Evolution of a faerytale

I didn't get to be Queen of Hell by letting folks off easy.

[lacetulle]

Paolo Sebastian | The Nutcracker

[alethiometry]

my new favorite aesthetic is "klytaimnestra telling men to shut the fuck up"

[fyeahgothicromance]

Salem, of course, is far from the only place in the United States whose pavements are laid over the graves of indigenous people. There's nowhere in this nation that wasn't already inhabited before Europeans arrived, and there's no town, no house, that doesn't sit atop someone else's former home. More often than not, we've chosen to deal with this fact through the language of ghosts.

Colin Dickey; Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

[highfashionporn]

Valentino FW16 Haute Coture

[archae-heart-deactivated2021012]

Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading

[facinaoris]

Death in human form.

[nataliehall]

The Mourning Star 2017/18? — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2YggSZa

[minaharkers]

“My own heart grew cold as ice, and I could hear the gasp of Arthur, as we recognized the features of Lucy Westenra.”

— Dr. Seward’s Diary, September 29th

[aurosoul]

encountered this absolutely magnificent juniper tree in the Oregon Badlands Wilderness and I’m convinced an incredibly powerful spirit resides within it

[evermore-fashion]

Linda Friesen ‘The Queen of The Sun’, ‘Venus’ & ‘The Empress’ Haute Couture Gowns

[velvetcloak]

elie saab | fall/winter 2016/2017 (ph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Europe)

[creaturey]

pres. trump sent federal troops into portland to squash the protests and they shot someone in the head with an impact round last night and shattered his skull. his blood is still on the sidewalk outside the federal courthouse. they are not like local cops and they are NOT fucking around. they carry ARs with live ammo and they are merciless. i am very sincerely scared that federal forces are going to instigate a kent state type situation by killing protesters as an example sometime between now & november and i am very scared it’s going to be here

[creaturey]

Video of the protester who was shot being carried away by medics while bleeding everywhere (obvious TW). He is alive but was in critical condition when he arrived at the hospital & needed extensive facial + skull reconstruction surgery. At the time they shot him he was standing on the sidewalk with both hands holding a boombox above his head Video of a federal officer kneeling on someone while he has a seizure; they did not allow medics to help him. There is word that this person may have died but afaik that is still unconfirmed Video of federal officers chasing & assaulting medics tending to an unresponsive protester Video of 15 feds forcibly arresting a disabled trans person and taking away their service dog for the crime of writing on the federally owned sidewalk in washable sidewalk chalk

Full live tweet thread of the night (7/11/20) with a lot more video footage, especially of the absolutely ludicrous amounts of tear gas they used

sorry for the long post—i am not sure how much national coverage this is getting and i really want people to know what’s going on here. they are behaving like an occupying army & treating citizens like enemy combatants

[artemisiasea]

“Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”

— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God 

[lacetulle]

Paolo Sebastian | Wildflowers

[headspace-hotel]

why is it that whenever I am disillusioned with the world I go back to the epic of Gilgamesh

“It is the story of their becoming human together.”

This is it. This is the oldest written literary work that we know of, and it’s a story of becoming human together.

This is a story about love, and it’s a story about death, and we told this story thousands of years ago, THOUSANDS of years. We have always, always, always been wrestling with this profoundly beautiful existence and with knowing one another, while knowing that we all will die and be forgotten.

We become human by loving, but we also become human by knowing death.

And I’m just sitting here touching other human beings, another human experience, from across millennia, feeling a bit more human too through it, and I am trying very hard not to cry.

[sartorialadventure]

Paolo Sebastian, fall 2018-19 haute couture, “The Nutcracker”

[facinaoris]

Why do you think all men paint themselves when they go to fight? When I paint my eyes to match my soup, it is not because I have nothing better to do than worry over trifles. It says, I belong here, and you will not deny me. When I streak my lips red as foxgloves, I say, Come here, male. I am your mate, and you will not deny me. When I pinch my cheeks and dust them with mother-of-pearl, I say, Death, keep off, I am your enemy, and you will not deny me. I say these things, and the world listens, Masha. Because my magic is as strong as an arm. I am never denied.