make me a wreck as I come back; spare me as I'm going

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'Noli me tangere for Caesar's I ame, / And wylde for to hold though I seme tame': Imogen, 22, Cambridge & Sheffield.
likes literature; poetry; blue things, blueness, being blue, bluets; fragments, flashes & relics; puns; half-rhymes; spellings; material texts; [Adam &] Eve; Eden / paradise / East-ness, the closest things on earth; insects / foliage; [Medieval] mysticism; revenge tragedy; Jeanne d'Arc; London; Roger Caillois; Surrealism; unreliable narrators; translation[s]; Catholic kitsch; Dylan Thomas; sea-changes; France & Italy; fashion (particularly haute couture (particularly original McQueen)); perfume; androgyny; big coats, fur & leather; knives & razors; bibliophilia; libraries; dreams; folk songs; nature; fire; the sea; the sky; night; stars; birds; ghosts; subversion; transgression; feminism &...
Strangely[,] undecided about the Oxford comma.
[blog quotes from 'Clyde Water' & Thomas Wyatt's 'Who so list to hounte'; url corupted from T. S. Eliot's 'The Dry Salvages'].

nikkimariesworld:

Light a candle directly in front of your automatic Glade spray air freshener that way every 9 minutes a fireball shoots across your living room table, intimidating your house guests, asserting your dominance in your domain

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historyarchaeologyartefacts:
“Tinted turn pin spectacles, possibly French, c. 1790-1850.[4256x2832]
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historyarchaeologyartefacts:

Tinted turn pin spectacles, possibly French, c. 1790-1850.[4256x2832]

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jitterati:

womanhood and having a voyeuristic relationship with your own pain

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#OH MAN 

codegoth:

for all intents and purposes

  • i am NOT real
  • i do NOT have a legal name
  • i do NOT have a “face”
  • Do Not Think About Me
  • I Am Not A Concept

(Source: codegoth, via decadent-romanticism)

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"It is significant that the word ‘passion’ and the word ‘passive’ share the same root in the Latin word for ‘suffering’ (passio). To be passive is to be enacted upon, as a negation that is already felt as suffering. The fear of passivity is tied to the fear of emotionality, in which weakness is defined in terms of a tendency to be shaped by others. Softness is narrated as a proneness to injury. The association between passion and passivity is instructive. It works as a reminder of how ‘emotion’ has been viewed as ‘beneath’ the faculties of thought and reason. To be emotional is to have one’s judgement affected: it is to be reactive rather than active, dependent rather than autonomous. Feminist philosophers have shown us how the subordination of emotions also works to subordinate the feminine and the body. Emotions are associated with women, who are represented as ‘closer’ to nature, ruled by appetite, and less able to transcend the body through thought, will and judgement."
Sara Ahmed, The Culture Politics of Emotion, (via mesogeios)

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candiikismet:

urnotkyungsoo:

men will PURPOSELY ask you things in a condescending tone and then act surprised when you get an attitude like “i wasn’t trying to start an argument” yes you were travis shut the fuck up

RIGHT

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fidefortitude:

slumbermancer:

basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible.

These words scan with a fantastic degree of confidence considering that together they make no sense at all

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mesogeios:
“Lady in a Fur Wrap, El Greco Ca. 1577-1579. Oil on canvas
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mesogeios:

Lady in a Fur Wrap, El Greco Ca. 1577-1579. Oil on canvas

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