rattle the stars

[humanoidhistory]

ON THIS DAY: The rings of glorious Saturn, observed by the Voyager 2 space probe, August 17, 1981.

[flores-et-dracones]

“Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for behaving well, and yet, in the face of implacable fate and an indifferent universe, they mutually assert the highest ideals of their humanity.”

— Caroline Alexander, The War that Killed Achilles

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[catilinas]

oh hey um we kinda damnatio memoriae-ed your boyfriend. yeah we chiselled his name off all the inscriptions and everything. he’s ███ ██ ████ ██████ now. sorry.

[anxeious]

[wolfythewitch]

Offer me that deathless death

Oh, good God, let me give you my life

[lovesckl]

[pompeiusliker]

Queen Clytemnestra of Mycenae as the “Death” tarot card

upright meaning: destruction, finality, transformation, sudden change

reversed meaning: resistance, repeating negative patterns, attachment to the past

line art under the cut

[fruitviking]

Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls, by Frederick Dorr Steele, cover of Collier's Weekly

September 26, 1903

[terrible-shining-eyes-deactivat]

He's just like me (daydreaming about package arrival)

[felinepurrrstory]

From Ursula K. Le Guin’s Cat Dreams. Illustrated by S. D. Schindler.

[curseworm]

dreaming of fantastical kitty things…

[juliedillon]

Another new illustration! I've been wanting to do another Minotaur painting for a while now.

[goldrogerstits]

[through-a-historic-lens]

Man and his dog with matching hats early 1930′s, Maine.

[thoodleoo]

inviting my friends out to the club with me but when they show up at my place i've arranged a symposium around my hearth and i spend the night debating them on the tripartite soul

[thoodleoo]

me: i promise i won't make you guys discuss the nature of love while someone plays an aulos in the background

later that night:

[themuppetmasterencyclopedia]

[demonibestia]

The mirror of Galadriel