#arabesques

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photo by Sergio Larraín

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“Graceful, spiritual, with the gentleness of arabesques our life is similar to the existence of fairies that spin in soft cadence around nothingness to which we sacrifice the here and now

Dreams of beauty, youthful joy like a breath in pure harmony with the depth of your young surface where sparkles the longing for the night for blood and barbarity

In the emptiness, spinning, without aims or needs dance free our lives always ready for the game yet, secretly, we thirst for reality for the conceiving, for the birth we are thirst for sorrows and death.”

–Hermann Hesse, "In Secret We Thirst" from The Glass Bead Game (1943)

[Memphis Muse]

[craft2eu]

Potions, Arabesques and other Manifestations: Lausanne (CH) bis 21.12.2024

Felix Lindner und Florian Milker haben sich aus ihrer Kinderseele eine Faszination für Materialität beibehalten, für die Möglichkeit, ihre intimen Gefühle auszudrücken, sei es auf formale und/oder sinnliche Weise. Während Felix Lindner sich für Farben, Strukturen und Oberflächen begeistert, ist es der Herstellungsprozess, der seine Neugierde weckt, der es ihm ermöglicht, seine Fragen über unsere…

[introspect-la]

SNOOPY JAPAN ARABESQUE CUP AND SAUCER SET

[tanuki-kimono]

Phantasmagoric scenery for this beautiful blue kimono, with a cloudy arabesques background over a serene landscape on skirt hem

[carwens]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Pink and Brown ~

[ed13d1]

I will dance in every room

Seven Gothic Tales  •  Kate Baylay

[vertumnanaturalis]

Ok so originally I was gonna make one post with a whole ton of them together but uh. it got too big. So instead take some headcanons to match my design for Councilor Besk

God tumblr is going to ruin the quality of this

Councilor Besk

Birthday: Early Quiet Age: would have been 36 on New Year's Day the year the game starts, turning 37 shortly after

"The adults only talk about Councilor Besk in hushed whispers and and melancholic, well-practiced platitudes nowadays, never letting the topic linger before pushing it on to something else."

(Spoilers for late game content below)

Besk died almost exactly four years before the ship reached Vertumna, a few weeks past the 16th anniversary of it's launch, and, tragically, the day before her 37th birthday.

When Besk first signed up to have a child in the third age bracket, almost everyone arround her assumed she was intended to be a surrogate mother for a child that would be raised in the creche, but nobody ever actually asked her; When she later asked Eudicot and Seeq about having twins, she told them that she never said that, and the two were flustered enough in the moment to agree to her request without fully going over it with the whole council

The reason people assumed that was because Instance assumed that, and the reason Instance assumed that was because she had been the one to suggest Besk carry a child - with Besk thinking that Instance wanted a child with her.

No, it did not go well when they cleared this up.

Yes, this is why Besk wanted twins.

She had a few friends earlier on in the Stratospheric's journey, but those relationships quickly deteriorated, either from the imbalence of Besk's role as only councilor, or from her habit of self isolation to deal with her own issues

Anne thought that they were friends, and they sort of were for a brief period when Kom was young but before Besk had her twins, and they had a friendly-but-not-friends relationship before leaving Earth, bonding with other troubled teenagers over a pilfered bottle of whiskey; Bernie was another kinda-sorta-not-really friend of hers getting on the ship and briefly becoming actual friends before drifting apart as she withdrew into her depression

She was always kind of short for her age and was never very tall as an adult, but a lot of the gen 2 adults have a skewed memory of how tall Besk actually was, either remembering her as a small teenager back on Earth, or an average-to-tall adult as councilor on the ship. Tangent unfortunately got her short queen genetics, and even before her gene therapy was destined to be short, but the combo of the two makes her look like an Especially Small Arabesque in their eyes

She also has the same brown-black eyes as Tang rather than the blue-black ones her brother has

Her office and quarters had faux-window monitors in them, something that most rooms had at launch but were considered gaudy and mostly broken down for parts, she had the last ones in operation by the time Sol was old enough to notice them. Most of them were recycled after her death, but one of the larger ones was left in her old office out of a sense of guilt by one of the engineers tasks to break it down.

Said old office was turned into an extra storage room, as nobody was able to properally work in there after her death, and even years later the researchers of the Heliopause found the room uncomfortable to be in for too long

In general she was just very into old tech, like I picture her old communicator being like somebody today going around using a walkie-talkie in their day to day life just because they think it's neat.

The genetics that give her the iridescent sheen to her hair and the genetics that give her the "dark on top but light near the neck" aren't directly connected, and happened to only pass down one to either of her kids by chance; Dys inherited the gene for blue-purple structural iridescence, while Tang inherited the one responsible for the pale underside; the gene that gives her the non-iridescent purple hair was also from Besk, the matte one being recessive to the iridescent one.

Not technically a Besk trivia but related to the above section, but by pure happenstance the donor picked for Dys also happened to be a carrier of the matte purple hair gene, in turn making Dys himself a recessive carrier of it but not through his mother.

God I am probably missing random details and things I meant to add on here but it's already like four times as long as my wip attempts for other unseen parent designs so I'm cutting myself off here

[craft2eu]

Spezielle Zustände starker Konzentration | Felix Lindner - Florian Milker: Berlin bis 24. 08.2024

[fonteyn]

Swan Lake's entrance to the Black Swan pas de deux performed by Ekaterina Odarenko as Odile.

[soundsofthameltingpot]

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) [Dir. Shunji Iwai]

\~<

my first watch was probably a year or two ago and it was beautiful, loved the camera style. The music is amazing, i want the soundtrack on CD.

[strechanadi]

Camille Bon

Giselle

photo Julien Benhamou

[columboscreens]

[tanuki-kimono]

Best wintery patterns for this outfit, pairing a tsubaki (camellia) on hiôgi (cypress fan) obi, with a lovely striped kimono with woven-in karakusa (arabesques)