#died young

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🕊️ SWAN KING CORE — Ludwig II of Bavaria

🎨 Color Palette:

midnight blue of the Bavarian sky · deep wine red like velvet curtains · ivory white of lilies · gold from candlelight and crowns · pale silver-blue of the lake at dusk · soft mother-of-pearl glow

🕯️ Textures:

velvet heavy with memory · swan feathers glimmering in half-light · polished marble cold as solitude · gilt frames around fading portraits · wax tears running down candleholders · mirrored halls breathing ghostly reflections

holy beauty · aching solitude · forbidden devotion · the melancholy of grandeur · candlelight in eternal dusk · the quiet tragedy of a man who loved the dream more than the world

💐 Scent & Sound:

warm wax and perfume · lilies on marble altars · lakewater and rain · echoing piano chords in vast rooms · Wagnerian crescendos dissolving into silence · the soft rush of wind through pine and memory

🕊️ Symbols:

the swan — purity and isolation

the crown — burden and divine right

the feather — the lightness he longed for

the mirror — self and illusion

the letter — confession and secrecy

the carriage — movement without destination

The king disappears into the mist —

💙 Emotional Core:

beauty as salvation · faith as loneliness · devotion to the unattainable · love that cannot exist in daylight

🎭 The Ending Scene:

A single note lingers over the lake.

Candelabras flicker one last time.

not fallen, but ascended into his dream.

Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886)

mysteriously drowned in Lake Starnberg)Reigned: King of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886

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John Belushi mugshot for "The Blues Brothers" (1980).

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Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494) "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni" (1489-1490) Tempera on panel Renaissance Located Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

The painting depicts Giovanna degli Albizzi, a Florentine noblewoman who was married to Lorenzo Tornabuoni. She died in childbirth in 1488, the year specified on the cartellino (Italian for a slip of paper) in the background. It was commissioned by her husband and the portrait was actually painted about two years after her death, around 1489-90, for the Tornabuoni family.

[sundriedaisies]

And somehow, we always remember the ones who died young — the ones whose lives ended the moment they began.

DK

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Gordon Westcott

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Gia Carangi

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I watched 49-17 (c 1917) the other day and there was an actress as the leading lady who I had not heard of before, and I thought she was lovely.  Her name is Donna Drew and sadly having died in 1918 from the Spanish Flu she doesn’t appear in too many films.  Sad loss. 

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Titanic was a little bitch movie star who died tragically young in spectacular fashion. We know. Is nobody going to talk about her older sisters who both had incredibly successful careers? They fought in the war!

Britanic deserved a Medal of Honor, acting as a hospital vessel until a mine sank her in Greece. (Side note, sank in a tenth of the time Big T did, and 97% of the victims survived 🙄). She never got into the entertainment biz. She wanted to be a nurse, and she was a damn good one.

Olympic stepped on people and they liked it. She tore a U-boat in half (also a friendly boat but they had it coming), and served as troop transport until the war ended. They called her “Old Reliable”. Here that Unsinkable? They called her reliable. She was in service two years before the Titanic was born, and she was still serving two decades after the Titanic sank. The Olympic retired during the Great Depression, for which the Axis are eternally grateful.

And then the Nasties made The Titanic(1943) as anti-capitalist propaganda, But it ended up banned because of the uncomfortable parallels with a special kind of camping

Anyway, one of the titanic’s fuel depots was on fire for most of the trip, which resulted in the ship leaning slightly. Fortunately, the side with a hole in it was the opposite side, so it balanced back out for a while.