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“I’m not fortune’s fool, I’m yours.” 🩸

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Doodled a lil dreaming bc I am,,,, so busy this month and I need some softness for my sanity

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Dominick & Haff Sterling Heart Silver Handmade Box, Dominick and Haffin, 1890

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each Valentine’s Day after the fall an extremely romantic and love themed murder display pops up somewhere in the world and Jack is just like “glad to know the cannibals are still in love and haven’t killed each other yet”

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what I really like about all these vintage couple’s portraits is that there is a very certain romatic decorum kept up – certain themes and poses – which, while of course being the mainstream preferred view of couples repeated throughout many studios, are just… so nice to look at. 

this staged affection, a mix of theatricality and intimacy, the couple holding still for a couple of moments and now immortalised in a very set sequence of embraces and kisses. there is a charm to it even when I can’t tell whether this was a genuine couple portait or just actors hired by the photographer.

the kiss on the bare shoulder (eyes perfectly averted), the cheek caress, the piano and the violin, the interrupted embrace, the woman tilted back as in a half-stopped dance…

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༺𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠༻

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Strange roadside buildings where you shouldn’t ever go.

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LÉON SPILLIAERT / BOOMSTAMMEN / 1929 [watercolor & gouache on prepared board | 27¾ x 19½”]

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“Do you not know you have defeated me?

That you have tricked my heart into loving you?

Do what you will, marry whom you will, go where you will. 

You shall live to be a great age, and you shall not see me again until life has pressed its hand so heavily upon you that you wish to see it lift.”

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death and the maiden

Henri-Léopold Lévy, La jeune fille et la mort [Edited with excerpts from John Clare’s “Invitation to Eternity”] ��� William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet • Kay Nielsen, “The Chasm” (Edited Detail) • Death Takes a Holiday (dir. Mitchell Leisen, 1934) • Chuck Connelly, Untitled • Takato Yamamoto, Death and the Maiden • Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death • Gustave Adolf Mossa, Valse Macabre • Charlotte Salomon, Der Tod und das Mädchen • Theodora Goss, "Death and the Maiden” • Zbigniew M. Bielak, Ghost: Cirice (Edited Detail)

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Keturah and Lord Death, by Martine Leavitt

Definitely a favorite of mine :) 

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“His secret was … that though he was Death, and beyond all wanting, yet he wanted something, yearned and mourned and raged in his heart for something as only an immortal being can. And what was it that Lord Death wanted and wept in his heart for? A love of his own, a consort to adorn his endless and hallowed halls, a companion who would comfort his heart when it broke from the sadness of his errands, who would weep with him when he carried home little ones in his arms, who would greet him with a joy equal to the terror with which mortals greeted him.” — Keturah and Lord Death, Martine Leavitt

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Stained glass by Constantine Woolnough, 1858 Church of St Mary, Dennington, Suffolk Photography by Simon Knott