Mostly a lurker

[braveburattino]

I've caught a spy my liege

[weepingwidar]

Kosuke Ajiro (Japanese, 1980) - The Edge of the World (2026)

[70sscifiart]

Chris Foss would sometimes paint over his previous work. Here, he turns a western illustration into a sci-fi one.

[everydaylouie]

lost?

[along-the-silkroad]

Depiction of a battle between Timur (left) and Tokhtamysh (right), 1420–1440, possibly Herat. Topkapı (ID: H.2153) Tokhtamysh (c. 1342–1406) was Khan of the Golden Horde from 1380 to 1395 and is often regarded as its last great ruler. A descendant of Genghis Khan, he rose to power with the support of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur after years of struggle against Urus Khan and his heirs.

After uniting the Blue and White Hordes, Tokhtamysh restored much of the Golden Horde's strength and authority. In 1382, he reasserted Mongol dominance over the Russian principalities by capturing and sacking Moscow, forcing the resumption of tribute payments.

His reign reached a turning point when he broke with Timur and engaged in a series of wars against his former patron. Timur decisively defeated him in major campaigns, devastating the Golden Horde and reversing Tokhtamysh's achievements. These defeats led to his downfall and marked the beginning of the Horde's long decline.

[fisheatingowntail]

Thinking of posting FEANORIANS: FANTASY ZIONISTS? on tumblr. A land without a kindred for a kindred without a land

[mechobj]

rahhhh

[macklesufficient]

almost peed my pants today when my bf told me about this dude in his hometown who dressed up like ryan gosling in Drive every day (including driving gloves) but did not own a car. bf was like “yeah we called him Walk”

[tothepointofinsanity]

Meet me at the railway.

[tothepointofinsanity]

During my childhood, there is a famous local comic book series about a girl with magical powers who goes on adventures with her friends. In one of the books, they meet a rat capable of speech, claiming to have his soul cursed into this animal, and that he was really a prince whose human body was locked up elsewhere by evildoers. They find his empty vessel in a glided coffin, head down and unresponsive. When he returns to his body, his face is still never shown, and his personality was completely different from how he was when he was a tiny rat. He went from a verbal and good-humoured voice to a mysterious and quiet individual who saved them and then disappeared. In this vein, I often think that Sayaka and ‘Sayaka’s corpse’ is a similar concept.

[fisheatingowntail]

thoughts on Seinfeld S.3 ep 19 “The Limo” ?

by pure coincidence i watched that episode for the first time while reading kathleen belew's book 'bring the war home,' a history of the white power movement in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. The twist hit me like a truck.

[memories-of-ancients]

Gilded silver buckle uncovered in King's Field, Kent, England, 7th century AD

from The British Museum

[fisheatingowntail]

feanor is the vriska of tolkien fandom

[fisheatingowntail]

the theological implication of ungoliant in a christian context is that cthulhu is real and a different entity from satan and also theyre exes who have a situationship going on

[along-the-silkroad]

Bodhisattva of Wisdom (Manjushri), 15th century, Nepal. Cleveland Museum of Art (ID: 1964.370). This image depicts one of the main bodhisattvas, beings only one stage away from full enlightenment. Because the historical Buddha was a prince prior to his renunciation and life as a wandering ascetic, bodhisattvas are depicted as royal princes. This example has the sharp features, sweet expression, and crisp details characteristic of images made in Nepal during the 1400s. In his upraised right hand Manjushri holds the hilt of a sword that, like wisdom itself, metaphorically cuts through and defeats ignorance. His lower, rear left hand grasps a bow, once probably strung with a wire. Also missing is the arrow that he likely held in his lowered right hand. Arrows were often symbols for mantras, or strings of syllables thought to have the power to focus the mind and work like missiles to destroy negativity and affliction. The gesture of his lowered left hand indicates the transmission of Buddhist teachings. The lotus stem that rises at the left elbows originally held a book of sutras. This figure is in the yogic posture of meditation with the big toe flexed in concentration. Yoga is of central importance in tantric Buddhism, because high-level practitioners are able to discipline the body to such an extent that the mind can also be controlled. (Cleveland Museum of Art)

[feanarocurufinwe79-blog]

Eru Iluvatar

[lordofthesoups]

Every German Expressionist film I could find

Most links are to the internet archive. Other links go to either youtube or Wikipedia pages that contain the films.

Nerves (1919)​ Different from the others (1919)​ Algol (1920)​ From morn till midnight (1920)​ The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)​ Genuine (1920)​ The Golem (1920)​ Destiny (1921)​ Shattered (1921)​ Nosferatu (1922)​ Phantom (1922)​ Dr Mabuse der spieler (1922) Raskolnikow (1923)​ The Tresure (1923)​ The street (1923)​ Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination (1923)​ Die Nibelungen (1924) ​ Waxworks (1924)​ The hands of Orlac (1924)​ New Years Eve (1924)​

The student of Prague (1926) ​

Faust (1926) ​

Tartuffe (1926)​

Metropolis (1927 )​

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)​

The man who laughs (1928) ​

Asphalt (1929) ​

M (1931) ​

Vampyr (1932) ​

The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1933) 

[ayilings]

rotten to the core!!!!!!!

pasting in my descr. from insta~ oniisama e is awesome the characters are all so trapped by their institutions and expectations and memories and in the end no one really makes it out. it’s so of its time and forward thinking and the interpersonal relationships are generationally messy.

accidentally retread a lot of ground with this illustration (oops!!!!). references for comp/poses are the included illuminated manuscript and painting, which i was introduced to in person :) historically it hung at a girls’ finishing school for “moralizing purpose” whichhhh lollllll. too perfect a reference for anything tangential to class s!!!!