!dg – valerian house archive

e-seal:

trashcanbees:

Y’all really have the audacity to be surprised when your hedonistic lifestyle is unfulfilling

they got internet in the 1300′s? dope

redlipstickresurrected:

Quentin Regnes (French, b. Nîmes, France, based Paris, France) – Collector, 2015 Digital Arts: Paintings

aleyma:

Coffin pendant with woven hair inside, made in England, 1703 (source).

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via antigonick)

knightjar:

michaelwalsh:

tilthat:

TIL that in 1847, a doctor performed an amputation in 25 seconds, operating so quickly that he accidentally amputated his assistant’s fingers as well. Both later died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality rate.

via reddit.com

nice job idiot

Amputation: Any% Run

wraithlings:

“Blood Oranges. Such a dramatic beauty and name to this citrus that has a raspberry-like flavor. Hailing from the Southern Mediterranean, where they have been grown since the 18th century.”

Photographs by Laurie Leahy

ignudiamore:

Study of Salome for “Salome Dancing before Herod”.

Gustave Moreau.

…golden October declined into sombre November
And the apples were gathered and stored, and the land became
brown sharp points of death in a waste of water
and mud,

T. S. Eliot, from “Murder in the Cathedral” (via mirroir)