#Halls of Law

[pro-royalty]

Zendaya

[sugurugetos]

I got somebody. Rafael Barba. He's the guy that put away the two johns for raping a prostitute. [Yeah, that was a tough case. I thought he was in Brooklyn.] He was. Just requested a lateral to Manhattan. Guy's got big brass...ego. Raúl Esparza as A.D.A RAFAEL BARBA LAW & ORDER: Special Victims Unit

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

good night and sweet dreams to the best, sexiest, sluttiest, smartest, realest, most based, valid, relatable, girlipop, sympathetic, cunt, fun, cool, feminist, aspirational girlboss character in dead boy detectives: doll spider <3

good night to her and no one else. i hope the rest of y’all have a bad night and terrible dreams.

[nimudae]

"They kiss under the snow while the sun rises and Law thinks that this is without any doubt the best first kiss of his entire life"

From chapter 1 of martilla's fic "Fireflies" 💙

[Ko-fi]

[exercise-of-trust]

diversity win! this war criminal was a music major

[esqueletosgays]

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999)

Director: Anthony Minghella Cinematography: John Seale

[gaffney]

offense 💚💜 defense

[riesenfeldcenter]

We're taking a stroll down memory lane this week with some photos from the archives of the law school's former home, Fraser Hall!

In 1928, the law school moved from Pattee Hall to what would be known as Fraser Hall. By the 70s, the law school was outgrowing the space, as evidenced by the first 4 photos here, which feature some pointed captions (one student’s “subterranean nook” is a personal favorite). In 1978, the new building on West Bank was completed, and we’ve been here ever since. The last two pictures show Fraser in 1929.

[victhesmallestclown]

safe words r kinda silly like js imagine like ur getting freaky and then they be like “MANGO 😨😨😨😨😨🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️‼️‼️🔥🔥🚨🚨🚨‼️‼️“

[gingermintpepper]

One of my favourite little things about Apollo is how casual his and the Fates' relationship was.

Now, this isn't to understate how grave the Fates were in any way, as a matter of fact, it's written multiple times about the complex interplay between the Fates and Zeus (Stobaeus even wrote that the Fates were given the seat closest to Zeus' throne so he could better give counsel on all things from their machinations)

Indeed, even Zeus was beholden to them and even though the Fates usually left things up to natural course (and Zeus in his position as Moiragetes - that is, the Leader of Fates could even intercede on these events, even interrupting when a someone was set to die) in a lot of ways, there are many, many things that even Zeus could never interfere with, things that were above even the King of the Heavens. Some really good examples are things like Persephone's Abduction which the Fates ruled as necessary for the propagation of the seasons and his marriages to Themis and Hera.

By all accounts really, the Fates were incredibly stern, incredibly grave deities who presided over law, order, birth and death and even worked with the Furies to punish those who broke the sacred laws!

And then you have Apollo who was also known by the title Moiragetes (In Delphi, there were only two Moirai depicted and in place of the third was Zeus and Apollo Moiragetes according to Pausanias) but who did things like, checks notes, send the Fates to be the midwives of his paramour Evadne when she had to deliver his son alone in secret (by the way, he also sent the actual goddess of childbirth to help. The Fates absolutely did not need to also be there, he was taking every precaution:

and get the Fates drunk so they would agree to save his bestie Admetus' life:

Keep in mind btw - this con Apollo pulled for Admetus was multi-layered and even included getting Heracles to wrestle Thanatos and keep him still so Apollo could proceed to help Admetus cheat Alcestis away from Fates when Admetus expressed regret for making his wife die in his place:

And I cannot stress enough that Apollo faced zero consequences for this nonsense. NONE. The Fates weren't even cordial with other Gods - they're almost never referred to directly, they were often depicted apart from other deities or described as old, ugly and unable to walk (though, generally speaking they were artistically depicted as young maidens!) and apart from comforting Demeter by going to personally explain what happened to Persephone in some versions of the story, they didn't really get humanised the way most of the other gods or spirits did. Usually they're referred to euphemistically, or someone will speak distantly about a prophecy they once heard was designed by the Fates but Apollo? Apollo knew the Fates! He was good friends with the Fates! And I think it's even cooler when you consider that both instances of Apollo showing off his Fate's Favourite privilege have to deal with birth (of Iamus) and death (of Alcestis/Admetus) which were the two points most deeply associated with the Moirai and why there were usually depictions of them as a pair over that of a triad.

(Excerpts sourced from Theoi, Aeschylus' Eumenides, Pindar's Olympian 6 and Statius' Silvae; though just a note, one instance of the Fates' involvement with Apollo is misquoted on Theoi - that is the Fates being present for Apollo's birth, that's actually a misinterpretation of Evadne's birthing of Iamus.)

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

[bi4bihankking]

*tumblr would consider it old man yaoi (tumblr would call two 22 year olds old man yaoi)

[pro-royalty]

Halle Bailey x British Vogue

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

[gifsofhubris-a]

[elennemigo]

Benedict Cumberbatch and Jude Law read letters about some VERY potent whiskey. 🥃 (old new clip)