• drinking ↴
  • sparkling watermelon
    • waterloo
• reading 📚 ↴
  • glitter & doom: german portraits from the 1920s
    • sabine rewald
• sampling ↴
  • iris pourpre
    • keiko mecheri

❝ Innocence, on the Bicycle of Propriety, carrying the Urn of Reputation safely over the Abyss of Indiscretion ❞⠀—Edward Gorey, The Broken Spoke

❝ Sometimes, though, angels smoke in their sleeves. But when the archangel goes by, they throw their cigarettes away: this is what falling stars are. ❞⠀—Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to his wife Véra

❝ Woods nymphs sprinkle your path with bowling balls while you dance and prowl in the sequined moonlight with leftover heads of lettuce. ❞⠀—The Surrealist Compliment Generator

❝ Champagne’s funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne’s a heavy mist before my eyes. ❞⠀—James Stewart as Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

❝ Gimme a whisky, ginger ale on the side—and don’t be stingy, baby. ❞⠀—Greta Garbo’s first line in her first talkie film, Anna Christie (1930)

❝ Convulsive beauty will be veiled-erotic, fixed-explosive, magic-circumstantial, or it will not be. ❞⠀—André Breton, Mad Love

[ perfume ] 💦 — ❝ Inside every dressing room was a metallic tank with a pump spray attached, and just before the performance the actresses would take a jag, their maids spraying them with their scent for three minutes. Three whole minutes.

• Eleanor Christie, playing Intoxication, was prescribed ambergris, the whale emission, and reported success. “It is as though she has drunk five quarts of champagne, yet she still retains full control of all her senses,” noted the journalist. Frances Richards, as Slander, found that a lemon perfume “makes her hate everyone when she is on stage.” Florence Short, or Passion, was given frankincense and myrrh, which Professor Roodhouse said was Cleopatra’s perfume; he explained that “she has to drink two glasses of ice water in order to counteract the effects every night when she is through with her s...

apples & oranges & fanciful dichotomies

• sunrise or sunset
• early bird or night owl
• dragonflies or butterflies
• poppies or tulips
• lilies or orchids
• daisies or buttercups
• snow white or rose red
• cockle-shells or silver bells
• cochineal or viridian
• glass quartz or obsidian
• onyx or mother-of-pearl
• faux pearls or bakelite bangles
• bohemian chic or dollybird mod
• heart-shaped or cat-eyed glasses
• rhinestones or sequins
• strawberries or blueberries
• raspberries or blackberries
• pomegranates or figs
• lime or lemon
• lemonade or iced tea

i’m ɴᴏʙᴏᴅʏ!

• Who are you?
• Are you nobody, too?
• Then there’s a pair of us
  • — don’t tell!
• They’d banish us, you know.
  • ⸻ ❀
• How dreary to be somebody!
• How public, like a frog
• To tell your name the livelong day
• To an admiring bog!
  • —Emily Dickinson

ʜᴇʟʟᴏ.

• a ʙᴇʀʟɪɴɢᴏᴛɪᴇ̀ʀᴇ is a special pair of scissors for cutting warm striped ʙᴇʀʟɪɴɢᴏᴛ candy before they cool into shape

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀❀

• inspired by ❀

what does your heart look like?

• a bird struggling to get loose

come to my tea party & i will give you a gift

• a glass vial of poison

come to my masquerade & i will give you something you need

• a shapeshifting cleaver

what are you doing out here in the dark?

• self made spirit of water, baptized by r...

what ethereal feeling do you emit?

• a young blur of a forgotten lover of min...

what detail from the garden of earthly delights are you?

• owl sitting on egg from which loads of h...

• accessory ♡ chandelier earrings
• actor ♡ buster keaton
• actress ♡ greta garbo
• adjective ♡ amaranthine
• animal ♡ glasswing butterfly
• art movements ♡ surrealism ♡ magical realism
• authors ♡ angela carter ♡ isak dinesen
• book genre ♡ biography
• candy ♡ japanese kitkats
• city visited ♡ boston
• classical piece ♡ mystery! tango
• clothing ♡ cashmere cardigan
• coffee ♡ mocha
• colors ♡ peacock & jewel tones
• decade ♡ 1920s
• deity ♡ sipnget (night goddess)
• dessert ♡ baklava
• emoji ♡ 🦋
• fairytale ♡ fitcher’s bird

ɪᴛ’s ᴡᴇʟʟ ᴡᴇ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ʜᴇᴀʀ ᴛʜᴇ sᴄʀᴇᴀᴍs ᴡᴇ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ɪɴ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ's ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍs.

ㅤ—Edward Gorey, Verse Advice

ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍs ᴀʀᴇ ᴀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ sᴀғᴇʟʏ ᴄʀᴀᴢʏ, sᴏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴇ ᴄᴀɴ sᴛᴀʏ sᴀɴᴇ ᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʏ.

ㅤ—Anaïs Nin, The Novel of the Future

⇲

• ᴏᴄᴛ 28, 2024 ⭑ Stuck my hand into a large white vase full of jaw hairclips & pulled out a mushroom-shaped compact of white powder.
• ᴏᴄᴛ 15, 2024 ⭑ Adopted a dream dog that for some unknown reason was required to not ever meet my real pet dog. It lived in a separate house, went on alternating walks, etc. Then there exploded a po...

• ↻: rewatched
• ᴛᴄᴍ: turner classic movies

⇲

• cruella (2021) ʜᴜʟᴜ
• judex (1963) ♡ ↻ ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• coup de grâce (1976) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• i am love (2009) io sono l'amore ∙ ʜᴜʟᴜ
• ballet shoes (2007) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• willard (2003) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• brink of life (1911) nära livet ∙ ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ
• invitation to the dance (1956) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• charlotte (2021) salomon ∙ ʜᴜʟᴜ
• swann in love (1984) un amour de swann ↻ ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• summer with monika (1953) sommaren med monika ∙ ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• the divine lady (1929) ↻ ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ

most of these were found on ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ unless otherwise stated

• anna may wong: frosted yellow willows: her life, times & legend (2007) ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ
• love, cecil (2017) beaton
• pompeii: the new dig (2024) ᴘʙs
• mystique of the pearl (1996)
• quant (2021) mary ∙ ᴄʀᴀᴄᴋʟᴇ
• ballet 422 (2014) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• poetry in america (2024) ᴘʙs
  • s4, ep3: mushrooms, weakness & doubt
  • s4, ep8: steps ∙ frank o'hara
• the v&a presents alice: curiouser & curiouser (2021)
• devo: the men who make the music (1981) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• augustus & livia: empire of blood (2021) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• kingdom of shadows: the birth of horror cinema (1998)
• in the mirror of maya deren: an innovative avant-garde filmmaker (2002)

lovely

• blood tea & red string (2006)
  • garden idyll
• flesh & the devil (1926)
  • sip
• mare nostrum (1926)
  • a beautiful spy
• marie antoinette (1938) ♡
  • birdcage hair
  • masque madness
• marie antoinette (2006) ♡
  • cake & candy
• dancing dreams (2010) tanzträume
  • cute rehearsal
• watership down (1978)

• intro illustrata
• silents
• dulcimer queen
• fog in march
• emma peel tribute
• sea spa
• lemonade
• butt song
• daisy, daisy
• chick rock
• magical
• catwalk
• doll valley
• tingel tangel
  • based on ❀
• cherry: youtu.be/vOID2_-qt4c
  • the link breaks on listo, so just copy & paste it
• rare breads