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Portrait d’une violoniste (détails) 1773 | Anne Vallayer-Coster

cover remake: frankenstein by mary shelley

Back To The Future (1985) ➝ “Oh. One other thing. If you guys ever have kids, and one of them, when he’s eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug… go easy on him.” ★

“Didn’t your father ever teach you not to play with faeries, Huntsman?

— kiki’s garden .  /  i used to be a writer before i knew what it was like to be happy

“Father (Nicholas II) asks me to tell all who have remained loyal to him and those over who they might have influence, that they should not advenge him, for he has forgiven everyone and prays for them all; that they should not themselves seek revenge; that they should remember that the evil there is now is in the world will become yet more powerful, and that it is not evil that will conquer evil – only love”

ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea. Aphrodite was, in fact, widely worshipped as a goddess of the sea and of seafaring; she was also honoured as a goddess of war, especially at Sparta, Thebes, Cyprus, and other places. However, she was known primarily as a goddess of love and fertility and even occasionally presided over marriage. Although prostitutes considered Aphrodite their patron, her public cult was generally solemn and even austere.

«It’s nice to be home.»

H E R M E S — God of trades, thieves, travelers and messenger of the gods

Flora And Zephyr,1875,detail,William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

“[Comments] suggest that in France chilvary was something to be confined to a significant extent to story books, courts and tournaments. Great wars had coloured the Middle Ages blood-red; the Hundred Years War, the Crusades, bitter civil conflicts across Europe, all had scarred the landscape of chilvary with an unttractive and utilitarian tint of pragmatism. Since the disastrous edeats at Crécy, Poitiers and elsewhere the French had managed to protect their country by avoiding pitched battles. The catastrophe at Agincourt was reversion to old, outdated tactics which the French thought that they had left behind them. Now Brabant, Alençon, and other great men were all dead, some struck down during the course of the battle and others slaughtered in cold blood.” –   W. B. Bartlett, Agincourt.