stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood

Rooney Mara (pre-production photoshoot) as Lisbeth Salander.

saintlilithhh

The Vampire Dancer | Vampyrdanserinden | 1912 | dir. August Blom

Josephine Baker with her pet cheetah Chiquita, 1931.

Os Bórgias - Alejandro Jodorowski & Milo Manara

Della, one of exploitation’s few feminine “predatory lesbians” - whose advances are reciprocated and doesn’t die in the end(!) - in Bad Girls Go To Hell (Doris Wishman, 1965).

Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice, 1988, Akio Jissoji

Woods Are Wet (Tatsumi Kumashiro, 1973)

by Nagato Iwasaki

Distressed Wood Figures, Aaron Demetz

THE FALL costumes appreciation: 2/8 (costume design by Eiko Ishioka)

these are equal parts underwater city and underwater forest

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

no thoughts. just anya taylor-joys anatomically correct heart cakes at her wedding

daughters of the dust 1991 | dir. Julie Dash

Mia Sara dans "Legend" de Ridley Scott (1985), décembre 2023.

I have never seen her with her hair down, and she looks like she’s in some sort of nightgown. Doesn’t she just look like a perfect Pre-Raphaelite beauty here?