[starshadeemilyart]

Fingolfin and Lalwen 💙

Editing to add that the inspiration comes from here

[nessa007]

[7pleiades7]

A Deep Sea Idyll (c. 1902) by Herbert James Draper (1863 – 1920), signed 'Herbert Draper' (lower right), oil on canvas, 52 ½ x 30 ½ in. (135.4 x 77.5 cm.), Private Collection

[reistkult]

[imagefragrance]

every trendy knitting pattern u can see on etsy was first posted on facebook in 2011 by a middle aged turkish woman

[crap-userrname16]

[quasi-normalcy]

Yeah i believe the technical term for this is 'real estate fraud'

[paulinamakes]

LMAO

[kettumelli]

"Lady Rya! How about this one!"

Had to give her pretty dress because I feel what she wears is casual.

[arnaerr]

the abyssal serpent, shorn of light

(will be exclusively available as a print when I open my online merch shop in Autumn)

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The more I research art history, the more I see old masters exploring the same topics they like again and again, which helped me to realize that coming back to favorite motifs doesn't really count as being stuck in a comfort zone if I keep finding new approaches to it. Recently I'm being drawn more and more to art nouveau pattern examples books and their composition arrangements; this gave me an idea to try to treat my own sketches as "tiles" of sorts, pieces of puzzle I can play with to arrange a new composition. And it was indeed a good composition challenge, figuring out the balance of it all. And well, it felt good to play around with some of my fav topics & symbolism, which are: Hildegarda and Messmer but make it abstract and sensual, rooted in Hades & Persephone imagery, with Eve & The Serpent undertones, howtoshowintimacythroughabstractshapes, sprinkle it all with Ouroboros and stars. Yay

[7pleiades7]

Enid and Geraint (1907) by Rowland Wheelwright (Austrian, 1870 – 1955), oil on canvas, 184.7 x 123.8 cm (72 1/2 x 48 1/2 in), Private Collection

[7pleiades7]

Springtime (or Allegory of Spring) (c. 1871) by Henri-Pierre Picou (French, 1824 – 1895), signed 'H Picou' (lower right), oil on canvas, 93 x 74 cm. (36 3/4 x 29 in.), Private Collection

[importantdogimages]

[diebozhe]

elegant ahh dance battle

[stillhere-erehllits]

This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

[finnglas]

This is honestly one of the places I find Marie Kondo's advice most helpful. I stop, look at the thing I've spent time and money on only to realize I dislike, and I say, "Thank you for teaching me something about myself and my preferences. I think I've learned this particular lesson and we can part ways now."

And then I don't feel like I "wasted" things or made a mistake. I just tried one path of learning about myself, learned something, and now it's time for a different path. Works a lot better for my brain.

[ekjohnston]

The time Marie Kondo said "you can thank a a shirt you've never worn for teaching you about your taste", thereby making it NOT A WASTE literally rewired my whole brain. Acknowledge the thing and move forward, even if that means leaving the thing behind.

[effinbirds]

[thescrapwitch]

I’m rereading the Fellowship of the Ring (I haven’t read the trilogy in many years) and was struck by how Tolkien has Gildor (of the House of Finrod) be the first named elf to meet the hobbits. It’s the first connection between the immortal elves and the mortal hobbits (named and in-text interaction for the reader, anyway), and I really love the sort of calling back it makes of Finrod and him meeting Men for the first time. A repeat of that early kindness and kinship between two different people. It's not exactly the same, of course, but there’s enough of that echo for me to think that Tolkien chose Gildor to be from the House of Finrod on purpose.

[rambles-about-some-scrolls]

Been feeling a bit depressed, so I'm glad I found this:

Pictures from the mod page:

I'm absolutely delighted seeing these chickens