Vincent & Theo Van Gogh 

“It is not immediately obvious which of Zadkine’s figures is Vincent and which is Theo. Like all who relieve the suffering of others, Theo—in a process that is the exact opposite of a blood transfusion—has taken some of Vincent’s pain into himself. Soon, however, it becomes obvious that while the sky weighs heavily on both figures, one, Vincent, feels gravity as a force so terrible it can drag men beneath the earth. From this moment on you are held by the pathos and beauty of what Zadkine depicts: despair that is inconsolable, comfort that is endless. One figure says, “I can never feel better,” the other, “I will hold you until you are better.”

The graves of Vincent and Theo van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise.

cowboy AU commission for Fey

First art: https://furiousfinnstan.tumblr.com/

Second art: https://www.tumblr.com/lupus-daemonis

Essentially, l was thinking, 'What is grief? How do I make grief the monster of the week in Doctor Who?’ I thought, 'People always talk about grief as being alone,’ so I made the Doctor absolutely alone. Grief comes and finds you every time you stop or rest, so I gave him the Veil.

[...] it was my attempt to write about grief in a Doctor Who setting because Peter’s Doctor had just lost Clara. The only way to do it was to make the grief the jeopardy, to make the grief the monster, the trap he was fighting. He could never sit still too long or it would come and find him. 

and i'm somehow realising for the first time how this is a literalisation/externalisation of the doctor's speech to clara in the girl who died (almost certainly influenced if not outright written by moffat, who has a co-write credit on the episode):

I'm sick of losing people. Look at you, with your eyes, and your never giving up, and your anger, and your kindness. One day, the memory of that will hurt so much that I won't be able to breathe, and I'll do what I always do. I'll get in my box and I'll run and I'll run, in case all the pain ever catches up. And every place I go, it will be there.