this empire of ash

"‘Need,’ from the High German, for danger; ‘Murmur,’ from the Sanskrit, a crackling fire." a Rurik-Romanov sideblog

[lamignonette]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

–Yehuda Amichai

[thedudeleftthebuilding-deactiva]

[antigonick]

“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”

— Angela Carter, The Erl-King

[meyong]

Armor Gloves Gauntlets by Fangophilia

(via tokyofashion.com)

[irascibiliss]

[augustineqa]

[surrealism-love]

Memory, 1948, Rene Magritte

Medium: oil, canvas

[thefactoryoffashion]

Caroline Trentini by Giampaolo Sgura for Vogue Japan October 2015

[wingedanklets]

[my-russia]

Settlement in the Oryol Governorate, 1867, Mikhail Klodt

[louisvuitttonn]

Guo Pei Spring ‘17 Couture

[cloth-fabric]

Jean Paul Gaultier -Spring Couture 2001

[anachronisticfairytales]

Sleeping Beauty

[vysjewelry]

Bavarian enameled charivari  with heart, hand, grapes, cat, and star motifs, c. 1890s (at 1stdibs)

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

“Nastassja Korolevichna” and “Maria Swan White” by Sergey Solomko

[madame-amour]

“Malá morská víla“ / “The Little Mermaid” (1976)