Not Romantic Not Platonic But A Secret Third Thing (so Devoted The Lines Blur)

Ivan The Terrible Part 1 and 2 + art parallels

“Eagle Over 100,000 Acre Plain at Susaki, Fukagawa” - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 (detail) // “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” - Hans Holbein the Younger, 1520-22 (detail) //  “Portrait of Giuliano de’ Medici” - Sandro Botticelli, 1478 //  “The Lamentation over the Dead Christ” - Sandro Botticelli, 1490-92 (detail) //  “The Demon Downcast” - Mikhail Vrubel, 1902 (detail) //  “Fair Rosamund and Eleanor” - Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1920

Fun fact for our international followers: If someone in Australia cuts down a tree on public land to improve the view from their house, the local government will install a sign to block that view again

THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS

this part in ovid's heroides intrigues me ngl

Ovid, Heroides 16 (trans. Harold Isbell)

the. the inescapability of it. oof.

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i love watching what the old me loved, so i'll leave everything to remind me of her, and change is inevitable of course, but the world and me, who is part of it, doesn't have to move through hate

some of you would crumble

congratulations! you’re now a pirate. your seventh most recent emoji is the symbol on your flag. mine is ™️

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