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Beauty and the Beast: After the Beast
“I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”
- from A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (2019)
i have no idea whether bobbing the tea bag up and down actually does anything but it’s nice to feel like i’m contributing in some way
Clotted cream cookie layouts
With a royalcore aesthetic // requested by no one
Dark cacao cookie reply icons
With a dark purple royalcore aesthetic // requested by anon
A night of thunder storm n I sit beside my window talking with a friend …..
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This is a introduction post that I never thought would turn out this … That I’ll create just another fragile piece of my heart ……
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Hiding in a cottage far away in the English countryside after we killed the king at the royal ball.
What if we ran back through the halls of the castle after I snuck you out for the night, returning to your room with hushed whispers and drunken laughter.
«Всё, что вы любите, и есть вы». Фраза, которую персидский поэт Джалаладдин Руми изрёк в далёком XIII столетии, пожалуй, до сих пор остаётся самым ёмким изречением о природе человеческой натуры.
Мир таит в себе прекрасное и уродливое, возвышенное и низменное, доброе и ужасное, и мы по крупицам вбираем в себя проявления каждой категории, переплавляя их и выковывая уникальные узоры своих душ. В нас просачивается только то, что мы готовы в себя впустить, то, что уживётся внутри нас, свернётся клубком и заурчит, как прирученный дракон.
Заглядывая внутрь себя, я вижу это дикое, сумбурное, причудливо сплетающееся нагромождение вещей, впечатлений от воспоминаний, выдуманных персонажей, мест, смазанных временем ощущений, клочков прочитанных где-то и когда-то фраз, обрывков сновидений. Появившиеся и полюбившиеся в разные периоды моей жизни, все эти элементы похожи на разные по стилям архитектурные пристройки, добавленные к остову древнего здания.
Да. Всё, что вы любите, всё, что вы в себя вмещаете — действительно и есть вы.
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write a royal scene - inspo
More clothes since my laptop is still broke (and me too ahahhahahahah)
Make this one from a bedsheet my grandmother had in her fabric trunk and she was like fam idk what to do with this. And the lining was this random fabric also from the bin but u can’t see it since it’s….lining.
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from @cemalsamli
A moth devoured words. When I heard of that wonder it struck me as a strange event, that a worm should swallow the song of some human.
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Autumn is well and truly upon us now. I’m planning a shop update for this Saturday! It will include all of the pieces that are left from the @salemnightfaire and a preorder for the Black Linen Bise dresses. The preorder will be available in the UK Etsy shop also!
I’ll also be adding the rest of the Hel dresses to the shop!
Photo by @11milebay and @missykitty
Models @frochan and @alex.moy
#idodeclareshop #ixdoxdeclare #11milebayphotography #autumn #autumnleaves #fall #sheerdress #indiedesigner #queerfashion #gothgoth #gothfashion #battlewitch #witchstyle #witchesofinstagram #royalcore #royalaesthetic #prairiegoth #meshgown #lace #meshandlace #nbmodel #halloween #queerdesigner #queerowned #womanownedbusiness #shopsmall #slowfashion #heldress #skeleton (at New York City, N.Y.)
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And when they were met they put off their helms and kissed together, and wept for joy and pity.
Another reminder that the update has been pushed back to April 30th! I’m hoping to be able to add a few extra pieces as a result! I’m loving seeing everyone photos in their new Bise dresses so much. I will be adding more of those to the shop in the coming months, and hopefully a round of sleeveless ones for summer!
Flashback to early fall and this lovely day with @artemisiadraconia shot by @11milebay wearing atomic from @mytholon_store and @ironagecraft and crowns by @voodooodolly
@artemisiadraconia is wearing a sample version of the Cloisters gown and I am wearing a Sylvia dress backwards!
#idodeclareshop #knightcore #romantic #royalcore #shopsmall #slowfashion #armor #ladyknight #autumn #femmeknights #crowns #swords #chivalry #queerstyle #queerownedbusiness #smallbusiness #gothgoth #Knightaesthetic #battlewitch #VoodoooDolly #11milebayphotography #truelove (at Columbus, Ohio)
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For the dragon had as aids smoke and flame, teeth and claws sharper than a shearing knife, and she had only her sword.
The next update will be this next Saturday the 23rd! There will be a handful of one of a kind pieces and Sylvia dresses in lack and crimson!
Along with the Cuirass corset I’m working on a series of Theodorè bustiers for later. This is a style I keep coming back to and I’m so happy to finally be on the verge of releasing them.
I really can’t wait for the warmer weather to finally manifest where I am. We keep diving back into cold, dark days and I’m so ready to leave them behind.
@voodooodolly is wearing the Theodorè bustier, Cloisters dress and her own new crown style with a set of hand tied stormy grey Pearl necklaces.
#ixdoxdeclare #idodeclareshop #ladyknight #knightcore #heroandthecrown #womenwithswords #royalcore #romanticgoth #gothgoth #witchstyle #queerstyle #gothaesthetic #gothgothgoth #knightcore #renaissance #shopsmall (at Columbus, Ohio)
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⚔️ Noli Me Tangere ⚔️
⚔️ Touch Me Not ⚔️
Another from our little trip to the Dexter Mausoleum in Cincinnati.
My dearest @goatspell and I will be working on some collabs later this year. We’re aiming for a fall line of coordinating pieces. The benefit of living with your best friend, wife and a fellow creator is that you always get to build on each other’s ideas!
@goatspell is wearing their Hellebore style skirt, a “Noli Me Tangere” ribbon belt and Starry Halo from @voodooodolly , a sample blouse and a sample version of the Cuirass Corset.
Part of making any new piece is trying out different versions of the style to see what works and what doesn’t. This particular attempt at the Cuirass style didn’t have enough interior structure so it wrinkled in a way that thoroughly spoiled the illusion of armor. The real ones we’ll be releasing have boning all around and a layer of heavy canvas behind the silk shell. This gives them a more sculptural shape!
Figuring out what works best for each piece is time consuming but also means that I get to be very proud of the final style!
Is there anything behind the scenes you’re curious about when it comes to developing new styles?
#idodeclareshop #ixdoxdeclare #lesbianvampire #shopsmall #knight #nbknight #gothicstyle #gothicromance #royalcore #knightcore #queerfashion #queerowned #womanownedbusiness #springgrovecemetery #dextermausoleum #sword #swordcore #knightaesthetic #gothicarchitecture #gothgoth #romanticgoth #nolimetangere #medieval #medievalstyle #battlewitch #witchesofinstagram #witchstyle (at Spring Grove Cemetery)
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⚔️ Noli Me Tangere ⚔️
⚔️ Touch Me Not ⚔️
Another from our little trip to the Dexter Mausoleum in Cincinnati.
My dearest @goatspell and I will be working on some collabs later this year. We’re aiming for a fall line of coordinating pieces. The benefit of living with your best friend, wife and a fellow creator is that you always get to build on each other’s ideas!
@goatspell is wearing their Hellebore style skirt, a “Noli Me Tangere” ribbon belt and Starry Halo from @voodooodolly , a sample blouse and a sample version of the Cuirass Corset.
Part of making any new piece is trying out different versions of the style to see what works and what doesn’t. This particular attempt at the Cuirass style didn’t have enough interior structure so it wrinkled in a way that thoroughly spoiled the illusion of armor. The real ones we’ll be releasing have boning all around and a layer of heavy canvas behind the silk shell. This gives them a more sculptural shape!
Figuring out what works best for each piece is time consuming but also means that I get to be very proud of the final style!
Is there anything behind the scenes you’re curious about when it comes to developing new styles?
#idodeclareshop #ixdoxdeclare #lesbianvampire #shopsmall #knight #nbknight #gothicstyle #gothicromance #royalcore #knightcore #queerfashion #queerowned #womanownedbusiness #springgrovecemetery #dextermausoleum #sword #swordcore #knightaesthetic #gothicarchitecture #gothgoth #romanticgoth #nolimetangere #medieval #medievalstyle #battlewitch #witchesofinstagram #witchstyle (at Cincinnati)
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Can I tell you how much I value all my creative friends? People working to make things despite how much the world keeps trying to force them down, but also people supporting and encouraging anyone making art. I’m so glad to live in a time when it’s easier than ever to share things and get excited about making things with other people.
I’m working on new pieces for the shop update later this month and I’ll be doing my best to share sneak peeks as I finish pieces. Once all the Bise dresses arrive at their new homes I’ll be posting any of the extra pieces we finished up for sale!
Pictured: I am wearing a sample dress style with the new Cuirass corset and accompanying armaments
@voodooodolly is wearing the Cloister dress with her new gorgeous crown style!
#shopsmall #ixdoxdeclare #idodeclareshop #royalcore #knightcore #voodooodolly #gothicromance #crown #knight #medieval #gothicarchitecture #gothgoth #queerownedbusiness #queerstyle #knightly #romanticstyle #gothicfashion #queerfashion (at Spring Grove Cemetery)
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“The soothing regularity of this existence quickly cast a spell over him: he was charmed by the soft, resplendent benignancy of it all.”
— Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.
“… when the sun was still mild and the sea a dazzling white, still dreaming.”
— Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.
“That was Venice, alluring and dubiously entrancing.”
— Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.
“Do you see that poets can be neither sage nor dignified? That we always stray, adventurer in our emotions? The appearance of mastery in our style is a lie and foolishness, our fame a falsehood, the trust the public places in us is highly ridiculous, education of the young through art something that should be forbidden. Because how can someone be a good teacher when he has an inborn drive towards the abyss? We may deny it and gain dignity, but it still attracts us.
Therefore we deny it and instead seek beauty, simplicity, greatness and severity, of objectivity and form. But form and objectivity, Phaedo, lead the noble one to intoxication and desire, to horrible emotional transgressions rejected by his beautiful severity, lead to the abyss.
Us poets, I say, it leads there, for we are unable to elevate ourselves, instead we can only transgress.”
— Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.
“He whose preoccupation is with excellence longs fervently to find rest in perfection; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
— Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.
“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”
— Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.
— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘Dark Night’.“
Anthony Bridgerton
“Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night.”
— The Phantom of the Opera.
The view from the battlements. A cool fountain always calls to me on a day like today.
Casa Loma details.
Casa Loma’s halls
A new self-portrait, perhaps a bit fancier than I intended. I was just very excited about this new green dress, which is really just a cotton sundress in person.
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I think about my time here more than you know
