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"Favorite Literary Couples: Chibi Edition - Eanrin and Imraldera from The Tales of Goldstone Wood" by h.s.j._williams on Instagram.
"They’ve known each other for over a thousand years and always have each other’s back, yet these two heroic knights can’t seem to land on the same page of feelings. Even so, their love is clear behind their endless banter of snark and sass."
The sun and moon. [Dandelions]
Young woman reading in greenhouse Axel Helsted (1847-1907)
Elrond and Celebrian
Fairytale Moodboards // The Twelve Dancing Princesses
When they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up, but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through, as if they had been danced in all night.
young celeborn and galadriel 🖤
Favorite photographs from deep in the Swedish National Heritage Board Archive.
Bjorn Allard. 1958.
The Bloody-Shoulder Mare
Light gray horses are common, and “flea-bitten” gray horses – their gray color interrupted by hundreds of little flecks of brown – are seen everywhere. But sometimes these flecks collect in a dark cluster on the horse’s body where they resemble a spreading blood stain. These “blood marks” can be anywhere on the horse, but the shoulder has special significance because of the Bloody-Shoulder Mare.
I don’t know if there’s any actual historical basis or whether this is “fakelore” that was created only recently. There’s more about that at the bottom of the post. But this is the story:
Long ago there was a brave Bedouin man with an equally brave war horse. She was gray and beautiful and carried her rider safely through many conflicts. Even after he bred her and she became pregnant, he still relied on her to carry him on his journeys, and the little graceful mare was equal to it.
But on one journey, they were set upon by robbers. Greatly outnumbered, the man urged his mare to gallop. The mare was swift but weighed down by her unborn foal. Her rider was shot through the heart, falling forward over her, his blood streaming down her shoulder. Even so, she continued to run, eventually outpacing the attackers and carrying the man back to the safety of his home.
It was too late to save him, but everyone was amazed at the bravery and loyalty of the horse. Miraculously, her master’s blood had seeped into her coat and could not be washed away.
When she foaled, her colt was born with the same marking on his shoulder, and from then on it was seen as a badge of bravery and the legacy of a great war horse.
It’s a good story, and for that I feel like it deserves to be repeated (as a story, not as fact), whether or not it has a real basis. This blog traces it no earlier than the 1980s, though notes it overlaps with known Islamic lore, including the use of a gray horse covered in simulated blood to commemorate the death of Hussayn ibn Ali. The Bloody Shouldered Arabian was a real horse, though a stallion, and he certainly didn’t have such a dramatic origin story. He didn’t do much to distinguish himself (apart from his flashy looks), but he was an ancestor of the famous race horse Whistlejacket.
If you’d like to see some slight changes in the legend from telling to telling, you can click here as well as read Breyer Models’ surprisingly bloodthirsty take on the story.
Hats off to ER workers, they don't get paid enough to put up with this.
Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.
From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough
(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)
oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.
in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:
The left is “the busy father” by Theodore Weber, the right one is “At the china repairer’s “ by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.
I raise you:
First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)
Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)
Italian Winegrower And His Daughter by Francesco Baratta (1590-1666)
Nothing more heartbreaking than Treny, in which a poet mourns his youngest daughter.
Zygmunt Trembecki (1847-1922)
"Jan Kochanowski with his daughter Urszula" 1878, Bronze
“Éowyn, Éowyn, White Lady of Rohan, in this hour I do not believe that any darkness will endure!”And he stooped and kissed her brow.
One of my favorite moments in the books. Oil on linen, 16”x20”.
Daniel Gerhartz (American, b.1965), When Hope Comes, 2014, Oil on linen
No actually I'd be THRILLED to be the reason people didn't use ai, thanks
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MY DEAR TUMBLR USERS!!
WONDERFUL NEWS!!
NETHERFIELD PARK IS LET AT LAST!!!
What a wonderful thing for our girls!!!
How so? How can it affect them? 🤨
My dear Merian! You must know I am thinking of his reblogging from one of them!
Is that his design in blogging here?
Design? nonsense, how can you write so! But it is very likely that he may reblog from one of them, and therefore you must follow him as soon as his blog is online.
I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may follow him, or they may follow him by themselves, which perhaps will be still better for them, for as you are as clever as any of them he might reblog most from you of the party.
My dear, you flatter me. I certainly HAVE had my share of cleverness, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up mutuals, she ought to give over thinking of her own reblog counts.
In such cases, a woman has not often much of a reblog count to think of.
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I just finished reading Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) and ngl I wasn't expecting to like the characters so much lmao (the cowboy is my favorite). So naturally I had to draw them... I am also years late finding out about Dracula Daily, but I am ready for next year!
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