[panatmansam]

“It is harsh in the world, whoredom rife, an axe age, a sword age, shields are riven, a wind age, a wolf age, before the world goes headlong. No man will have mercy on another”

—   Norse Poetic Edda, poem Völuspá, Ragnarök

[tanyushenka]

Masjid-i Muzaffariyya (Masjid-i Kabud, Blue Mosque) Tabriz, Iran, before 1933

[fanfanlemoko]

"Beowulf", de l'artiste argentin Enrique Alcatena, 2014.

[wilcze-lyko]

Fulfillment - Hugo Höppener

1912

[fiery-kitty]

German Rapier (c. 1630–1650)

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Type: Rapier

Overall length: 100.3 cm

Blade length: 86.5 cm

Grip: 12.3 cm

Weight: 840 g

Origin: Germany

Material: steel (blued, gilded, perforated blade)

Technique: bluing, gilding, perforation, chiseling, russeting, damascening

[pmamtraveller]

Satan Views the Whole of Eden, Gustave Dore

[thatshowthingstarted]

'The Mogul Mughal' 

The rectangular-cut emerald weighing 217.80 carats.

the obverse engraved with Shi'a invocations in elegant naskh script, dated 1107 A.H (1695–1696 AD).

The reverse carved all over with foliate decoration, the central rosette flanked by single large poppy flowers, with a line of three smaller poppy flowers either side, the bevelled edges carved with cross pattern incisions and herringbone decoration, each of the four sides drilled for attachments,

2.06 by 1.56 by 1.56 inches (5.2 by 4.0 by 4.0 cm).

[goodchild]

Please don't go somewhere where I cant follow

[henk-heijmans]

“Buzkashi”, meaning “goat pulling”, Tajikistan, 2026 - by Todd Antony, New Zealander

[benjaminforman]

[cuppydogshane]

podracer Sebulba notably absent from swift-kelce wedding attendees............

[marshals-2]

[spann-stann]

Found Mama's limit

[moishe-pipick]

[pesoglav]

[nelc]

The Woodpecker, otherwise known as STEEL WORK or the Dugar Early-Warning Radar, in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

[baebeylik]

Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion. Germany or the Netherlands. 13th to 14th Century.

The Walters Art Museum.

[valentineua]

The Natural Bridge, Virginia (1852) - Frederic Edwin Church