#legends of california

[whysoexhausted]

Kobe Bryant : Photographed by Scott Halleran during the NBA Championship Victory Parade in Los Angeles, CA (2002)

#kobe bryant #kobe #photography #Scott Halleran #nba #basketball #california #los angeles #lakers #los angels lakers #00s #legend #champion #history #parade #whysoehausted #whysoexausted

[spirits-having-flown]

James Taylor & Joni Mitchell at Joni’s California home, 1971

#icons #legends #james taylor #joni mitchell #70s #1970s #1971 #california #70s music

[emdotcom]

Remember! If you share, more answers will be there!

#gale chatter #poll #polls #cryptid #cryptids #urban legends #ladies if ur man is tall pale & has long legs then i hate to tell you but that's not your man. #that's #A Fresno Nightcrawler -- first spotted in Fresno California - #i miss that tiktok. it's good #anyhow. yeah this is a goofy little creature i love them

[mayxthexforce]

Girls when Maul's backtory in Legends was a perfect parallel of Anakin's but then that parallelism got written off just to make Maul seem like competition

#who wants to go to San Francisco California with me? ☺️ it's not a vacation. we're hunting Dave Filoni for sport #||out of character|| #||fandom rambles|| #darth maul #anakin skywalker #star wars legends #star wars eu

[sleeplessdreamer14]

ok but like stan and ford had a cat growing up and I feel like there isn’t enough content surrounding this

#the entire pines family are cat people #any time I see any fanart of mullet stan I think #get this man a cat #he needs a cat #dipper and mabel also own a cat back in california #gravity falls #stan twins #grunkle stan #grunkle ford #stanford pines #stanley pines #jersey boys #stan pines #ford pines #gravity falls lost legends #lost legends #gf lost legends #jersey devil’s in the details #y’know the cat their mom was #reading tarot cards for

[vertigoartgore]

1998's The Mask of Zorro promotional stills with Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sir Anthony Hopkins.

#the mask of zorro #1998 #antonio banderas #catherine zeta jones #anthony hopkins #zorro #legend #california #martin campbell #90s #blockbuster #not a reboot #more a legacyquel

[missinginaesthetic]

Michael Jackson : Photographed by Ron Galella at the 26th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, CA (1984)

#micheal jackson #ron galella #grammy awards #los angeles #california #photography #legend #music #fashion #80s #throwback #mj #aesthetic #missinginaesthetic

[ifelllikeastar]

Remembering~ Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. born May 27, 1936 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City and passed away on March 29, 2024 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 87.

#louis gossett jr. #love #movie legend #black lives #an officer and a gentlemen #New York #California #roots #academy awards

[mecthology]

The Dark Watchers from American Folklore.

The Dark Watchers are a group of mysterious dark human-like creatures who stand on the hills, ridges, and peaks of the Santa Lucia Mountains of California and Mount Mingus and Mount Graham of Arizona. They supposedly watch those who wander into the mountains and are not aggressive. They are most often spotted around twilight and are usually seen staring upwards toward the sky while standing atop the mountains. They seem to be some sort of spirits however their origins are currently unknown.

According to legend, no one has seen one up close and if someone were to approach them, they disappear.

While sometimes attributed to the Chumash people who historically inhabited the central and southern coastal regions of California, nothing analogous to the legend appears to exist in their mythology. When Spanish Settlers first moved into the area they were said to have witnessed the Dark Watchers whom they dubbed Los Vigilantes Oscuros.

The Dark Watchers are most famously given a brief mention in John Steinbeck's "Flight", included in the 1938 collection of his short stories The Long Valley. It is mentioned that " No one knew who the watchers were, nor where they lived, but it was better to ignore them and never to show interest in them".

According to newspaper archives in the mid-1960s, a Monterery Peninsula local and former high school principal went on a hiking trip in the Santa Lucias when he suddenly spotted a dark figure standing on a rock and surveying the area. When the principal called out to the other hikers, the creature vanished. More sightings continue to be made to this day.

Follow @mecthology for more lores and legends. DM for pic credit. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnSxwY1oDJB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Folklore #California #creepy #mecthology #urban legends #paranormal #unsolved #weird #scary #legends #america #follow

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

March 1975 - Freddie Mercury at Beverly Hilton Hotel, California USA, with his Missoni jacket

📸 Photo by © Andrew Kent

#1975 #andrew kent #freddie mercury #queen band #london #zanzibar #legend #queen #brian may #john deacon #freddiebulsara #roger taylor #usa #beverly hilton #hotel #california #missoni

[chiropteracupola]

The love of the Wanderer is to wanderers.

#em draws stuff #travel light #this image has been about a year in the making (I wanted to draw it when I first read it but I only got to it now) #my thoughts on travel light are. well they are this image primarily. #been a while and a while since I drew in this style and it feels GOOD to be doing it again!! #wish I'd figured out a way to fit steinvor into the composition but it was a hard squish even to include tarkan der (and he's very tiny) #the way I've done the mountains are purposefully referencing one of the earlier covers of the hobbit as I love jirt's painting style #and it seemed apt for various things about the way travel light exists and the kinds of things it has to say #it is right on the edge of where legend meets life when it comes to depicting early medieval europe and it's. well. read it actually. #book that makes you want to listen to 'to holmgard and beyond' by turisas except exactly backwards #(in the varangian way they are going the other direction and also they are much more (to put it as halla would) dragonish about it) #song I first heard in the context of an absolutely wild 8tracks playlist in 2015 which changed my music taste forever. anyway. #really I must read more naomi mitchison except that no library in the entire state of california appears to have a copy of the big house :/ #anyway anyway. if I ever get my own copy of this book I Will be rebinding it to have this for a cover I like it so very much

[toxinfox]

You know something's a problem when the Illuminati, Templars, and Dragon work together to deal with it. And yet, this unlikely scenario is exactly what's happening as Tristan d'Eagan (Illuminati), Alexandra Bishop (Templar), and Carlos Hernandez (Dragon) find themselves driving down a dark desert highway and pulling up to an infamous hotel...

Daunting as the prospect of dealing with the spectral glue trap that is the Hotel California is, however, Carlos packed a secret weapon.

(A short Secret World Legends comic that I've been meaning to do for a while, finally made real as a bit of gift art for @paint-lady , with a hefty cameo from her character, Maru. Done in Photoshop.)

#secret world #tsw #swl #secret world legends #comic #Tristan #Carlos #Alex #hotel california

[whysoexhausted]

Ice Cube : Photographed by Janette Beckman Outside of his Home in Inglewood, CA (1990)

#ice cube #janette beckman #inglewood #california #photography #90s #legend #nwa #hip hop #whysoexausted #whysoehausted

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Jimi Hendrix  at the Newport Pop Festival, Northridge, California (June 22, 1969)

#jimi hendrix #performance live #concert #stage #live #60's #60s #1969 #acid rock #classic rock #california #rock n roll #guitar hero #legend #Psychedelic Rock /Acid Rock/blues Rock #USA

[briefbestiary]

The rattle on a roperite's tail is said to be used as it pursues its prey. Throughout its hunt, the rattling noise is a force of intimidation, used to strike fear into the quarry's heart.

#BriefBestiary #bestiary #digital art #fantasy #folklore #legend #fearsome critters #roperite #rhynchoropus flagelliformis #sierra nevada #california folklore #california legend #monster

[red-flagging]

offering "last of the late breakers" as a title to anyone writing an f1 surfing au in the near future, free of charge to a good home

#get it.....because waves break......... #but actually if anyone wants to write the mavericks au of my dreams i will happily serve as ur half moon bay dirtbag californian consultant/ #sensitivity reader. #something something seb and lewis are both surfing legends....they meet one year when they're both invited to compete at mavericks......they #keep finding ways to get themselves invited back each year for an excuse to see each other and compete against one another..... #then mavericks shuts down as a tournament.....they fall out of contact.....lewis travels the world working w orgs that r supporting #getting young black and brown kids into surfing.....seb gets into marine/coastal ecosystem conservation and is chaining himself #to bulldozers to prevent the construction of waterfront properties that would destroy the local tide pool ecosystem or whatever #they're both still chasing the biggest waves they can find but something's missing.....one day lewis is back in northern california and #decides to take a road trip south for old time's sake #pulls into the parking lot on a cold gloomy day with no one else around for miles and sees across the lot a beat up old van that he hasn't #seen in years..... #ANYWAYS. #me on my hike: okay time to brainstorm for the 5 wips i already have going #me finishing my hike: okay don't be mad but i have a new idea-