#maidens | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

the-evil-clergyman · 4 months

Text

Among the flowers were lovely maidens calling to him with soft voices, from The Fairy of the Dawn for Andrew Lang's The Violet Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1906)

#henry justice ford #art #illustration #golden age of illustration #1900s #1900s art #vintage art #vintage illustration #vintage #british art #british artist #books #book illustration #fairy tales #fairy tale #fairytale art #knight #maidens #classic art

7K notes · View notes

lepetitdragonvert · 3 months

Text

Fairy Maidens of the Waters

1919/20

Artist : Joseph Alanen (1885-1920)

#kalevala #maidens #joseph alanen #finnish art #art nouveau #finnish mythology #jugendstil

4K notes · View notes

nemfrog · 3 months

Text

Happy maidens among grape vines. Pen and pencil. 1858.

Internet Archive

#header #illustration #maidens #wine #vineyard #grapes #dancing #nemfrog #1858 #19th century

528 notes · View notes

cuties-in-codices · 4 months

Text

two maidens killing a unicorn and collecting its blood

in a copy of the "gesta romanorum", swabia, c. 1452

source: Karlsruhe, Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen 145, fol. 67v

#15th century #unicorns #maidens #wounds #gesta romanorum #exempla #medieval art

280 notes · View notes

illustratus · 1 month

Text

The Sword of Damocles by Richard Westall

103 notes · View notes

autumn-never-ends · 4 months

Text

ASKING A STRAIGHT COUPLE WHICH ONE OF THEM IS THE TARNISHED AND WHICH ONE IS THE MAIDEN

#elden ring #tarnished #maidens #yes maidens #wlw #traumaqueer

135 notes · View notes

theamericanpin-up · 3 months

Text

January 1966 Maidens Calendar Illustration - Enrol Publishing Company - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

#january #1966 #maidens #calendar #illustration #pin up #american pin up

78 notes · View notes

kalahs-beautiful-realm · 9 months

Text

Art by, Hans Zatzka.

76 notes · View notes

thesmartartslibrary · 3 months

Text

#fine art #females #sexy #maidens #fantasy #2311 #The SmartArts Library #shv3

32 notes · View notes

jayz4dayz · 11 months

Text

Team RWBY will become the next generation of Maidens

(Disclaimer, none of the edited images above are mine! I just found them on google lol. Also, SPOILERS FOR VOLUME 9!!!)

So this is kind of just a random theory of mine that I’ve been brewing for a while and I’m sure someone has mentioned it before, but I’m simply gonna explain why this would be the logical and plausible ending for the entire show.

We know the identity of the current three maidens. Cinder Fall is the Fall Maiden, Winter Schnee is the Winter Maiden, Raven Branwen is the Spring Maiden, but we have interestingly never had a confirmation on the identity of the Summer Maiden. Some fans (including myself) speculate one of two things: the Summer Maiden is someone completely random/character we haven’t been introduced to yet, or... Summer Rose is the Summer Maiden. Now if this were the case, then that means Summer Rose isn’t actually dead.

The very first scene in the final episode of Volume 9, we see a private conversation take place between Summer and Raven about a secret mission Summer embarks on alone. We aren’t sure about the details of the secret mission except for the fact she had lied to her friends and family about it. To me, that sounds an awful lot like she either faked her own death or nobody found a body when she dissapeared and assumed she was dead. I think Mama Rose is still alive somewhere (possibly lurking around in the Ever After which I’ll circle back on)

As for the transference of the Maiden Powers to Team RWBY, I must address the elephant in the room. A few of our beloved side characters must die.

I’ll start with the obvious. Raven and Yang.

This one is pretty self-explanatory. Raven takes a fatal blow in a battle either from Salam’s forces or possibly even a Cinder battle 2.0 or Salem herself. I know damn well the final person in her thoughts would be her daughter. Go ahead and tell me I’m wrong. She knows out of everyone, Yang is the most trust-worthy and deserving of such power. Even Ozpin himself had once told her “Your mother must trust you a great deal” when Raven told Yang about how Ozpin turned her and Qrow into birds. In this case, it will be Raven’s final act of protection for her daughter to assure she’ll have a better chance of survival. Not only this, the transference of powers scene between her and Yang would be the most memorable and meaningful moment between them in the entire series. (And gods, Yang out of all of Team RWBY would make the most sense to become a maiden. Her hair ignites on fire for crying out loud!)

Next we have Winter and Weiss.

This one will be considerably more painful to witness considering how strong their relationship is and everything they’ve been through growing up together. My best guess is Winter will die battling Salem or possibly alongside Weiss in battle against a different antagonist, but I’m confident it will happen the soonest. And I mean like Volume 10 or 11 kind of soon. Winter and Weiss will likely be reunited in Volume 10 and near the end Winter will meet her fate, giving the Maiden Powers to her sister who will benefit the most from them. With Weiss gaining these powers, imagine her dust glyphs on steroids. She’d be a fucking unit against Salem’s forces (as I’m sure Winter would be too.)

Then, Blake and Cinder.

I actually have quite a bit of evidence to back this one up. Cinder really doesn’t have anybody close to her that she would even consider giving up her powers for. She’s a greedy bitch and would probably think nobody would receive her powers if she just didn’t think of anyone when she died, only come to find out the final person to look into her eyes before her final breath is the one to take the powers from her. Ironwood once mentioned that it’s not uncommon for the powers to be transferred to an enemy who the Maiden faced in her final moments. Blake absolutely deserves the right to send Cinder to meet her makers and snatch up her Maiden powers. It would be so satisfying to see Cinder and Blake meet up in the holding space between life and death, but Cinder becomes furious when she realizes Blake will be the one to take HER precious power. It’s the ultimate justice and the best revenge Blake could ever obtain. (Also, Blake would become the first Faunus Maiden that we know of and she'd be such a girlboss for it ;p)

And finally, Summer and Ruby.

In the end, I think it would be a wonderful way to wrap up the entire series by making all of Team RWBY into Maidens and would be the most logical way they could defeat Salem. Of course, this is also assuming they somehow are able to get all of the relics and use that to assist them in defeating Salem once and for all. Also, for shipping purposes, it pretty much sums up the soulmate parallels for the four of them to become maidens. Blake (Fall Maiden) + Yang (Spring Maiden); Weiss (Winter Maiden) + Ruby (Summer Maiden). I think it just fits all of them so well!

As I previously mentioned, Summer being alive and the current Summer Maiden would open the door for Ruby to receive Maiden powers. I’m not entirely sure how it would look and I could theorize for hours to try and explain it, so I’ll keep this short. My current belief is that Summer is in the Ever After which would mean at some point Team RWBY would have to return to deal with Neo’s bullshit and at some point come across Summer. In a heated battle, Summer knows her time to ascend has come. If we take a look at Ruby’s ascension, she technically didn’t even ascend at all. She chose herself which means she didn’t become a new person with no memories of her past or who she is. However, I’m fully confident that Summer will choose to become a different person. She knows she would lose all her memories of her family, her Team, and everything that makes her Summer Rose. This includes her Maiden Powers. It would make the most logical sense that she’d transfer them to her daughter Ruby as her final act of a mother’s love. It would be poetic and the perfect character development for both Summer and Ruby. Plus, imagine how much more powerful Ruby’s silver eyes will become. With Maiden Powers, her petrifying glow from her eyes might be powerful enough to trap anything that’s Grim, including Salem. She wouldn’t be dead, but she’d be imprisoned in stone and petrify for the rest of time.

[Another minor theory in relation to this: Summer is actually dead and passed on her Maiden Powers to Ruby when she was still an infant which means Ruby's powers would be dormant until the time is right]

#rwby #rwby theory #the ever after #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #maidens #raven branwen #summer rose #cinder fall #winter schnee #team rwby

55 notes · View notes

unsettlingstories · 1 year

Photo

I kinda stumbled into this weird fantasy horror aesthetic that’s not necessarily my thing but I think some of you guys may like it? What do you think?

#horror #fantasy #monsters #maidens #chicks and their dudes

170 notes · View notes

the-evil-clergyman · 1 year

Text