Gothic Charm School: pretty things

Jun 19

Yeeeah, the Bandom playlist is in my future. Take whatever meaning you want from that. Also, I need to trim my bangs.

Yeeeah, the Bandom playlist is in my future. Take whatever meaning you want from that. Also, I need to trim my bangs.

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I just met a vendor at the office who took one look at me, smiled and said, “It’s like I’m in a Tim Burton movie!”, then bowed and kissed my hand. A bright spot in my day.

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Yes. Bunny, looking for tea. This is what my morning needs. 

Yes. Bunny, looking for tea. This is what my morning needs. 

(Source: heartsarehollow, via arliss)

Jun 18

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victoriousvocabulary: EIDOLISM [noun] a belief in ghosts. Etymology: from Greek eidolon, εἴδωλον - ”image, idol, double, apparition, phantom, ghost”. [Don Maitz]

victoriousvocabulary:

EIDOLISM

[noun]

a belief in ghosts.

Etymology: from Greek eidolon, εἴδωλον - ”image, idol, double, apparition, phantom, ghost”.

[Don Maitz]

You can almost smell the AquaNet from this .gif. iwilldieintheflames: dark eighties..

You can almost smell the AquaNet from this .gif.

iwilldieintheflames:

dark eighties..

(via strangedayshavefoundme666)

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Napkins, my darling. Let me explain the concept to you while I get you one of those Tide stain-removal pens. 

Napkins, my darling. Let me explain the concept to you while I get you one of those Tide stain-removal pens. 

(Source: gothereal, via theeverydaygoth)

On the one hand, I LOVE my ankh rosary. On the other hand, the chain between the beads keeps snagging on my lace dresses. #gothproblems

On the one hand, I LOVE my ankh rosary. On the other hand, the chain between the beads keeps snagging on my lace dresses. #gothproblems

abigaillarson: gdfalksen: Description: During the Victorian period cures for diseases were often more dangerous than the illness itself. Laudanum is a notable example of the Victorian cure. Pharmacies could prescribe the dangerous drug over the counter unchecked. It would be taken for many ailments including headaches and menstrual cramps. Some women would even use the drug to obtain a pale complexion, as frailty among women was considered attractive. However, Laudanum was addictive due to its opium content. Notable addicts were Lord Bryon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (who wrote the poem Kubla Khan while in a Laudanum induced state), Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Edgar Allen Poe. The drug is also mentioned in numerous Victorian books; such as Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.Neuralgia was a fairly unknown disease till John Locke in 1677 was asked to help the Countess of Northumberland. Previously numerous doctors had tried to describe the condition but failed to fully understand the illness. Locke was able to decrease the pain the Countess was feeling by treating her with laxative therapy.Later during the 1700s other doctors built on Locke’s ideas and started to prescribe surgery to help the patient. By 1820 Charles Bell had completed the research by separating the disease from others and actually caused the condition to be named trigeminal neuralgia. The medicine pictured would have been prepared by Dale’s Chemist, Stoke-on-Trent from Adams’s recipe to ‘cure’ Neuralgia. I had a dream a few nights ago that I was living in my house, but it looked like it would have in 1900 when it was built. I was laying in a bed, while someone stood over me trying to get me to take laudanum. I woke up freaking out for a few minutes before I realized it was a dream. I’d of course heard about laudanum, but I didn’t know much about it. Maybe that’s what was in all those weird old bottles we found under the house… Someday I will have a collection of antique laudanum bottles. (I have also been known, after a hard day, to fling myself on the couch and piteously ask for laudanum. The RealHusband laughs at me and says no.)

abigaillarson:

gdfalksen:

Description: During the Victorian period cures for diseases were often more dangerous than the illness itself.

Laudanum is a notable example of the Victorian cure. Pharmacies could prescribe the dangerous drug over the counter unchecked. It would be taken for many ailments including headaches and menstrual cramps. Some women would even use the drug to obtain a pale complexion, as frailty among women was considered attractive. 
However, Laudanum was addictive due to its opium content. Notable addicts were Lord Bryon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (who wrote the poem Kubla Khan while in a Laudanum induced state), Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Edgar Allen Poe. The drug is also mentioned in numerous Victorian books; such as Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Neuralgia was a fairly unknown disease till John Locke in 1677 was asked to help the Countess of Northumberland. Previously numerous doctors had tried to describe the condition but failed to fully understand the illness. Locke was able to decrease the pain the Countess was feeling by treating her with laxative therapy.
Later during the 1700s other doctors built on Locke’s ideas and started to prescribe surgery to help the patient. By 1820 Charles Bell had completed the research by separating the disease from others and actually caused the condition to be named trigeminal neuralgia. The medicine pictured would have been prepared by Dale’s Chemist, Stoke-on-Trent from Adams’s recipe to ‘cure’ Neuralgia.

I had a dream a few nights ago that I was living in my house, but it looked like it would have in 1900 when it was built. I was laying in a bed, while someone stood over me trying to get me to take laudanum. I woke up freaking out for a few minutes before I realized it was a dream. I’d of course heard about laudanum, but I didn’t know much about it. Maybe that’s what was in all those weird old bottles we found under the house…

Someday I will have a collection of antique laudanum bottles. (I have also been known, after a hard day, to fling myself on the couch and piteously ask for laudanum. The RealHusband laughs at me and says no.)

(Source: karen-meredith)

Before I vanish into the depths of work, here, a photo of Dave Vanian and a swooning creature of the night.

Before I vanish into the depths of work, here, a photo of Dave Vanian and a swooning creature of the night.

(Source: ignore-the-machine, via androgynous-space-demon)