Digital painting of a woman with porcelain skin, blonde hair, and green eyes. She's wearing a silver dress covered in overlapping armadillo-like scales that are mirrored like a disco ball. It has a high collar. She's wearing on her head a metal hat in an abstract shape resembling a bird head mixed with a crab claw. Her hands are bare up until the knuckles, but each finger is encased in a silver claw-like ornament. She's holding a black riding crop.

Apex Society Pinups: Clarimonde. #art #vampire #vampires #clarimonde #theophilegautier #fashion #characterdesign #costumedesign #dress #dressdesign #dracula #bramstokersdracula #pulp

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Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu, quand il ne veut pas signer. Théophile Gautier

#theophilegautier #citationdujour #hasard #dieu

𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

A few of the titles I'll be reading this month! (And yes, that is "Planet of the Men," Pierre Boulle's sequel to the 1968 film!)

#books #tbrpile #tbrlist #zadiesmith #whiteteeth #theophilegautier #jmcoetzee #wolesoyinka #yevgenyzamyatin #boum #pierreboulle #booksky

L’ambition… comme ligne de conduite ? Mais que serait l’ambition sans l’amour et la tendresse ? Ni plus, ni moins qu’un objectif sans saveur , dénué de douceur. Ayons l’ambition du cœur, il nous portera loin ! #lepoemedulundi #theophilegautier #ambition

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 1 Feb 1846, #TheophileGautier published "Hashish Club" in the Revue des Deux Mondes. The piece described his initiation into the famous Parisian Club des Hashischins (Club of the Hashish-Eaters), detailing how he got very stoned indeed.