A l'entrada del temps clar

“The Knight Raymondin and the Fairy Mélusine” – Jean Dampt (1895)

Also, it was apparently so meaningful to Dampt that his good friend Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret painted a portrait of Dampt holding this statue.

Below is a color photo that really shows the materials, and one of the aforementioned painting.

The subject matter itself is also fascinating. The figures in the statue are from a medieval tragedy wherein the fairy is ultimately transformed into a dragon as a direct result of jealousy, murder, and betrayal, not entirely unlike Othello. Moreover, a French aristocratic family actually claimed to be the direct descendants of these tragic lovers!

Jean Dampt holding Le Chevalier Raymondin et La Fée Mélusine" by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret

Ophelia: You called, My Lord?

Hamlet: No I didn’t. Why are you here when nobody likes you? Go away!

Petruchio: Even I think that’s mean.

Romeo: Go find Juliet and ask her if she would come here and tell her she has the most beautiful eyes, that make the very sun seem dull, and the loveliest hair and a face that puts to shame Aphrodite herself...oh and bring her this sonnet I wrote her...and actually I’ll go find her myself for I can’t bear to be apart from her another moment!

Petruchio: …

Petruchio: … Yeah he’s not coming back. Next!

Coriolanus: Go find my wife and ask her to come here and also ask her if she's seen Aufidius. Actually, have you seen Aufidius...or heard any news of him?

Servant: No I haven't… Is there a name or a description I could use to find your wife?

Coriolanus: Hold on. I know this one.

Petruchio: Wow... We’ll come back to you. Next!

Orlando: I refuse to participate in this farce. It’s demeaning to women.

“Ganymede”: Nonsense! Any real man (which I totally am) wants women to obey him without question!

Orlando: That’s wrong! That’s not being a “real man”; that’s just being a bully. I would never treat Rosalind that way and I hope no one else would either!

“Ganymede”: … You pass the test.

Orlando: What?

"Ganymede": What?

Benedick: HEY BEATRICE!

Beatrice from 3 rooms away: WHAT?

Benedick: CAN YOU COME HERE A SECOND?

Beatrice: WHY?

Benedick: SOME MAN HERE WANTS TO SEE IF YOU’RE OBEDIENT.

Beatrice: WHY ARE YOU PERPETUATING THE OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN INSTEAD OF PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE?

Benedick: YOU MEAN YOU DON’T WANT TO COME HERE AND SHOW OFF YOUR OBEDIENCE? I AM SHOCKED AND HEARTBROKEN!

Beatrice: HA. HA. SO HILARIOUS.

Beatrice: … HE STILL DOESN’T SOUND VERY PUNCHED IN THE FACE. I SUGGEST YOU FIX THAT UNLESS YOU WANT TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH FOREVER!

Benedick: ON IT!

A bright meteor burned up in the atmosphere while capturing Andromeda Galaxy

I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods

Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees

Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away

The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness

That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile

Tara uprooted,and new commonness

Upon the throne and crying about the streets

And hanging paper flowers from post to post,

Because it is alone of all things happy.

I am contended, for I know that Quiet

Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart

Among the pigeons and the bees, while that Great Archer,

Who but awaits His hour to shoot ,still hangs

A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee

valour bard manrico

rodrigo either (eloquence?) bard or some flavour of paladin (multiclass?

glamour bard figaro

moon druid norma

glory paladin radames

lunar sorcerer turandot

whispers bard (post-canon) tosca

assassin rogue sparafucile

illusionist wizard dulcamara

creation bard mario

need to sort out:

adalgisa

aida

amneris

amonasro

calaf

cherubino

gioconda

musetta

pollione

scarpia

(post-canon) di luna

requested by: @m-eowdy