overgrown bat, occultist, alchemist, aspiring potion maker, least but not last, poet.
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Latest Posts by stibnium - Page 3
congratulations! you’re now a pirate. your seventh most recent emoji is the symbol on your flag. mine is ™️
not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (so devoted the lines blur)
This is a personal project that pays tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. I created 33 illustrations of events chosen by me in chronological order and a hypothetical cover. I had to stop because I would have made 100 more. It was really fun to make, I hope you like it.
there is love in this story. even in its most brutal end. there is love in the story. how? where? here: here in me telling it to you, in spite of everything. because of everything.
The sea’s immortality compared to human mortality
Black Sails episode VIII / The Battle of Camperdown, Philip James De Loutherbourg / The Waves, Virginia Woolf / Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson / The Shipwreck, J.M.W Turner / On The Sea, Beach House / Salt to the Sea, Ruta Sepetys / The Shipwreck on Northern Sea (1865), Ivan Aivazovsky / The Waves, Mary Oliver
love it when the chronic pain is so hurt ouchie that i can predict the weather
I've Endured, Now What?
Blue Iris - Mary Oliver / So This Is All I Will Ever Be? - Fatima Aamer Bilal / Vive, Vive - Traci Brimhall
tweeted excerpts from A Field Guide to Getting Lost, via Rebecca Solnit's twitter
i have no idea of how to use tumblr and that' the truth i know only how to hoard posts made by others
Starry Night - Nils Asplund , 1946.
Swedish, 1874-1958
oil paint on masonite , 61 x 71 cm.
obsessed w this typo actually
In Strange Seas (detail), c. 1889.
George Willoughby Maynard (American, 1843–1923)
Oil on canvas
91.8 x 127.8 cm
"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."
vs
"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."
In any other show I'd be pretty mad about a character just blatantly explaining a visual metaphor but silvers' "james flint controls the weather based on how he feels about me personally" is like the funniest possible dialogue so it gets a pass
in my island spring is just an illusion, a brief ghost of summer, that conquers winter - while in the rest of the world flowers are blooming, here, the omnipresent sea reminds us that these are its lands of summer and we are subjected with its everchanging moods
talleyrand: i HATE you
fouche: i share the same sentiment
napoleon, in the distance, thinking to himself: ** those two scoundrels sure do hate each other. i’m glad they are too petty to put down their differences to work against m-
*fouche and talleyrand notice napoleon and put down their differences to work against napoleon*
napoleon: are you FUCKING kidding me
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
I was NOT psychologically prepared to read Eisenstein’s screenplay for Ivan the Terrible. There’s a “deleted scene” where Fyodor Basmanov chases a Zemshchina girl who (understandably) thinks he’s trying to sexually assault her until he says “no, I just want your earrings,” then he takes her earrings and and holds them up (I’m going to say probably to his own ears), then his father comes in and takes them away. This emotionally destroyed me for reasons I can’t fully articulate.
Wanda Koop.