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concept: i step into the moonlight and disappear

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“photographs are so ironically impermanent. They capture one moment in time to perfection. A painting can capture eternity.”

- Dorian Gray

Penny Dreadful S1E6

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My body is Not a temple. it is a thermos. for soup

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LOVE, DESIRE, HURT, KNIVES, BLOOD.

Richard Siken / 红月 Red Moon (Detail) - Huang Guangjian / x / can’t we just leave the monster alive - TXT / ’Ariel’ by Aneleh, published in the tide rises, the tide falls journal / Yves Olade, from When Rome Falls; Bloodsport, 2017 / Jane Hirshfield, Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant

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bring back the habits that made you happy as a child. there’s no reason you should ever have to give up harmless things that bring you joy. you don’t have to age out of having fun. finger paint. write mediocre fanfiction and questionable poetry. put chocolate chips in your waffles. sing in the bath, and while working in the yard, and while washing your hands. hammer tunelessly on a piano. spin in circles until you fall down. climb a tree. just because you’re now in charge of your life doesn’t mean you’re expected to give up on the things that make life feel worth living

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William Shakespeare — Macbeth

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Ghost - Death Knell [x]

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mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be.

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This man and these tattoos

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“Ghosts are real, that much I know. I’ve seen them all my life…” 

CRIMSON PEAK (2015) | dir. Guillermo del Toro

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what if vampires are like mosquitoes and only the ladies drink blood

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—H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

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i am so fucking sick and tired of gentrified depop tiktok fads that exist for a month and perpetuate disgusting body standards and fast fashion and rich people bullshit i am tired of people looking polished and posh in their stupid fucking tennis skirts and designer dupes i'm tired of plastic surgery and young girls wanting to look completely grown i am tired of subcultures being gentrified and dissipated and disrespected i am tired of people having not a speck of personality to fit in i am tired of it all

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favourite unsettling short stories?

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins

“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst

“Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby” by Donald Barthelme

“Hunger Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe

“Haunted House” by Virginia Woolfe

“The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado

“The Resling-Bowe House is Haunted” by Yah Yah Scholfield

“Four Ethers” by Yah Yah Scholfield

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amy winehouse // valerie

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*banging pots and pans together* what the FUCK am I longing for?? WHAT IS IT??