Death is only the beginning

Hello! Cis.ENFP. Multifandom blog about: Doctor Who, Supernatural, OUAT, Marvel/DC, Sherlock, PJO/HOO, Teen Wolf, and many other fandoms. 

[satlun]

HOUSE of the DRAGON S03E06 FIRE & BLOOD by George R. R. Martin

[saltywatcherwonder]

You gotta give Aemond credit for being consistent.

Pulled a 100 year old dragon, pulled a 100 year old woman, invested in an 100 year old house.

[simoneashley]

Armand + that hairstyle

[politedemon]

You trained a rat?!

[tedllasso]

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Biscuits With The Boss 🤝 Brisket With The Boss

[zendadya]

TED LASSO (2020–) 4x02: "Curiouser and Curiouser!"

[daenerys-stormborn]

House of the Dragon + in memoriam: Queen Helaena Targaryen

[aralshiral]

rip maekar you would’ve loved life360

[anabimelo]

silly little sketches I made weeks ago, but didn't finish and wasn't going to post, but here they are anyway

[sillystigmata]

Can he do medical malpractice on me?

[jewishbarbies]

so christopher nolan drilled into an active historical site to rig a scene, dumped a bunch of plastic skeletons into the ocean with no plan to fish them out, and ruined an actual Viking ship on loan from sweden and refuses to pay for damages. all for that garbage movie.

[jewishbarbies]

Owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage

Swedish nonprofit alleges cost to repair replica was $6,000 but Universal – which made $264m on film’s opening weekend – has not stumped up

Concerns about prop disposal as filming on new Nolan film comes to a close | www.italianinsider.it

looking for a news outlet to pick up the archeologist drama over this but you can google the practical effects used for the cyclops and find the pictures pretty easily

[jewishbarbies]

Nolan’s "The Odyssey" Has a Colonialism Problem

Despite Morocco’s hopes that its film industry would reap rewards, the blockbuster’s success will be tainted by controversy surrounding film

and it gets even worse

[demiromanticdondraper]

here's another article on the morrocan colonization of western sahara, written by a sahrawi person living in the sahrawi refugee camps in algeria.

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment

[tudvaseva-sasha]

[artemisia-tyche]

We, as a society, need to start simping on Dr Fareed Bhansali harder

[todevilonesminion]

Amadeo, ca. 1525

Original Painting: unknown Italian painter, ca. 1480-1525, tempera on wood, 18x18 in.

Color and edits: me, digital painting

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If you’re a nerd, further information about the irl piece and my thought process below.

I was browsing through the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, looking for any potential Armand pieces. No real standouts, until I found a curious entry.

The Palazzo di San Martino Gusnago (now Palazzo Pastore) lies just outside the small city of Mantua, and in the 16th century, it would have been maybe ten days travel from Venice (depending on how you made the journey). In a small room in this palazzo, you would have been greeted by an interesting decor choice: the exposed central beam and the upper portions of the walls were lined with faces. Portraits of random men and women, real or imagined--all done, it would seem, by the same unknown painter. There were once at least 44 in total, though some have disappeared and others have been divided among the world’s art museums. The Met has 12 of them.

The paintings have been studied a little, though not extensively, and there has been little consensus on who may have painted them or when. The Met has likely not photographed the pieces in decades, as no images are available in color. According to the exhibition history the Met provides, none of their twelve panels have been on public display since 1947. This may be because they're in delicate condition; a lot of chipping and cracking is visible in the Met's old black-and-white photos. Tempera can be a brittle medium, made all the worse on a wood panel that expands and contracts with changes in humidity and temperature. And so, these twelve mysterious portraits are stowed away in the depths of the Met's vast storage, largely forgotten.

Of the 12 panels in the Met's collection, I liked Number 8 the best. This, I thought, could be a very badly whitewashed Armand-- the face shape and features like the mouth and eyes could work, as would the shoulder-length dark curls, but the anonymous youth in the painting was much too pale, and the nose wasn't quite right. But then I remembered I have an iPad and rudimentary digital art skills. After adjusting the shape of the nose, I essentially used the same process as digital artists who lay down values in grayscale and then go back and add color. I think I ended up with 15-17 layers of various blend modes and opacities.

I didn't realize until after I was done that, in TVA, Marius dresses Amadeo in blue multiple times.

[lovepersimmin]

Some men will say I meant to kill my brother. The gods know it is a lie, but I will hear the whispers 'till the day I die.

[muadweeb]

a couple of HIGHBORN dragons BULLYING the PEASANT dragon