#marble house

[mrtri91]

Long time no post from myself. I made several attempts of buildings, but actually never bern satisfied enough to finish anything.

Till this weekend - I started another try on Marble House in Newport (currently obsessed with the second season of „Gilded Age“) and from what I can say now, I really like it.

So I can present you at least a bit of it by now. Exterior, hall and dining room are finished. The golden ball room just needs more furnishing and details

[knightofleo]

The Knife | Marble House

The moment we believe That we have never met Another kind of love It's easy to forget When we are all alone Then we do both agree We have a thing in common This was meant to be

[a-solitary-sea-rover-backup]

The Gothic Room at Marble House is totally the place where you pore over archaic spellbooks and invoke dark curses to sink your opponents’ yachts. That is definitely what happened here in the America’s Cup days and the guidebook told me so.

[johnthestitcher]

Marble House tree, Newport, Rhode Island.

[wix-0-nightshade]

Silly thot

Okay. You ever just think. And you always remember that one particular thing you can never have leave your mind. No matter it’s scaring or not??

Well this never scarred or bothered me but each time I think or sometimes space off I always think of marble house. And you know why?

She lost her marble’s :D

Otherwise it’s the girl spotting them out… Which. I’m happy she was back to normal. But the children didn’t do a thing—

[pleasures]

[calliecjc]

Dead as me on my 18th birthday thjvvhdy

Just thought you should know that our alex alter absolutely loves the art you make. Can never stop looking at it!! Hope you’re having a good day<3

thank you anon! and here's alex doodles for him

[ferigrievance]

consuming mass amounts of media related to my hyperfixation isnt enough i need to eat it

[winterswake]

EWAN MITCHELL as prince Aemond Targaryen

[livesunique]

Schloss Weißenstein, Pommersfelden, Bavaria, Germany,

Courtesy: Palace Reflection

[direpunk]

brian piece based on how getting my braces off felt when i was 14

(close up + unedited ver. below)

[bulb-draws]

[vintagehomecollection]

Augmented by mirrors and marble, the tone of graceful simplicity in the master suite culminates in the Master Bath, where a wall of sycamore curves to separate a whirlpool spa from the bedroom. Transluscent window screens enhance the effect of airy purity.

Contemporary Apartments (The Worlds of Architectural Digest), 1982

[a-solitary-sea-rover-backup]

These aren’t just two random tables in the basement of Marble House (even though I thought they were until the docent pointed them out!), they were both used by Harold Vanderbilt and built to his own designs. The rectangular one is gimbaled for stability on a yacht and the triangular one is for playing cards.

(Given that he paid for the house’s conversion to a museum and so much of the stuff in the basement is his… you could say he really was an adult storing his stuff in his mom’s basement!)

[starry-bi-sky]

mmmmmm read a disciple shen yuan/shizun luo binghe fanfic about two days ago where the first chapter was the Immortal Conference arc, and SQQ was the one who had to be pushed into the abyss (he was still the villain) except Luo Binghe was refusing and was like, lowkey losing his mind about SQQ being so close to the edge. SQQ ended up having to be the one to fall in himself because of the system's punishment system. The rest of the fic is leading up to that moment. But like, MMM i've been obsessively thinking about that first chapter for DAYS ever since.

now i've been in svsss for a grand total of *checks watch* a week. but god obsessed with that. I want to write/read a fic where disciple SQQ goes a little nuts down there. Like keep all of the things that make SQQ, SQQ, but just. Throw in a little bit more trauma in there. A little bit of a mental break. Let him go a little nuts as a treat. Just a tad unhinged. I wanna see him go, just a little, "god fuck it, i've tried so hard to change this shitty story's outcome and it feels like everything i've done has been for nothing. I'm going to die in this world no matter what I do, I've been doomed from the start, so might as well die the way I want to." and he just, breaks a little! Under all the stress.

He still retains the traits that makes shen yuan, shen yuan, like his overwhelming kindness. But he's just! yk. A little less patient. Paranoid. Jumpy. Colder. A little more aloof and closed off. A little more Shen Jiu. He's no asshole child abuser, but he was a Number One Hater in his past life and he's leaning into that old habit a little more now.

(On a totally coincidental not-at-all related note, there's not enough SJ-and-SY-are-the-same-people fics out there that i've found. This is totally unrelated...)

The Endless Abyss turns the mind into an over-sharpened blade, and SQQ is both fascinated and perhaps a little excited to explore a place that doesn't have a lot of info on it in the mortal realm, but still terrified out of his mind. And he's no Luo Binghe, he doesn't have the sheer brute strength and power to just bulldoze his way through, so he has to be a lot more sneaky and cunning if he wants to survive.

The fic itself role-swapped LBH and SQQ so that SQQ was the half-demon (which lowkey fucks) and LBH the human, but I'm equally-if-not-more obsessed with the idea that LBH remains the half-heavenly demon and SQQ the human. If only because I keep thinking about SQQ befriending some demons (particularly and specifically a group of succubi) and they grow very attached to this Human Cultivator so through magic plot stuff they create some kind of seal/illusion/talisman that makes SQQ appear as a demon because a human cultivator in the endless abyss may as well be the equivalent of putting a giant neon target on your back.

And iirc Shen Jiu was taught demonic cultivation by that one guy(?? i've only been here a week so im not caught up in ALL of the lore yet) so that could totally happen here.

(On the other end of the realms, poor Shizun Luo Binghe is just. losing his fucking mind over losing his most precious and beloved disciple. About .5 seconds from burning down the peaks himself. somebody sedate him.)

The Endless Abyss sucks and SQQ is having a really terrible time and can feel himself going lowkey mad, but also holy shit look at all this WORLD-BUILDING. look at all this flora and fauna, and oh if he had the equipment for it he'd be writing all of this down. ALL OF IT. He was kinda-sorta-already planning on never leaving the Abyss as some sort of fucked up self-exile and self-preservation thing, but now he might? actually just?? never leave if he can help it, like he lowkey likes it down here.

anyways the next time anyone ever sees SQQ again he's got hair so long its almost touching the ground and he's either in rags and half-feral or he's been completely dolled up by his adoptive succubi sisters and still about three seconds from biting anyone who tries to touch him. (he's also lowkey trying to book it back down to the abyss even if he has desperately missed all of his friends and shizun)