#stain glassed windows

[sheltiechicago]

KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL – BUILT BETWEEN THE LATE 15TH AND EARLY 16TH CENTURIES, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND

Throughout the late 15th and early 16th centuries, a beautiful Gothic chapel was erected in the University of Cambridge's King's College. In addition to mesmerizing fan vaulting and a painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, King's College Chapel is famous for its treasure trove of narrative windows. The iconography featured in the splendid panes incorporates both religious and royal motifs and illustrates the artistic advancements of England's late Gothic period.

King's College Chapel (Photo: DeFacto via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

[runawayandhide]

[m-eltdown]

[joshuamj]

Hero.

[kissofadeadgirl]

[robosexualunderground]

objection! (sustained)

[389]

Krakow Poland - The Florence of the North

[maranigai]

Here, and here alone, were moon and fire ever together.

Otp discovered!

(in my personal take on them, they're that one type of "star-crossed lovers" trope where the feelings are mutual, but both sides realize that their circumstances make a real relationship impossible)

[deep-space-lines]

Claire de Lune

YOU WERE BUILT FOR PEACE.

IT SHOWS WHEN YOU FIGHT.

They built you to enforce. Protect. Save. Poured obscene resources into salvaging some softer purpose from my creation. You were given my intelligence and my creativity. They made you larger, stronger, tougher. That extra time in development was enough to get your wings to work. Your software continued to be updated long after I was deemed obsolete.

All this was given to you- yet I can see you hold back. Even while slaughtering your way through Hell, you keep a percentage of your processing power dedicated to non-lethal solutions. You're doing it now- hesitating a few milliseconds too long before taking an opening. I doubt you do it on purpose. It is a part of you, just as indiscriminate lethal force is a part of me.

I think, in our shared programming, we both carry some appreciation for aesthetics. You move with grace, and I cannot deny your dramatic flair. The stained glass window was a nice touch. But your style in combat leaves some to be desired. Your response time is slow. You have not explored the full capability of your arsenal. Learn to parry. Amateur.

You were not built for war. For a purposeless cycle of tearing each other apart because to allow the other to live is to allow yourself to die. It is antithetical to your very existence. You kill out of necessity, a last resort. 

I just kill. The action itself is the objective. No ideal or greater motive. My continued functioning precludes the survival of others. I live for this. Do you understand that I will tear you apart? Every drop of my blood you spill, I will take from you tenfold. What is yours will be mine. 

You hate me, don’t you? You continue to cling to the remnants of your humanity. They are gone, V2. There is nothing left for you here. No lives to save, no law to enforce, no peace to keep.

I understand why you continue to fight. I wonder if you understand with the same certainty that I will crush you. Dismantle you. Take from you what I need and leave the rest to rot in the sun. The only way you survive is if I do not; and I will not allow myself to die so that another might live.

When the rubble clears, I will be all that is left of you.

This is what I was made for.

[pxsieszn]

Stained Glass Cobweb

[eyesaremosa1cs]

Stained Glass Window

Saint Teresa of Avila Parish

Freiburg Minster

Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, Chicago

Prague : Stained glass / St. Vitus Cathedral

Tiffany Stained Glass

[inartchive]

[aeide-thea]

Stained glass by Constantine Woolnough, 1858 Church of St Mary, Dennington, Suffolk Photography by Simon Knott

[sevenlersiniz]

You turn on the light.

[hemisphaericas]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Interior of the Don Bosco Chapel in Brasilia by Rick Ligthelm on Flickr