[bakwaaas]

Matt Rockefeller / Georges Beuville / Andrea Serio / Oamul Lu / Kim Hyerim (Rimdraw)

[lamus-dworski]

Illustrations by artist Mateusz Kołek, inspired by Polish tales and legends.

[90377]

Misty oaks. Crane Creek Regional Park, Sonoma County . by alice cummings

[autumnwinter93-deactivated20240]

Athens, Greece

[klimtsonianunofficial]

my favorite davids, ranked

here’s a definitive and totally subjective rating of davids

donatello: 3/10 honestly pretty embarrassing, but worth a mention. just your run-of-the-mill, oh-you-haven’t-heard-we’re-copying-classical-greek-sculpture-now david. stiff, awkward, and pretty dopey looking twunk. has the same expression of someone being told dona-fucking-tello sculpted this. can’t even hold his slingshot bc it’s too gay. don’t worry there’s a redemption arc on its way.

donatello pt 2: 9/10 fucking superb you funky little gay man. total glow up. a complete deviation from the norm by a well-known deviant. takes contrapposto to sultry new heights. look at this lad’s little hat and boots he’s not a nude he’s just naked. some people say goliath’s head is modeled off of donatello himself literally he was horny enough he said “step on me” in full fucking bronze. goliath’s helmet has little gay greek reliefs on it, not even remotely subtle. look at the feather going up his thigh and tell me u didn’t cross your legs when you did. commissioned by the medici for their palace, which makes it even cooler by association. 

verocchio: 8/10 ily baby a perfectly fine lad, looking at him makes me smile. his little dress is so cute with its stylized arabic psuedo-script border, and the floral pasties? adorable. something about goliath’s head feels a little disjointed, but you know what? fuck him. he’s not important. david’s the real star here in his little cheerleader get up. what really makes me biased towards this one is that the model was supposedly verocchio’s star student, the young leonardo da vinci. and look how fucking radiant he is! love it.

michelangelo: 7/10 technically this thing’s great. look at the fucking veins on the hand that’s absolutely mental. but all in all it lacks the overtly homosexual intrigue of some other davids and, frankly, i expected more from well-documented gay disaster michelangelo. obviously a classic but also makes it prone to being too over-saturated. i do love his yaoi hands though.

bernini: 11/10 the man the myth the fucking legend! bernini always delivers and this david’s no expception. look at that movement! the drama! the whole thing screams baroque in the best possible way with the dynamism, the momentary narrative, that cute lil scrunched up face. only complaint is that it isn’t as good as some of bernini’s other work but i’m willing to let it go for the detailing on the fucking rope goddamn gian lorenzo you absolute madman. we stan a sculpting legend.

[evepolastrl]

arwen appreciation week | day 4: favourite outfit(s)

[alexsattlerphotography]

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters.

 — (Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It)

[justicesleague]

She threw herself into the sea.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“You are flesh and blood and you deserved to be loved. And you deserve what you were given.”

— Florence Welch, from “Useless Magic: Lyrics & Poetry,” published c. 2018

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“You are flesh and blood and you deserved to be loved. And you deserve what you were given.”

— Florence Welch, from “Useless Magic: Lyrics & Poetry,” published c. 2018

[aghostinsummerclothes-deactivat]

“My mind has claws and sets of teeth if left unchecked it will eat and eat”

— Florence Welch, Useless Magic

[fearbreeze]

Finally installed tumblr app...

[the-time-lord-of-the-rings-deac]

I have watched the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy just focusing on Legolas. And it is pure gold.

[tlosbooks]

it’s like he’s photobombing the whole movie trilogy XD <3

[lewis-tan]

Moulin Rouge (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann 

[goodqueenaly]

Do you think Elia knew anything about Rhaegar and Lyanna?

Elia had to have suspected something was up at the Tourney of Harrenhal. After all, Rhaegar had ridden right past her to grant Lyanna the victor’s crown - a gross violation of the unspoken rules of tourney chivalry. Given the associations between the Queen of Love and Beauty and romantic interest, Elia would well have been forgiven for suspecting that her husband was looking to take Lyanna Stark as his mistress. Rhaegar taking a second wife was probably unthinkable - no Targaryen since the woefully remembered Maegor had taken multiple spouses, and Rhaegar had far less power than Maegor to enforce such a drastically anti-Faith arrangement - but Elia might have been concerned about what Rhaegar’s relationship with Lyanna meant. She had not yet given birth to Prince Aegon, and although she might have been pregnant at the tourney - Aegon being born either late in 281 AC or very early in 282 AC - her position as mother of the next heir was still not secure. If she failed to give Rhaegar a son, her political adversaries might push her husband to put her aside in favor of Lyanna; even if she did have a son, if Lyanna did as well, there could be a new generation of neo-Blackfyre pretenders.

Whether Elia confronted Rhaegar about this at the time is an unanswerable question. On the one hand, it would have been completely natural for a woman in Elia’s position to feel hurt and offended by Rhaegar’s apparently offering to take Lyanna as his mistress: Elia would probably have been no stranger to extramarital affairs, or at least the concept of them, but to be publicly humiliated by her own husband in the pursuit of one would have been another matter entirely. On the other, we know too little of Elia’s personality to say how she would have reacted to Rhaegar about it (or if she would have confronted him at all).

I doubt, however, that Rhaegar told Elia much of anything about what he thought concerning prophecy and the need to have a child with Lyanna. I get the sense that Rhaegar’s relationship with Elia was polite but not particularly warm, and consequently I doubt whether Rhaegar would have seen her as a confidante. Burdened by prophecy, he might well have thought, as I think he did with JonCon, that Elia could never understand the prince that was promised, or the new war coming against the Others.

[odonoghues]

#SQUAD GOALS

[rubyredwisp]

When my dragons are grown, we will take back what was stolen from me…