'tis the fairy

tired ghoul. too old to be here. covered in cobwebs. ask

[thisflighttonight]

Annie Oakley (1860-1926)

[evidently-endless]

so the childhood yearning to live in a fantasy world just never goes away huh

[masterpiecesindetail]

The Marquise de Las-Marismas by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

The Empress Eugénie Surrounded Her Ladies in Waiting, 1855

[moradadabeleza]

Bianca Serena Truzzi

[gvalesdraws]

mother of pearl

[mermaidenmystic]

 🥟  💚 🐚

[spitblossoms]

[nocnitsa]

Alexander Rothaug

[rivercreature]

[eatyourcandyfloss]

Mia Goth for W Magazine Performance Issue 2026

[greengableslover]

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993) dir. Agnieszka Holland + gothic vibes (requested by anonymous)

[ikimonoo]

[louisegluck]

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

[plasmalogical]

lets start wearing cloaks and swords again. its time

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Engraving from an early 17th century title page - 1607 

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

[Sold]

[feetfricker]

florence welch for elle magazine russia photography by ina lekiewicz styled by ekaterina mukhina hair and makeup by leigh keats and sarah freyton

[silverscreen-andfashion]

LAUREN BACALL as Vivian Rutledge

The Big Sleep (1946)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"My dark and lovely thing,"

~ Charles Baudelaire, "Remorse Too Late" from The Flowers of Evil (transl. George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)