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character moved to @ncantari !

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... a mystic and a killer, tenderly brutal.

— Dana Goodyear, The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard: Poems, (2013)

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“A world without beauty is not a world I’d want to live in. I’d also die for beauty, wouldn’t you?”

“The White Lotus” Season 2, ep. 5 “That’s Amore”

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all women deserve a little treat (glowing eyes and the ability to levitate)

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Florence + the Machine, from King

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Mad, really mad, a stranger to herself and others, oblivious to the world, […] around her neck a necklace of curses and tears.

— Simin Behbahani, A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems, transl by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, (1999)

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“Women who survive the hate of men are named harlot, witch […]”

— Jeanann Verlee, from Jezebel Revisits the Book of Kings (via tristealven)

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my number one skill is being sooo cute and my number two skill is the ancient curse

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Something about this particular vision of Biblical womanhood feels very tumblr.

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Mustang (2015)

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Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume I 

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I feel like if you're gonna say "oh food is super important in my culture" then your culture needs to be completely psychotic about it, like italians, otherwise you're just enjoying eating/not starving

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“You know the ancient tongues.” “I know many things…”

REBECCA FERGUSON in DUNE (2021) dir. DENIS VILLENEUVE

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“I am priestess, occult, nymph / and goddess, / then what was my fault?”

— H.D., from Selected Poems; “Calypso,” (via violentwavesofemotion)