anyways here are beauty tips from a 2,000 year old Mediterranean funerary moasic:
rosewater on your face and neck each night
hair left in an up-do with only a slight face framing piece in a gentle curl
earth tone eyeshadow and kohl black eye liner to look sultry even in death
staining your lips a tender red with pomegranate seeds or kisses from a cherry
minimal gold embellishments and a sip or two of red wine to darken your cheeks when you smile in the dreamlike haze caused by Dionysus
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
— bell hooks All About Love - New Visions
what about this theory. the fear of not being enough. and the fear of being ‘too much.’ are exactly the same fear. the fear of being you.
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I’m watching over it for no one but myself.
Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973 (via larmoyante)
Practice “social distancing” by being exiled from the king’s court for your unseemly, debauched, and scandalous behaviour.
life drawing; male nude in the studio of bonnat (1877), laurits regner tuxen / brideshead revisited (2008), dir. julian jarrold
It is okay, he has forgotten me anyway.
Speed paint commission of Tuteur for Vin.
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when will lord byron come back from the dead to validate my romantic goth taste in fashion?
anyone else wonder if the rise in dnd podcast popularity is an ingrained human response to the folkloric tradition of sitting in a circle telling each other stories or is just me