#war pieta

[insane-in-the-membranee]

Women? Women.

Cleopatra (John William Waterhouse) || A Stolen Glance (Eugene de Blaas) || The Accolade (Edmund Blair Leighton) || Unknown || The Reluctant Bride (August Toulmouche) || Head of a Young Girl 1777 (Jean Baptiste Greuze) || War Pieta (Max Ginsburg) || Lady Elizabeth Keppel (Joshua Reynolds) || Joan of Arc (John Everett Millais) ||

[literallygambit]

I've seen a ton of fanart with Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, I think there should be fanart of War Pieta with Jinx and Isha or Cait and Cassandra😔

[alisfelia]

loss and grief in art

[misespinas]

War Pieta by Max Ginsburg (2007)

[diilchasp]

The war will end, and leaders will shake hands. That old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son. And those children will keep waiting for their hero father. I don't know who sold our homeland, but I saw who paid the price.

— Mahmoud Darwish

[splodgo]

love was the law and religion was taught

[rancidmice]

a pieta of mustafar <3

full piece& details under a read more: CONTENT WARNING for gore, burn wounds, blisters, really charred gnarly anakin

anyway i’m quite proud of it. it’s 22x28! biggest painting i’ve made. took me about 2 weeks on and off

[wingheadshellhead]

the selective amnesia of marvel writers when it comes to major comic events makes me so insane. not only has tony been on a team with miles (all-new, all-different avengers, 2015), and has been a mentor figure to him since he crossed over from the ultimates universe (ultimate end, 2015), they somehow conveniently forgot that tony stark died in civil war II to protect miles. MILES. the kid he’s calling “newbie” and is somehow not one of his top favorite spider-people.

why is tony treating miles like they’ve never met when he went to war against carol and was punched into a coma to protect miles from being arrested for a crime he didn’t commit???? like mama let’s research before we start writing these comics

anyway yeah miles is one of tony stark’s favourite spider-people in the multiverse HE WAS WILLING TO DIE TO PROTECT HIM

[tonydaddingham]

Motif of Aziraphale mourning the 'death' of angel Crowley? Maybe? Referring to angel Crowley (or perhaps demons in general) as the scapegoat here? But Crowley kind of already IS a scapegoat- the serpent of Eden is usually blamed for showing mankind how to use their free will, ultimately leading them to sin, and is cursed by God to "crawl" and "eat dust" and be viewed as evil. An act that caused a schism between God and Man, which is specifically what Jesus dies to atone for. To finally "redeem" us from allowing the serpent to lead us astray. The Second Coming leads to Jesus bringing us back to paradise, after the serpent got us cast out. It comes full circle.

And it also makes me think about how Mary's role Mediatrix of All Graces is in the sense that the Grace of God/Jesus is bestowed on others through Mary. Like. There's a lot going on here.

hi anon!!!✨ this is so beautifully summarised, thank you!!! really interesting reference to crowley's role in original sin, because whilst on one hand you could argue that he was somewhat complicit in original sin, and even said, "they just said 'get up there and make some trouble..'" (suggesting that he knew there would be some kind of fallout), on the other, does that 'crime' befit the blame placed on him for it?

and consider the same about crowley's fall; i do think crowley, in some measure, did something wrong, and i think this is highlighted by his presumed questioning despite aziraphale cautioning against it - in his musing that if he himself were running things, he'd like it if people pitched in. certainly, we as the audience do not see this as condemnable, but aziraphale definitely seems to think there is danger in going down that path - and it would appear that crowley may defy god in doing this... but then again:

was it truly god that passed the sentence?

was crowley again condemned for a crime far greater than this own?

full circle indeed. and as for aziraphale; well, yeah.

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Interesting on Lucan's part to make the guy who named himself Pius do necromancy.

[sharkspez]

Tumblr Biography: Julius Caesar 🕊️

🎖️ Emerging victorious from the civil war, Caesar became 🫵🏻 dictator of Rome. But would he use his power to ✍️ reform the republic or to make himself a 👑 king?

[rollercoasterwords]

do you have any favorite poems? Or poets

YES!!!!! here is a long list of some favorite poems:

we have not long to love - tennessee williams

dream song 28: snow line - john berryman

a poem about the hounds and the hares - lisel mueller

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond - e.e. cummings

[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in] - e.e. cummings

wishbone - richard siken

scheherazade - richard siken

dirty valentine - richard siken

the torn-up road - richard siken

you are jeff - richard siken

the crowds cheered as gloom galloped away - matthea harvey

outbreaks - kitchen mckeown

if morning never comes - kallie falandays

i want to tell you yes - kallie falandays

another elegy - jericho brown

regarding the rottgen pieta - elle emerson

the sensual world - louise glück

hesitate to call - louise glück

the edge - louise glück

gretel in darkness - louise glück

messengers - louise glück

snowdrops - louise glück

telemachus' guilt - louise glück

midnight - louise glück

siren - louise glück

october - louise glück

the silver lily - louise glück

persephone the wanderer - louise glück

the pond - louise glück

beg - franny choi

making of - franny choi

perchance to dream - franny choi

august peaches - joan tierney

you think you are something less real than you are - wendy xu

the double-bed dream gallows - richard brautigan

a boat - richard brautigan

molly brodak - molly brodak

what the dragon said: a love story - catherynne m. valente

the tenor of your yes - mary ruefle

in the desert - stephen crane

i try to sing along but i get it all wrong - frog k

two mangoes - kc cramm

from a german war primer - bertolt brecht

to be read in the morning and at night - bertolt brecht

saint judas - james wright

goodtime jesus - james tate

the crown of laurel - ursula k. leguin

the old catcher considers the failing of his knees - devin kelly

wild geese - mary oliver

a brother named gethsemane - natalie diaz

& some fave books of poetry: poems 1962-2012 by louise glück, when my brother was an aztec by natalie diaz, grit by silas denver melvin, soft science by franny choi, in the pines by alice notley, crush by richard siken, and war of the foxes by richard siken.

[thoodleoo]

hi! i was looking through your Aeneas posts because I absolutely loooveee the Aeneid and Aeneas as a character, and I just wanted to ask, what specific traits does Aeneas have that make you enjoy him and his story? Thank you for fueling my love for this epic haha! :)

ohhh man okay so. the thing with aeneas is he's the son of a goddess and a super powerful warrior but he's also like. he's some guy, yknow? children of gods are a dime a dozen in the bronze age theres like 8 billion of them even zeus cant give all of his kids special treatment because then nobody would be able to kill anyone in wars and then ares would get mad and we all know how THAT would end. and the thing is hes not even his own mom's specialist little boy he's barely even in the top three. yeah she'll rescue him when diomedes goes apeshit or whatever but she also rescues paris from menelaus's sexy powerful headcrushing thighs (shame, really) and really of all the pretty boys it's clear who her favorite is and spoiler alert: it's not the one who's her son. so we've got this guy who's not important enough for mom to talk to him but he's too important to die at troy like he really really wants to so he kind of just goes and does whatever he figures he's supposed to. and he's not really good at any of it and in fact is arguably kind of bad at a lot of it, which isn't entirely his fault because he's really living out somebody else's life story and getting dragged around by the thread of fate like a chihuahua being forced to go on a hike in spite of its stubby little legs and wet eyes that are prone to popping out of their sockets if it gets tossed around a little too hard. actually like you know how in a lot of horse sports it's kind of accepted at the highest levels that some people are going to pump those critters full of painkillers so they can still compete while injured? aeneas is that horse. aphrodite keeps loading him up with ketamine and endorphins or whatever so he can drag himself to italy subsiding on a diet of survivor's guilt and pietas and THEN. when he has a chance to break the cycle that made him the most eligible (read: most alive and not-helenus) prince of troy hes like actually you know what. Fuck this and straight up kills a guy begging for his life on his knees because if you want a goddamn homeric hero then youre gonna Get a goddamn homeric hero like it or not

i just think he's a lot of fun

[diioonysus]

ivan the terrible and his son by illya repin (1885) | war pieta by max ginsburg (2007)

[machetespaghetti]

I DREW IT

Still needs some touching up and I'm debating whether to add background colors or not but I'm HAPPY

La Pietà but it's Thalassa and Garoche

[arlenianchronicles]

Do not follow her, Turvo. Don’t go there, you mustn’t go! You cannot leave Itarillë -- you cannot leave me! Don’t leave me!

Fingon and Turgon on the Helcaraxë! Since I still had these two on the brain, I decided to indulge in some more brotherly feels (or angst, in this case). This scene is sometime after Elenwë is lost; I imagine Turgon was so taken by despair in the days after that he nearly followed his wife, but Fingon stopped him in time. So Turgon had to release his grief some other way!

For Turgon’s face, I referenced War Pieta by Max Ginsburg since I really wanted his expression to be visceral. For some reason, drawing these types of expressions is lots of fun! XDD