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Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

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Dress, c.1885

Dark red silk with woven black velvet floral motif trimmed with dark red chenille, black satin, and beads.

via valentine museum

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RAFAYEL: Falling into the sea with you isn't that bad.

LOVE AND DEEPSPACE — You and Midsummer

↳ XAVIER | RAFAYEL | CALEB | ZAYNE | SYLUS

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Manhwa icons

character: beom taeha

manhwa: tears on a withered flower

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Pendant

19th century

Germany

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Eduard Grützner, Peonies, 1914

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rafayel is love. he is darling. he's muse and masterpiece. tender and sweet. a beautiful soul.

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sometimes i just want to be taken care of by my fictional husband(s).

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St. Isaac's Cathedral by vaszlee.

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what type of person the signs should be with

aries: patient. i can’t think of a better word to describe what i’m about to say. as an aries, without realizing, you are not ready to open up so fast. it could take months for your lover(s) to get anything out of you emotionally. it takes you a long time to feel comfortable confiding in anyone, because you’re cautious, which is fine. patience is key when it comes to you. 

taurus: loyal. you need someone who will stick by you and choose you regardless of any circumstance. who will be your true friend when things get tough and sticky. someone who wants to be there, who wants to love you and stick by you and never wavers. 

gemini: commitment. you need someone who looks at you and knows they want to be with you for a long time. who wants to grow, cherish, love every single moment with you. you don’t want someone who’s only around sometimes, you want someone who wants to be around all the time, for years to come.

cancer: reassuring. you get scared. you get scared that people are going to walk away and not choose you and leave you hanging. you need someone who, without a doubt, will always give you those words of reassurance when those thoughts pop into your head.

leo: ambitious. you need this because you tend to be such a fierce, dedicated lover. it becomes your whole world. it consumes you. you need someone that has goals and has their life ahead of them so that you can mirror this, and not become so engulfed in just being theirs. so that you can grow with them, and not just latch onto their life.

virgo: understanding. you need someone who understands when your thoughts just won’t come out right. someone who doesn’t need the words and confusion. someone who just understands your sadness without saying one single thing.

libra: fun. you need someone that takes you away from your unnecessary stress everyday, and just makes you laugh. they need to put color into your world and make you excited and come alive again. you need them to not take life so seriously, because you’re just already so used to that.

scorpio: sensitive. you need someone to come in and understand where all those inner, strong, scary emotions come from. they need to help channel them and they need to be able to hold you and not let go when things just get way too hard to handle on your own. they need to be sensitive to the fact that you’ve been through some hard things, they need to be the shoulder to cry on.

sagittarius: devoted. you need someone that loves just as hard as you do. they will devote themselves to you just like you’ve always wanted. they need to be able to combine their life into yours and move gently forward with you.

capricorn: adventurous. someone who will take you away once in a while so that you can feel free. you need the relationship to have that outgoing energy, to pump you up when you’re feeling down, and, most importantly, take you places you’ve never been before. emotionally. mentally. spiritually. in every way,

aquarius: soft. you need someone who is soft for you. who would kill to see you happy, just as you would do for them. someone who isn’t afraid to show that they are so in love and captivated by you. 

pisces: intellectual. you need someone to set a spark within you mentally. someone who is easy to talk to, and who you feel comfortable talking about anything with. someone who not only can talk about your daily life with, but with the deep, scary, not so easy stuff. that’s where your real connection will come in.

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there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.

—Caitlyn Richardson, 'can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?', in milk fed

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Oh lawd😃

My sanity is #Gone! I thank God for a bestie who love LaDs just as much as I do 🙏!

(Credit: Hóngshǔ bǐngzǐ) -instagram

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instagram | photos are my own, reblogs fine, do not repost/reuse

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mistwalker/sylus