it is actually lupus

- Lyudmilla Ignatenko, the wife of deceased firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, Voices from Chernobyl, by Svetlana Alexeivich (transl. Keith Gessen)

Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)

— Atticus

About this time I also painted the Princess de Lamballe. Without being actually pretty, she appeared so at a little distance; she had small features, complexion of dazzling freshness, superb blond locks, and was generally elegant in person. The unhappy end of this unfortunate Princess is sufficently well known, and so is the devotion to which she fell a victim. For in 1793, when she was at Turin, entirely out of harm’s way, she returned to France upon learning that the Queen was in danger.

please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh i could recognize anywhere

A 19th century illustration of the hameau de la reine at Versailles. [source: quali-gravues on ebay]

“Considering the time you’ve taken away from your craft, you’ve really just jumped right back in!” - Taylor Swift to her mother, Andrea.

The first place I’d like to visit when this lockdown is over. IG: draculelle