moodboard - the unseelie.
76 notes
·
View notes
look at the ocean
just look at its rippling surface
the cold currents underneath, barely unseen
jutting gray triangles coming to breathe
(it’s a detached sort of beauty)
you used to think you could dive beneath the waves
fly like a gull
marvel at coral jewels
with slippery wings at your shoulder blades
(but now you know)
you can still dive beneath the waves
but you sink like an anchor
weep at the bleached nothingness
wounds pluming red in lieu of wings
(freedom is a fading concept)
they drag you up above
above the limpidness you call home
seaweed jaws sinking into your armored back
they cut away your wings
(how could you not grieve?)
when they finally give you back to the sea
you can’t fly
you can’t breathe
and all you can see
is crimson darkness smiling in the distance
it consumes you.
(you don’t resist.)
(you can’t.)
/// finning
3 notes
·
View notes
fallen angel - falling slowly
‘her touch were mini supernovas, her kiss the caress of stars. and when she fell, her eyes became twin black holes, pulsating with the beat of a thousand tainted lifetimes.’
10 notes
·
View notes
民国;China 1910s to 40s - Old Shanghai
The devils have won the city, the wolves come to feast on the weak, the alligators to snap up the dead, the opium ghosts to roam, the phosphorescent kuei huo to dance on the city’s fallen ramparts.
129 notes
·
View notes
They say that the Milky Way has a bridge
of magpies, once every seven years,
for Weaver Girl and the Cowherd.
On earth, high schoolers are kissing
away glow stick summers
while we dream each other up.
You’ve got a way with words, you do,
tongue like cool apple cider
in backyard barbecues, heart so sweet
you could raise a family on it, the
soul-kinda rich no one teaches you to be.
I don’t know much ‘bout space,
but I think you’d give Zhinü
a run for her money. she’s
had decades of good love
and we haven’t even met yet.
flint moondust right back into that
big old canopy. turn your back
on the sun.
so what if the universe is huge
or if you’re light years away.
my love for you is a galaxy,
stellar cartography, cosmic gold.
i’m not afraid of time.
when you outwait a star,
anything is possible.
when you outlove a god,
you will live forever.
“years & years & years” // natalie wee (via fyeahmyths)
433 notes
·
View notes
‘Painted Skin’ - Xiao Wei.
Though he possesses a human heart
...he is ultimately a demon.
78 notes
·
View notes
moodboard - celestial being.
315 notes
·
View notes
moodboard - siren.
“the coastline is dangerous,” people would say. “they come to you as alluring women, but beware. if they beckon you toward the water, singing their molasses-sweet song in your ear, that is the end. nothing can save you.”
17 notes
·
View notes
zhang ruonan
4 notes
·
View notes
西域。
39 notes
·
View notes
chinese mythology - shan hai jing/classic of the mountains and seas: xiwangmu, queen mother of the west
110 notes
·
View notes
cheng xiao - 天使与恶魔
7 notes
·
View notes
chinese mythology: luosha bird
75 notes
·
View notes
chinese mythology - shan hai jing/classic of the mountains and seas: jingwei/nüwa, youngest daughter of the yan emperor
95 notes
·
View notes