A rose by any other name is a misnomer

Andrew - he/ they. Pretty things to pass the time. Nature, magic, whimsy, and mythology. ♻️🌈👽🦄

[bobbole]

Masao Maeda, Black Cat

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Diana the Huntress (Diane chasseresse) (19th century) by Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre (French, 1833 – 1916), oil on canvas, 196.2 x 129 cm (77.2 x 50.7 in), Private Collection

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[coffv]

Pomegranates, Majorca by John Singer Sargent, 1908

[newmaleblog]

"Bruce and Dick's Day Off"

by Ryan Landry

[7pleiades7]

Still Life: Flowers and Fruit (1850-1855) by Severin Roesen (American (born Prussia), 1816 – 1872), oil on canvas, 40 x 50 3/8 in. (101.6 x 128 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

[7pleiades7]

Untitled (2025) by Sage Oswald, gouache

[nemfrog]

The bugs' circle dance. Entomology in sport. 1859. Frontispiece.

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[bodhrancomedy]

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

[grace-in-the-wilderness]

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

-- G. K. Chesterton

[eirene]

A Cat and a Chaffinch, 1885 Bruno Liljefors

[oldpaintings]

Diana of the Hunt, 1901 by John Liston Byam Shaw (English, 1872 –1919)

[mariusfk]

Michalis Goumas

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[chantssecrets]

🎨 by Thomas Eakins. Also known as The Swimming Hole and The Swimmers. This painting was painted using the pictures of his art students bathing in the nude.

1884: commissioned by Edward Hornor Coates He did not accept the painting and it stayed in possession of the artist.

[forestdenizen]

Errol Le Cain