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May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.

I read Piranesi again...

I had to compress the hell out of this gif to upload. If you want to see a nicer, bigger version you can do so here on my AO3.

The Drowned Halls

J.J. Weber, Engraver (German), after Sascha Schneider (Russian) - Eine Vision (A Vision), 1897.

Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880–1945)

illustrations from “Totentanz” series

Pendant in the shape of the head of the river god "Acheloos", mid-19th century

It was only legalized in 8 US states (the 8th only a few months before), and wouldn’t be legalized nation-wide until 2015.

It was only legal in TEN COUNTRIES in 2011. We wouldn’t hit 20 countries until 2017. (Australia was 23rd)

As of today (April 14, 2026), I believe only 38 countries have fully legalized same-sex marriage. Out of somewhere around 200 countries in the world. That’s only ~19% of countries.