❝ 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...

• 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
• film ♡

❝ Dreams are a time to be safely crazy, so that we can stay sane during the day. ❞⠀—Mrs. R. Cartwright, Director of Sleep Laboratory, University of Illinois*

❝ It’s well we cannot hear the screams / We make in other people's dreams. ❞⠀—Edward Gorey, Verse Advice

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• ᴅᴇᴄ 9 2024 ⭑ I lobbed a grenade at a dark haunted house & got caught in the resulting explosion of marshmallow fluff that poured over everything. (I had watched The Stuff earlier this evening.)
• ᴅᴇᴄ 6 2024 ⭑ A wealthy Edwardian family boarded an ocean liner in the year 1919. A mysterious lady wearing thick black eyeliner & white satin dress with cinched bell-sleeves lured the children away from their parents by trailing a large square-ish poppy made of the same white material as her dress, with a thick black pistil in the middle of the slowly spinnin...

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

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀❀

• reading 📚 ↴
  • paris was yesterday
    • janet flanner
• wearing ↴
  • madeleine
    • demeter fragrance library
• drinking ↴
  • blood orange & cranberry black tea
    • private selection

• conceits & trifles
• broken teacup
• flapping butterflies
• garter snaps
• gasoline rainbow
• inexplicable confetti *
• ladybug charm
• macaron crumbs
• pair of brown eyes
• paper puzzle purse
• perfume pistol *
• tinted emollients *
• tiny cordate grimoire
• vial of Q.ʀ.ᴠ. *

• 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 rain

what ethereal feeling do you emit?

• a young blur of a forgotten lover of mine

what detail from the garden of earthly delights are you?

• owl sitting on egg from which loads of human legs break free

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

• ↻: rewatched
• ᴛᴄᴍ: turner classic movies

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• the stuff (1985) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• alphaville (1965) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• edward scissorhands (1990) ↻ ʜᴜʟᴜ
• the fall of the house of usher (1928) la chute de la maison usher ∙ ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ
• 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...

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