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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

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right now there is a girl in her room and she is thinking of so many narratives.....

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Origami knight made from a single piece of paper with not cuts or tears.

Video of how it was done below

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Threads in time, Natalie Ciccoricco (because)