Nothing Gold Can Stay @astral-anachronism - Tumblr Blog

Trudi Ludwig Johnson, The Exposure of Luxury, woodcut, 2013

Love is just a history that they may prove And when you're gone I'll tell them my religion's you

#drawtober 2023 #hex art #lux lunseer #you know what #Im not gonna tag ffxiv on this one #there was a lot more I wanted to do with this piece #particularly with the ornamentation on the throne #but in the end it was too boring to draw a chair

hexmachina

#art of lux

hexmachina

Iux Iunseer. THE HIGH PRIESTESS

Key symbols: the moon, pomegranates, a ring of gold

...Secrets will tell themselves in one way or another, and the keeping of them will cause them to take on a life of their own. If not spoken aloud, they will find other languages to be communicated through: absence, avoidance, action.

The High Priestess stands guard at the threshold of truth, in the liminal space between interior landscapes that cradle traumatic secrets in dense thickets of thorns, and the celestial expanse that has seen everything but has no voice with which to communicate. There is a cost - both in seeking truth, and in refusing it - and those devoted to the Traders are prepared to pay both.

[Art by @mafumafuriah, who was absolutely AMAZING to work with!]

#art of lux

wolfeworship

“Never again will I stand still while harm comes to someone I treasure. …Don’t let me.” “As I bear your aether as part of my soul, I will never give your inaction grace.”

A feud, buried with blood.

@astral-anachronism

🌊🌠 Sea and Star, in Friendship

This was an experimental artwork for a lovely commissioner. Thank you!

🖌️ Commissions ☕️ Ko-fi 🎨 Patreon 💬 Twitter

#sui eclair #lux lunseer #I’d spend nine lives with you #fragmentary blue #ffxiv #art of lux #friend art

mxdvs

A Vanitas sculpture, late 19th Century

beguines

Theology reaches for our limits, and it opens in our midst, not least in the middle of our saying. "I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me," says Roland Barthes, and in theological texts we find the very language of wounding (and a rare source of its celebration) and of infinite seduction. This particular seduction begins in the calling of a name, and continues into ways of reading that name—the strange name of the divine and the strangely reversible, seductive call and response.

Karmen MacKendrick, Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions

#divinity is the color of gold #not looking for absolution

wolfeworship

“Leave. Now. You are unmade. Go!”

An ill-fated heist.

@thanidiel @atomicdeke @astral-anachronism @guttergodsknife

#coveting a body of work #um DAMN #look at the storytelling in these screens???#this was a lot of fun #thanks for letting me get your chars lost in the catacombs and then jailed #lots to regret here

no-longer-another-bondi-blonde

Astrophotographer, in Idaho, captures falling meteor fireball.

nika-draws

commission for root_storm

#art of lux

naotor-deactivated20220817

— “the most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” ; ferdinand foch

richard kadrey ; aloha from hell // smoke and fire 1 ; jennifer walton // a quiet visitor ; holly warburton // la nuba roja ; david de la heras // burning hill ; mitski

#forlorn as children lost in the woods #would all the stars then shine a bloody red?#yeah I’m weak for these mixed-media aesthetic posts where they mix paintings and poetry #it’s an aspect of tumblr I adore