all love is sweet,

GIVEN OR RECEIVED.

[artfoli]

Vanitas Still Life, 1630, by Pieter Claesz (c. 1597-1660)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“We were both lost for ever.”

— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1812

[mysharona1987]

Career goals: Repressed Victorian governess who stumbles across a mansion’s dark secret.

[dementedgnomicwizard]

the secret history poses some deep moral questions sure but its also one of the funniest books of all time. remember when they went to join the search party and the security guard was like “hey youre the guy with 10000000 parking tickets you bitch idiot” and francis was like “whakauakauakwa” and henry was like “change of plans we have to leave right now”

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when charles was super stoned at the funeral and he used his hymn book to try to kill a wasp and it made the loudest possible sound in the world

remember when bunnys mom came downstairs and richard and camilla had to keep her facing their direction so she wouldnt turn around and see literally like everyone else smoking weed right behind her

remember when francis and charles ran off at the funeral and richard was like Wow im glad theyre getting along now :)

remember when richard got day drunk on champagne and went over to henrys house and henry was pruning his rosebushes and richard was like FUCK you and henry was like haha i am SO cool and sexy now that i did that murder

remember when richard almost got hypothermia but he like didnt tell anyone because he was embarrassed about being cold

remember when francis literally straight up asked richard if he wanted to fuck in latin IN CLASS and richard was like Haha i dont speak latin :)

remember when richard found charles passed out drunk inside a plastic snail

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when richard got shot but everyone was yelling at each other so he was too nervous to say anything and he just sat down and waited for them to finish

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when francis showed up the murder in, like, a bespoke suit or whatever and then camilla was like “fuck man when you’re gonna murder someone you don’t really think about what you’re gonna serve them for dinner” and francis was like “asparagus is in season”

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when richard was like “when they landed on the moon—“ and henry was like

when they what

[dementedgnomicwizard]

[bloodsisters-deactivated2023013]

remember when henry and richard let themselves into francis’ dorm and when they went over to raid his stupid twink refrigerator it was totally empty except for a case of very expensive french mineral water and some scotch

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when richard and judy did coke in, like, a burger king parking lot

remember how judy literally grew up to be a zumba instructor

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when richard was like “i bet bunny has a book of law-themed jokes” and then he literally did

remember when bunny sent richard a box of melted junior mints in the mail as an apology

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when francis’s mom invited charles to have a threesome

remember how francis cant not answer the phone but if he doesnt want to talk to whoever it is he tries to disguise his voice by making it deeper except it literally never works

remember when they all went to bunny’s house for the funeral and richard and henry were like “man this garden is fuck-ugly”

remember when richard spent like a full two paragraphs describing some children calling each other buttholes

remember when mr. corcoran was like WELL ALL THE KIDS COME TO ME FOR ADVICE TAKE THIS ONE FOR EXAMPLE and launches into a story about how henry wanted to buy a plane??? just, like, a plane????

remember when during the plane conversation a little kid slammed full-force into henry’s nuts

[dementedgnomicwizard]

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when bunny was like “im hungry” and looked in the communal fridge and there was a cheesecake with a note that said “please don’t eat this i am on financial aid” and he took it anyway and then he was like “this cheesecake is fucking terrible” and threw it away

[causedandcreated]

remember when the pretentious idiots drank champagne out of a teapot so they wouldn’t upset their neighbors? or what about the time that Richard and Francis were about to do it, but Richard remembered he was “straight” but Francis was like “it’ll be fun ;))” so Richard agreed. 

[bebemoon]

“Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element: but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.”

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet  (via mirroir)

[onceuponawildflower]

“Let yourself be softened.”

— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1819 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[honeychvrch]

twilight is… lord byron’s fault

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Lisel Mueller, from Alive Together: New and Selected Poems; “Imaginary Paintings,” (x)

[loumargi]

Bathing Beauty (detail) Arthur Dampier May

[arsantiquis]

Sir Joshua Reynolds - The Ladies Waldegrave

[wryan]

The closing lines of The Great Gatsby, perhaps the most enigmatic in American literature, handwritten by F. Scott Fitzgerald himself.

[minyoongothic]

Not to sound Romantic or anything, but I too have a striking fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque.

[literarysource]

They looked very much alike, with heavy dark-blond hair and epicene faces as clear, as cheerful and grave, as a couple of flemish angels.

[lararosemary]

David by Michelangelo Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy

[etherealfaeri]

i’m such a slut for classic literature… an edgar allan hoe if you will

[malglories]

me, writing, throwing commas around like i’ve just won the lottery and i’m exulting in my winnings, needlessly, passionately, with no thought to the consequences,

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

YEP

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

This just came around on my dash again

[the-full-shakespearience]

I’m in rehearsals for Macbeth right now and this line is always hilariously underwhelming.