this house of death

sarah • 18+ • directory

[red-lamb]

[oiseauperdu-deactivated20210420]

“I fell asleep in the deep velvet of this wood; I dreamt divine things.”

— Delmira Agustini, from Morning Songs: Poems; “The Wings,” c. 1910

[nocturnesofbondage-blog]

Ropes and roses.

[cloudswamp]

a lover’s discourse, roland barthes

[twothousandeight]

1. Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller

2. George Bataille, Erotism: Death And Sensuality, trans. Mary Dalwood

[leatherhaikuplasticvenus]

joan of arc filet lace pattern, 1913

[cypresswarrior]

Noelia Towers, “up to nowhere”, 2025, oil on canvas, 38 x 30 in (96.5 x 76.2 cm)

[susietwobruise]

a beam of light in the monastery chapel

[pmamtraveller]

Édouard Manet - The Suicide (around 1877)

[luthienne]

Childhood does not end in one fell swoop, as we wished it would when we were children. It lingers, crouching silently in our adult, then wizened bodies, until one day, many years later, when we think that the heavy burden of bitterness and despair we've been shouldering has turned us irredeemably into adults, it reappears with the force and speed of a lightning bolt, wounding us with its freshness, its innocence, its unerring dose of naivety, but most all with the certainty that this really and truly is the last glimpse we shall have of it.

Guadalupe Nettel, from The Accidentals (tr. Rosalind Harvey)

[alysscoven]

THE SOPRANOS (2.12) — The Knight in the White Satin Armor.

[sophiethatchersource]

Sophie Thatcher photographed by Jason Renaud for Plico Magazine (2026)

[halzune]

Should've seen it in the way you hate your sister You love a strong woman, until it makes you bitter

[mournfulroses]

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1981) dir. by Just Jaeckin

[cosmonautroger]

Madonna, 1983

[toiich]

Vague Terrain (1960), dir. Marcel Carné

[stripproject]

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