❝ 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 sound film, Anna Christie (1930)

❝ Convulsive beauty will be veiled-erotic, fixed-explosive, magic-circumstantial, or... ❞⠀—André Breton, Mad Love

🦋 — ❝ Butterflies know everything. [...] Don't mess around with the wrath of a butterfly. [...] We're all crazy,” the butterfly laughed, “all of us, all us butterflies. Mad, fond, out of our minds, unstable. How could we be butterflies and not be crazy? Look at the way we fly, all sideways. You have to be bats to fly like a butterfly. Millions of us, all watching each other flying sideways. Oh, we’re all crazy, and we get crazier, just watching. ❞ ▸

• —Peter S. Beagle
  • The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version

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💦 — ❝ 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 ...

• 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

⇲

• ᴍᴀʏ 23 2025 ⭑ Parked on a precipice, tried to reverse the car, but it lurched forward a bit, tipping a glass of chocolate milk off a balcony.
• ᴍᴀʏ {?} 2025 ⭑ A cult of witchy women fly through the air in a line like a dragon's tail. Their long-haired leader holds her scorpion-curved arms around a flat five-pointed star (☆) floating between her hands, ready to hurl it at unknown threats.
• ғᴇʙ 25 2025 ⭑ Performed a belly dance to charm hovering dragonflies and stop them from multiplying out of control.

┊ 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

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀❀

• drinking ⤸
  • english teatime
    • bigelow
• wearing ⤸
  • iris
    • crabtree & evelyn
• reading 📚 ⤸
  • the unicorn sonata
    • peter s. beagle

• 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. *

• somewhat inspired by ❀

what does your heart look like?

• a bird struggling to get loose

what detail from the garden of earthly delights are you?

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

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

which shakespearean method of dying are you?

• death by swallowing fire

which virgin martyr are you?

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 ┊

• the ceremony (1997) gishiki ∙ ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• fig leaves (1926) ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ
• the white sister (1923) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• party girl (1995) ʜᴜʟᴜ
• hot water (1924) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• the enchanted cottage (1924) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• pegasus (1991) mia farrow ∙ ᴛᴜʙɪ
• taste of cherry (1997) ta'm e guilass ∙ ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• where is the friend’s house? (1987) khane-ye doost kojast? ∙ ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• my twentieth century (1989) az én xx. századom ∙ ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• possibly in michigan (1983) ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ
• exit smiling (1926) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• the trip (1967) ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ
• pavlova: a woman for all time (1983) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• danse macabre (1922) ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ

┊ found on ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ unless otherwise stated ┊

• garbo: where did you go? (2024) ɴᴇᴛғʟɪx
• catching fire: the story of anita pallenberg (2023) ʜᴜʟᴜ
• nature (2025) ᴘʙs
  • s43 ep13: hummingbirds of hollywood
• american masters (2025) ᴘʙs
  • s39 ep3: art spiegelman: disaster is my muse
• 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

┊ neat ┊

• wings (1927) dolly shot

┊ lovely ┊

• pavlova: a woman for all time (1983) anna
• the color of pomegranates (1969) sayat nova
  • poetry
  • more (⚠ blood drip)
• russian ark (2002) run
• marie antoinette (1938)
  • birdcage hair
  • masque madness
• marie antoinette (2006) cake & candy
• watership down (1978) bright eyes
• dancing dreams (2010) tanzträume ∙ cute
• the red shoes (1948) dance
• puce moment (1949) dazzle
• blood tea & red string (2006) idyll
• who are you, polly maggoo? (1966) qui êtes-vous, polly maggoo?

• attention
• intro illustrata
• dulcimer queen
• fog in march
• skirt, jacket
• 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
• a historiscope