on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue

elsie | she/her aries | infp | ravenclaw canadian in scotland. history nerd, writer, general dork with crown-encircled brow, outshines with her stars the lesser constellations

[merricatblackwoods]

Just saying but Remmick would have THRIVED in the 60s and 70s.

[merricatblackwoods]

Oh look another idea for a fanfic I will never write! Even better it’s a sequel/side story to another fanfic I will also never write 😅

[sugurugetos]

ANNATAR/SAURON — The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power (2.07)

[sersi]

Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova Thunderbolts* (2025) dir. Jake Schreier

[behindfairytales]

LAURA BERLIN as Queen Emma of Normandy Vikings: Valhalla, The Thaw (2.04)

[merricatblackwoods]

Am I the only one who sees a swordfish/bird with a long thin beak head on the Conqueror’s crown?

[merricatblackwoods]

The decision to make Helaena a dragon dreamer is more poignant when you look deeper at the name meanings of her twin children’s dragons. (Did she name them, not realizing until the words had slipped from her lips? Did the children and when she heard their names, did her heart stutter in her chest?)

Shrykos, Valyrian goddess of beginnings and endings. (He was the first of the Greens who would be taken. Wasn’t young Jaehaerys’ death the beginning of the end for the Greens? The moment of no turning back and no surrendering?)

Morgul, the Valyrian word for ‘death’. (In many ways, death is the end. Thus with Jaehearys being the beginning, Jaehaera is the end: the last remaining aside from her grandmother. With her truly ends the Greens).

[merricatblackwoods]

Question/random insomnia thought: does anyone else see Helaena Targaryen as being a strange twisted/events out of order combination of not only Cassandra of Troy (obviously), but Andromache, Hecuba and weirdly Helen of Troy?

Also Aegon being Hector but reversed and the utter opposite (with a dash of Menelaus and even Helen).

Aemond being both Patroclus & Achilles to Luke’s Hector & Patroclus.

Alicent being Helen, Andromache, Hecuba, and both Menelaus & Paris (but again twisted).

Otto as Agamemnon and horrifyingly enough, Aphrodite during the judgement of Paris (with a dash of Paris himself [trading one golden apple {his daughter} for another more valuable golden apple).

Obviously the Iron Throne is the equivalent of the golden apple (in itself a symbol of power). But it can also symbolize the power over ourselves that we give to other people (in the case of the show: the power noble parents/grandparents have over their children [specifically a female child’s agency which then turns into a husband’s agency over his wife], the monarch over their people, etc).

[merricatblackwoods]

I don’t even watch this show but how dare they drag my fave pre-blackfyre Targaryen into Silent Hill ala Daemon Targaryen?!

[merricatblackwoods]

Gotta love having a big teenage goth phase, only to watch the first 5 min of The Fall of the House of Usher and basically instantly know how most of the characters are gonna croak bc of their names

[merricatblackwoods]

oh look its hotd oc fixit fanfic idea i will never write (that is connected to my got fanfic i will also never write)

[merricatblackwoods]

Was googling the new Dungeons and Dragons movie, glanced at the wiki plot:

What I thought I saw: A group of thieves travel to a realm to stop a gremlin from enslaving the world.

What is actually there: A group of thieves travel to a realm to stop a great evil from enslaving the world.

[jw-waterhouse]

Destiny (1900), by J.W. Waterhouse

This work was painted by Waterhouse to support the injured soldiers and widows of the British army that fought in the Boer War against South African rebels (1899-1902).  More than 300 artworks were sold for a total of 12,000 pound sterling.

The work resembles the 1894 version of The Lady of Shalott, but the red and white dress and blue cup represent the colours of the Union Jack, clearly stating that this is a British lady looking at a departing army that is visible in the mirror.

[aredhels]

mythology family ♥︎ lady of shalott for @susiephone

in the arthurian legends, the lady of shalott was a young woman named elaine of astolat, who died of unfulfilled love for sir lancelot, the greatest of king arthur’s knights.

[preraphaelist]

one of the only surviving photographs of elizabeth siddal, circa 1860.

[artfoli]

Detail of Maria Luisa of Parma, 1765, by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779)

[artfoli]

Detail of The Third Princess and Kashiwagi, 1890, by Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu (1838-1912)