R is for Raven

[mournfulroses]

Paul Verlaine, from a poem titled "Lover's Chat", featured in 100 and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

[heavenlyyshecomes]

there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.

—Caitlyn Richardson, 'can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?', in milk fed

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[loveagemoondream]

[ducissatenebrarum]

Salvator Rosa, Testa di Fauno, 1655 ca, Galleria di Capodimonte, Napoli

[shisasan]

While I write I am the dreamer,  June 23, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[yvain]

La Fée Mélusine et le Chevalier Raymondin (1894) by Jean Dampt

Source / Photos by Yann Girault

[majestativa]

When it speaks, the moon falls blood-red from heaven.

ÉLIPHAS LÉVI — cited in A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult [Ed. Gary Lashman], (2004)

[oldhollywood]

[mothtoalight]

The Holy Mountain’s (1926, dir. Arnold Fanck) “Cathedral of Ice” (via)

The 50 ft. tall cathedral was constructed from ice painstakingly shaped for months on an armature of metal pipes.  +

[funeral]

Donald Kalsched, The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit

[gothredy]

[loveagemoondream]

[cineemaa]

candelabra & women + cinema

the innocents (1961) blood rose (1970) crimson peak (2015) and now the screaming starts (1973) shiver of the vampires (1971) tragic cermony (1972) the haunting of morella (1990) la belle et la bete (1946) don't deliver us from evil (1971) coutn dracula's great love (1973) night of the dark shadows (1971) frakenstein (2025) the phantom of the opera (1990) the little princess (1995) the strange woman (1946) the witch (2024)

[coldalbion]

“He who is inhabited by Eros-Dionysos is a daemon while he yet remains a man. He sees through the shadow-body of things into the flaming night pf the images. He himself is destiny; he himself is Gorgonic dread. The streams of earth, the storms of heaven, and the starry vaults above are within him, and his power reaches beyond the orbit of Saturn”

— - Ludwig Klages, Rhythmen und  Runen (via coldalbion)

Because I feel like I should reblog this again.

[pierppasolini]

Les deux orphelines vampires (1997) // dir. Jean Rollin

[petaltexturedskies]

Maria Polydouri, Modesty

[ducissatenebrarum]

Intaglio with Abraxas, 3rd–4th century, Blood jasper and gold. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France