#european character

[jitter-bugz]

tumblr pls help

what is this character??? i’ve had the bowl set since i was a kid, and i got it in germany. i had a night light of her, and i remember seeing stuff with her on it at the bakery by the bus stop

i included what i searched to find the image of the plate, if that helps

pls yall i cant find any more info on my own

[tremendoustrashnerd]

[laurenillustrated]

The Secret Garden 🌹

Mary finds the door to the secret garden with the help of the little robin!

Based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[filurig]

some of my kin liken humans to beasts to illustrate their ruthless ambition.

i do not.

the wolf hungers, and hunts to sate that hunger.

the bear must rest, and hunts to sleep once winter comes.

the human does not merely 'hunt'.

they torch forests and poison rivers. they build giant constructions which spew gas as black as night into the very air we breathe. they hunt and hunt and hunt until nothing is left.

describing them as anything other than 'human', is to undersell the reality of their callous disregard for any semblence of mercy.

[chellustrates]

human settings person go

[jangmi-latte]

FELLOW HONEST SHAKES

[mythologypaintings]

The Bath of Venus

Artist: Sir William Richmond (British, 1842-1921)

Date: c. 1895

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland

Description

The beauty of the goddess Venus transcends the painting. The peach and emerald colours surrounding Venus’ body creates an almost golden glow on her skin as she steps into the water.

[artemlegere]

Ophelia

Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)

Date: 1842

Medium: Oil on canvas

Description

Ophelie (La Fiancee de la Mort); character from play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Deceitfulness of Riches

Artist: Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (British, 1872-1945)

Date: 1901

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private collection

Description

This painting was first exhibited in 1901 at the Royal Academy, and in 1902 at Leighton House in an exhibition entitled Such Stuff as Dreams are made of (a loose quotation from Shakespeare's The Tempest)

When first displayed, there was much debate as to the meaning of the allegory. An article in the 1902 Magazine of Art offered this interpretation: “A mighty princess, clothed in orange garments, is pictured for us so closely guarded by jealous attendants as to be shut out altogether from the outside world. No harsh breath from the common air may touch the lady's cheek. The orphan and the widow are turned from her gates in order that she may not look upon the face of sorrow. Not willingly hard or callous is this prisoner of a luxurious place, only oblivious from force of circumstances. … The Deceitfulness of Riches is a lay sermon on the tyranny of soft environment and on the unwitting cruelty which lurks in ignorance”

Described by critics as a “Pre-Raphaelite revivalist”, Fortescue-Brickdale was famous for her meticulous techniques and luminous colors. Oxford professor Henry Scott Holland commented on a watercolors exhibition by the artist: “Color? The room glows with it, as if it were flung out of live jewels. The flaming crimsons, the crisp greens, the sheen of rose, speak and sing out of their frames; and you find yourself laughing aloud unawares, for sheer delight, in response. The pictures recall the small gems that Rossetti painted … They are vivid and delicate like young Millais' Ferdinand”.

[dragonsbluee]

I have a request for batfam/Jason Todd fanfic writers:

I love the "Jason Todd is a bookworm/theatre nerd" fics as much as the next person, don't get me wrong, but can we please diversify his interests?

90% of the time when I open a fic with that tag, we see Jason reading Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice or quoting Shakespeare. And not to say that there's anything wrong with any of those being his favourite but even if he loves to read "classical" books, come on!

You're telling me Jason raised-in-crime-alley-spent-his-formative-years-between-an-eccentric-billionaire-and-an-assassin-cult Todd only reads books by dead white people?!

I refuse! Give me a man who takes to books more than ever after his return to Gotham. Jason, who reads books like I am Woman, A Really Good Brown Girl and White Tears/Brown Scars, then recommends them to the working girls as he establishes his territory. Who reads in multiple languages, and who loves Arabic poetry.

Give me a little "Robin is Magic!" Jason scouring Bruce's library and picking up a copy of The Mahabharata after he's done The Iliad, and spends weeks obsessed with Journey to the West.

Give me a Jason who's read Things Fall Apart, and One Hundred Years of Solitude! The number of quotes and references he could pull that would further support his dramatic tendencies? It would make him so happy!

[canisalbus]

I want you to know that your art is very important to me, and I'm very invested in all of the characters I have seen from you. Also, the discussion about Finnish and other languages having gendered words or not has been the last little push to get me to start learning Finnish which I think is fun.

I'm making this a little compilation post of all the language asks I got. Thank you for sharing, this was genuinely really interesting!

[misspeppermint2003]

⭐️ Weekly Fandom Vote (Round 5) ⭐️

[hanzajesthanza]

geralt of rivia thoughts summarized

this city is too congested and loud

i don’t like the way my clothes feel

it’s super hot out right now but i’m gonna keep my outerwear on

i’m just gonna sit in the corner and do my thang

what’s wrong with me why do i feel emotions so strongly

people keep telling me i was made wrong

there are so many smells out here right now

i don’t like the way these clothes feel either

i don’t know how to break up with my girlfriend so i’m just going to leave i guess

wrong decision i’m going to apologize now. … by giving her some cool rocks

i kind of messed things up with my girlfriend again but i want to talk to her BUT i don’t know how to address her. we made passionate love many times. can i call her my… hmm… ummm… friend…?

i could piss in this flowerpot but… that wouldn’t be nice to the flowers

it’s time for a scathingly eloquent rant

never mind i forgot how to say words

i’m just going to tell you what happened straight up. no poetics from me

but let’s critique society

I HATE INJUSTICE AND UNFAIRNESS !!!

why are people so corrupt and evil. i don’t get it.

more importantly. WHY do i keep falling for it.

i am a relic of an older time. change is already here and i’m not ready

apart from my immediate family i’ve had one best friend for a decade and that’s my extent of socializing.

unless someone comes to me first with that. and we have shared interests. then we can roll together for a bit

i have not changed my sense of style or the type of clothes i wear since i was eighteen. i even tie my hair in the same way

[3liza]

i just wanted to know what using a distaff was like and god help me I started laughing as soon as I saw + heard this wonderful man. i think I'm in love with him. Italy is a real place; you can go there

[mythologypaintings]

The Harvest or Ceres and Triptolemus

Artist: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725–1805)

Date: 1769

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Description

Few French painters of the eighteenth century were more indecisive than Lagrenée, who was capable of shifting from the flowery allegory of Harvest (1769) to the gray classicism of The Visitation (1781). The prolific Lagrenée listened to everyone, and was alternatively treated by Diderot with harshness for his lack of ideas and extolled for the "charm" of his Mercury, Herse and Aglauros. This made Lagrenée a particularly indulgent director of the French Academy in Rome from 1781 to 1787.

[heartboiled-egg]

Doodled the seasonal outfits for my FoM farmer🪴his name is Purzel!

Odd little guy who will stare at you silently and always has a ton of money without realizing he's hoarded that much lol What's his deal? Nobody knows, but he's got a heart of gold and loves to help out 🫶