all living, the bright and the dark

deep in the 早安! 三国打工人 hole.

[dtriad]

[source: 蜗牛了了耶 @ Bilibili]

东周列国 #aesthetics!

[avaaricious]

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD (2009-2010) one gifset per episode ♦ hidden truths

[chipper-smol]

How would you describe a dragon to someone who has never seen a dragon?

[chipper-smol]

"Horse but make it a lizard and give it bat wings and horns"

didnt know how to interpret "make it a lizard" so i wrote lizard and drew an arrow pointing to the horse so people know its a lizard. Also didn't know what bat horns were so I gave it a horned bat nose

"A body like a big cat but completely covered in scales, the head of a crocodile with the horns of an ibex, and the wings of a bat on its back"

On it boss o7, ive mashed all these animals together and threw scales all over it. This the dragon you saw?

"Take a lizard, extend the neck. Add a pair of bat wings to the back. Add horns and sharp teeth."

Seems like we're onto somethin' boss! Though idk how it'd be so fearsome bein such a small thing.

"Big-ass lizard with wings" "big lizard" "Giant lizard" "Big fucking lizard"

don't seem too special?

"Imagine a winged alligator that was 70 feet tall and aware of its existence"

i dont know if this is a dragon but it could definitely be some kind of god

"Dinosaur with wings and horns?"

Dunno which dino you were talkin about so i just picked a random one. Stegosauus :}

"Big snake with legs and horns that can breathe fire"

Ah. Hm.

"A dragon is like a tree, in that it's a made up category for a broadly similar type of mythological creature that has no relationship to other dragons, but you know a dragon when you see one the way you know a tree when you see one."

[kingfucko]

this is literally exactly like medieval bestiaries. a description which was game-of-telephoned out of an ancient account from somebody who might have seen the animal in question, being misinterpreted by an artist who has not seen it

[itscolossal]

Explore 25 Incredible Photos of the Milky Way Captured Around the World

[dtriad]

[source: 蜗牛了了 @ Bilibili]

Lin Fangbing 林芳兵 is the ultimate Yang Yuhuan imo...

[zhivchik]

[pitayyaaa]

Eight anterooms: in the last, where the cardinal should be, he finds Anne Boleyn...

...There is a world of the possible. A world where Anne can be queen is a world where Cromwell can be Cromwell. He sees it; then he doesn’t. The moment is fleeting. But insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

typeset pages for this entire section (and extra secret illustration) under the cut

[ghostbees]

The Three Garridebs

“The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.”

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[markiafc]

[avaaricious]

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD (2009-2010) one gifset per episode ♦ road of hope

[nevver]

Last light, Mary Mattingly

[wavesechoes]

lawrence of arabia + textposts pt.3

[bocekcicek]

Watanabe Shōtei (1851-1918)

[avaaricious]

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD (2009-2010) one gifset per episode ♦ rain of sorrows

[sanatorium-industries]

[disease]

"AMONG THE WAVES" IVAN AIVAZOVSKY // 1898 [oil on canvas | 97 x 66 cm.]

[ghostbees]

The Creeping Man

To the modern reader, the story of Professor Presbury’s transformation is pure fiction. It is not scientifically possible for someone to inherit the characteristics of an animal by absorbing part of it, and injecting someone with what is conceptually a form of hormone therapy will most likely do what hormone therapy does best. Which is not to turn an ageing man into a monkey, no matter how strong the testis extract is. 

We are quick to dismiss the tale as somewhat unworthy of our standard Holmes fare, but the events of this strange turn-of-the-century adventure are clearly referencing Brown-Séquard’s earlier dubious experiments in regaining ‘male vigour’ and has deep roots in both the contemporary fascination with ‘eternal youth’ treatments and the emergence of endocrinology. In the decade it was (finally) published in, huge advances had been made in our understanding of hormones, leading notably to the isolation and synthetisation of testosterone in 1935.

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