asparagus is in season: character playlist for francis abernathy from the secret history
dark academia but it’s girls: imagine the secret history, dead poets society, and if we were villains but all the male characters are replaced with female counterparts
donna tartt’s walkman: some music donna tartt probably listened to from her bennington days into her secret history days; also evokative of a sexually ambiguous classics student from a homoerotic dark academia novel
the holy trinity: florence, mitski, and hozier
prep school nostalgia: best of my effy stonem phase
scary girl fall: inspired by the gory girls from suspiria, midsommar, the vvitch, the moth diaries, and ginger snaps
turtleneck season: 'tis the season to become the pretentious protagonist of a modern greek tragedy (dark academia but it’s girls pt. 2)
slavic androgynous bette davis and the incongruous meathead: playlist for the goldfinch starring russian vampire and erudite sad boy
ode to the 2010s: music that shaped me in my formative years
After years of being asked why I never smile, why I walk through life with my head down and have lower self-esteem and self-confidence than a middle-aged woman going through a divorce. I reply in the same way each time. “I’m damn peachy.” If you tell enough people the same thing for long enough, it sticks to you. And you find everyone you know, calling you peaches.
Love her more than you love a morning cup of tea on cold winter mornings when even the sun doesn’t want to wake up. Love her more than you love sitting in the shade on hot and dry summer days. Love her more than you love big sweaters and curling up in bed on a lazy Sunday. Love her more than all of these things, because she is the one sat beside you with her own cup of tea, wrapping arms around you just so you aren’t cold, because she warms you up more than any cup of tea ever could. Love her more because she is the one sprawled across your lap on those dry summer days. Love her more because it’s her sweater that hangs from your body, as you cling to her on those lazy Sundays.
Peaches n Cream Arms wrap around my waist, While lips press to my neck. Cream, is the smoothness of your voice. Cream, is your milky white skin. Peaches is what I am to her, Peaches, after my short hair as blonde as a peach. Peaches, after my blushed cheeks that you cause.
I am the artist in blue. my hands are permanently stained and I have started to associate myself with, Blue. Transforming my body into blue anyway I could. Making it look like my breakable form was a stormy sea, rather than admitting I’m weaker than a drop of morning dew.