Frank Papé Illustration For Thaïs, Anatole France, 1890

I tried to escape but his love arrow already reached me

walks around the dashboard with my hands behind my back like someone's grandpa

Orville Peck covered Willie Nelson's "Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" and oh, he did it with Willie Nelson.

Orville Peck has this visual command about him that is impeccable. Not just the way he dresses but the way he moves his body and finds angles in the light. His videos are visual feasts.

Ariadne by Herbert James Draper (1905)

Jonathan and the Brides

Milwaukee Ballet production of Michael Pink’s Dracula 

At this point, dark academia is romanticising everything and falling in love with yourself, everything and anything.

“The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I” from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Willy Pogany (1910)