Ivory and Gold @baz-estel - Tumblr Blog

Hey everyone! Basil here!

A few quick things:

My name is Basil Estel. I use he/him pronouns, and I'm trans.

I'll mainly be using this blog to cross post from my Wordpress blog. You can also follow me on Goodreads. Queued reblogs are posted twice a day.

This avatar is temporary, but it was drawn by JN Butler and is licensed under CC by 4.0. My header is Victorian wallpaper designed by Kate Faulkner. It is in the public domain.

More than happy to answer questions on here, so please ask away!

#about

pmamtraveller

The Great Mosque of Samarra during fog, Samarra, Iraq

#landscape

theowlburrow

Luxray ⚡️

#painting #fanart #pokemon

mikeybooch

Artemis and Apollo slaying the Niobids.

In Greek Mythology, Niobe was a queen of Thebes and mother to anywhere between 12-14 children (sources vary). She boasted that she was superior in motherhood to the goddess Leto, who only had two children... The Olympians Artemis and Apollo.

The divine twins could not abide by such insult to their mother and struck down the children of Niobe one by one from on high with their arrows.

Niobe is depicted in the Archaic style in the border of the illustration, across from Leto, mourning the loss of her children as they are felled by the arrows of Artemis and Apollo.

#greek mythology #illustration #artist on tumblr

extremelyrottenfleshh

#photography

michaelnordeman

Black-headed Gull/skrattmås, and Common Gull/fiskmås. Värmland, Sweden (29 June 2018).

#photography #birds #artist on tumblr

inatungulates

Addax Addax nasomaculatus

Observed by orcacroissant, CC BY-NC

#photography #deer #I know that's a different ungulate but he belongs in the tag

ohjacquie

Cow parsley watercolour

#artist on tumblr #flowers #painting

mahina-zero

#illustration #artist on tumblr

memories-of-ancients

Burgonet, France, circa 1590-1600

from The Musee de l'Armee

#sculpture #photography

autopsybaby

life gets better when you realise you can write the most vile, irredeemable, perverse fiction ever and no one can stop you

liusia-piu

Angel Israfel (Archangel Raphael) based on the manuscript

#illustration #artist on tumblr

constanzarte

Leighton, The Fisherman and the Syren

#painting #greek mythology

kuttithevangu

The thing about the moon is maybe you don’t need to write a poem about the moon. The moon’s been done, we’ve discussed it. It’s a coin a mirror an eye a lantern in the darkness. It’s a rock in space. It’s the dang moon we’ve all seen it! Is there something you can notice that’s is more surprising than the moon???