#naked in the mountains

[chlobody]

the fog pulls you in [ shot by @ohseephotography ]

[befuddled-calico-whump]

thinking about a whumpee on a forced march through rough terrain

hands tied in front of them, on foot while their captors are mounted, sleeping out in the open, forced to beg for adequate food and water

maybe they're barefoot, a captured royal in silken robes

maybe they're in a torn suit or soldier's uniform

maybe they were stripped at the start, increasing the exposure to the elements, the humiliation

are they a terrified mess from the beginning, or do they try to endure with dignity? how long before they're stumbling, barely putting one foot in front of the other? how long before they fall?

[burstfoot]

[icarus-suraki]

Happy birthday to noted mountaineer Aleister Crowley! Here he is during an expedition to K2 in 1902:

"On the journey, Crowley was afflicted with influenza, malaria, and snow blindness, and other expedition members were also struck with illness. They reached an altitude of 20,000 feet (6,100 m) before turning back."

[mypastnow]

[animasolascreenshots]

[shaythelittlefay]

[cosmic-rains-blog]

Creating with nature 🩵

[mypastnow]

[art-allegory]

Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy

Artist: François Lemoyne (French, 1688–1737)

Title: Français: Le Temps sauvant la Vérité du Mensonge et de l'Envie.

Date: 1737

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

Description

The painting is the last masterwork of François Lemoyne, the greatest French history painter of his generation. In 1733-1736, he painted the ceiling of the Salon d'Hercule in Versailles, one of the most ambitious ceiling paintings ever painted in France and the most important Royal commission of the early years of Louis XV. As a consequence, Lemoyne had become First Painter to the King in 1736.

The naked figure of Truth is held aloft by her father, Time, who with his scythe subdues Falsehood, in her fine apparel and dissembling mask, while the baleful figure of Envy recedes, protesting. Lemoyne has imbued the figures in the dramatic scene with a solid sculptural quality. Originally, this effect was even stronger before the canvas was extended on all four sides. Lemoyne's figures forcefully filled the original space of the painting. Lemoyne was obviously aiming to continue the grand tradition of seventeenth-century history painting in this work, as he had done in his ceiling painting for Versailles. The allegory refers back to paintings by Guido Reni and, possibly also to a garden sculpture by Thomas Regnaudin in Versailles, both masterworks from the seventeenth century. This attempt to continue the tradition of what was perceived as the Grand Siècle became one of the main ambitions of eighteenth-century history painting in France.

Lemoyne was suffering from severe depression when he was painting the work. The subject may have held a personal significance for the artist: tragically the day after he completed it, he committed suicide. His possible self-perception as a genius suffering from envy and falsehood is not supported by the facts. It is not clear, however, who devised the subject of the allegory. The painting was commissioned by the financier and great collector François Berger who is known to have picked up the work in Lemoyne's studio after the painter's suicide. Berger had been Lemoyne's patron from 1722 and also owned "Perseus and Andromeda", Lemoyne's other work in the Wallace Collection. He commissioned "Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy" as a pendant to the much earlier "Bather", (private collection) painted by Lemoyne for Berger in 1723-1724 and would ultimate have determined the subject. Both works were probably enlarged for the next owner, Etienne Bouret, in c. 1757 to match their size with other works by Lemoyne in the same collection, such as "Perseus and Andromeda". Both Berger and Bouret owned impressive groups of paintings by Lemoyne, an homage to the leading history painter of the early eighteenth century and an early statement in support of contemporary French art among Parisian collectors.

[zoomzooml]

Dump of old(er) ghouls doodles✨

Random concept of water ghouls just because I like my ghouls a bit funky and weird.

Naked butt ghoulette. Mountain and a kitty (kitty is in fact a wild cougar. Everyone gave up on trying to stop him from doing shit like this. This man-)

I like to think earth ghouls like weighted blankets and tight places because in "wild" (lmao) they sleep in hella claustrophobic places among others.

Just Mountain and Rain chillin. Rain has found a water lily, and Mountain is keeping an eye on his clothes and keeping them dry.

Also I hc that they should have hairstyles like ones on the masks (dresscode) but idk who and how often actually obey this lol

[shaythelittlefay]

[irradiatedsnakes]

enters a new fandom and draws nearly naked people as soon as physically possible

[positivewlwvibes]

straight people will ask "omg how did you that you were gay???" expecting something like, "omg britney spears was so hot in the toxic music video" or "oh, i got ahold of my parent's hbo account and boobs"

when really the answer is usually something really gay like gold diggers: the secret of bear mountain (1995) or like... gillian anderson in the x files

[moliathh]

star-crossed in the worst way, even Shakespeare would weep