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Katharina. Germany.

[matineaux-deactivated20260222]

kind of weird how parts of your soul are left in various locations without any warning… like yes i’m always at the top of that hill, sitting at the bus stop, in the cool light of the Japanese restaurant, standing at the pier etc etc

[yama-bato]

Maja Fjæstad

[huariqueje]

Spring landscape with ripples in the water  -  Gustaf Fjaestad , 1942.

Swedish,  1868-1948

Oil on board ,  92 x 121 cm.     36.2 x 47.6 in.

[thunderstruck9]

Gustaf Fjæstad (Swedish, 1868-1948), Spring Landscape with Ripples in the Water, 1942. Oil on board, 92 x 121 cm.

[cad4verous]

good morning world who’s ready for another day of feeling slightly nauseous and weird about everything

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

[sottopressione1]

[enchantedbook]

'Letters From Father Christmas' by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1920.

[segamascott]

Why the fuck are you 30+ on tumblr

this is my house?

[katelouisepowell]

‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis

[miamaimania]

“The Skating Rink” (1932) ✦ Sulho Sipilä — Light pooling against the Nordic night

[thunderstruck9]

Sulho Sipilä (Finnish, 1895-1949), The Skating Rink, 1932. Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 50.5 cm.

[lleyksie]

bearer of winter ⋆⁺₊❄︎.

[mollflounders]

they already MADE a perfect wuthering heights adaptation. it came out in 1978 and it’s three minutes forty five seconds long and it’s by kate bush

[389]

Alien Poster | Rasmus Poulsen

[martyreddie]

hating is fun but sometimes you see someone only ever be a hater and never a lover and it's like. ok well do you like anything at all or do you only see the world in shades of bad to worse

[holespoles]

Fumi Yanagimoto

柳本史

[drafthearse]

a young wild boar in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany

[playwrongs]

In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.

[playwrongs]

This post is spreading and I feel bad about it because it contains misinformation, so for the record: Ludwig II did not in fact have infinite discretionary funds. He only acted as if he did. He never dipped into the public coffers for his building projects, but he spent his own fortune extravagantly and borrowed heavily from everyone he could think of. By 1885, the year before his death, he was 14 million marks in debt.

[insomniac-arrest]

~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

[centrally-unplanned]

I always find this inspiring because try to name another prince of a German state. What did the rulers of Hamberg do? The Grand Duchy of Hesse? Gone with the wind, no one knows them anymore. But Mad Lad Ludwig built a top 5 most famous castle in the entire world. Money is fake, castles are real. Go broke and die like a winner.

[the-barefoot-hatter]

EXCUSE ME, this is still wrong. He built 3.

Neuschwanstein, literally the inspo for the castles in Disney's Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

Hohenschwangau, the practical castle

Linderhof, the final, the smallest, and the MOST fab.

Every room is incredible and the park is beautiful, but shoutout to The Bedroom, the biggest room

The Hall of Mirrors, which he probably wandered by candle light because he was a serious night owl

The Dining Room, with a wishing table that lowers to the kitchen, and rises with a crank, returning magically full of food

The Venus Grotto, constructed for the sole use of Ludwig to larp to his heart's content

A full artificial cave, it features a waterfall, fake stalactites, and a custom-designed swan boat floating on an artificial lake. The first electricity in Bavaria was generated here, to change the colors of the stage lights and to power Ludwig's fountain and wave machine.

Now THAT'S ~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

[marzipanandminutiae]

I love that- and I cannot emphasize this enough -none of this was tax money

the public paid for zero of his fairytale castle hobby

rare European monarch W as far as spending money lavishly goes