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just call me r || 20s || he/they || audhd || ostensibly a dark academia aesthetic/humor blog but I also talk a lot about vampires || 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉

[didoofcarthage]

Study of vintagers for the Shield of Achilles by John Flaxman, after a description in Homer's Iliad

English, 1818

pen and grey ink over graphite

British Museum

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I do wish we could make it a little more socially acceptable to wander the streets at night weeping inconsolably I feel like that would have a great catharsis factor for a lot of people

[lukosei]

Apollo for one of my classes. Largely informed by his hymn + shelmerdine footnotes 🙏

[johnnycrass]

clap if you're a black hole of a person and have never been satisfied

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[quondam-et-futurus]

wart: i wish i could do something interesting instead of just lying here waiting for my collarbone to heal

merlyn:

[sickly-victorian-boy]

I hate July and I hate hot weather but at least it gives me an excuse to reread Crime and Punishment

[koiagain]

museum date but i spend the whole time crying over the concept of history and time

[blondebrainpowered]

Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England

[minimosquitogirl-deactivated202]

no i actually don’t think that romance is an inherent good

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

Jason fostering a tolerant environment on the argo

[celebrinienjoyer]

you may be losing the idgaf war but they wouldn't even let me enlist. on account of my poet's temperament.

[proteusolm]

The Ojibwe nailed it. Wawa is exactly the right name for a goose.

[happilyloudwonderland]

Speaking of Ojibwe! There’s a new point and click game to help teach the language! It’s called Reclaim! Azhe-giiwewining, and is currently on sale on Steam!

[bleedingspiral]

[paxamericana]

god i wish i was a scheming vizier

[vintage-ukraine]

Taras Shevchenko and Ira Aldridge by Heorhiy Melikhov, 1963

Famous Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko befriended the African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge, while the latter was on tour to the Russian Empire in 1858. Shevchenko did his portrait in pastel. It is recounted that the two men got along very well. While posing for the portrait, Aldridge sang African-American songs to Shevchenko and in return, the artist taught him Ukrainian songs. 

[nastywizard]

The portrait in question: 

Portrait of Ira Aldridge by Taras Shevchenko, 1858. Pastel on paper.

[ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi]

Dragon Door Handle - Simontorya Castle Hungary