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Sometimes, if you’re lucky, there will be a tree outside your bedroom window. It is very important to romanticize this tree as much as possible.

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Noel by Prof. J. R. R. Tolkien

Grim was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars fled, The hall was dark without song or light, The fires were fallen dead. The wind in the trees was like to the sea, And over the mountains’ teeth It whistled bitter-cold and free, As a sword leapt from its sheath.

The lord of snows up-reared his head; His mantle long and pale Upon the bitter blast and spread And hung o’er hill and dale. The world was blind, the boughs were bent, All the ways and paths were wild: Then the veil of cloud apart was rent, And here was born a Child.

The ancient dome of heaven sheer Was pricked with distant light; A star came shining white and clear Alone above the night. In the dale of dark in that hour of birth One voice on a sudden sang: Then all the bells in Heaven and Earth Together at midnight rang.

Mary sang in this world below: They heard her song arise O’er mist and over mountain snow To the walls of Paradise, And the tongue of many bells was stirred In Heaven’s towers to ring When the voice of mortal maid was heard, That was the mother of Heaven’s King.

Glad is the world and fair this night With stars about its head, And the hall is filled with laughter and light, And fires are burning red. The bells of Paradise now ring With bells of Christendom, And Gloria, Gloria we will sing That God on earth is come.

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Bringing this back for Megan Whalen Turner's signed series contest <3

The Queen's Thief is definitely one of the Series of All Time. Still obsessed, still astonished, still delighted, etc.

War, then.

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(Please click for high-res; Tumblr was not kind to this one!)

The relationship between these two gets me where it hurts, every time…So when the concept “wrathful Eddisian pietà with floral symbolism” struck me like lightning, I couldn’t not paint it. Why suffer alone, right?

I had to do a bit of research to find flowers that are native to a Mediterranean-type climate and that also have appropriate meanings. For the embroidery on Eddis’ mantle, I chose valerian for readiness and purple columbine for resolution; growing around them are hyacinth for sorrow, hyssop for sacrifice, and tansy, for the declaration of war.

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Detail from the ceiling of the Arena Chapel, in Padua, magnificently adorned with Giotto frescoes in ca. 1305.

One of the many beautiful images featured in our essay “Primary Sources: A Natural History of the Artist’s Palette” by @philipcball — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/primary-sources

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False Knees Print Store

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The real truth.

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happy wimseyversary :,)

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Kawase Hasui, Late Autumn in Ichikawa, 1930 Color woodblock print Sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 7/16 in. (38.7 × 26.5 cm) Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

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summer vibezzz

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Shearing half a sheep seemed a simple way to show a season's growth of wool, but photographer Cary Wolinsky was wrong. The half-shorn sheep tended to lose their balance and topple to wool-ward. It took many tries before merino sheep number 30 “became our hero," Wolinsky said.

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Lúthien Tinúviel

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“This intriguing formation, which resembles a fish’s or perhaps a dragon’s head, was discovered by Leigh Pugh on Stanton Moor Edge, near Birchover, when he was out trying to capture a photo of the sunrise. However, it was too cloudy to get a proper photo and that is when the photographer got the feeling that he was being watched.“

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Isabelle Adjani in "Ondine" at the Comédie-Française, 1974.

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RAHUL MISHRA Couture Fall/Winter 2024 if you want to support this blog consider donating to:ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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"damn bitch you live like this?" but its a full white minimalistic clean bedroom