mad woman

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HS: You wanted to hire a puppet in blackface so you could continue being a crook.

It was the end of the second day of cycling, about 200 km in. I had just had a large hamburger with fries at a gas station and was making my way up a valley at sunset, when I noticed this white horse standing in a meadow, like something out of a fairy tale. 

Penny Dreadful S1E5 “Closer than Sisters” / Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) / Stoker (2013, Park Chan-wook) / Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964, Robert Aldrich)

Hala Gąsienicowa, Zakopane, Poland by Mateusz Derks

When people were shorter and lived by the water, Koho Shoda and Arai Yoshimune (m.)

Mount Volosyanaya, Russia by Olga Potapova

Christine de Pizan, Épître d’Othéa, 15th century

Supermoon. Temple of Poseidon, near Athens, Greece. July 3, 2023, by Alkis Konstantinidis

Strawberry Moon, by Manusia dan Langit

GAIA GIRACE and IRENE MAIORINO as Raffaella Cerullo in MY BRILLIANT FRIEND — 4.01 “The Separation”

Ahmi in Egypt, 1931 by Agnes Pelton (American, 1881–1961)

Everything is connected in L'amica geniale because Elena makes it so. She is the one who offers the symbolism we all see to everything these characters do. She is the only one who sees the metaphorical kingdom behind the disgusting and the banal and the violent. She finds wounds in time and turns on a flashlight and suddenly the blood spilling out of it is a different, more vivid colour. Lila is right to recognize the underlying disorder behind artificial structures humans build to feel more comfortable and Elena engages in the same architectural work of creating boundaries where there aren't any, but she does it so differently from everyone else and that is why Lila loves her. The way Elena does this exists in direct contrast to the false safety most of the other characters are dependent on because the material Elena uses to create her shapes is love stored in attention. It doesn't matter that Nino Sarratore wasn't actually beautiful. It matters that Elena saw him as such. It doesn't matter how Lila Cerullo actually was like. What matters is that Elena Greco loved her. Love is the sole instrument that can shape things in a convincing and tenacious way.

With any other scene, I would be more willing to just look past it and accept that it doesn’t really matter, but this has arguably been the most prominent and speculated-on scene of the entire series up to this point. I kind of wish the writers had stuck to their original plan.

did a quick, simple sketch because.. any excuse to draw lottie right now honestly