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MARIA ALEKSEEVA Dress if you want to support this blog consider donating to:ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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Life-sized Peacock Sculpture made of spoons and other metal found objects 

by Liddlenomnom

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I just read a book about burnout working at the public library, either feeling helpless about not being able to do more for the homeless population who take shelter there or feeling in danger when a patron harasses them and their only recourse is to do nothing or call the police and risk escalating the situation to murder. I still want to be a librarian, but this is an important perspective I hadn't heard before.

Followers who work or have worked at public libraries, do you have any thoughts on or experiences with this?

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I was thinking about King Uther, and how older adaptations tend to portray him as a good man driven to madness by obsession, while more modern adaptations either make him a thoroughgoing villain or cut the story of Igraine altogether. It occurs to me that you could still do the 'driven to madness by obsession' thing, though, focusing on an escalating series of excuses. "I did nothing wrong, only asked Igraine and Gorlois to be my guests." "Gorlois defied my order, that means he's in rebellion." "I'm not attacking Igraine, I'm only decieving her." "I'm not taking her captive, I'm making her queen."

Meanwhile Merlin, not the nicest person himself, is thinking "I can't wait for there to be a new guy."

#arthurian legend #rape cw

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Matzo bag from my partner’s great great grandmother, probably circa 1900, probably Austria

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i entirely get why people are like "actually knights were historically land-owning nobles waging war on people" and reminding people that idealised modern conceptions of knights are not historically accurate, it's just really really funny given that people have been idealising the institution of knighthood since like. the twelfth century or earlier, go take it up with fucking chrétien de troyes

#arthurian legend

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When you do a mostly successful playthrough of the Refugees mission in Frostpunk, getting the workers and the lords to accept each other as equals, but lack the manpower to stop an angry mob from beating Lord Craven to death

#frostpunk

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here’s a lightly ghoulish fact to go with today’s heavily ghoulish chapter: the murder of nancy was one of the scenes charlie d. performed on his farewell reading tour.

as recorded by his friend, william charles kent:

As for the Author's embodiment of Sikes-the burly ruffian with thews of iron and voice of Stentor-it was only necessary to hear that infuriated voice, and watch the appalling blows dealt by his imaginary bludgeon in the perpetration of the crime, to realise the force, the power, the passion, informing the creative mind of the Novelist at once in the original conception of the character, and then, so many years afterwards, in its equally astonishing representation. It was in the portrayal of Nancy, however, that the genius of the Author-Actor found the opportunity, beyond all others, for its most signal manifestation. Only that the catastrophe was in itself, by necessity so utterly revolting, there would have been something exquisitely pathetic in many parts of that affecting delineation. The character was revealed with perfect consistency throughout-from the scene of suppressed emotion upon the steps of London Bridge, when she is scared with the eltrich horror of her forebodings, down to her last gasping, shrieking apostrophes, to “Bill, dear Bill,” when she sinks, blinded by blood, under the murderous blows dealt upon her upturned face by her brutal paramour.

#wow #abuse cw #oliver twist

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Thank you! God, I see this all the time- people, Mary didn't hate Byron just because you want her to have! In fact, she was probably one of the very few people he was ever a good person to! He is the one who made sure she got Percy's heart when Percy's girlfriend wanted to take it!

For the last time: Mary Shelley and Lord Byron were friends. She didn't hate him. His death was a very painful loss to her. She didn't write Frankenstein because she was stuck in a house with him and he was an unbearable person. For God's sake, just read her journals and letters.

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Isabella Rossellini at the Blumarine S/S 1995 fashion show.

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you know what really gets my goat?

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“It is you, Bill!” said the girl, with an expression of pleasure at his return.

Oh no, baby

#oliver twist

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The entry on The Vampyre from The Monstrous Compendium: Ravenloft Appendix for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition.

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Van Helsing wears these

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I'm either Jekyll and Hyde or Franknstein. Reblog to tag yourself!

#picture of dorian gray

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Richard Harris!!!

Limiting the choice to the shows and movies I have seen/know of. I'm not asking who the first actor you have seem playing Arthur was, rather the one you instinctively think about when someone mentions him or the one closest to your heart.

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Robin Just YEETED Scarecrow!

Detective Comics #486 || Scanned at 300dpi