sleep is cousin to death

and both are mine

[flowerfairyboi]

Nothing extraordinary is ever done out of reason or logic, but because it’s the only way for your soul to breathe.

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

[studywithjennifer]

The Girl King by Mimi Yu

Book 3/50 of 2022

Date Finished: 10th January 2022

Rating: 4/5

[typewriter-worries]

the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil

Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel | The Fallen Angel, Willem de Zwart | Angel of Grief, William Wetmore Story | Fallen Angel, Roberto Ferri | The Lament for Icarus, Herbert James Draper | Art & Lies, Jeanette Winterson

[gothic-architecture]

Interior of the Borujerdi House, Kashan, Isfahan Province, Iran

(Amir Pashaei)

[klassizismus]

Detail: Stormigt hav vid fyr, Marcus Larson, 1859

[terabetha]

This piece is one of my favorites in the entire ROM collection; ‘Dream Cloud’ is carved from one piece of boulder opal mined in Australia.  It’s an impressive piece, large enough to fill the palm of your hand.

[solnunquamoccidit]

Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (detail)

by Fede Galizia (Milanese, 1578 - 1630) oil on panel, c. 1596

Private collection, Milan

[expressions-of-nature]

Dusk at Ulster Heights Wetlands by Gerald Berliner

[sky-silvestry]

Help needed 🇺🇦

I'm from Ukraine and as you know we are now at war with russia. Me and my mom spent 10 days in our village near Kyiv occupied by russians, without electricity, gas, water and internet. We stayed within our house, afraid to go outside because of constant shelling, bombing and shooting. Finally we were able to escape with our dog and two cats. I work for a German company, a lot of my colleagues were evacuated there, my company assured me they will provide housing and everything we might need for us but our three pets make it a problem to find an apartment 😤 we are staying in Poland right now, once they find a place to live for us in Germany we'll go there. The government of Poland provides free housing, meals, clothing etc for all the Ukrainian refugees, kindness of polish people is overwhelming and we appreciate it a lot 😭😭 however food and meds for our pets is on us, our dog and cats need special hypoallergenic food, we also need sedatives for our cats since traveling is incredibly stressful for them 😔, one of our carriers was damaged on the road, we need to replace it

Please if you can spare a couple of dollars for us it would help greatly ❤

Paypal: [email protected]

Приват банк: 5168 7451 0194 2339 Адлер Маргарита

[sashantonovas]

favourite books read in 2021: iron widow by @xiranjayzhao

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.

When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.​

To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia​. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.

[calliophies]

art detail: blue & gold fashion

[detailedart]

Details, version II : Dancing Fairies, 1866, by August Malmström. Can you hear them whisper?

[myfashionburden]

heaven gaia spring/summer 2021 couture

[102runway]

Alexander McQueen Fall-Winter 2008

[gaysessuale]

Mythology Meme: 3/3 - Mythological Places : Irkalla

The Sumerian netherworld was a place for the bodies of the dead to exist after death, ruled by Ereshkigal. One passed through the seven gates on their journey through the portal to the netherworld leaving articles of clothing and adornment at each gate. There was a guardian at each gate to extract a toll for one’s passage and to keep one from going the wrong way. The living spirits of the dead are only spoken of in connection with this netherworld when someone has been placed here before they are dead or wrongly killed and can be saved. The bodies of the dead decompose in this afterlife, as they would in the world above.

[signorcasaubon-deactivated20171]

[belletriste]

A selection of French votive lamps

[detailedart]

Nightmares, dreams or rêveries • Gustave Doré (1832-1883)