Swan King

It's a parasocial relationship that transends a couple centries... that's all. 🦢 (He/him) | 26 | 🇨🇦🇩🇪 Main: @paper-pirate

[swankingludwig]

I know that I romanticize Ludwig, but I do firmly believe that that's what he would've wanted

[jruthphipps]

The local swans still have five cygnets and they're going so big and strong. I'm always so proud of them.

[mermaidesquee]

My boyfriend knows that i love swans so he always sends me pics of swans whenever he sees them uhmm okay i think i love him

[ganymedian]

nobody suffers like someone who yearns for a historical figure who died before photographs and audio recordings existed

[peaceinthestorm]

Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939, Swedish) ~ Swans in Flight, n/d

[Source: Bukowskis]

[nivio-sinis]

print out this painting commission🥰🥰😍😍

[heavensghost]

I love u

[swankingludwig]

My Paul book got delivered so much earlier than it was expected to!!

(ft. My boy Louis in the background)

[swankingludwig]

My city has a centre that is essentially a recycling centre with a bunch of donated craft & office supplies, and packing material and party decor and stuff that people can just take free of charge and I found this tiny plastic swan there, which I obviously took because it reminded me of Ludwig, but idk what to do with.

[catboyrightsdefender]

ordered the book about paul

[swankingludwig]

I found a copy of it that I could get for 50 Canadian dollars. Which is still a lot for a book in a language that I can only sort of read, but I ordered it!

[threefates]

i have a severe case of wanting to escape society to go live in a gothic castle by the sea

[th0rns]

Black Swans by Robin Lawson

[silverview]

psa

[silverview]

i rbd that repost so i could add the link to my original post? don't rb the repost from me?? 💀

[swankingludwig]

I just found out that someone wrote a one-man play with shadow puppetry about Ludwig and Lohengrin that they performed at a theatre festival in Calgary in 2014?? I want to see it so bad??

Would it be creepy of me to try to track down the artist's contact information and to see if the show was ever filmed in full, or if not, if they still have a copy of the script?

[catboyrightsdefender]

« The reconciliation overwhelms Paul, it leads abruptly to a fundamental change in his state of mind, he loses ‘all composure’. Both distance from and proximity to Ludwig have immediate physiological and psychological effects. Physical closeness to Ludwig evokes in him feelings of ‘happiness’, ‘bliss’, ‘pleasure and contentment’. When Paul is present at Ludwig’s public appearances on official business, yet unable to approach the king, he is moved to tears and his heart rate quickens. Conversely, a temporary separation from Ludwig leads to feelings of abandonment, he withdraws into a ‘sacred solitude’. Visits to the theatre and attendance at evening gatherings cannot dispel his thoughts of Ludwig.

Paul is utterly captivated, from now on, Ludwig is the sole focus of his life, his ‘highest thought’, his ‘everything’. He regards his present and future life as ‘chained’ to Ludwig’s fate, like a prisoner. Without him, he sees no possibility of survival for himself. Paul turns to notions of ‘heaven’ and the ‘innermost depths’ to illustrate his heightened state of being. »

[catboyrightsdefender]

when you're down so bad you intertwine your initials

[catboyrightsdefender]

ludwig and paul as lohengrin ✨🦢