definitive dark sister wielder power ranking

9. i’m a simple person with simple tastes. i make a list and jaehaerys WILL be ranked last on it. nasty hands should never have touched the girl sword not even for a month. he couldn’t handle it

8. whichever gay son he gave it to instead of alyssa. fuck you old man

7. daemon targaryen (canon) crazy ass bad at planning suicide rusher

6. aemon the dragonknight. busy dickriding for his evil brother for literally no reason and incredibly easy to trick

5. baela if fire and blood was good. she’s got a lot to process

4. daemon targaryen (if able to obtain HRT and an adderall prescription)

3. 13 year-old Maegor Targaryen. His mommy would never let him lose a fight.

2. brynden kissinger rivers. why can’t you beat this skinny nerd with no depth perception in a fight? because he had you killed three weeks ago and used your death to destabilize relations between the brackens and the tullies do keep up.

1. wire mother herself

Illustrations from Pierre Louys’ Les Chanson de Bilitis by Georges Barbier (1922)

Been re-reading Beren and Luthien

by fakefancy

Jade Apple jar to lubricate postage stamps.

St. Petersburg, 1899-1904.

the movie of all time 🐎

'Persephone' s Journey ' by Cate Simmons

Well. I made a very nice sketch of dear dying Beleg. Then I added random lighting and my sis told me it looks like a glam metal LP cover. I could not unseen it, so I just finished it in the style. hmmm...I guess it suits the theme? *_*

A sad Finarfin after the War of Wrath 😔Somehow turned out a bit more gore-y than I intended 😶 

my attitude to aubergines and cringe metaphors in young adult lit

hes always out pouting in the sheepyards

Ka Oscar Ly, Xao Yang Lee + Ka Ying Yang. 2024.

handmade textiles, hemp, + batik from RedGreedRivers (Southeast Asia).

“Proof has been Faustus’s obsession all his life. One of his former university colleagues asks, “I wonder what’s become of Faustus, that was wont to make our schools ring with sic probo.” Faustus’s refrain was “Thus I prove”: like the history of necromancy itself, his quest was inspired by the principles of Scholastic philosophy. […] Did he, like Aquinas’s other heirs, discover that Aristotle nowhere supports the reality of demons? Only physical contact with an embodied demon can prove that hell and the soul exist, that the soul is a substance that can be bought and sold, contracted away like any other thing. That contract shows Faustus’s Sadduceeism was never insouciant; it was serious, even despondent. The soul poses a dilemma: the only way to prove that one has a soul is to lose it. So Faustus evolves from reluctant skeptic to despondent believer: “Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? Or why is this immortal that thou hast?…All beasts are happy, for when they die, Their souls are soon dissolved in elements; But mine must live still to be plagued in hell.” Where is the solution? Perhaps this: “Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, A hundred thousand, and at least be saved.” But there is no happy ending for Faustus: a round-trip ticket to hell is impossible. […] Faustus systematically tries to verify the supposed truths of Christianity but never discovers a proof that satisfies him. This despondent quest goes a long way toward explaining why real-life necromancers, who, like Faustus, “should have known better,” engaged in an activity that they knew was punishable by harsh penalties. Perhaps, after all, their pretensions to virtue and piety were neither hypocritical nor in conflict with their activities. If any of them read Aquinas or witchcraft theorists, they must have intuited that their blistering condemnations of necromancy and witchcraft were often a rhetorical feint. For their part, witchcraft theorists, especially professional witch-hunters like Bartolomeo Spina, intuited that necromancy could never provide the ironclad, first-person experience with demons that they craved. They could repress this wish but not eliminate it; it returned to consciousness transformed into the notion that other people must have having the contact with demons that learned and pious men like themselves could never experience. […] The witch’s fictitious confession of firsthand physical experience was extorted or ventriloquized under the cruelest of conditions and was prized as expert testimony to the same demonic miracles that obsessed Doctor Faustus. Her terrible example offered the same admonition as his, to abandon skepticism and embrace fear.”

— Walter Stephens, Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief

Lisabetta da messina

if you want to buy prints (or totes or stickers or pins)

Ovid’s Metamorphoses, dir. Mary Zimmerman (Arden Theatre Company, 2015; UC Berkeley, 2017)

Morwen and Hurin