La sombra de mi alma

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield...

[aleksakonstanta]

By Galina Galinskaya

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"The lovers" by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finland, 1865-1931)

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[illustratus]

La Belle Dame sans Merci by Paul Julien Meylan

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Los amantes de Teruel in San Peter’s Church

[whoisflattery]

happy valentine's day!! 💖💘💕

[aleksakonstanta]

Rie Cramer

[drawnby27emilys]

He thought she had the keys for the speedboat gondola

[les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques]

Happy (belated) Valentine’s Day, Christine come get your awful man.

[drawnby27emilys]

Get in Tudors, we're going Jousting 💅

Presenting a Tudor Au that absolutely no one asked for. No plot, only vibes and thigh high boots x

[aleksakonstanta]

Uta von Ballenstedt

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Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Jumièges

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Tom Lovell

[theolikeworld]

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Alex Ross

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Lynn Buckham "Here Is My World"

[villainsidechick]

I REALLY want a Leroux Erik who is a walking skelly man with a horrible FULL face (and body) of hideousness but with the angelic voice that drips with sex. When you HEAR him, you can't help but fall in love with this Angel of Music. You can understand why Christine is under his spell and gives her soul to him.

I want to see that contrast of gorgeous voice attached to ugliness.

I want Erik to be obsessed, haunted, maniacal, murderous, sinister, funny (yes, he is a hoot), mysterious, heart-broken, tender, musical genius (he doesn't have to be a master of everything like Kay's book), sexual/sensual, pitiful, and loving but manages to contradict everything he is. I need a conundrum Erik who is hideous, terrifying yet you can't help but love him in his madness and pity him in the end when he does the right thing, despite all that he wants, and lets the woman he loves go, satisfied with her simple kindness to him.

And I want the damn Perisan back, too.

[aleksakonstanta]

Absolutely agree