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[oys7er]

faye wong for 'decadent sounds of faye’ photoset (1995)

[shisasan]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1934)

[prttyprincess]

Geoffrey Beene, 1980s. Texas Fashion Collection.

[prttyprincess]

"I closed my eyes & lay still, and envisioned everyone I've ever met laughing in a brightly lit house, grazing each other's cheeks with their hands, while I watched from far away in the cold, slowly evaporating into air."

Nicolette Polek, Bitter Water Opera, p. 45

[tangledwing]

Rhododendrons and rain

[prettycolors]

[realhistoricalpatterns]

Young girl’s gymnasium suit with fencing waist, Harper’s Bazaar- 1905

[prttyprincess]

"A most present thing occurred, like a flare, all flame, from all sides. A presence shook me; it was strong and wild, shattering enough to place at the front of something.

There on the flat expanse, surrounded by brutal rising mountains, I was awash in what felt like a mix of terror & grace. I became small & unnoticeable, but it was a smallness where something wonderful surged around me. The smaller I became, the more I could see it. Like a fractaling reveal, tying my days together with a single thread. I crinkled down onto the sand.

I felt the squint that happens when one is staring directly into the sun, but it was my entire body squinting at love.

After a long moment, I walked, soundlessly, across the flat ground back to my car. I drove slow through the mountains with the windows open.

I was surrounded by emptiness, and didn't wish to fill it.

I ambled back into the lobby, flush-faced. The shock turned to ecstatic giddiness. Who could I tell this to? I thought. God's touch! Everything else in comparison was gray-washed. The mycelium of heaven, beneath everything making small plush things grow from din."

Nicolette Polek, Bitter Water Opera, p. 101

[achillesinhighheels]

[worldsandemanations]

Neon Blue Dumortierite Inclusions in Clear Quartz Crystal – Brazil Photo : Jennie J. Koch

[sofiaswaves]

Solange for AnOther Magazine, photographed by Gabriel Moses, hair by Jawara, makeup by Miguel Ramos, nails by Sunshine O, set design by Nicholas des Jardins and styling by Nell Kalonji, 2026

[prettycolors]

[farmwitch]

celine 1992

[prettycolors]

[afinedaytomorrow]

Ruth by Mark Borthwick, 2002

[prettycolors]

[banksalec]