~ Female Face.

the thing about the dance is that. the entire pointless horror of it really shines through aegon and viserys. grrm took the pathos of the princes in the tower enigma from the war of the roses and reversed it. the tragedy isn’t that the children died - it’s that they were the only ones who lived. and so the kingdom rearranges itself around boy kings with gaping wounds for souls because that’s what feudal systems do - but what can you do with a targaryen king who cannot stand the sight of a dragon ? the magic is gone. the tragedy must degrade into a farce. and right on cue here comes aegon the fourth!

The end of this show will be the end of me

The Story of The Lost Child, Elena Ferrante

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”

—Marguerite Duras, The Lover.

MBF Characters As Quotes Pt. 2: Lila & Stefano

god.

heart handbag by ROTHBARTH

Cinema in Naples, 1956

Cassandra

Credit…Parco Archeologico di Pompei

- Karen M. Dunak, “The White Wedding Revived” in As Long As We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America