If Your Dear Heart Is Wounded, My Wild Heart Bleeds With Yours.

“if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.”

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla, 1872

Edit after George Ellery Hale (Rijksmuseum) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)

THE MARTYR; hilary mantel / arch budzar / wikipedia / franz kafka / anne carson / pinterest / velázquez, christ crucified (image) / cohen 1988 interview / sweatermuppet

sorry man its nothing personal but if i dont kill you my cursed sword will call me a pussy

dance shoes worn by marie taglioni, 1829. (coll. taglioni, nmi, den haag) .

A woman’s “poesy ring” with initials, from 1592, made of gold and rock crystal. On the ring’s inner surface is inscribed, “The cruel seas, remember, took him in November.” From a love token to a memorial/ mourning ring, a fate that often befell many wives or mistresses of sailors.