Villa di Marlia, Lucca: A Fountain, c. 1910. John Singer Sargent

THE GRISHAVERSE By Leigh Bardugo (2012-)

My mother is Ketterdam. She birthed me in the harbor.

“Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”

no mourners. no funerals. among them, it passed for ‘good luck.’

The kingdom may fall asleep many before has. However, that fate is in the hands of the people alone.

So many men had tried to make her a queen. Now she understood that she was meant for something more. For the living and the dead, she would make herself a reckoning. She would rise.

Sylvie, Prosper d’ Epinay 1836 - 1914

Various depictions of Joan of Arc | (Artist names in captions)

The White House, Kensington Palace, Place du Tertre, West Hollywood, The Beekman Hotel, Lake Lyndon B. Johnson, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Austin, Texas 

Interior from the artist's home, 1914, Carl Holsøe (Danish, 1863-1935)

I saw this post and spontaneously had the idea of a pond nymph falling in love with an old garden statue

↳ maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. i tilted my head back. the stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart.

Lady In Water Lily by Mihail Simonidy (Russian painter, 1870-1933)

@patorcles​ asked ⟶ soc + flower language

Hans Erni (Swiss, 1909-2015), Couple dancing with fruit in hair, 1952. Mixed media.

“people point guns at each other all the time in ketterdam. it’s basically a handshake.”