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Belle, when I wake up in the mornings, all I can think of is you. I close my eyes at night, and there you are. Belle, I cannot fashion a life without you in it. Are you telling me you love me, Jack Dawkins? I don't even know what that means. Yes, you do. You just said it in your own words. If you even feel half the way I do about you...I don't. You don't? I feel it 10 times more. THOMAS BRODIE-SANGSTER AND MAIA MITCHELL AS JACK DAWKINS & LADY BELLE FOX THE ARTFUL DODGER (2023)

#the artful dodger

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Jules Joseph Lefebvre  — Morning Glory. details. 1879

#artwork

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#water stim #nature #video

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The Evermore Grimoire: Japanese Mythology

Amaterasu Omikami (天照 meaning ‘Shines from Heaven’) was the goddess of the sun, daughter of creator deities Izanagi and Izanami (god and goddess of creation), and central to the Shinto religion in Japanese mythology. Her primary role was that of the sun goddess. In this position, she not only served as the literal rising sun that illuminates all things, but also provided nourishment to all living creatures and marked the orderly movement of day into night. Amaterasu Omikami was also the ‘Queen of Heaven,’ the kami, and creation itself. Though she did not create the universe, she was the goddess of creation, a role she inherited from her father, Izanagi, who defended the world from the land of the dead. The Japanese Imperial Dynasty claims to have descended from her, and this is what gives them the divine right to rule Japan. She is the center of Shinto, and Japanese spiritual life.

artwork by Yliade

#japanese mythology

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Miranda Otto as Eowyn THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson

#eowyn #lord of the rings

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The Evermore Grimoire: Celtic Mythology

Blodeuwedd was a goddess of flowers, emotions and Spring in Celtic mythology who also was literally created from flowers by two magicians. She was made of oak, broom and meadowsweet and her name translates to ‘Flower-Face.’ Blodeuwedd was made specifically to be the wife of the Lleu Llaw Gyffes who had been cursed by his own mother Arianrhod (goddess of the sky). He instantly fell in love with her, and on the day of their marriage the curse was lifted and he was able to take his rightful kingship. Sadly though, Blodeuwedd was not in love with him and instead she fell in love with a handsome hunter named Gronw Pebyr. As time went on, Blodeuwedd knew Gronw was the man she was meant to be with, and so the two of them decided that in order to be free they would have to kill her husband. However one of the magicians was also her Lleu’s uncle who had placed a protection spell on his nephew. One that only Lleu knew about. However because Lleu was so in love Blodeuwedd he told her everything about the spell even though the method of his death was a riddle in itself: “He could not be killed indoors or out, on horse or foot. The only weapon that could kill him would be a spear that took a year to make and could only kill him during a sacred time.” Over time Blodeuwedd was able to trick her husband into a demonstration of his protection spell which allowed her lover Gronw to pierce him with a spear, which turned Lleu in to an eagle, allowing him to fly away to safety. As punishment for her betrayal, she was transformed into an owl. Blodeuwedd has forever remained in this form, mourning the loss of love and reminding people of two important lessons: relationships are fragile, and that beauty isn’t just skin deep.

artwork by TerraIncantata

#celtic mythology #blodeuwedd

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V ✦ SLOW DANCING (2023)

#taehyung

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Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012 / Cynthia Ozick / Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, from ‘Celebrating Childhood’, Selected Poems / Gregory Orr, from “Origin of the Marble Forest” / Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by. C.F. MacIntyre, Sonnets to Orpheus / John Boyne, The Absolutist

#life is but a dream #literary parallels

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As a fashion history and folklore nerd I am highkey obsessed with Anna Juhász Szép

#hungarian #european anthropology #video

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tattoos of persian and arabic calligraphy

۱‌‌‌ ۲ ۳ ۴‌ ۵ ۶ ۷‌ ۸ ۹

#farsi #persian #arabic #tattoos

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Enjoy the ocean by ryanpernofski

#water stim #video #nature

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creatures in art: nymphs

#greek nymphs #artwork

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— I love you, Elizabeth. I love you with all my heart and I bid you never forget that.

#anne boleyn #the tudors

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Ada Limón, "In the Country of Resurrection" // Jack Kerouac, Big Sur // Mary Oliver, "The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac" // Gregory Orr, "To Be Alive" // Dino Ahmetović // Siniša Simon, Magic Dance // Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver // Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra (trans. Olga Voronina & Brian Boyd) // Mary Oliver, "Toad" // 木苏里, 全球高考 (Global Examination)

#life is but a dream #literary parallels

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ELIZA SCANLEN as AMMA CRELLIN SHARP OBJECTS (2018)

#sharp objects #amma crellin

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Details of The Jewish Bride, c, 1665, by Rembrandt (1606-1669)

#artwork

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

#pride and prejudice #mr darcy