My boyfriend, music, History (the Middle ages and the Victorian era, in particular). Gothic art, architecture, fashion and photography. Literature, the theories and philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche, movies, witches and witchcraft, the full and the new moon, Victorian vampires, the occult, mist, candles, candelabra and chandeliers, the sound of harpsichords, violins, cellos and harps, sepulchral feeling, chivalry, medieval arms and costume, graveyards and cemetery art, good fairies(but especially the dark ones), haunted mansions, top-hats, velvet, laces, (the newly found) vinyl, fetish clothing, horror actors, divas and pinups from the 1920's to the 1960's, Angelica Houston's Morticia, Elvira, antiques, suits of arms, corsetry, pirates, fin de siècle decadence and dandies, cabarets and the burlesque, baroque, wigs, palaces, castles and ruins, the serpentine dancers, vintage, gothic and Victorian dolls, the costume and manner of the 1880s.
"(...)Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,/By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,/..Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, ..art sure no craven./Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -/Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'/Quoth the raven, ..Nevermore.'(...)"- The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
"There is a willow grows aslant a brook,/That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;/There with fantastic garlands did she come/Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples/That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds/Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;/When down her weedy trophies and herself/Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;/And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up/(...)To muddy death."
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Come,sweet death, I'll embrace thee
Tristesse de la Lune
"Ce soir, la lune rêve avec plus de paresse;/Ainsi qu'une beauté, sur de nombreux coussins,/Qui d'une main distraite et légère caresse/Avant de s'endormir le contour de ses seins,/Sur le dos satiné des molles avalanches,/Mourante, elle se livre aux longues pâmoisons,/Et promène ses yeux sur les visions blanches/Qui montent dans l'azur comme des floraisons.(...)"
Charles Baudelaire
the green fairy wants your soul,
but you are safe with me."
Merlin and Vivian
"Sir Merlin, thou hast taught me long,/And taught me wondrous well,/The magic power of sign and song,/And necromantic spell./(Thus spake the Lady Viviane, It is peerless paramoure,/As they in dalliance fond and fain
Lay in their forest bower.(...)"
Merlin's Tomb, Robert Buchanan.
My locket from Alchemy gothic. Beautiful, isn't it?
"The Sick Rose"
"O Rose thou art sick./
The invisible worm, /That flies in the night/
In the howling storm:/Has found out thy bed/
Of crimson joy:/And his dark secret love/Does thy life destroy."
William Blake
Mark of the Vampire
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
The passion of lovers is for death said she
My lovely lady dolls: Morgana Living Dead Doll, Maggot Living Dead Doll, Julia Doom Begoth, Leda Swanson Begoth
I'd like to meet:
Other living dead dolls hehehe..
No one in particular and everyone in general; people who have the same interests as me and have something to share. I'm here, by no means, for dating for I already met my prince charming.
I don't add everyone: I don't usually add private profiles (drop me a line first, please)
and I don't add people with whom I see I don't have anything in common.
Bare in mind that when I add people as friends, they're not just a number. I do intend, as much as possible, to stay in touch with them and i'd like you to do the same.
As for messages with emails and msn, I don't answer to them, so don't waste your time sending that kind of stuff.
La Danse Macabre, also called Dance of death, La Danza Macabra, or Totentanz.
No matter one's station in life, the dance of death unites all.
"The reward of sin is death? That’s hard./
Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas./If we say that we have no sin,/
We deceive ourselves, and there’s no truth in us./
Why then belike we must sin,/And so consequently die./
Ay, we must die an everlasting death./
What doctrine call you this? Che sarà , sarà :/
What will be, shall be! Divinity, adieu!"
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
"The living ... have a look at the living:/Dancing blindly ... losing balance,/Will you chose pain ... or will you prefer the penance;/The penance./The living and the undead,/A ballet of the living and the living dead"
Sopor Aeternus- The penance and pain
A Witches coven
drinking life away into sweet oblivion,
waiting for the slow pacing of time
I'll drink from the cup of poison,
when the time comes.
"Life is Cabaret, old chum/Come to the Cabaret."
Corsetry
The most common and well-known use of corsets is to slim the body and make it conform to a fashionable silhouette.
Janine Charrat
the motion picture, "Ballerina," brought her international acclaim. she continued her ballet studies with the top teachers in Paris. She became the dance partner of Roland Petit and had such success that the critics dubbed her the "Little Princess." When Petit formed his Ballets des Camps Elysees, she became a featured ballerina with the company.
"He made me put on my choker, the family heirloom of one woman who had escaped the blade. With trembling fingers, I fastened the thing about my neck.It was cold as ice and chilled me.(...) He kissed those blazing rubbies too. He kissed them, before he kissed my mouth.
Rapt , he intoned:'of her apparel she retains/only her sonourous jewelry.'(...)"
in The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter.
“A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw: / It was an Abyssinian maid, / And on her dulcimer she played, / Singing of Mount Abora.â€
Coleridge
Mata Hari.
The term belly-dance is a creation of Orientalism, and is was attested in English, from the French danse du ventre.
It has traditional associations with both religious and erotic elements. This ambiguity has caused belly dance to be disdained, scorned, and loved by many. Its apparent origins are the fertility cults of the ancient world.
"Love, said Solomon, is stronger than Death. And truly, its mysterious power knows no bounds.(...) / He came over to her side. In joy, in divine, oblivious, deathless joy, their lips were united! (...)/ "Ah, I remember!" he cried." I remember now! What am I doing? — You, you are dead!" And at that moment, when that word was spoken, the mystic lamp before the ikon was extinguished.(...) The candles grew pale and went out/Suddenly, as if in reply, a shining object fell with a metallic ring from off the nuptial bed.(...) Stooping down, the forsaken one seized it, and, as he recognized the object, his face was illumined with a sublime smile. It was the key of the
tomb."
in Vera, by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Loiuse Brooks
Bacchant.
Bacchants united in the worship of Dionysos.
They were"maddened" beyond the normal degree by Dionysiac inspiration. Considered blessed, when called to Thebes to worship Dionysos, they were driven to a state of ecstasy.
The bacchant is loosely described as worshiping Cybele, the "Great Mother" or earth-goddess of Asia.
" (...)The lady was deposited in her family vault, which, for three subsequent years, was undisturbed. At the expiration of this term it was opened for the reception of a sarcophagus; - -- but, alas! how fearful a shock awaited the husband, who, personally, threw open the door! As its portals swung outwardly back, some white-apparelled object fell rattling within his arms. It was the skeleton of his wife in her yet unmoulded shroud./
A careful investigation rendered it evident that she had revived within two days after her entombment; that her struggles within the coffin had caused it to fall from a ledge, or shelf to the floor, where it was so broken as to permit her escape. (...)"
The Premature Burial-
by Edgar Allen Poe
"Let me sleep, for my soul is intoxicated with love/ and
Let me rest, for my spirit has had its bounty of days and nights;/Light the candles and burn the incense around my bed,/ and Scatter leaves of jasmine and roses over my body;
Embalm my hair with frankincense and sprinkle my feet with perfume,/And read what the hand of Death has written on my forehead"./Kahlil Gibran
..
"(...)
I met a lady in the meads/Full beautiful, a faery's child;/ Her hair was long, her foot was light,/And her eyes were wild./I set her on my pacing steed, /And nothing else saw all day long;/For sideways would she lean, and sing / A faery's song.(...)"
La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
"Hail, horrors, hail! ye ever-gloomy bowers/ Ye gothic fanes and antiquated towers/Where rushy Camus' slowly-winding flood/Perpetual draws his humid train of mud/
Glad I revisit thy neglected reign/Oh, take me to thy peaceful shade again.(...)" Sir Thomas gray
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,/
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea/
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,/
And leaves the world to darkness and to me."
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard- Sir Thomas Gray
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways/
Beside the springs of Dove,/
A Maid whom there were none to praise/
And very few to love:/
A violet by a mossy stone/
Half hidden from the eye!/
Fair as a star, when only one/
Is shining in the sky./
She lived unknown, and few could know/
When Lucy ceased to be;/
But she is in her grave, and oh,/
The difference to me!"/
William Wordsworth.
Victorian lady's proper demeanour:
Carry Yourself with Grace.
Be Graceful in Your Manners.
Laugh at the Appropriate Time.
Kiss Sparingly
Refrain from Eyeing Over Other Women.
Greet Friends with Discretion.
Be able to sing,
Play an instrument
speak a little French or Italian,
be innocent, virtuous, biddable and dutiful.
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Music:
Gothic music, ancient medieval, dark wave, dark ambient, neo-folk, classical, electronic, experimental, some pop from the 80's, new wave, post-punk, horror psychobilly and punk, deathrock, batcave, dark cabaret, gothic metal and so many other things. Bands: the Cure, Ataraxia, Lacrimosa, Type O Negative, Nenia calladhan, London After midnight, Sopor Aeternus, Malize Mizer, In Extremo, Theatre des vampires, The Mission, Nick Cave, Dead Can Dance, The Cramps, Nightwish, Siouxsie and the banshees, Nox Arcana, Corvus Corax, The Smiths, Peter Murphy, Pantagruel, Angels In Agony, Astrovamps, heroes del Silencio, Inkubus Sukkubus, Moix dis Moix, Paul Mercer, Black Tape For a Blue Girl, Bordello, unto ashes, Skeletal Family, the Creatures, Mortuo Similis, 45 Grave, Ex-VoTo, troubadors, Persephone, Love Is Colder Than Death, As the Raven Calls, UK Decay, Anders Manga, Louisa John Krol, BlutEngel, RazorBladeKisses, Depeche Mode, Arcana, Daemonia Nymphe, Moonspell, Theatre of tragedy, Rammstein, Dargaard, L'ame Immortelle, Fields of the Nephilim, Vampakis Vaticit ,Cinema Strange, Trobar de Morte, Sisters of Mercy, Hagalaz Runedance, Joy Divison, Bauhaus, Leaves' Eyes.....
When I die, I want to know about it.
Don't want to wander undead among the crowd..
Like those who don't know they are already dead,
haunting those who waste their lives.
Movies:
I really love horror movies, but nowadays i'm too scared to watch them... So thank God I still have Tim Burton's fabulous films and Jonnhy Depp's whole filmography! Some of my favourite films (apart from all Burton's)are: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Reine Margot, The hunger, Interview with Vampire, From Hell, Velvet Goldmine, Ninth gate, Lord of the Rings, Chucky (Child's Play 1 & 2), the Libertine, lost highway, the shadow of the vampire, The Addams Family, The Crow, a clockwork Orange, Shining, Trainspoting...
Pictures of some of my favourite movies:
Pictures in a Scroll Box
"All the poems have wolves in them.
All but one. The most beautiful one of all.
She dances in a ring of fire and throws off
the challenge/ with a shrug."
"She's your little voodoo dolly
And she's gonna make you lazy
Like a little drum in your ear
Transfixes you to your fear
And now she's transfixed in your fear
And you know she's gonna stay there
Because her nails are deep in your hair
And she made you so ... unaware"
Siouxsie and the Banshees- Voodoo Dolly
Television:
The BlackAdder, Nighty Night, Absolutely Fabulous and other britcom series, L' hospital ( Lars Von Trier series), Twin Peaks, Poirot and Sherlock Holmes series, Count Duckula, the PowerGoth girls, Beavis and Butt-head, six feet under, documentaries on historical figures, supernatural, literature or culture
Dream dreams of death, of eternity.
Pray for a sweet death, death in your sleep
Mesmerize pain , mesmerize sorrow, mesmerize life. Hope for eternal dream, eternal life, eternal death.
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Which hurts and is desired."
William Shakespeare
Stages of Courtly Love:
Attraction to the lady, usually via eyes/glance /Worship of the lady from afar/Declaration of passionate devotion/ Virtuous rejection by the lady/
Renewed wooing with oaths of virtue and eternal fealty /
Moans of approaching death from unsatisfied desire (and other physical manifestations of lovesickness)/ Heroic deeds of valor which win the lady's heart/ Consummation of the secret love/Endless adventures and subterfuges avoiding detection.
Books:
The classics: Arthurian legends, celtic and medieval tales, but also the Romantic and Gothic literature from 19th century, of course! I just love everything related to knights, vampires, witches... Authors: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Edgar Alan Poe, Eça de Queirós, Baudelaire, Anne Rice, Fernando Pessoa, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sir Thomas Mallory, Florbela Espanca, Anais Nin, Alexandre Herculano, Valentine Penrose, Alighieri Dante, Alexandre Dumas, Henry James, Tim Burton (you've read it right, he's here too for i love The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy), Tolkien, Marquis de Sade, Bernard Cornwell, Antero de Quental, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, William Blake, Oscar Wilde, Mário de Sá Carneiro, Mary Shelley, Sheridan LeFanu, Byron...
Heroes:
The lives of the following people (their art and ideas) make my life richer and more beautiful.They are my true inspiration. This is a way of saying thank you to all of them.
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