when the quarantine is over we are bringing back the cult of dionysus
“She had bought herself a blotting book, writing case, pen-holder, and envelopes, although she had no one to write to; she dusted her what-not, looked at herself in the glass, picked up a book, and then, dreaming between the lines, let it drop on her knees. She longed to travel or to go back to her convent. She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris.”
— Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
when will lord byron come back from the dead to validate my romantic goth taste in fashion?
Dreamy guestroom in interior designer Howard Slatkin’s Fifth Avenue apartment [x]
Coffee shop AUs are the 21st century version of the pastoralist fantasy, where the gruelling work of the lower classes is reconceptualized as a simple self-sufficient way of life where romance can blossom.