if her energy is weak, there's barely any moonlight (since she usually appears at night), or someone is a skeptic: she will appear almost faded / transparent, like the stereotypical ghost of folklore. her form may even "flicker" now & then, like a flame trying desperately to stay. if her energy is strong, there's a lot of moonlight, or someone is more sensitive / a believer: she will appear like a regular mortal, albeit with some... subtle differences. paler skin, eyes a bit more forlorn & faraway, & when she speaks or sings; it may sound like multiple women at once, soft (nearly hushed) and intertwined with her tone. either way ... sometimes she is dressed in the clothing she passed away in (a simple pure-white dress to her ankles, barefoot, hair long and let loose) or an outfit she enjoyed in her lifetime (will do a fashion post soon <3)

— Anne Carson, “On Walking Backwards”

— helga floros, from “Insomnia,” published in Occulum

Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (tr. by Stuart Gilbert & Lionel Abel), 1947

SANSA: will you pardon me, my lord? i'd like to visit the godswood. TYRION: of course. prayer can be... helpful, i hear. SANSA: i don't pray anymore. it's the only place i can go where people don't talk to me.

Yana Kuzu

Susann Carmen Jagodzinska

Paul Valéry, from “Fragments of the Narcissus” in The Collected Works