Mina; Reading Jonathan’s Diary: Why Does It Say Here The Count Calls You Baby Girl

7.5.22

super productive day! bike ride with my dad, errand running with mom, so much homework, and starting a self portrait now to finish off the evening :)

also i should note that yesterday i noticed my first two white/gray hairs wtf

The shepherdess, c. 1900. Edward Frederick Brewtnall (British, 1846–1902)

Daisy Ridley as Ophelia in Ophelia (2018)

“The Countess Brownlow” By Sir Frederic Leighton (1879)

i adore how arcane fans have unanimously decided that vi braided jinx’s hair when she was little and silco braids her hair when she’s grown up i love how it’s practically canon now not even debatable

summary of my last week and weekend. absolutely devouring dracula, i love it sm. biked to a coffeee shop with my dad too💛. starting one of my summer classes this week!!

“The Roses of Heliogalabus” By Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1888)

“Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent.”

“In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his guests in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top.”

In Bath, England (2018)

Mother, tell me what to do. How do I breathe without also choking on the air? How do I grow up without also losing my innocence?

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

i love reading sad books bc when your own grief is stopped up inside you like a clogged drain you can grieve for a character on a page and understand that you're also grieving for yourself a little bit