What a fucking misery marathon that was

The Last Days of Pompeii, 1864 James Hamilton

this is so funny

and the word looks unusual because the letter “psi” (ψ), transliterated into english as “ps”, is so distinctively greek. it comes from greek ψαλμός, psalmos, which is a song sung to harp-music, the root of which is psallein, “to pluck”. some time around the writing of the new testament the association with the harp becomes any instrument, and then the idea of an instrument falls away completely, and it becomes simply a song; it makes me think of voices. (it was once used as a verb—to sing, to make holy music; or, transitively, to praise by singing psalms). it helps that it names one of the most beautiful and resonant parts of the bible, the book that echoes in common speech (and literature) perhaps more than any other.

"Hey, Ryan? It’s time to go home."

What if he dug the hole and put it in the best soil and lovingly tended to it every day but it never grew. Do you think he’d feel like he failed Thorin all over again?

When Bilbo is the “big” spoon ♥

He howled. Ooo-ooo-ooooooooooo.

Cora Emmanuel by Anthony Maule x “Las dos Fridas” by Frida Kahlo

Robert Baratheon probably (via lady—catelyn-stark)

Female character meme / A female character growth arc: Sansa Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire) She had lost her home, her place in the world, and everyone she had ever loved or trusted.