Isaisacrackhead - Devaneios

Mars

Artist: Baron Antoine Jean Gros (French, 1771-1835)

Date: 1825

Medium: Oil on Wood

Collection: Private Collection

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Mars is the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome. He is the son of Jupiter and Juno, and was pre-eminent among the Roman army's military gods. Most of his festivals were held in March, the month named for him, and in October, the months which traditionally began and ended the season for both military campaigning and farming.

TAMZIN MERCHANT as KATHERINE HOWARD

THE TUDORS (2010)

LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973) dir. TOSHIYA FUJITA

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

Now is a good time to tell you what I know about death: Nothing goes away but becomes something else. The story goes: God watched the son go down. Or, God was the son going down. Or God was gravity. Or God spoke in the voice of the people so to bring that man down--he went and became a lamb cut open. He went and became August sun. He went and became. He went and became. My brother sat up. A holy future passed us by and surrounds me now. Brother, we're going down. Brother, get up.

Lily Greenberg, from "Good Friday"

“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

Interior of the Colosseum, Rome (1832) by Thomas Cole

The Legend of Saint George: The Rescue

1903

Liebenwein, Maximilian; 1869–1926.

Nathan Casey must've been devastated with teen titans 2003 bc ik i was

ATOMIC BLONDE (2017) | dir. David Leitch