this used to be a blog about birds

no, really. Iryna | occasional tumblr poster.

[killyridols]

snail in jadeite swamp by amber cowan, 2020, glass & mixed media, 18.8 × 18.8 × 18.8 centimeters

[hollanderthoughts]

No one can see how badly I want it :)

[hollanderthoughts]

No one can see how badly I want it

[spidergirl-fibula]

thin veil today isnt it

[bubbleteavangelist]

[xaoca]

by Arete Nani

[pukicho]

The threads of fate bind us. I need 40 dollars

[retroscifiart]

Sigourney Weaver tries out the flame thrower for Alien (1979)

[heathcliffcathy-archive-deactiv]

The heart of Christ viewed through the wound in his side, illustrated in a Book of Hours made in the Netherlands between 1405 and 1413.

From Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, by Jack Hartnell

[averageestrogenenjoyer]

I love the wiki page for the melee at bitterbridge, BRIENNE SWEEP

(I know the point is she literally wins the melee. Just the fact that Brienne of Tarth defeats so-and-so takes up almost the entire list!! Except "Loras Tyrell defeats a man" lol but then brienne defeats Two men sooo...)

[chilewithcarnage]

probably feels good af to latch your jaws onto someone and not let go

[borgialucrezia]

"Mysaria is maybe the first truly romantic connection. She offers a window into a type of hardship that opens Rhaenyra’s eyes to a portion of experience to which she’s had no access." — EMMA D'ARCY

[pmamtraveller]

Three Nectarines in White Paper, Eliot Hodgkin, 1957.

[ohmovie]

ORMUND HIGHTOWER HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.03 | "Rhaenyra Triumphant"

[goldcrescent]

First day on the job and I’m getting my long awaited vengeance against my father’s evil vizier but it turns out no one else knows how to do his job so I need to at least hire an accountant because I’m too rich to understand the concept of a budget, but we scared off the city’s comptroller who hid all our liquid assets and told only the master of laws, who we beheaded without checking on that and a rat crawls up my pant leg. So I try to at least call over some pest control but my stupid chud brother already killed all of them because they killed his son because our other brother killed MY son. So now we’re overrun by rats and I pivot to taking some petitions and this lady that looks strangely like my siblings’ mom (why?) tells me we’re out of food because of the blockade I put in place. So I ask my husband’s ex, who is on my cabinet because I’m kind of fucking her because of my complex about not being my father’s son, and she asks what my dad would do. So I do what my dad would do and ask a sad woman I’ve locked in my house, but she’s mad at me because I killed her dad. So I try to handle both the rat and the budget problem by making my entire merchant class eat the rats and sending my corrupt police force to rob their houses and now all my merchants are both pissed off and absolutely going to tell everyone the blockade was my fault. So I ask MY evil vizier what I should do but he’s mad at me because I won’t legitimize his peasant sons, one of which has one of my nukes and I just publicly humiliated twice. So I leave to consider if I should kill my littlest brother to relieve some stress, except another one of my fathers’ evil viziers’ evil fruit relatives tricked me and this isn’t any of my brothers. So I walk away with no one for protection except the chief of the aforementioned police force who I just encouraged to seize the property of nobles and we get stopped by one of my other nuke holding peasants who asks why he hasn’t gotten a paycheck in 4 months, and I tell him I’m broke as shit in front of the aforementioned corrupt police chief, who is also on the payroll that I don’t have. So I give up and circle back to my vice president and he thinks for a few minutes and then asks if I’ve tried bombing Iran

[victusinveritas]

Medieval take on Diane Morgan.

By decree of @russocphoto for The Times and Sunday Times

Photography by Sane Seven

[hopelessghostr]

Ormund cooking up medieval style bleach and tone for fake Daeron

[funstyle]

ppl complain abt everyone being so boring/inauthentic/detached these days but the second u have interests they deem unusual theyll be like "waitttt thats giving neurodivergent..." like damn its so awesome that were pathologising giving a fuck about anything they dont sell at a tj maxx