welcome to my puddle of water themed birthday
And then he gave him his horse and that horse was given to him and …
Chrétian de Troyes is legit the funniest medieval writer i’ve read so far??
Like. percival is all masquerading as a badass knight and then the moment he opens his mouth everyone can immediately tell that he’s an idiot. he won’t stop talking about his mom and it takes his mentor to give it to him straight to get him to stop. he’s called an idiot to his face.
And the whole time arthur is like, Kay i swear to god it’s ok for perceval to act like an idiot because no one knows who he is, but if you act like an idiot you make me look bad, so sit the fuck down.
LIKE??? THIS IS LITERATURE
Cosigning this shit because this is the most beautiful take ever
harry is kind of like kim's manic pixie dream girl if you think about it. guy who's exactly your type shows up and tells you he's lost his memory and he hears voices in his head but also he's the best detective you've ever seen and he's just decided you're his new best friend. he keeps dragging you into wacky sidequests like starting a disco club in an abandoned church and hunting down an elusive cryptid but in the end succeeds in cracking the case wide open and changes your life so much in the span of roughly a week that you transfer precincts (by the way he works at THE legendary jamrock precinct) to keep being his partner. also he fucking adores you and looks at you like you hung the moon AND he's gay
Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927)
“The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.” ― Douglas Adams
Grotesque visor, southern Germany, circa 1560
from Czerny's International Auction House
are you frequently overstimulated?
I wish books were structured like classical music
Am-a-zing!
▫️ “The Dearest Devotion ” ▫️
(air, land, sea)- to self, your loves, and community, on our ever so small yet vast planet.
(cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze) ceramic wall tiles made from my gay and trans perspective :)
extras: The albatrosses stem from the broad number of female same-sex lifelong couples. The bucks and whales stem from documented homosexual behaviour of the species. A kobudai is also featured in the third tile changing sex from female to male.
Les Hallucinations du baron de Münchhausen (1911)