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Georges Lacombe - La Mer, coastal scenes of Brittany.

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some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

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𝔦𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔡𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲…

… ℑ 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲

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Dert bitmeyi bekler, kan dinmeyi, sevinç sürmeyi …

Hasret geçmeyi bekler, tokluk kalmayı, umut çoğalmayı ….

İnsan sevgiyi bekler,sevgi insanı….

Nihat Behram...

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Bioluminescence 🌌 | jordan_robins

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Random gifs of Billy Russo (3/∞) Ben Barnes as Billy Russo ↳ The Punisher | S01E12

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I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star. — Emery Allen 

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‘The Evening Star’. Caspar David Friedrich. 1830.

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demonology // angelology

names & bases in image description.

some sticker sheets I hope to have for MCM London later this month!

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In the Gospel of Luke, neither God nor the Holy Spirit manifests any visible appearance to Mary; it is Gabriel alone who stands and speaks with her during the conception of Jesus. [...] And what a sight he makes. The Gospel of Luke mentions that when Gabriel first spoke to Mary, she was troubled (turbata, “troubled, disturbed, disordered, agitated, excited”) (1:29). And yet, according to the second-century apocryphal Gospel of James, Mary received her daily sustenance from the hand of an angel. Why, then, would the familiar sight of an angel upset her so? According to ancient and medieval exegetes, although angels attended Mary every day, Gabriel must have been the first to appear to her disguised as a man. [...] And not in the likeness of just any man: the apocryphal Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew specifies that Gabriel appeared to Mary as “a young man of indescribable beauty.”

Medieval artists elaborated on this detail with enormous enthusiasm. Artists made the archangel ridiculously attractive, expending on him all their very best hairstyles and outfits. [...] As the only visible and humanoid agent of God’s envoy to the Virgin, Gabriel functions as an attractive showpiece—the Incarnation’s representative male object of desire onto which the medieval erotic gaze transfixed its ardent attention.

[...] Twelfth-century theologians described the Annunciation as a courtly romance, according to the rules of which [...] every lover needs an intermediary [...]. Aelred of Rievaulx identified Gabriel as God’s angelic go-between and bridesman, his paranymphus angelus. Yet as the legend of Tristan and Isolde attests, the courtly necessity of employing an intermediary puts the lover at great risk. When King Mark sent Tristan to woo Isolde on his behalf, Tristan wooed for himself. Small wonder, as the genre of courtly love tends to favor adultery over marriage. We all know how the story of the king, queen, and handsome knight tends to end.

— EMMA MAGGIE SOLBERG, from Virgin Whore.

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"He isn't really alone, is he? There is a part of him always with you." Michael was silent, carefully studying Rafael's human. There was much that he'd had to acknowledge since meeting him out in the desert, and even more that he didn't really understand. There was little that was a mystery to him, but this was an exception.

Likely it was the human mind trying to comprehend something that it was not made to understand. "Maybe you can tell me how his loneliness, or rather being alone, relates to a soul. Those are human feelings, something that the consciousness is more vulnerable to."

Indy stared at the cards Michael was shuffling. He never understood the celestial and his cheap ass magic trick fascinations. If he asked Indy to pick a card, Indy might be punching an archangel. Again.

His eyes moved back to Michael's face. "I just don't like the thought of him being alone," he confessed quietly before realizing how that might sound. "Not to say you won't visit him," meaning the rest of the angelic family, "but he's said more than once he do want to be alone. And I don't want that for him."

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you are the sunshine of my life