• wearing (perfume)
  • reveal edp
    • calvin klein
• listening 🎧 ♫ to ↴
  • novocaine for the soul
    • portugal. the man, sir chloe
• reading 📚 ↴
  • manon lescaut
    • abbé prévost

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
• lime or lemon
• lemonade or iced tea
• tea or coffee

❝ Innocence, on the Bicycle of Propriety, carrying the Urn of Reputation safely over the Abyss of Indiscretion ❞⠀

• edward gorey
  • the broken spoke

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❝ 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

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❝ 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)

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[ 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...

　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

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　 ʜᴇʟʟᴏ.

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

• accessory ♡ chandelier earrings
• actress ♡ greta garbo
• adjective ♡ amaranthine
• album ♡ the hot rock ▸ ♡
• animal ♡ greta oto (glasswing butterfly)
• animated short ♡ la joie de vivre ▸ ♡
• art movements ♡ neo-classicism ♡ surrealism / magical realism
• article of clothing ♡ cashmere cardigan
• ascii <3 flower-holding bunny
  • (\_/)
  • ( •_•)
  • ⁄ › ❀
• authors ♡ angela carter ♡ isak dinesen
• book genre ♡ biography
• candy ♡ japanese kitkats
• cinema genre ♡ silent film

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

• edward gorey
  • verse advice

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may 31 2024

• Three members of a rock band called Bliss die of drug overdoses at the same time. The world mourns them, but I have no idea what they sound like.

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may 18 2024

• a brown fairytale bear (similar to the Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime bear) gently nuzzled its head on my right foot

may 17 2024

in my cosmetic bag

• burt's bees
  • mint cocoa
• becca
  • cherry ganache ♡
• living libations
  • chocolate mocha
    • melts too easily
• sonia kashuk
  • grand bazaar: vintage wine ♡

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rotating on my vanity table

• burt's bees
  • sweet orange

• ↻: rewatched
• ᴛᴄᴍ: turner classic movies

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• the cat creature (1973) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• lips of blood (1975) lèvres de sang ∙ ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• the vampire lovers (1970) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• eros + massacre (1969) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• the boy friend (1971) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ
• forbidden (1932) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• faraway, so close! (1993) in weiter ferne, so nah! ∙ ᴛᴜʙɪ
• the white countess (2005) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• at land (1944) maya deren ∙ ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ
• the very eye of night (1955) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• ritual in transfigured time (1946) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• meditation on violence (1948) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• study for choreography & camera (1945) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• the wolf house (2018) la casa lobo ∙ ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ...

most of these were found on ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ unless otherwise stated

• 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)
• strip (1966)
• dante: inferno to paradise (2024) ᴘʙs
• the beginnings of ciné-dance (1894-1946) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ/ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ...

lovely

• 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)
  • ▸ bright eyes
• the red shoes (1948)

• sea spa
• lemonade
• butt song
• daisy, daisy
• chick rock
• magical
• catwalk
• valley of the dolls
• tingel tangel
  • based on ❀
• cherry: youtu.be/vOID2_-qt4c
  • the link breaks on listo, so just copy & paste it
• rare breads
• feathers & flourishes
• a historiscope
• frosted lipstick
• london, 1967
• bunny mouth ASMR