Skeleton of a Scythian queen and her jewelry, found in the Chertomlyk barrow, near Nikopol, Katerynoslavsk Governorate (today Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine)

Headdress and ornaments of the clothes of the priestess Dimitra / Demeter, found in the tomb.

Vasily A. Prokhorov, 1881

Once there were four children

I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.

Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.

Jean-François Luypaert (Belgian, 1893-1954) - The Artist’s Studio At Veurne

big fan of seeing a character and going from ‘oh he’s kind of a freak, interesting’ to ‘i need him expeditiously’ in the span of like five minutes

i think it's so so so great that beating someone up can actually injure and scar you. like from a symbolic perspective. every act of violence leaves a mark on you, chipping away at you with each blow until you're nothing but hard muscle and sharp edges. the hurt you visit on others shapes you in its image.

A very fun frog wizard commission for @perniciouslizard

I’m so mad that a t4 bacteriophage actually looks like that and that it’s appearance isn’t made up

THE WHEEL OF TIME | Moiraine in 2x06 "Eyes Without Pity"

Hollis Dunlap (American, b. 1977, northeastern VT, USA, based CT, USA) - Dog Skull, 2018, Paintings: Oil on Panel

Caroline Walker (British, 1982), Lottie, 2009. Oil on board, 30 x 36 cm.

The best moments

No but literally, do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you