Testaments to the Boom Times to Come

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[juliannegriepp]

MASHSWEEP

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[forophelia]

“GUILDENSTERN: It’s autumnal. ROSENCRANTZ (examining the ground): No leaves. GUILDENSTERN: Autumnal - nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day… Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it… Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses… deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth — reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.”

— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (via thebluesthour)

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[inonibird]

Plague Doc with Plague Doclings

[secifosseluce]

leave me and my three PhD students alone 

[teacupsandmayhem]

Gotta get all your Docs in a row

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[starlingshrike]

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[velvet-jellyfish]

In the past two weeks I have watched The Terror, Hornblower, Master and Commander, and started rereading Temeraire. In honor of this hole that I have fallen into, I’ve made a drinking game:

Drink every time:

- There is a long shot of a ship that slowly zooms out

- Someone gets flogged

- Something terribly nautical and fascinating happens (drink twice if you have no idea what part of the ship that word refers to)

- Something homoerotic happens

- Someone drinks grog and/or gets their grog ration cut

- Someone British insists on following tradition when it is impractical, irrational, irrelevant, or outright dangerous 

- Two men have an intensely emotional heart to heart while standing at attention and calling each other “Sir”

- Two men engage scathing insults by standing at attention and calling each other “Sir”

- You realize that serving in the British Navy in the 19th century was actually horrifying and pretty awful

- Someone mentions Nelson

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[chris-lll]

this can be your entrance

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[voidpitof-failure]

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.

Iranian vampire film, looks very cool.

[pinstripesuit]

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS

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[halinacrown]

Hannibal Art Meme

↳ The (Renaissance) Still Life

During the Renaissance, artists turned to the classical world, its literature, architecture, and art, for inspiration, and it provided the figural ideal emulated in painting in sculpture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It also provided, though to a lesser extent, early precedents for still-life painting. These could be found in trompe l’oeil murals and illusionistic tile work depicting fruits, flowers, eating vessels, bones, and skulls. Nevertheless, still-life painting in the Renaissance was consigned by art historians such as Giorgio Vasari to the lowest limbs of the hierarchy of the arts, as its execution was believed to rely less on divinely appointed genius than upon observation, science, and craftsmanship: an artisanal rather than artistic talent. By the end of the sixteenth century, several artists had challenged this convention, and a new generation of painters brought a greater naturalism, and with it an elevated esteem, to the genre. (x) (x) (x) (x)

[strangeassortment]

Hannibal is just one continuous vanitas painting.