[nemfrog]

"Root systems of shrubs and herbs of the forest floor." The ecological relations of roots. 1919.

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[darknnesmi]

[fluentisonus]

they should have hired this guy at an animation studio to design an evil kingfisher character

[androgynouscoffeeruins]

An Elros and Elrond moment because I love them both sm <3

Elros is dressed in what I've designed to be more Noldor adjacent clothing (which will turn into Numenorean clothing) and Elrond is dressed in sindarin clothing, specifically what I've designed to be Doriathrin clothing!

[pmamtraveller]

Photography by Zahra Ghasedi

[tenephre]

[elena-kukanova]

..."At times he will come unseen to the shores of Middle-earth, or pass far inland up firths of the sea, and there make music upon his great horns, the Ulumúri, that are wrought of white shell; and those to whom that music comes hear it ever after in their hearts, and longing for the sea never leaves them again.''

The image of Uinen as a personification of the Sea

2013

2014

2013

A woman and seagulls, seagulls and the sea—a theme I return to again and again, and no matter how much I paint, it's never enough. A salty wind, scented with seaweed, eternity itself, which one can touch and carry away the memory of that touch. An image of freedom, alluring, but with a bitter aftertaste of loneliness.

[riahisadilf]

[misidentifying-animals-in-posts]

best animal names: unnecessarily judgemental edition

[sempermoi]

Older Maedhros … bc angst, right?

[guelwaar]

even legitimately useful sex safety advice is always phrased as an imperative to health, never do this always do that you must not blahblahblah. same with drug use harm reduction stuff, they can never just say yknow this substance is associated with these risks and you will increase them if you xyx and can decrease them if you pqr, it's always written under the presumption that the reader's risk tolerance is exactly the same as the author's and so it would be simply unthinkable to aim advice at anyone who is willing to risk something you're personally not, because of course this is not about providing the information for others to rationally adjudicate their own personal priorities and needs but merely a matter of educating the reckless masses so they too may live according to the objective truth of your own personal risk assessment. they tip their hands because it's not like anyone talks about driving a car or getting exposed to respiratory diseases this way, imagine if mainstream sources were constantly written like you're insane and stupid for deciding you're willing to incur a potential crash because you want to go on a trip or like you obviously would never exist in a room unmasked if only you knew what the flu can do -- these activities are invisible, it's the socially stigmatised nature of sex or drugs or whatever that render them specifically problematised in this way. read some samuel delany about it idfk

[coffeeandcigarettesv9]

[metmuseum]

Vessel with throne scene. 600–900 CE. Credit line: Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 1999 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/318662

[portalibis]

Narcissus, British Library, MS Harley 1766

[julijbee]

lótë

[pmamtraveller]

Edvard Munch, Consolation, 1894

[concupiscience]