tired.

the url is a folktale reference ✦ 25 ✦ they/he ⚢

[stareyed-shepherd]

i gave up on aesthetically pleasing thematically separated side-blogs, so this is just all my interests mixed together in one place as god intended

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Grotto of the Nymphs, from Pierre Louÿs’ The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926)

[ysengrm]

Joseph Wolf, 1853

Allaert van Everdingen (approx. 1650)

[quietwingsinthesky]

what’s the point of giving your character severe trauma if it doesn’t make them an asshole to work with. not in a cute way. they should be a fucking cunt. they have to make problems on purpose. they have to lash out at their friends without even being provoked, just because they’re having a bad day and they want to hurt someone to cope with it. on purpose. they have to want to hurt someone on purpose. they can regret it later, but they can’t just say something mean on accident, it has to be calculated and cruel and so, so intentional.

[girlhlp]

[byjove]

autistic knight who is really dedicated to doing his job perfectly because chivalry is his special interest

[cy-lindric]

Due to its surprising popularity on the many places it's been posted and reposted to, I decided to finally complete this little wlw sketch that I had kind of given up on. I'm hoping to have it riso printed soon !

[fordarkmornings]

William John Hennessy (Irish, 1839-1917)

A Secret, 1889

[women-loving-art]

From Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs, 1991, edited by Tessa Boffin and Jean Fraser

[rochenn]

Not to be that guy but I think even ppl who are self-proclaimed likers of female characters very often still view these women as statistics or as a box to be checked. Or at least those users are the loudest people in any given fandom tag. If you Like Women, you have to treat this fictional woman in ways deemed morally acceptable. Where a male character in her position would be tossed in the salad spinner without issue, you cannot do this with a woman. Because. I guess. It makes you weird? Women (fictional) still aren't allowed to suffer the way men do. They're too vulnerable, fragile, not strong of character enough to be someone's angst punching bag or be part of an awful ship, or whatever.

People are still not free of their sexist mental shackles when it comes to female characters I'm afraid. Come on. Treat her like shit. Let her have some dreadful and/or weird dynamics with other characters, and let her grow and learn from that, or, you know, let it make her worse. You're allowed to do that

[dailyclassicart]

Konrad Petrides - "St. Cyprian in Tiers with the Rose Garden"

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[alissaaura]

[cparti-mkiki]

"goddess" "matriarchy" "female wisdom" girl your civic rights

[tauindi]

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Maximilian Lenz (1860-1948) "A Song of Spring" (1913) Symbolism

[berruornis]

Owl Trinity in Quatrefoil - North Norfolk (Richard Brooks, 2009)

[elvensoul]