Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow; I shall sing when night’s decay Ushers in a drearier day.

Apotheosis, 1901 by Sergius Hruby (Austrian, 1869--1943)

Ready for summer?

This is not a place of honor.

"The Lady of Shalapawt" by John Whiskers Waterhouse

Émile Zola’s photograph of Manet’s Portrait of Émile Zola installed above Zola’s fireplace, 1900 source

Claire Burbridge - Tree Study 2 (Triptych), 2019

Mihri Müşfik Hanım, Mirror Eye, 1926

me because I have an unhealthy addiction to characters being evil

i was already into them, you don't need to sell em to me more.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

Still Life - French Novels and Rose (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

北海一角 1987 watercolor 54 x 74.5cm via

Cathédrale et décombres nocturnes by Gustave Fraipont (Belgian-born French, 1849--1923) 

That’s why I read, as a stranger, My being as if it were pages. Not knowing what will come And forgetting what has passed, I note in the margin of my reading What I thought I felt. Rereading, I wonder: “Was that me?” God knows, because he wrote it.

The human enigma, c.1900, by Giorgio Kienerk (Italian, 1869--1948)