[charnel-grounds]

Ingrid Pitt in The Vampire Lovers (1970)

[swordbymyside]

[huariqueje]

The Quiet Fall   -   Michel Buylen.

Belgian, b. 1953 -

Oil on panel ,37.5x45cm

[she-burns-brightly]

“Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual : all of it is myself.”

— James Joyce, To Nora Barnacle Joyce, 7 September 1909.  (via pedialite)

[weltenwellen]

Carl Phillips, from “For Nothing Tender About It”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

[bluevelvia]

Holly Black, The Prisoner's Throne

[typodescript]

[text: "I want," she says. "That's my problem. I want and I want and I want."

"What do you want?" he asks, voice soft.

"Everything. Charm me. Rip me open. Ruin me. Go too far."]

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

[weltenwellen]

 Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Woodworking at the End of the World”, Time Is a Mother

[feral-ballad]

Rafael Alberti, tr. by Ben Belitt, from An Anthology of Spanish Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Present Day, Including Both Spain and Spanish America; "Paradise Lost"

[Text ID: “Across centuries / and the void of a world, / sleepless, I seek you.”]

[outstanding-quotes]

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

[julia-wanders]

British Columbia. Fragments of Paradise, 1995

[redlipstickresurrected]

Yan Wei aka 闫威 aka Kokomoo aka 闫伟 aka Wei Yan (Chinese, b. 1981, Beijing, China, based Montclair, NJ, USA) - 爱之入髓 (Love from the Innermost of Marrow), 2013, Paintings: Acrylic on Paper

[talonabraxas]

[nevver]

Nothing is forever, 我是白Woshibai

[soracities]

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red [ID in ALT]

[soracities]

Jeremy Radin, from Dear Sai

[milksockets]

givenchy 1989 in the art of haute couture - victor skrebneski + laura jacobs (1995)

[iclosed]

well. august was a tough year