Wine-dark seas & rosy dawns & many-storied stars @marietheran - Tumblr Blog

This is basically my main, though I follow back from @main-therese.

Disclaimer: that I reblog somebody's posts — or from somebody — doesn't mean I endorse all their views or, while I keep my own account sfw, that there is no adult content on their blog.

Disclaimer no. 2: I do reblog posts with swearing/profanity.

If you want something tagged, please message me.

I have a Tolkien/Silm blog at @edennill. Fandoms on main include Star Wars, AtLA, The Hunger Games, Dracula, assorted works of L. M. Montgomery, Narnia and ASoIaF (the last of which I haven't technically read for 'personal levels of comfort with Stuff' reasons), Greek Mythology and Arthuriana (I literally only think about Arthur, Mordred and Galahad, but I will reblog all the pretty art of the other knights).

Art blog at @edennil-art.

@marietheran-archived is my old acc; I'm slowly moving stuff here but gave up on doing it for more than some specific tags a while ago.

Tagging tries to be consistent but is rather idiosyncratic as of rn.

Sometimes I use abbreviations as tags for my own use, so if you encounter a weird one it's probably that. #q is for "queue"

To potentially filter against: #current issues, #discourse, #faith discourse, #anti calvinism, #pro life, #prayer request, #anti communism¹, #anti taylor swift, #therese rants, #therese has opinions, #tw sex mention, #war in ukraine, #ww2, #artistic nudity

¹still not a communist but if you see some of my older posts... it's perfectly possible I would agree I was annoying about it. and other things.

Occasional rambling about history and geopolitics will be present, but mostly contained in the appropriate tags listed above.

I will block donation asks from strangers.

marxistgnome

Memes shared by kids who grew up on starships I think they should have sea scout/land scout beef with kids that grew up on Starbases

vaspider

This is legitimately one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet, and it made me intensely happy.

#sci fi #star trek #i think?

daewithmon

Pevensie brothers

Kings of Cair Paravel

#narnia

calleido

british smallsword ca. 1780-1810

#misc #why do I get the impression this is literally small as in 10 cm long from this photo

frostedmagnolias

Printed Muslin Dress

c. 1848-1850

England

Victoria and Albert Museum

#fashion #wishlist

drizzledrawings

☆tiger☆

datastate

[ID: Gauche painting of a vibrant orange-red tiger creature against dark foliage, gazing behind itself to meet the viewer. Its stripes are tinted green, with an extra set of legs; it curves around a small, bright red star. End ID.]

#art #burst of colour

midnightinshadow

#inspo #architecture #mare nostrum

thecryptkeeper

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

library-seraph

The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round

abandoned-as-mustard

'When it cries it sounds like a lonely dragon above the clouds'

abandoned-as-mustard

Here it is btw

#cats and kittens #people from history being human

sirgavvainet

Sir David 🎶

#illustration #inspo #q

mayleeillustration

I started reading The Chronicles Of Narnia (by The magician's nephew) and found the scene where they find the fat guinea pig very adorable. Hopefully the rest of the book stays nice and adorable…

#narnia

azspot

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

santhipoma

#current issues #oh my goodness I Loathe the fact twitter won't let you read posts without an acc #(same with tiktok but worse because I am definitely not getting a tiktok account)#(and I already caved in for Pinterest but I am furious all the same)

prokopetz

Sitcom about a immortal (and rather antisocial) wizard who lives in a great stone tower several miles outside of the local village, except that’s only the establishing prologue.

The meat of the show takes place a thousand years later, when the village has become a modern city and urban sprawl has resulted in it expanding to entirely surround the wizard’s tower, which is now sticking out like the proverbial sore thumb in the middle of a suburban housing development.

The inciting incident of the present-day plot involves a local kid who’s read too many of Those Kind Of YA Novels persuading the wizard to take them on as an apprentice, prompting the wizard to become involved in the community after centuries of relative seclusion.

The result is a sort of reverse fish-out-of-water comedy where it’s society at large that keeps getting tripped up by the out of place character’s strange expectations. The wizard isn’t unwilling to adapt, but their default attitude of “explain to me in detail how any of this is reasonable” is something most other characters don’t really know how to respond to; this is exacerbated by the fact that the wizard’s first contact with many of the foibles of modern life is filtered through the aforementioned kid apprentice and their bizarre YA-media-driven misconceptions about what being a wizard actually entails.

akilah12902

via @prokopetz #the wizard shows up for the kid apprentice’s next parent teacher conference#because in their day a master had parental obligations toward their apprentice#so of course this is their responsibility#right?

Of course it is, and don’t you let anyone tell you otherwise, says the middle-aged lady who’s having a spectacular time watching the chaos

themandylion

I’m mostly wondering how the wizard dealt with the local HOA before the kid bullied them out of the tower. Yes, the tower predates any and all development around it and is no doubt exempt from any association rules, but everything the internet has taught me about HOAs leads me to believe that they would still try. And turning the reps into toads would probably just ear the wizard a write-up for keeping non-approved pets.

prokopetz

I imagine they’d mostly have dealt with it the same way they dealt with royal tax collectors any time they didn’t feel like starting a war with the local monarchy; i.e., being exhaustingly pedantic about microscopic points of protocol until the annoying mortal gives up and goes away.

I’m not saying toads never happened, mind – I’m just saying toading’s not the only tool in the toolbox!

bigscaryd

“Technically, the land grant of everything between here and the river is subject to an easement to me, my “heirs and successors,” for, and I’m quoting the text incorporating the township, “wizardly affairs, sorcerous conduct and rituals, magical doings, and the requirements, results, effluents, and effects thereof and therefrom.” I am pleased to inform you, Brenda, that yes, my herb garden is a requirement for many of my rituals and, though you may not understand it, the flamingo – which I will remind you is the immature Phoenix – is also necessary, whether live, plastic, ceramic, or otherwise.“

#fantasy

louisa605

Epilogue

Happy Barricade Day! After all, June 6th is the day they made their sacrifice, so I’m not late, right?

The inspiration for this drawing came from the Toledo Cathedral—the sense of the heavens opening up, which also corresponds to the final song of Les Misérables, "Epilogue."

In the painting, I wanted to depict the scene Jean Valjean vaguely sees as he passes away. Fantine takes his hand, leading him toward heaven, while the Bishop stands beside him, illuminating the path behind. And in the background are those who fell during the battle.

The upward composition gives the feeling that their voices fade into the "valley of the light," reflecting their destiny of "climbing to the light." I wanted the darker surroundings to contrast with the light of heaven, showing that they now dwell in that place beyond—echoing the lyric, "We will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord."

Jehan loves playing the flute, so perhaps the "distant drums" are sounds he conjures.

Behind Valjean, there is a mural of women—intended to represent the "lovely ladies," along with little Gavroche and his sister Éponine above. These figures embody the suffering people of the earth, much like the lyrics of "Wretched of the Earth."

On the heavenly side of the mural are two elderly men: the Parliament G and Mabeuf. Finally, the little angels surrounding the Bishop are Gavroche’s younger brothers.

#les mis