The Curious Props

[feignedremote]

Penguin Classics was so insane for this cover. Didn't know they had it in them

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[inthedarktrees]

Woman lying on a couch and listening to a record player. Turin, Italy, 1964

[hagenlastkiss]

Amber Heard in And Soon the Darkness (2011)

[lanzhanfan]

the safekeep by yael van der wouden ★

the sapphic read that has swept through my life and overturned everything. incredible show-stopping world-bending gorgeous stunning. the most affecting, beautiful prose! felt so inspired and tender and remade after this book.

pls read it & chat with me!!!🚪🐇🍐

[lipstickhamlet]

"a little touch of harry in the night" remains one of the top 3 shakespeare lines that's so fantastically stupid it instantly obliterates any chance of seriousness and loops around to being almost good. the other two being "of hotspur, coldspur?" and "o were mine eyeballs into bullets turned / that in rage i might shoot them at your faces"

[giveherswords]

[theoptia]

Anne Carson, from Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Text ID: Two hundred and ten million years of desire wash through me. Blood-eater.

[ancientsstudies]

Hohenzollern Castle. x

[whenthegoldrays]

Georges Rochegrosse, Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (The Knight of the Flowers) (detail) (1894), oil on canvas

[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[emily84]

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

[is-there-a-boat]

THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

[clayandsorcery]

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.

[warmfigure]

maybe my favorite bunch of the season

[notesbyash]

09.02.2026

Rewarding myself for reading about theory for class by reading about theory for fun.

My therapist says I should let my mind rest during breaks so as to avoid burnout. Clearly not doing very well at that. The inevitable burnout may be spectacular but before then, I’ll have gotten to think about Concepts so surely it’ll have been worth it.

🎶 La belle vie - Sacha Distel

[a-chorus-of-storytellers]

time to reread this magnificent, riveting series

[courtjester69420]

thinking about how Mantel writes Cromwell and Anne. How Cromwell wants to see innocence in Anne because he wants to believe it of himself. How he can't. There's only one person who's ever understood me and I hate that guy (Anne Boleyn. Thomas Cromwell.)

[rosalinesurvived]

Huh

[queen-of-the-seven-kingdoms]

The First Lines of JANE AUSTEN