we shall never say it

words, words, but they hold the horror of the world

[milksockets]

'pierre balmain "corset" evening dress in blue taffetta + gray-green velvet, c. 1951' in fifty years of fashion: new look to now - valerie steele (1997)

[jinxproof]

Vogue Italia (March 1998) ph. Paolo Roversi

[derpinette]

Photo by Martha Swope from Mourka: The Autobiography of a Cat by Tanaquil Le Clercq

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[driftingisland]

Fire Escape (Persimmon), 2016 etching with watercolor 10″ x 8″

Mare Martin

[mournfulroses]

Takahama Kyoshi, from a poem featured in From the country of Eight Islands; an anthology of Japanese Poetry

[cavatas]

Three Black Horses, Leo Gestel 

[toiich]

Duo II, Los Angeles by Herb Ritts, 1990

[mizuthe-cat]

don’t ask chatgpt I can lie to you for free

[fawnvelveteen]

Laurel Martyn as Odette in Swan Lake, 1944, photo © Ronald Esler

[brujasvascas]

London, 1949. source

[rhyslahey]

The (physical) end of the Western Front at the Swiss border [source].

Imagined being posted there with nothing but quiet fields and random cows to your right, and no man's land ending at a simple line of babred wire beyond which you're not allowed to go fight.

[deforest]

Joan Crawford in a wardrobe test for Torch Song, 1953

[jinxproof]

Lynne Koester, 1984 | © Peter Lindbergh

[toiich]

Marlene Dietrich by Eugene Robert Richee, 1930

[eyewishing]

color theory: theres a lot of them

[jinxproof]

Dries Van Noten A/W 1999 | © Tom Munro