#the lady of shallot

[secretmellowart]

HELLO everyone! As I take a break from illustrating The Hobbit, I'm planning to work on one of the other projects I've been daydreaming about for a long time-- and in this difficult economy, amidst Adventures at my day job, I have decided to monetize my own indecision! If you'd like to help me choose the poem, you can join my Patreon and vote at this link! ;3 The poll will close on Februrary 28th!

[secretmellowblog]

“Go outside and touch grass” well I can’t 🙄 A curse is on me if I stay my weaving, either night or day, to look down to Camelot

[stinkybrowndogs]

The Puppy of Shallot

[whyhellosims]

She's off, my darlings. She's searching for Lancelot

(Come visit me this Simblreen if you’d like to have Venus Vlad and The Symbiont of Shallot as paintings hanging in your sims' homes!)

[quo-usque-tandem]

The Lady of Shallot by John William Waterhouse.Tate

[galleryofart]

The Lady of Shalott

Artist: William Holman Hunt (English, 1827-1910)

Date: c. 1888–1905

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, United States

Description

The Lady of Shalott is an oil painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt, made c. 1888–1905, and depicting a scene from Tennyson's 1833 poem, "The Lady of Shalott". The painting is held by the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, Connecticut. A smaller version is held by the Manchester Art Gallery.

"She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look'd down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side; 'The curse is come upon me,' cried The Lady of Shalott."

~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott (1842)

The painting by William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) has a complicated and elaborate symbolism. The Lady of Shalott is herself an artist and may reflect Hunt's own aesthetic on the consequences of turning away from duty and yielding to the temptations of the world rather than being removed from its material realities.

The lady's magnificent hair, blown by a stormy wind, frightens away the doves of peace that had settled next to her as she worked, the weaving ruined, as is her own life. The silver lamp on the right has owls decorating the top and sphinxes at the bottom to suggest wisdom triumphing over mystery, its light extinguished now that the she has succumbed to temptation. Hercules, who is portrayed to the right of the mirror is given a halo to signify him as a type of Christ, his victory over the serpent guarding the apples in the garden of the Hesperides the pagan counterpart to Christ's victory over sin. To the left of the mirror, the Virgin Mary prays over the Christ child, her humility and the valor of Hercules both exemplars of duty and foils to the Lady of Shalott, who personifies its dereliction, as signified by her wild hair and unraveling yarn.

[andalon-historian]

Book called "The Loves of Lancelot" that's in four parts:

1. Lancelot and Morgan, living at court as young people. They can keep up with each other mentally, socially, and have the same sense of humor; the few who notice, including Arthur, are very supportive. Morgan is jealous of Gwen, and tries to "win" Lance for herself, but Lance can't make the decision to leave Gwen and Morgan cuts it off.

2. Lancelot and Galehaut, living as soldiers during Arthur's conquests of Britain and the English. They are extremely codependent, and worship each other; most people are impressed Lancelot managed such a catch, and expect them to move away to live together in Gaul. Galehaut enables Lance and Gwen, playing wingman for them, and eventually he dies. Somehow. Haven't figured that part out.

3. Lancelot and Elaine, at court and in Astolat during the adventures. After the events of Lady of Shalott, Lancelot's touch miraculously resurrection her, and she worships Lance completely one-sidedly; the court begs Lance to go for the poor girl. She is completely oblivious to the Gwen situation, and eventually Lance cuts it off out of guilt.

4. Lancelot and Gawaine on the adventures of the Grail. They are long-time best friends, and know each other well, and slowly fall while isolated from court. Gawaine cities Lance and Gwen, and tries to be that person for Lance to stop him from going back-- and he keeps trying until Lance, after the boat ride with Galahad, goes back to Camelot.

The book ends as Lancelot has finally made a firm decision that he can't take back-- he kills his last lover's family, and he and Gwen ride away from Camelot as fast as his horse can take them, leaving behind-- for each other-- everything they are, and everything they know, and everyone else they love.

[vaginawoolf666]

IM. HALF. SICK. OF. THESE. MOTHERFUCKING. SHADOWS

-The Lady of Shalott-

[esotericmama]

[frimleyblogger]

Murder In The Mews

A review of Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie – 240801 Murder in the Mews, the eighteenth in Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot series, originally published in 1937, is a collection of three novellas and a longish short story. On the plus side there are four opportunities for the reader to be astonished by the acuity of her eccentric sleuth’s little grey cells but on the other hand they are…

[secretmellowblog]

Modern AU Lady of Shallot where instead of getting all her knowledge of the world from a magic mirror she just gets it from watching TV shows/movies, and instead of weaving a magic web she just writes fanfic

[someromancero]

Day two of 60 days of studying the masters:

The Lady of Shallot, by John William Waterhouse, 1888.

[15-lizards]

Hey,

who in Westeros would wear Aesthetic dresses and those dresses you see in Pre Raphaelite paintings? (asking 'cause George has cited the Pre Raphaelites as one of his inspirations)

Pre-Raphaelite art is my religion and Edmund Leighton and John William Waterhouse are my gods

Obviously the Sansa-core of it all is very strong like the loose, long shapes, the floral motifs, the gentle haziness of it all... Sansa Pre Raphaelite stock are through the roof

Also young Cat and other riverlanders girls in general it's all very "lost in a dream" vibes if u get my drift. And hot take dare I say young Cersei at some of these...try and see my vision

[murdleandmarot]

A quick bluebelle painting :))

[octaviasdread]

(don’t repost photo)

Ophelia, John Everett Millais (1851-2) at the Tate Britain

[gaheriskinnie]

Elaine of Astolot would run a femcel blog if she had Tumblr. I say this with love in my heart.