( I ) CRUSADER,

visual companion to @ stadam + art.

[hayaomiyazaki]

— CAIN (1821) by Lord Byron — THE SECRET HISTORY (1992) by Donna Tartt

[chernobog13]

Clancy Brown as The Kurgan in Highlander (1986).

[speciesbarocus]

“even heaven succumbs to hunger when it turns into a giant set of jaws, with teeth taking the place of the stars”

— Josephine von Zitzewitz, From Underground to Mainstream: The Case of Elena Shvarts.

[thismustbeso]

Everything Sad is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri / Cain Slaying Abel (~1640-1650), Gioacchino Assereto / The Sacrifice of Isaac (1616), Pedro Orrente / Crucified Christ (1896), Viktor Vasnetsov

[existential-celestial]

Eugénie de Guérin, from “Journal of Eugénie de Guérin” (edited by G. S. Trebutien).

[weltenwellen]

Chelsea Dingman, “Things I Never Give Myself Permission to Say,”

[setheverman]

anyone else been tired since the fucking byzantine period?

[gunnarstahl]

Henry Cavill as Charles Brandon | Something for You

[ezrapoundinthetardis-blog]

Diane di Prima

[nightlament]

ursula k. le guin, the lathe of heaven

[theoptia]

Euripides, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays; translated by Anne Carson

Text ID: Gods are stubborn. So am I.

[dailyborgia]

[sartorialadventure]

Mark Ryder as Cesare Borgia in “Borgia”

[rotgospels]

Valery Rees, From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels

[soracities]

“They march. They march. Fighting rages everywhere. Where are we going in the darkness like this? I can’t stand it anymore. Some day it will be beautiful, the sky will be clear.”

— Ismail Kadare, Chronicle In Stone

[themusketeersdaily]

Santiago Cabrera as Aramis in THE MUSKETEERS 1.03 “Commodities”

[aearthetic]

Renaissance and Ironmen.

[crus8de]

this is the look he gets tried for war crimes in btw 😇

[crus8de]

dig through the ditches and burn through the witches🤘⚔️ redraw of some adam scenes ft. my design of the bastard.