California, 1974

Photo by daniel plan

Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch 1853-90), View of Arles, Flowering Orchards, 1889. Oil on canvas

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

24/7 christmas!

“In the distance, she beckons me with her blue silence. (She is my Wertherian Charlotte. My Lotte. Lottchen) Her mask perversely insures that she cannot speak. She is as wordless as [the rhinoceros]. She is even more mute than [the rhinoceros]. While the other masked figures in the front row are wearing the bauta, this blue woman wears the domino: an oval black mask kept in place by a button held between the teeth, an arrangement which rendered its wearer temporarily speechless. Her face becomes a single surreal eye and a huge open mouth, like a Francis Bacon silent scream”

(Carol Mavor on Pietro Longhi’s Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice (1751), Blue Mythologies)

Glasgow by Erin Catherine MacKenzie

photo by kenty chen ♡

a shirt made in the floda embroidery style. Heres the museum page

26th of november,

more anna karenina and my neverending love for kitty 🫶🏼✨

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