26th Of November,

One of the most important themes in Female Gothic fiction is the freedom granted to women, as Moers states “[Women] can scuttle miles along castle corridors, descend into dungeons, and explore secret chambers without a chaperone, because the Gothic castle, however ruined, is an indoor and therefore freely female space”.

Overlook Abbey: Whispers of the Female Gothic in Stephen King’s The Shining, Justin Montgomery

“What does it even mean to write a poem? It means today I’m correcting my mistakes. It means I don’t want to be lonely.”

— Jennifer Chang, from “Again a Solstice,” Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books, 2017)

Iceland | ( by Niklas )

“The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse,”

— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via weltenwellen)

rainy days = an ungodly amount of mochas

the ✘-files | 4x17: tempus fugit