Quintessence of Dust

“Perhaps the horror of my own life was that, no matter what I did or where I went, I always understood.” ➽──────────────❥ 26 ~ She/her Icon ~ Header

[rosegardenwraith]

Contemplating a URL change… hmmmm…

[rosegardenwraith]

beneath-the-willow-tree -> @rosegardenwraith

[ephemeralfantasiaa]

𓂃towaki sea as george sand and yuzuka rei as franz liszt in years of pilgrimage: the wandering soul of liszt ferenc (flower troupe, 2022)

[kaelio]

Anne Rice

[homoidiotic]

Portraits by Lebanese photographer Hashem el Madani (1950s-70s)

[rosegardenwraith]

I hate coding, I’m sorry Darlene Alderson…

[nigelgraz]

(OC) It's getting bad again

[dykestat]

Devils minion should not be the most popular ship on AO3 because in a better world the DM chapter has a niche cult following among erotic horror sickos who are always breathlessly telling people "believe it or not in the books Armand hunts Daniel for sport and keeps him as a collared sub and becomes a pirate" and everyone would be like huh I guess the books are weird and instead the curse of being a mainstream ship has ravaged them to the point where the other day I had to read a post about how devils minion is the most healthy relationship in IWTV because Armand is finally being treated well and there's no power dynamic

[funeralspirit]

you have to have a bit of a soft spot for worn & splintered things if you like armand. like the chipped porcelain teacups you can find in antique stores

[worldscoolest]

shibari figurines by constant heaven

[chewupmyheart]

[stlamb]

vivienne westwood heart gloves

[raisinchallah]

i hope one day a tv show actually does the secretly good episode thing. just to have a complete outlier/edge-case. kinda like those gay youtubers who were in fact actually dating in secret for a decade.

right like how on earth did such theories even get started when like its literally never happened it would be very funny if it did i mean its i guess at least theoretically possible with the lack of tv time slots and so much stuff just dropping on streaming services or whatever but also leaks are so common idk how one could keep such a thing under wraps effectively or why you would do it but it would be funny as hell if someone ever did it but it would make the fandom landscape nightmarishly irradiated and hostile ever afterwards since if it was ever done once everyone would assume their show would be the next to be done and it would be fucking unbearable

[granularbrain]

HALF MAN – Ep. 6

[9e978e]

via

[rosegardenwraith]

I really wish my ghost fixation was justified by an erotic paranormal encounter I had experienced in my youth or something like that, but I am pretty sure the real reason for it is that reading The Mediator series at 11yo permanently altered my brain chemistry.

[feignedremote]

Most of Vernon Lee’s friendships were female and, on her part, rather obsessive, although they were, it seems, based entirely on a communion of intellects, which means that hers overwhelmed the intellects of those friends. When she found out that one of them was getting married to a man whom she had met only three times, she suffered a nervous collapse which was only the first in a series of such attacks that would last until her death. Another friend said that when she saw her for the first time, she felt like the Virgin before the Angel of the Annunciation. Vernon Lee must have been entirely asexual: she certainly never married and there was no mention of any love affair, and she was quite clear on the subject: “Loving people in the way of being willing to do anything for them is intolerable to me. I cannot like, or love, at the expense of having my skin rubbed off. I can do without people. I find it more comfortable to do without them.”

Javier Marías, Written Lives, trans. Margaret Jull Costa

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