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Character/Aesthetic Blog for Claudelin Goldenglade, a silly WRA-Horde blood elf bard who’s just a few strings short of a full lute.

[imaginary-existence]

A few more gifs of Neil as Puck

[cottageaesthetic]

[randomstufffrommygallery]

[your-art-sanctuary]

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (1859) by Thomas Moran

[cuties-in-codices]

schembart carnival costumes

illustrations from a schembartbuch, depicting costumes from the nuremberg 'schembartlauf' festival from the years 1449 to 1539. nuremberg, c. 1551-1600

source: Nuremberg, GNM, Hs 5664

[cuties-in-codices]

floral initials

from a copy of plutarch’s de viris clarissimis. flanders, c. 1478-87

source: Ghent, University Library, Hs. 109

[frankehstein]

CRIMSON PEAK

2015 | dir. Guillermo del Toro

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1475-1480 The Cloisters Playing Cards by South Netherlandish master

King of Horns / Queen of Horns / Knave of Horns

King of Nooses / Queen of Nooses / Knave of Nooses

King of Collars / Queen of Collars / Knave of Collars

King of Tethers / Queen of Tethers / Knave of Tethers

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[leehakjoos]

[starrywisdomsect]

Jan Švankmajer’s Castle of Otranto (1977) is an animated adaptation of Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel of the same name. This novel is credited with the start of the genre of gothic fiction, and was heavily influential on the horror genre as a whole.

[catullus101]

David Tennant as Touchstone in a Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It (1996).

Photo by Reg Wilson [x]

[dailyshakespeare-blog]

“O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!”

— Orlando (As You Like It, Act V scene ii)

[heaveninawildflower]

‘How does my Lady’s Garden Grow?’

Coloured version and a line drawing to colour. Taken from  ‘Walter Crane’s Painting Book’ by Walter Crane.

Published 1889 by George Routledge & Sons.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

archive.org

[monroe-marilyn]

Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Amadeus (1984) dir. Miloš Forman

[showmey0urfangs]

LESTAT DE LIONCOURT as HARLEQUIN in Le Triomphe de L'Amour ↳Théâtre Renaud Paris, June 1795

[vampirecorleone]

"Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man." The Wicker Man (1973) dir. Robin Hardy

[cuties-in-codices]

samson and the foxes // samson and delilah // samson destroying the philistine temple

illustrations from rüdiger schopf's copy of nicholas of lyra's postilla super totam bibliam, freiburg im breisgau, c. 1401

source: Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, A II 3, fol. 70v, 73r, and 74v