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Something in me wants more. I can't rest.

— Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.”

Drinking horn, German or Scandinavian, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

View of the Church of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, 1815

By Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Roman Glass Cups (3rd Century AD)

look, ik cersei is objectively a terrible, cruel person. but she's also arguably the most well written character in the entire asoiaf series, and i will die on that hill. obsessed.

i just feel like “what if the trauma we go through is usually not noble but purposeless and terrible and the things we develop to keep us alive often change us for the worse” is one of the most important realizations you can come to in terms of like. empathizing with your fellow man and yet whenever that theme shows up in fiction so many people are immediately like its either PERFECT VICTIM OR IRREDEEMABLY EVIL. open the door and walk out of the dichotomy

Colosseo, Arco di Costantino e Meta.

imagine being like "i cannot make speeches" only to immediately follow that up with the ten hit death kill combo that is "if i loved you less, i might be able to talk about it more."

Courted by an early moon, Square Butte in Montana unfolds in spacious grandeur

National Geographic | January 1986

Little Flint introduces himself, but Mother Flo keeps a protective hold around his waist. Jane Goodall extends the back of her hand, fingers turned away, telling Flo that she intends no harm

National Geographic | December 1965

Melpemone, The Muse of Tragedy.

Photography and text: Egisto Sani / CC BY-NC 4.0

This colossal statue may have been part of the decorations of the Theatre of Pompey in Rome. It was discovered without arms in 1496. In 1782, Giovanni Pierantoni restored the Muse’s statua as Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, by adding forearms and a modern tragic mask. Four other Muses were found towards the end of the 16th century in the same space. Melpomene was undoubtedly part of a group of nine muses who decorated the theater or the portico of Pompey Theater, the first stone spectacle building in Rome. This statute is the only one to have kept its original head. Former the statue belonged to the Vatican Collections; it was confiscated during the Napoleonic era in 1803, and was exchanged in 1815 with the “Laocoon”, which had been returned to the Vatican after the defeat of Napoleon.  Marble statue H. 3.92 mC. 50 BC. From Rome, Campus Martius, Theatre of Pompey. Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities Paris, Musée du Louvre – (Ma. 411)

Buddha of Bamiyan in Afghanistan before its destruction in 1992, Photo by Steve Mc Curry

Another frescoes recently found in Pompeii, extraordinarily preserved on the wall of a triclinium (dining room).

Photos: Pompeii-Parco Archeologico

Vintage National Geographic

When the conquerors show happens and House Martell shows up and the rest of Dorne.

I’m defending them with my life. I’m defending everything house Martell and dorne does.

I’m gonna be worse than team black defending daemon Targaryen.

US Forest Service poster.

1955

Weiner dog wearing armor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival (2002)

favorite artists (9/10): william etty (1787-1849)

Zeugma Mosaic of Icarus and Daedalus, Roman period, Turkey

Petra, Jordan

Victory of Light over Darkness (Ludwig Fahrenkrog, 1867 - 1952)