I KNEW THAT THE HEAD TILTS AND DESPERATION WERE FAMILIAR 😭😭😭

ps the GIFs aren't mine I have no idea how to make them

Late Victorian brooch with a man in the moon cameo carved from transparent moonstone, set in white and rose gold with a border of diamonds and rubies.

GIRL

G I R L

THIS FUCKING THING LITERALLY MADE ME DO THE FULL SPECTRUM OF HUMAN EMOTIONS

Jesus

It really started with a hitching need to strangle him SO HOW I WAS SUPPOSED TO HANDLE ALL THE STUFF THAT CAME AFTER

HOW

Also as always I am super concerned with rafayels idea of consent, or lack thereof.

Like baby pls love yourself a bit 😭

ALSO THE MC love the MC with rafayel, like LOVE HER. MY GIRL IS SPOT ON AND I AM 10/10 ON BOARD WITH EVERYTHING SHE DOES EVEN WHEN SHE LEAVES ME SPEECHLESS (the cage and whipping thing I was clutching my PEARLS)

I am still so????

MASTER?????

Girl I am discovering things about myself I didn't even know WERE THERE SEND HELP

museum dates and late night walks

I just did the test to see which character in lads I am I literally beg your last available pardon what the fuck is this

An Art Nouveau ‘Bat’ necklace, attributed to Lucien Janvier, circa 1900. Composed of silver, silver gilt, plique-à-jour enamel and pearls.

A message from miss bodyguard

Victorian 14k Gold Chalcedony Intaglio Ring

“I, with my romantic need and longing,”

— Susan Sontag, from a journal entry featured in Reborn: Journals & Notebooks (1947-1963)

Cameo with Medusa, mid-1800s. Attributed to Luigi Saulini, 1819-1883. Sardonyx, gold mount.

A drawing of the wonderful coton_crayon.

Other ask lol This is a bit spoiler-y in regards to Rafayel's lore.

Rafayel's Your Fragrance card is visually stunning and quite sexy, but when the scent of the perfume is described, it sounded exactly like the potion he had witch MC make him.

And his reaction as he's sniffing MCs wrist actually breaks my heart. Who do you think he meant when he said "is this how they're trying to trap me?" (Not verbatim, I can't remember the exact words)

Spoiler alert!!!

I’m honestly pretty insane about Rafayel’s myths and past, even though there’s a vague “missing” period of his life with little info to go off of, so I’ve thought about this often, actually. I have all of Rafayel’s cards so far, and what I’ve put together so far is this: MC was—at some point—forced to collude with someone against Rafayel. Not of their own will, but still, it happened. Rafayel, having already been smitten by them, is PRECISELY the kind of person to let himself get caught despite his own instincts telling him to run away. However, getting caught = getting hurt, and it was inevitable despite his love for them. The potion is reminiscent of both his first love and his first betrayal, and he can’t exactly tell those two apart—because damn it, does he love them, but he’s doomed to death if he stays.

Also, another thing is that in his first myths, Rafayel is promised to MC as an almost-slave. He’s essentially her toy, and as a princess she has every right to destroy him should she wish to. It’s a horrifyingly cruel concept, but it’s very much true. Being “tied up” or “trapped” is a very recurrent theme in Rafayel’s lore, and it’s exactly BECAUSE he knows just how willingly he would go along with it and how he’d absolutely risk it all just to see/be with MC. Through it all, he still has the instincts of a fighter and a God. It’s a battle between nature vs. desire. It’s tragic, and it means that his reservations can never fully go away, and that he’s always naturally weak for the MC, but it’s also the only way he’s ever known how to love, and he’ll throw himself into it.

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

Auguste Rodin

L'éternelle idole, 1889