"Thou art unfit for any place but hell."

꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷ Welcome to the Hellmouth baby ꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷ || Any Pronouns || 🚫 AI, Minors, bigots, proship/profic/incest shippers DNI. I block freely ✌️

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Beetles

Cocharelli Codex; Italy (Genoa), early 14th century; British Library, Add MS 28841, f. 4v.

[rosieandthemoon]

Gwrych Castle in Wales

[yorksnapshots]

Outside St. Mary's Abbey, York. England.

[random-brushstrokes]

Arnold Böcklin - Ruins in the moonlit landscape (1849)

[lionofchaeronea]

Centaur at the Village Blacksmith, Arnold Böcklin, 1888

[a-book-of-creatures]

Centaur Watching Fish by Arnold Böcklin (1878).

I love love love Böcklin’s mythical pieces, they have this sense of realism, and often even sensitivity.

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

The Onocentaur

Physiologus

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6908 [Liber de natura rerum / Fürstenfelder Physiologus], folio 79v.

[lightthereis]

Albrecht Durer - Three Views of a Jousting Helmet, c.1.500

[m3dieval]

A really good example of how snatched the waist could be in a cuirass. Fairly modest in chest room, but it's important to note that it is quite rounded and not flat.

L18-76 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, late 15th century

Magister Armorum

[expressions-of-nature]

Cottongrass in the Bog by Arseny Kashkarov

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Moths

Cocharelli Codex; Italy (Genoa), early 14th century; British Library, Add MS 28841, f. 4v.

[rosieandthemoon]

By Alan Lee

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Frog beneath a watery moon

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.40.52 [L'Acerba etas], folio 44r.

[bunjywunjy]

received a new friend to aid me and my suffering

[bunjywunjy]

if you were curious about his species, he's a this thing

[a-book-of-creatures]

If you wanted to know more about what that thing is, it’s a dragon from a 1270 bestiary!

[androdragynous]

if you were seeking out where to buy that thing, it's the Plush Dragon Inspired by Illuminated Manuscript Bestiary at the Getty Museum Store! :)

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Dormice

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291 [De rerum naturis], folio 91r. ca. 1425.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Jakub Rebelka

[thecollectibles]

The Forest at Night by Jessica Woulfe