• drinking ↴
  • 🍎 apple cinnamon tea
• sampling (perfume)
  • commodity moss
• reading 📚 ↴
  • a rome of one's own
    • emma southon
  • songs of bilitis
    • pierre louÿs

• blur or oasis
• sunrise or sunset
• early bird or night owl
• dragonflies or butterflies
• snow white or rose red
• glass quartz or obsidian
• forest or ocean
• mountain or beach
• geography or history
• latin or ancient greek
• mythology or astrology
• athena or aphrodite
• endymion or galatea
• flute or lyre
• fates or furies
• graces or muses
• gourmand perfumes or florientals
• fougères or chypres
• petrichor or bibliosmia
• secret garden or secret library
• library or bookstore

❝ 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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[ gourmet ] 🐦 — ❝ Oh! doff, then, thy waistcoat of vine-leaves, pretty rover! and show me that bosom more delicious even than woman’s. What gushes of rapture! What a flavour! How peculiar! Even how sacred! Heaven at once sends both manna and quails. Another little wanderer! Pray follow my example! Allow me. All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music. ❞

• —benjamin disraeli
  • the young duke

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[ blood suck ] 🦇 — ❝ O Dracula, unlikely hero! O flying leukemia, in your cloak like a living umbrella, a membrane of black leather which you unwind from within yourself and lift like a stripteaser's fan as you bend with emaciated lust over the neck, flawless and bland, of whatever woman is ...

　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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[apr 17 2024]

• Among many witnesses along a concrete bank of a dark-watered lake, I saw a group of satanic-looking red-hooded figures form a circle with their arms outstretched to each other in the water. A very unserious large white duck quacked its way into the circle, quickly ruining the gravity of the ritual.
• Listening to music on headphones, I looked down & saw not my phone in my hands but a crumbling baked potato that barely hel...

in my cosmetic bag

• burt's bees
  • sweet orange
• becca
  • cherry ganache ♡
• living libations
  • chocolate mocha
    • melts too easily
• moon valley organics
  • sweet honey ♡

rotation on my vanity table

• kerzon
  • smack: iris & raspberry
• moon valley organics

lovely

• puce moment (1949)
  • ▸ glitter & fringe
• watership down (1978)
  • ▸ bright eyes
• pulp fiction (1994)
  • ▸ twist
• dancing dreams (2010) tanzträume
  • ▸ cute rehearsal
• kedi: the cats of an ancient city (2016)
  • ▸ smile
• impromptu (1991) ♡
  • ▸ stupid rain ▸ cough
• a girl walks home alone at night (2014) ♡

• ▸ chick rock
• ▸ magical
• ▸ catwalk
• ▸ 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
• ▸ feminine transgressions
• ▸ magnificent! (⚠ blood drip)

• ↻: rewatched
• ᴛᴄᴍ: turner classic movies

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• the girl with a hatbox (1927) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• annie laurie (1927) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• benediction (2021) ʜᴜʟᴜ
• quartet (1981) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• farinelli (1994) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• beauty & the beast (1990) mia farrow ∙ ᴛᴜʙɪ
• the inferno (1911) l'inferno ∙ ʏᴏᴜᴛᴜʙᴇ
• a girl in every port (1928) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• a reflection of fear (1972) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• the city of lost children (1995) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• the countess (2009) ᴛᴜʙɪ
• the belle of broadway (1926) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• david copperfield (1935) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• the conquerer worm (1968) ʜᴜʟᴜ/ᴛᴄᴍ/ᴅᴠʀ
• another country (1984) ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ
• whoever slew auntie roo? (1972) ᴛᴜʙɪ

most of these were found on ᴋᴀɴᴏᴘʏ unless otherwise stated

• kingdom of shadows: the birth of horror cinema (1998)
• mushrooms, weakness & doubt (2024) ᴘʙs
  • poetry in america, s4 ep3
• 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
  • annabelle dances & dances (1894-1897)
  • davy jones’ locker (1900)
  • neptune’s daughters (1900)
  • a nymph of the waves (1900)
  • diana the huntress (1916)
• bound by flesh: the amazing story of daisy & violet hilton (2012) ᴛᴜʙɪ