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since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

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desire beyond desire, searching beyond searching

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“What am I interested in? Passion. Obsession.”

— Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

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Favorite quotes about winter time?

Margaret Atwood, from “Crickets”, The Door (2007)

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939–1944

Clarice Lispector, from the short story “Love”, Family Ties (1960)

Gillian Flynn, from Gone Girl

Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady

Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre

and many more, should I post them all?❄️️

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HE’S DOING HIS BEST

Faust | Pepi | Chimes&Flamel

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Edgar Allan Poe, from The Complete Works of E. A. P; “Politian,”

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This is Halloween, this is Halloween, pumpkins scream in the dead of night This is Halloween, everybody make a scene, trick or treat till the neighbours come and die of fright It’s our town, everybody scream, in this town of Halloween

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 1993 | dir. Henry Selick

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Words to describe facial expressions

Absent: preoccupied 

Agonized: as if in pain or tormented

Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire

Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

Beatific: blissful

Black: angry or sad, or hostile

Bleak: hopeless

Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern

Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent

Brooding: anxious and gloomy

Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

Cheeky: cocky, insolent

Cheerless: sad

Choleric: hot-tempered, irate

Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings

Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor

Despondent: depressed or discouraged

Doleful: sad or afflicted

Dour: stern or obstinate

Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

Ecstatic: delighted or entranced

Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible

Fixed: concentrated or immobile

Gazing: staring intently

Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive

Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion

Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic

Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness

Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty

Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism

Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant

Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit

Jeering: insulting or mocking

Languid: lazy or weak

Leering: sexually suggestive

Mild: easygoing

Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful

Pained: affected with discomfort or pain

Peering: with curiosity or suspicion

Peeved: annoyed

Pleading: seeking apology or assistance

Quizzical: questioning or confused

Radiant: bright, happy

Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident

Sardonic: mocking

Sour: unpleasant

Sullen: resentful

Vacant: blank or stupid looking

Wan: pale, sickly

Wary: cautious or cunning

Wide eyed: frightened or surprised

Withering: devastating

Wrathful: indignant or vengeful

Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

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Charlotte Brontë, from “Jane Eyre”

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Tom Hiddleston as Thomas Sharpe CRIMSON PEAK (2015)

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“I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.”

— Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)

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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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—Lilllium, from In Place Of The Mirror is a Portait of You

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“I swear your love would raise me out of my grave, in my flesh and blood, like Lazarus; hungry for this, and this, and this, your living kiss.”

— Rapture; ‘If I Was Dead’ by Carol Ann Duffy