caepio

same name on ao3

[dappermouth]

And then you had that dream again.

[scorchroots]

I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin

[camaelczarka]

Louis dressing Lestat:

Armand dressing Lestat:

Lestat dressing himself:

[lysimachias]

Not "The Character did nothing wrong" or "The Character is irredeemably awful" but a secret third thing: The Character may display moments of deep love & compassion, may even have a strong sense of ethics, and may also be capable of brutal cruelty that is irreconcilable with those traits. The constant tension between the different sides of The Character's nature is exactly what makes them compelling, and attempting to reduce them down to simply "a terrible person" or "innocent & misunderstood" is missing the point of the questions a media with nuanced characters is asking you to consider

[publicdomainreview]

Guess the letter. From a 17th-century German book on the art of writing. A great range of different styles are represented seemingly increasing in complexity, and also illegibility, as the book goes on: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-proper-art-of-writing-1655

[classicfilmsource]

Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) dir. John M. Stahl

[nathanielthecurious]

i love this description. the ability to bring down the moon is literally so basic to thessalian womanhood that even girls can do it

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[shakespearesdaughters]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[pierppasolini]

Before Night Falls (2000) // dir. Julian Schnabel

[freakoutgirl]

It's important to have one medium you are pretentious about and another medium that shows you also have dogshit taste

[seianusfanboy]

ancient rome is really crazy. everyone is haunted by everyone all the time. the same names. recurring and recurring. same couples getting married over and over decades and decades after

[ghostcanvas]

Nadar, Sarah Bernhardt (1864)

[halogen2]

AFTER THE RAIN - Michael Gray Bulla

[lionofchaeronea]

Wall painting on black background from the Roman Imperial villa at Boscotrecase, depicting an aedicula and miniature landscape.  Artist unknown; last decade of the 1st cent. BCE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[redrola]

just in case 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿

[joeinct]

Swiss Guard Laughing with Crucifix on His Face, Photo by Hugues de Wurstemberger