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“I do not want to see what is shown, I want to see what is secret. What is hidden amongst the visible. I want to see the skin of light.”

— Hélène Cixous, from Stigamata.

thestrangeforest

Decaying

andantegrazioso-deactivated2018

Lotus buds at the flower market | Syam

citrinoverde

my spirit animal

whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026

Whimsical switch plates by Leandra Drumm

aktiophis

I see sometimes people say "tiktok has some useful stuff, but there's a lot of misinfo!" Like literally no. TikTok is not a resource for magic. It just isn't. I have not once seen anything on that app that is useful or good info. The format of that platform is entirely incapable of giving information that isn't incredibly condensed and without any nuance.

paiawon

villa of livia's garden room fresco, from palazzo massimo

known as ad gallinas albas (of the white hen) because of pliny the elder's tale in his naturalis historia, recounting the myth of livia, newly bethroted to octavian augustus, having a white hen holding a laurel branch in its beak dropped into her lap by an eagle, interpreted as an omen of good fortune.

full view on tiktok

museeeuuuum

I have one of these on my bedroom wall

bebemoon

vivienne westwood ‘sun-wheel’ gown, from ‘dressing up’ collection, autumn 1991-92, “voluminous cut, the white muslin stencilled and printed in red and silver with cherubs, with ruffle to neck edge, full sleeves, tie belt” .

suigintou

it must be said the ancient greeks got a little funny with it

cryoverkiltmilk

Parry this, you filthy Macedonian.

derangedrhythms

I am the angel who dwells in the point where lines fork. Whoever retraces the way of divided things encounters me, whoever descends to the bottom of contradictions runs into me, whoever mingles again what was separated feels my membraned wing brush his cheek!

Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies; from 'The Waverer's Tale', tr. William Weaver

eothas

Kore 670 from the Acropolis Museum in Athens

lionofchaeronea

Faience ushabti of Painedjem II. Artist unknown; ca. 1070-664 BCE (21st-25th Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.