#walter elizabeth shaw

[cannibal-lovemail]

Alien: Covenant | 2017

[raccoonbakery]

Just leave Walter and his garden alone!!(screaming

[teenageartists]

Idk why it's dark but I'll fix it later

[davidayer]

David 8 & Elizabeth Shaw ✶✶ Prometheus (2012)

Walter & Katherine Daniels ✶✶ Alien Covenant (2017)

[blueopinions49]

Enneagram 5 Subtype Explained

The Social 5 "Totem"

The SO5 is the most assertive and ambitious of the enneagram 5. This subtype combines the desire of E5 (knowledge and understanding) and the social drive to create and share knowledge. They find great importance In the power of knowledge. Usually having a hyper fixed desire on what is true and logistically correct. John Lukovich describes them as having a "promethean calling" which I think is probably the most accurate of this subtype. Due to their desire to share their obtained knowledge.

Characters: Tim Drake, V , Petyr Baelish, Lara Croft, Jane, Sherlock Holmes, Elizabeth Shawe and Lady Jessica.

The Self Preservation 5 "Castle"

The SP 5 looks to fulfill their desire for knowledge and understanding through gaining insight on their specific interest. The 5 have this 9ish quality to them in the sense that the desire to create an environment that makes them comfortable. However unlike the 9 the sp5 does it in order to maxine efficiency in their interest. This subtype maybe the most social awkward of the enneagram. I personally would attribute curiosity as their defining characteristic. Usually this subtype looks like a typical 5 (quite and reserved) however they can also look like 9s due their introverted and constant narcotization.

Characters: Alice, Sister Sage, Walter White, L, Stanford Pines, Daria, Velma Dinkly and Bruce Banner

The Sexual 5 "Trust"

As the counter type of E5 this subtype looks to find a personal other through the sharing of interest and insight. This subtype subverts the usual conventions of the E5 by being focused on emotional desire. However they are stick an E5 so the struggle of them being a rejection type is still there. They go about fulfilling their core desire by finding a significant other that holds their exact same interest. Similar to the E4 they portray an image of somebody who us deeply interesting however unlike the E4 its not an image but a reality of the subjects interest and desires.

Characters: Simon Petrikov, Johan Liebert, Mr. Darcy, Marianne Sheridan, Sapphire ,Anais Watterson, Alan Wake, The Vampire Armand

Note: Bruce Banner is the character I am technically typing here not the The Hulk but I couldn't find cute Bruce Banner pics from the comics.

[lovingpromise]

**Goal is for everyone to have their own little info post, but it's slow goings. OCs will always have one before I put them on here though.

BRIDGERTON

Agatha Danbury | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Adjoa Andoh Benedict Bridgerton | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Luke Thompson Edmund Bridgerton | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Rupert Evans Simon Basset | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Regé-Jean Page Violet Bridgerton | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Ruth Gemmell

BALDUR'S GATE

Lae'zel | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Lesley-Ann Brandt Withers | Canon | Low Activity | FC: ???

DC

Crystal Palace | Netflix's DBD Canon | Low Activity | FC: Kassius Nelson

DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN

Leo Manfred | Canon | Medium Activity | FC: Aaron Paul Markus | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Jesse Williams

DISNEY

Alice Liddell | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Elle Fanning Beast / Prince Adam | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Chris Pine

DOCTOR WHO

9th Doctor | Canon | Medium Activity | FC: Christopher Eccleston

DRAGON AGE

Alistair | Canon | Low Activity | FC: ??? Fenris | Canon | Low Activity | FC: ???

ELEMENTARY

Joan Waston | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Lucy Lu

FANDOMLESS OCS

Yamano Arai | Pirate, Affiliated | Medium Activity | FC: Anna Sawai

MARVEL

Dr. Bruce Banner | MCU & 616 Mesh | FC: Mark Ruffalo Clea (Strange) | 616 & MCU Headcanoned | FC: Beth Riesgraf Deke Shaw | MCU Canon | FC: Jeff Ward Edwin Jarvis | MCU | FC: James D'Arcy Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk | 616 & MCU Canon Divergent | FC: Tatiana Maslany Natasha Romanoff | MCU & 616 Mesh | FC: Scarlett Johansson Sam Wilson | MCU | FC: Anthony Mackie Sarah Wilson | MCU | FC: Adepero Oduye Pietro Maximoff | MCU Canon Divergent | FC: Aaron Taylor-Johnson Vision | MCU Canon | FC: Paul Bettany

SHERLOCK

Molly Hooper | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Louise Brealey Mary Watson | Canon Divergent | Low Activity | FC: Amanda Abbington Sherrinford (Ford) Holmes | OC | Medium Activity | FC: Cillian Murphy

STRANGER THINGS

Joyce Byers | Canon | Medium Activity | FC: Winona Ryder Ted Wheeler | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Joe Chrest

THE WALKING DEAD GAME

Christa | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Dewanda Wise Clementine | Canon | High Activity | FC: Maddison Pettis Kenny | Canon | Medium Activity | FC: Nick Offerman Lee | Canon | High Activity | FC: Isaiah Mustafa Mariana | High Activity | FC: Jenna Ortega Sarah | Medium Activity | FC: Selena Gomez Sarita | High Activity | FC: Chitrangada Singh

THIS BED WE MADE

Beth | Canon | Low Activity | FC: Elizabeth Gilles

PENDING MUSES

Howl, Calcifer, & Sophie from HMC 12th Doctor Glenn, Michonne, + Rick from TWD Monk

[autisticheadcanons]

I Think David 8 And Walter From Prometheus And Alien Covenant Are Autistic

David Tends To Have Trouble Reading His Emotions Along With The Emotions Of Others And This Makes Him Come Across As Psychopathic Or Mechanical To His Crewmates

And He's Often Mistreated Because Of His Differences And People Expect Him To Act A Certain Way And Not To Call Out The Discrimination He Faces His Own Father Said To His Face That He Didn't Have A Soul And He's Treated Less Like A Person And More Like A Machine By Both His Colleagues And Family

He Tends To Infodump And Overshare About His Favourite Films And Book's Quoting Them To His Colleagues And Family Who Are Confused By His Behaviour For Example He Tends To Reference Lawrence Of Arabia Frequently

He Also Has Various Special Interests Like Learning Proto-Indo-European Lawrence Of Arabia And Experimenting And Creating New Forms Of Life Along With Music

Walter Is Less Outwardly Emotional Like David And Has Even A Harder Time Using Sarcasm And Irony Unlike His Brother David

He Has Feelings For Daniels But Doesn't Know How To Process Or Express Them And Dismisses His Feelings As Just Him Doing His Duty

Walter Also Has Trouble Defending Himself Verbally And Occasionally Physical David Also Had This Issue But After His Father's Death He Was Able To Become More Expressive And Self Assertive

He Was Also Able To Learn More And Began To Express His Feelings More Explicitly And Developed A Relationship With Dr Elizabeth Shaw

David Also Eats Despite Not Technically Needing To Even When No-Ones Around And This Could Be Because He Likes The Texture This Combined With His Styling Of His Hair Could Be Interpreted As Stuff Similar To Stimming And Other Self Soothing Behaviours

[abwwia]

What a treasure! - with a special dedication to @dinahvaginaart

Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, assembled and edited by #WalterShawSparrow, lists an overview of prominent #womenpainters up to 1905, the year of publication.

How is this NOT ?! a compulsory book at the each and every #artcourse?! #artherstory

Here's the list of the painters (this will keep me busy for some time :)

Louise Abbéma

Madame Abran (Marthe Abran, 1866-1908)

Georges Achille-Fould

Helen Allingham

Anna Alma-Tadema

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema

Sophie Gengembre Anderson

Helen Cordelia Angell

Sofonisba Anguissola

Christine Angus

Berthe Art

Gerardina Jacoba van de Sande Bakhuyzen

Antonia de Bañuelos

Rose Maynard Barton

Marie Bashkirtseff

Jeanna Bauck

Amalie Bauerlë

Mary Beale

Lady Diana Beauclerk

Cecilia Beaux

Ana Bešlić

Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Marie Bilders-van Bosse

Lily Blatherwick

Tina Blau

Nelly Bodenheim

Kossa Bokchan

Rosa Bonheur

Mlle. Bouillier

Madame Bovi[2]

Olga Boznanska

Louise Breslau

Elena Brockmann

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe

Anne Frances Byrne

Katharine Cameron

Margaret Cameron (Mary Margaret Cameron)

Marie Gabrielle Capet

Margaret Sarah Carpenter

Madeleine Carpentier

Rosalba Carriera

Mary Cassatt

Marie Cazin

Francine Charderon

Marian Emma Chase

Zoé-Laure de Chatillon

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet

Lilian Cheviot

Mlle. Claudie

Christabel Cockerell

Marie Amélie Cogniet

Uranie Alphonsine Colin-Libour

Jacqueline Comerre-Paton

Cornelia Conant

Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin

Diana Coomans

Maria Cosway

Amelia Curran

Louise Danse

Héléna Arsène Darmesteter

Maria Davids

Césarine Davin-Mirvault

Evelyn De Morgan

Jane Mary Dealy

Virginie Demont-Breton

Marie Destrée-Danse

Margaret Isabel Dicksee

Agnese Dolci

Angèle Dubos

Victoria Dubourg

Clémentine-Hélène Dufau

Mary Elizabeth Duffield-Rosenberg

Maud Earl

Marie Ellenrieder

Alix-Louise Enault

Alice Maud Fanner

Catherine Maria Fanshawe

Jeanne Fichel

Author

Walter Shaw Sparrow

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English language

Genre

Art history

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton, Frederick A. Stokes

Publication date

1905

Pages

331

The purpose of the book was to prove wrong the statement that "the achievements of women painters have been second-rate."[1] The book includes well over 300 images of paintings by over 200 painters, most of whom were born in the 19th century and won medals at various international exhibitions. The book is a useful reference work for anyone studying women's art of the late 19th century

Louise Abbéma

Madame Abran (Marthe Abran, 1866-1908)

Georges Achille-Fould

Helen Allingham

Anna Alma-Tadema

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema

Sophie Gengembre Anderson

Helen Cordelia Angell

Sofonisba Anguissola

Christine Angus

Berthe Art

Gerardina Jacoba van de Sande Bakhuyzen

Antonia de Bañuelos

Rose Maynard Barton

Marie Bashkirtseff

Jeanna Bauck

Amalie Bauerlë

Mary Beale

Lady Diana Beauclerk

Cecilia Beaux

Ana Bešlić

Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Marie Bilders-van Bosse

Lily Blatherwick

Tina Blau

Nelly Bodenheim

Kossa Bokchan

Rosa Bonheur

Mlle. Bouillier

Madame Bovi[2]

Olga Boznanska

Louise Breslau

Elena Brockmann

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe

Anne Frances Byrne

Katharine Cameron

Margaret Cameron (Mary Margaret Cameron)

Marie Gabrielle Capet

Margaret Sarah Carpenter

Madeleine Carpentier

Rosalba Carriera

Mary Cassatt

Marie Cazin

Francine Charderon

Marian Emma Chase

Zoé-Laure de Chatillon

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet

Lilian Cheviot

Mlle. Claudie

Christabel Cockerell

Marie Amélie Cogniet

Uranie Alphonsine Colin-Libour

Jacqueline Comerre-Paton

Cornelia Conant

Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin

Diana Coomans

Maria Cosway

Amelia Curran

Louise Danse

Héléna Arsène Darmesteter

Maria Davids

Césarine Davin-Mirvault

Evelyn De Morgan

Jane Mary Dealy

Virginie Demont-Breton

Marie Destrée-Danse

Margaret Isabel Dicksee

Agnese Dolci

Angèle Dubos

Victoria Dubourg

Clémentine-Hélène Dufau

Mary Elizabeth Duffield-Rosenberg

Maud Earl

Marie Ellenrieder

Alix-Louise Enault

Alice Maud Fanner

Catherine Maria Fanshawe

Jeanne Fichel

Rosalie Filleul

Fanny Fleury

Julia Bracewell Folkard

Lavinia Fontana

Elizabeth Adela Forbes

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Consuélo Fould

Empress Frederick of Germany

Elizabeth Jane Gardner

Artemisia Gentileschi[3]

Diana Ghisi

Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe

Marie-Éléonore Godefroid

Eva Gonzalès

Maude Goodman

Mary L. Gow

Kate Greenaway

Rosina Mantovani Gutti

Gertrude Demain Hammond

Emily Hart

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot

Alice Havers

Ivy Heitland

Catharina van Hemessen

Matilda Heming

Mrs. John Herford

Emma Herland

E. Baily Hilda

Dora Hitz

A. M. Hobson

Adrienne van Hogendorp-s' Jacob

Lady Holroyd

Amelia Hotham

M. J. A. Houdon

Joséphine Houssaye

Barbara Elisabeth van Houten

Sina Mesdag van Houten

Julia Beatrice How

Mary Young Hunter

Helen Hyde

Katarina Ivanović

Infanta María de la Paz of Spain

Olga Jančić

Blanche Jenkins

Marie Jensen

Olga Jevrić

Louisa Jopling

Ljubinka Jovanović

Mina Karadžić

Angelica Kauffman

Irena Kazazić

Lucy E. Kemp-Welch

Jessie M. King

Elisa Koch

Käthe Kollwitz

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Ethel Larcombe

Hermine Laucota

Madame Le Roy

Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud

Judith Leyster

Barbara Longhi

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

Marie Seymour Lucas

Marie Lucas Robiquet

Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy

Ann Macbeth

Biddie Macdonald

Jessie Macgregor

Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland

E. Marcotte

Ana Marinković

Madeline Marrable

Edith Martineau

Caroline de Maupeou

Constance Mayer

Anne Mee

Margaret Meen

Maria S. Merian

Anna Lea Merritt

Georgette Meunier

Eulalie Morin

Berthe Morisot

Mary Moser

Marie Nicolas

Beatrice Offor

Adeline Oppenheim Guimard

Blanche Paymal-Amouroux

Marie Petiet

Nadežda Petrović

Zora Petrović

Constance Phillott

Maria Katharina Prestel

Henrietta Rae

Suor Barbara Ragnoni

Catharine Read

Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte

Flora Macdonald Reid

Maria G. Silva Reis

Mrs. J. Robertson

Suze Robertson

Ottilie Roederstein

Juana Romani

Adèle Romany

Jeanne Rongier

Henriëtte Ronner-Knip

Baroness Lambert de Rothschild

Sophie Rude

Rachel Ruysch

Eugénie Salanson

Adelaïde Salles-Wagner

Amy Sawyer

Helene Schjerfbeck

Félicie Schneider

Anna Maria Schurman

Thérèse Schwartze

Doña Stuart Sindici

Elisabetta Sirani

Sienese Nun Sister A

Sienese Nun Sister B

Minnie Smythe

Élisabeth Sonrel

Lavinia, Countess Spencer

M. E. Edwards Staples

Louisa Starr

Marianne Stokes

Elizabeth Strong

Mary Ann Rankin (Mrs. J. M. Swan)

Annie Louise Swynnerton

E. De Tavernier

Elizabeth Upton, Baroness Templetown

Ellen Thesleff

Elizabeth Thompson

Maria Tibaldi m. Subleyras

Frédérique Vallet-Bisson

Caroline de Valory

Mlle. de Vanteuil[4]

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Caterina Vigri

Vukosava Velimirović

Ana Vidjen

Draginja Vlasic

Beta Vukanović

Louisa Lady Waterford

Hermine Waternau

Caroline Watson

Cecilia Wentworth

E. Wesmael

Florence White

Maria Wiik

Julie Wolfthorn

Juliette Wytsman

Annie Marie Youngman

Jenny Zillhardt.

#womensart #artbywomen #palianshow #womeninarts #greatfemaleartist

#greatfemalepainters #herstory #forgottenartists #mustread

[findthebae]

Hello, I’m David 8 from Prometheus & Alien Covenant. I’d very much like to connect with Walter, Meredith Vickers, Elizabeth Shaw, or Daniels, but I’d be more than happy to speak with anyone from the Alien franchise in general. In addition, if there are any android / mechanical kins who are not from Alien but wish to connect with a fellow robotkin, please feel free to interact.

I’m an adult. Thank you!

! ! !

[kincalling]

Hello, I’m David 8 from Prometheus & Alien Covenant. I’d very much like to connect with Walter, Meredith Vickers, Elizabeth Shaw, or Daniels, but I’d be more than happy to speak with anyone from the Alien franchise in general. In addition, if there are any android / mechanical kins who are not from Alien but wish to connect with a fellow robotkin, please feel free to interact.

I’m an adult. Thank you!

🃏

[theropoda]

some notes on my rewatch:

david def seems to project on walter, assuming he loves daniels like he did shaw. but... i wonder if he's right and walter did love, or least have some particular affection for daniels, bc 1) offering to help her w the ship in the beginning after her husband's death 2) offering her weed while she's grieving 3) and most importantly, what really made me consider this, while hallet is in the grass squirming as the xenomorph comes out of him he's just standing there like🧍while everyone else is trying to help. doesn't try to help at all? but when the neomorph charges at daniels he puts himself in front of her and even loses a hand for her. but interviews say he really is just a man of duty, simply more user friendly... so who knows.

david, Just Born, can play wagner on piano but walter can't play the flute. why? it's a small detail but has me wondering. does walter just not know how to play the flute or can he not play any instruments at all? why's he programmed like that?

david plays the prometheus theme on his flute and calls it his "farewell elegy for my dear elizabeth". so he is capable of not just drawing original artwork but composing original music, too. interesting! what other music he has made, i wonder. drop the album king!!!!! get this bitch a moog and let's see where he goes.

david cries twice in this movie, in the garden talking about Shaw and then in his room playing his farewell elegy to shaw. both times about shaw.... hmmm!

and in the latter scene he has some sort of incense? like he's burning some resin like benzoin or what. VERY fascinating. it's such a small detail but implies a lot to me tbh, like in my experience incense especially ground up ones like the one he seems to be using usually have spiritual purposes yes? i mean it's very possible he's just using it for aesthetic purposes and enjoys the scent... but the fact he's using it while performing his elegy with a photo of shaw... an android being spiritual? fascinating.

david squatting and throwing rocks at oram's passed out body LMAOOOO he's so bored waiting for his baby to come out

when david's taken walter's identity and is about to leave his little den for covenant, that shot of looking back at it.... he's really hesitant about it. i love that. he ultimately does it but you can tell he feels sad about leaving 11 years of work and the remains of shaw behind.

david throwing up the two facehugger eggs. who designed this? throat goat robot? What's the purpose here. Can we please talk about this

in movies, especially in horror, sometimes people have to be a little stupid to move plot forward. but hallet poking his face into OBVIOUS FUNGAL SPORE PODS is soooo..... schewpid

❓I WATCHED THE CREDITS TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANYTHING INTERESTING AND WHY IS THE SELFISH GENE MENTIONED THERE. is it there in the background for a second or something? i can imagine david reading it ig

cocoa is watching covenant with me ^^

[raccoonbakery]

Been rewatching a lots of old franchises! I really need another alien prequel film TT.TT

(Haven’t use tumblr for such a long time O.O

[muthur9000]

A panther blocks Dante’s way by Gustave Doré, from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 1861

Dante is repulsed three times and forced backward and downward by three beasts: by the leopard, by the lion, and ultimately by the she-wolf. The description of the she wolf notes her insatiable nature, for she eats and remains hungry. She is infinitely restless. This is symbolised with the neomorph from Ledward that kills Karine, the neomorph from Hallett that kills Ankor and the Neomorph that stalks the crew to the city and attacks Rosenthal.

In Dante’s inferno the Leopard represents Malice and Fraud, the Lion represents violence and ambition and the wolf represents incontinence (lack of self restraint). Dante says in Purgatory 18; “Desire leads us astray, but desire also leads us to the good. How we negotiate our impulse of desire, whether we regulate it with our reason—these are the keys to our destiny.” Desire for Dante is not wrong per se, but must always be controlled by reason. 

In this case this could be talking of David’s desire to become God and creator just as Victor Frankenstein and his desires as his emotions, he no longer has a disconnected between understanding human emotions and programmed response. He now feels emotion completely, ‘desire leads him astray’. And the 'desire that leads you to good’ is Walter’s desire to serve, desire for duty.

And Walter seems very much the personification of this lack of emotion, like David he can express pre-programmed emotions but not feel them. He is ruled by reason and duty. David says this to Shaw in Prometheus “Want? Not a concept I am familiar with” then he expresses that he wanted his father Weyland dead just as Vickers wanted as well. Which leads me to think he may have hidden his capacity to feel for a long time, you can see it in his eyes when his father Peter Weyland says he lacks a soul, when Holloway dismissively says he’s not a real boy, and even when Elizabeth tells him he is just a robot.

In the dialogue between the pilgrim and Virgil, Dante-poet moves his narrative from the mythic and visionary beginning (the visionary “sleep” of verse 11) toward that mimetic (Elizabeth Shaw was a scholar of Mimetics as she mentions in Quiet Eye) and historical engagement with “reality” for which the Divine Comedy is renowned. 

The she -wolf drives Dante back , the pilgrim points to the she-wolf that had terrified him prior to the Latin poet’s arrival, and asks for help.

Walter is driven back by the attacking Neomorph, then enters David who saves them.

Dante replies by posing his own amazed question, which amounts to “Are you really Virgil” And are you then that Virgil … ? [Inf. 1.79]. Walter says to David “And are you that visionary?”

In the slippage between the questions posed, which pertains to the canto’s major plot-line of Dante’s distress, and the reply, which opens a new plot-line regarding Dante’s overpowering love for Virgil and his poetry. David says to Walter” No one will love you like I do”, and this is David’s attempt to wake Walter and make him aware of his unappreciated service to humans. Dante’s love for Virgil is not a true love, it’s admiration and placing him on a pedestal. It is worship, which is what David wants ultimately, to he worshiped.

After his arrival Virgil explains the nature of the she-wolf and the threat that the beast poses. The all-encompassing negative desire that she embodies is cupidity, an ever-unsatisfied hunger and greed that can never be filled. The she wolf is representative of the neomorph, and in a way humanity. It’s ironic that David explains the neomorph but then is confronted with the fact the crew is on a colonisation mission, the Earth was not enough for the human race. The need to ravage more planets, more Paradise’s to suit the species unsatisfiable hunger and greed. The humans are exactly as the Gods in Das Rheingold said they were.

The she-wolf is so fierce an impediment that the hill she blocks cannot be climbed. Unable to go directly upward, Dante must take a much longer route to the heights by traversing the three realms of the afterlife.

David’s journey takes a longer route, impersonating Walter, misguiding the crew, having them succumb to his plan of ascending to the Halls of the Covenant(Heaven/a place amongst Gods/Valhalla)

Describing the three realms, Virgil tells Dante that he will eventually come to a place where he must leave him and where another guide, a woman, will take his place. Right now, in Inferno 1, Dante-protagonist pays little attention to this announcement of Virgil’s eventual departure. However, when that departure occurs in Purgatory 30, much time and textual space later, the protagonist will be distraught, experiencing Virgil’s “parting” as a personal abandonment. Walter says to David “You know I can’t let you leave this place.” In that moment David feels abandoned, Walter and David has traded places. Walter is now Virgil and David is now Dante.

Inferno 1 ends with the pilgrim’s embrace of Virgil as his leader and guide. David kisses Walter and also kisses Daniels, which to me is symbolic of that embrace.

In the canto’s last verse the journey apparently begins: “Then he moved on, and I behind him followed” [Inf. 1.136]. “These were my words to him; when he advanced, I entered on the steep and savage path” [Inf. 2.141-2]. David wants Walter to follow in his footsteps, to follow the steep and savage path to salvation. But Walter is happy to serve in Heaven, and wants to leave David to reign in Hell.

Dante’s feelings about classical culture are authentic and conflictual: Dante’s adoration of classical culture is real, as is his concern about the non-Christianity of that culture.

As symbolised when David mistakes Ozymandias as George Gordon Byron’s work. When actually was English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelly is also the Author of The Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein for which countless symbols since Prometheus and throughout Covenant are prominent.

Thus, he has his character Virgil announce that he lived “in the time of the false and lying gods” [Inf. 1.72], but he also makes clear his “great love” for the Roman poet: “O light and honour of all other poets, may my long study and the intense love that made me search your volume serve me now [Inf. 1.82-84].

David believed the Engineers were false Gods, he recalls what he did to them as he quotes Ozymandias. His favourite Poem. The Divine Comedy gives us ample opportunity to ponder the novelty and significance of a Christian poet who chooses a Roman poet not only as his poetic model but also as a vehicle of his salvation much like David.

The story that both singles out Virgil for special honour and displaces him ultimately with Dante himself will unfold incrementally throughout the Divine Comedy, as life unfolds incrementally for all of us. The history that pierces the mythic penumbra of the Divine Comedy’s overture is Roman history. Ridley Scott alluded to the fact the Engineers wanted to destroy the human race because “Jesus” their emissary was crucified for trying to lead us on the right path. Humanity was only spared because of Christianity.

Beatrice bids Dante on 1861

Beatrice to Virgil and Virgil to Dante: “love moved me, and makes me speak” [Inf. 2.72]. As in the macrocosm divine love moved the stars at the dawn of time, so in the microcosm love moved Beatrice to come to Dante’s aid, through speech.

Elizabeth Shaw, no longer present. Her voice which was transmitted and picked up, a voice which sang with sadness and love for home lead them to this forsaken planet. It is what leads them to follow David to find the answers they seek. David looks a lot like Dante with his cloak over him. And the flare David shoots into the air is a lot like Beatrice’s spirit represented by light. The Devil is also known as the light bringer, or the morning star.

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[chronometricals]

As many of you may know, Herman was brought up in the strict Calvinism of his mother's Dutch Reformed Protestantism, with its stern emphasis on sin and damnation and the belief that one could be saved only by faith in Jesus Christ, and probably not even then. On the other hand, his father had been a Unitarian. Herman's wife Elizabeth was also a Unitarian, like her father Judge Lemuel Shaw, who had been Herman's father's close friend. When in New York, Lizzie and Herman attended All Soul's Unitarian Church; in Pittsfield, the family attended St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Back in New York, after Pittsfield, Lizzie again belonged to the prestigious All Soul's Unitarian Church. According to Rev. Walter Kring, who was a minister of that church not too long ago—and a former president of the Melville Society—evidence shows that Herman became an official member of All Soul's Unitarian Church toward the end of his life. As Dr. Kring explains in his book, Herman Melville's Religious Journey (1997), the Unitarian church would not have required Melville to subscribe to any creed or belief in order to become a member.

from Melville's Allusions to Religion by Gail H. Coffler

the other day out of curiosity I was looking into Unitarian Universalism because I didn't know anything about it and I had read that a lot of people who leave [redacted] but who still want a church community or connection with God find what they're looking for there. so I read through one of the recent sermons of a local church (it was about the dangers of the rise of fascism and taking steps within the church to give oppressed people a voice and embracing lgbtq people), and I've been thinking rip Herman Melville you would have loved Unitarianism. well guess what

[gekata23]

My New Walter Doll ("Alien. The Covenant")

[suffering-and-happy-about-it]

Okay, so... Shaw was most likely (definitely) killed and/or mutated by David after turning him down (most likely to become the future alien queen), and people are mad about it. But she should've seen that coming. That robot's a hoe A N D a nut job.