The Legend of Saint George: The Rescue
1903
Liebenwein, Maximilian; 1869–1926.
“Man’s unhappiness, says Descartes, is due to his having first been a child. And indeed the unfortunate choices which most men make can only be explained by the fact that they have taken place on the basis of childhood. The child’s situation is characterized by his finding himself cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish, which has been fashioned without him, and which appears to him as an absolute to which he can only submit. In his eyes, human inventions, words, customs, and values are given facts, as inevitable as the sky and the trees. […] He is allowed to play, to expend his existence freely. In his child’s circle he feels that he can passionately pursue and joyfully attain goals which he has set up for himself. But if he fulfills this experience in all tranquility, it is precisely because the domain open to his subjectivity seems insignificant and puerile in his own eyes. He feels himself happily irresponsible. The real world is that of adults where he is allowed only to respect and obey. […] Rewards, punishments, prizes, words of praise or blame instill in him the conviction that there exist a good and an evil which like a sun and a moon exist as ends in themselves. In his universe of definite and substantial things, beneath the sovereign eyes of grown-up persons, he thinks that he too has being in a definite and substantial way. […] He can do with impunity whatever he likes. He knows that nothing can ever happen through him; everything is already given; his acts engage nothing, not even himself.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
— Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light (via letsbelonelytogetherr)
Kyle Maclachlan as Agent Cooper (I need him)
KIM OK-BIN in THE VILLAINESS (dir. Jung Byung-gil, 2017) SEJEONG in TOP OR CLIFF (dir. Hobin, 2023)
I adore this awkward big boy ;-; #Ragnarok #MagneSeier
La Femme Nikita (1990)
ADWD and AFFC being concurrent books is really funny because people in essos will be like "I'm sure the lion queen is well aware of daenerys' dragons in meereen and is preparing the kingdom for when she decides to come for the iron throne" meanwhile cersei is having the crash out of the century because of a 16 year old who likes to play dolls with her son
The Death of Sappho (1876) by Gustave Moreau