#folk poster

[voidbug]

🦋BUTTERFLY FAIRIES OF THE WORLD🦋 I think at this point I've posted all of my butterfly fairies! I've been working on this thing forever, so I really hope you enjoy it. It's very much a love letter to scientific illustrations of animals, that I used to pour over as a kid! I made prints of this illustration as well, which you can buy on my etsy!

[branwinged]

seeing some prophecy discourse which has once again reminded me why i personally find the prospect of dany as the prince that was promised really compelling. and it makes the targaryens so much thematically richer. like, they only survived the doom through the power of prophecy and then the visions marked them forever and this thing, this blessing which gave generations of targaryens some existential meaning eventually morphed into a curse which brought so many of them great misery—"my brothers dreamed of dragons too, and the dreams killed them, every one." (aemon, affc) and in due course almost ended their line once again with rhaegar. but then dany happened.

almost four hundred years since the doom when prophecy saved them and nearly killed them again on the trident, dany was born. dany who carries echoes of all her targaryen ancestors within her. she's aegon the conqueror come again but she's also maegor the cruel when she promises the khals who had hurt her khalasar would die screaming. she's rhaenyra in her struggles to wield power and establish legitimacy as a woman, she shares her sense of egalitarianism with egg, and she drinks from the cup passed from rhaegar, i.e. inherits (what he once thought of) his narrative destiny to help defend the realms during the long night.

dany who is both their beginning, since she's the first targaryen created and introduced to us on page and the narrative end point of their dynasty. which reflects all the way into her arc being cyclical by design as it calls back to the foundation of the valyrian empire in essos—during the fifth war the freehold torched old ghis with dragonfire so nothing would grow there again and centuries later this girl, the last dragon, is going to help plant trees there again. it's not about retreading old ground or rejecting her house words but about redefining what it means to be the blood of the dragon. which is not to say all that came before her was meaningless since this recontextualisation is only possible through the three centuries of ancestral history weighing on her. and dany's very existence echoes back in time because the prophecy itself has influenced the lives of generations of targaryens. three hundred years of history, all the glory and the horror concentrated in this one person-point. the prince that was promised not simply as a figure of the long night but as someone who is the apotheosis of their house. dany as both their beginning and their end, because the iron throne is presently a symbol of stagnation, a world in stasis, and it has to go. no restoration, instead the old world dying in fire and a new world being born in the aftermath.

[pissvortex]

i’m not appealing my twitter ban either because i wasn’t joking. i think if Matt Walsh is seen anywhere near a high school he should be shot by security and hung from a lamp post like a dog in the Shining Path to ward off other pedophiles

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Witch - art by Aaron Horkey (2016)

[hiort]

гляділа зіллячко, аби ворожити

[msmargaretmurry]

"how many drinks would it take for you to kiss leon draisaitl?" (x)

[chirpsythismorning]

[mater-argento]

Japanese poster for Midsommar, by Yuko Higuchi

[weirdlookindog]

The Company of Wolves (1984)

[kirby-the-gorb]

[sophsun1]

Queer as Folk – 4.13: Proposal of Two Kinds

[birdfriend-theband]

[useless-catalanfacts]

Traditional basketry from Catalonia. Each basket is labeled with its specific use (for example: for picking up mushrooms, for dirty clothes, for doing laundry, for keeping the fish, for carrying a rabbit, for carrying eggs, for going to the marketplace...).

Poster by the Catalan Association of Basketmakers (Associació Catalana de Cistellaires), 1996.

[possible-streetwear]

[folk-enjoyer]

Sing Out! Poster from 1968, signed by various folk singers

[kaelidascope]

She's trying to contact you about your car's extended warranty