for she had eyes & chose me

hapless lover of all cultures Scandi, the ancients, Renaissance men, & beautiful fierce cheats.

[transparessencia]

[andantegrazioso-deactivated2018]

Château Diter | nadyaskripova

[viyahshaadinikkah]

Photography: Danelle Bohane

[opheliashes]

On Being an Eldest Daughter

Surface Pressure, Encanto // Mother, Florence + The Machine // Class of 2013, Mitski // Breathe, In the Heights // Mama Who Bore Me, Spring Awakening // @queeerpride​ // Mirrorball, Taylor Swift // Mommy Issues: Unlearning Inherited Pain, Joan Tierney

[gnossienne]

Anne Michaels, from Skin Divers

[renissance]

THE DIVINE; a three part playlist. 

     TITANS: instrumental          

Natura nihil frustra facit.     //     Nature does nothing in vain.

listen

     GODS: instrumental & old vocals         

Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur.     //     Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.

listen

    HEROES: soft pop & indie  

Astra inclinant, sed non obligant.     //     The stars incline us, they do not bind us.

listen

[aheadfullofbooks]

Biblioteca do Palácio de Mafra // Library of Mafra’s National Palace

Finally got to see this beauty in person. Kind of bitter I couldn’t just reach out and open some of the books. The binding is so beautiful.  

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Portrait of Lady Sunderland (detail) 1786. Joshua Reynolds 

[hozierarthistory]

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo // Cherry Wine by Hozier

[aesthetiicly]

Visit Original Link

movement by hozier playing from a distant church in the woodlands/forest 

[jasminedowling]

[merelybeing]

Frederick is not so keen on the art nouveau pieces, but I love nature. And women. 

Colette (2018), dir. Wash Westmoreland

[fireofdelmare]

mood: getting out of the opera building after watching a beautiful ballet, it’s snowing and christmas bells are finally ringing on the street while you are walking and holding hands with your significant other and your laughters are brighter then the stars above

[itscolossal]

Lavish Portraits by Lakin Ogunbanwo Document the Contemporary Traditions of Nigerian Brides

[girldaddy-deactivated20251016]

Giovanni’s Room By James Baldwin // Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller // Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alina Saenz // The Weight by Allen Ginsberg // Work Song by Hozier

[saintdanica]

—muse, tell me the things done by golden Aphrodite, the one from Cyprus, who arouses sweet desire for gods and who subdues the races of mortal humans, and birds as well, who fly in the sky, as well as all beasts—all those that grow on both dry land and the sea,

[feral-ballad]

Yves Olade, from Bloodsport; “When rome falls”