more like WeHateIt now. what's left of my collections (pivoting now to ❀ Pinterest):

• bless this mess {furniture, interior decoration, home & room decor}
  • a house is a house is a house is a house
• dance, stage, costume {corps de Terpsichore}
  • "when dancing meant exploding"
    • —Bauhaus, "St. Vitus Dance"
• fancies & goodnights {dreamscapes & discombobulations}
• frosted flowers
  • veils, snow, softness
    • ice sequined her dress
• garden vivarium {plants & life among them}
  • Beatrice Rappaccini's predicament
    • "She began to feel as if part of her scalp were peeling back and her brain was growing a variety of beautiful leafy plants."
      • —Rene Steinke, Holy Skirts
• girls in your hair
  • "hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair"
    • —Tori Amos, "Cloud On My Tongue"
• house of lovelies {girly, frilly, floral, pink}
  • for a long time I wanted to rename this, but I guess it got stuck
    • "your pistol holds nothing but perfumes or kissing-comfits"
      • —John Webster, "The Duchess of Malfi"
• menagerie frieze
  • a bestiary procession of animals, beasts, creatures, fauna, pets, & wildlife
• ornate imbroglio {intricate entanglements}
• pin-ups & pulp fiction {racy, risqué, mostly ladies}
• potpourri {random unsorted images}
• remnants of romanticism
  • gloom doom & gothic fragments
    • "The lacework of the branches in the enamel-like air had the chill of a terrifying fairy tale."
      • —Vladimir Nabokov, "Wingstroke"
    • "solemn Victorian orgies with roses falling"
      • —Vladimir Nabokov, "The Vane Sisters"
  • damsels in distress {maidens fainting & swooning}
• secret messages {hidden meanings | unsound silence}
• the weeping chandelier {▸ ❀}
  • Gorey Edwardian fashion & costume inspiration

delete?

• marvelous märchen is bloated & hard to manage, might as well
  • alice in wonderland
    • & through the looking-glass
      • & what she found there
  • the bears are here & they're sipping tea
    • —April March, “Winter Cave”
  • cabin in a fabled forest {cottagecore & forest fairytales}
    • "The sun is shining so warmly, and the air smells like cinnamon."
      • —the Brothers Grimm, "The Juniper Tree"
  • dreams & fancies {not quite but could be fairytales}
  • myth & allegory {classical stories}

say goodbye

• bouncing cloud machine {off to a frothing puffy land]}
  • inspired by ▸ ❀
• cabin in a fabled forest {some homespun fairytale}
• cabinet of curiosities {kunstkabinett, kunstkammer, wunderkammer, cabinet of wonder}
  • "a spray of feathers, mouse blood and bone: uncollected, unconnected, loose-leaf, and blown."
    • —Annie Dillard, “Living Like Weasels”
• conceits, knacks, trifles {formerly "killing comb & poisoned apples"}
  • lovely objects you can put in a box
    • letters/envelopes, trinkets, charms, combs, scissors, hair, valentines, small dolls, crowns/tiaras, jewelry
    • "bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits, knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats"
      • —William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
• dancing downtown in your net & tinsel gown {from Francesca Lia Block's novel, Ecstasia} fashion: photography, editorials, illustration, catwalk, runway
• heavy luxuriant centuries {ancient/historical images}
  • "She stared with such an ancient stare, heavy luxuriant centuries flickering in deep processions."
    • —Anaïs Nin, House of Incest
• holy
  • plaster icons,
  • bleeding martyrs,
  • religious virgins,
  • the gold & floss of angels
• mingle it with tears {sadness & mourning}
  • "break heart, drop blood, & mingle it with tears"
    • —Christopher Marlowe, "Doctor Faustus"
• Orientalism {fictional essences of the Asian Orient}
• pattern after pattern {wallpapers & repetitive prints}
• portraits of people {pictures of personalities}
• powdered wig era
  • 1700s, the 18th century, baroque, Georgian, rococo}
    • "elegant ballroom minuets cresting with elaborate powdered wigs that sail past each other over grand pannier gowns, satin breeches, & stockinged finery, the veiled eyes of the ancien régime winking sleepily with oblivion, light as floating feathers, cotton-mouthed puffy" ❀
• the cinema palace
  • films & shows I've yet to see
  • cinema palace archives
    • film stars & screenshots of movies from the Production Code era}
  • cinema after 1965
    • screenshots of films & shows after the Production Code was limited
• the glass of fashion
  • antique old vintage fashion illustration, sketches, pochoir, fashion plates, etc.
• the Regency Era
  • "There is lace at your throat and wrists and disdain in your eyes and heart."
    • —Mallory Ortberg for ❀ The Toast
• the Roaring Twenties
  • 1920s, the Jazz Age, les Années folles, Die Goldenen Zwanziger
• the war on art {collection contained censored content}
  • they are still viewable through the "add to collections" button

old to-do list:

• chromatic
  • merge with "color & texture"
• defy the foul fiend
  • merge with "madness"?
• form & structure?
  • nudes:
    • "pin-ups & pulp fiction"?
    • "potpourri"?
  • shapes:
    • "opticalia geometrica"?
    • "modern graphcs"?
  • interesting objects: ?
  • art installations: ?
• opticalia geometrica
  • transfer to "modern graphics", "fancies & goodnights", etc.