #this interpretation implies that being a gamer is analogous

[weltenwellen]

Hala Alyan, Salt Houses

[opuseye]

Greatness comes from character.

And character is not formed in hothouse conditions. Character is when you were meant to be destroyed but you live, you live and live

[eugaenia]

Illustrations of the Julius Zeyer’s Román o věrném přátelství Amise a Amila (1880) by Artuš Scheiner, part 2.

[odairannies]

Fight every battle everywhere, always, in your mind. Everyone is your enemy, everyone is your friend. Every possible series of events is happening all at once. Live that way and nothing will surprise you. Everything that happens will be something that you’ve seen before. Game of Thrones (2011 — 2019)

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.G. Holland (1858)

[periodedits]

August 11th, 2022 marks the 15th Anniversary of the Film | STARDUST (2007) dir. M. Vaugn

FUN FACT | The Director wanted to make a Stardust sequel. His vision: The opening scene was Charlie Cox’s character, being the king and throwing out the necklace. This time the necklace goes over the wall and bounces off Big Ben, and you’re suddenly in London in the early 1960s, with these mad kings and princes and princesses running around London. All on the quest for the stone. That was my idea for the sequel, but sadly the film didn’t make enough money for anyone to want to make it. That was a shame.

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[dallaswinstons]

@booksociety’s with love, hoarders event: the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky 

“you will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again. and i will wait for you”

[loverpdf-deactivated20220820]

girls will see the moon everyday and be like MOON!!!?!!!?!!?!!?

[henryfcx]

It is clear to any member of the Ton that the Viscount and Viscountess are rather smitten indeed.

[odairannies]

disney ladies ♥ alice, alice in wonderland “i can’t go back to yesterday because i was a different person then.”

[purplebass]

2022 books: persuasion by jane austen Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

[winterherny]

grishaverse characters: alina starkov, the sun summoner

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.