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This is silly, I was better than all of you when I was still human
Vampire Dick Grayson | DC vs. Vampires (art: Otto Schmidt)
1920 Photographer James Byron Clayton and friends took what might have been the very first group selfie! Taken at the Marceau Photo Studio on Fifth Avenue opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral. From Andra Roth Ruscin, FB.
The Nutcracker 🩰🎄❄️
My recent Nutcracker illustrations and costume designs!
Prints available in my shop!
River/Spider + textposts because literally every one i came across fit
Holliday Grainger as Constance Chatterley LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER (2015) dir. Jed Mercurio
∙ Favorite Trope - Headbutt of Love ∙ Suite Française (2014) ∙ The Old Guard (2020) ∙ Pacific Rim (2013) ∙ Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) ∙ Interview with the Vampire (2024) ∙ The Rings of Power (2022) ∙ The Legend of Tarzan (2016) ∙ The Punisher (2017) ∙ Captain Marvel (2019) ∙ Fallout (2024) ∙ The Mummy (1999) ∙ Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) ∙ All the Light We Cannot See (2023) ∙ Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) ∙ The English (2022) ∙ Strange Days (1995)
For @camilleflyingrotten because I am obsessed with their Gil-Galad series with the Baby Orc..... I couldnt stop thinking about this idea. <333 (If you havent seen their Baby Orc series on their page, you have to go check it out)
Really enjoying Lower Decks season 5 so far. Love that personal space between these two are exponentially decreasing. 😏
The second image was whipped up in a hurry because discord was worried whether Mariner was alright.
Slow Horses cast (part 2) (season 4 BTS)
#1 📸 rosalind.eleazar, 📸 giseleschmidtofficial
Slow Horses + River's side profile in S4
You sought ginger Mairon, I gave it to you
Currently obsessed with this pompous evil diva princess so high-maintenance the Orcs ide of march’ed him.
Jack Lowden played Sauron for a few minutes and made it iconic. He deserves more praise for his performance.
He’s everything I imagined First age Sauron to be; he’s Morgoth’s overworked secretary, he’s arrogant, he’s clueless, he’s creepy, he’s eerily seductive, he’s a tyrant wannabe but can’t get there, he gets betrayed by his lover, his physical form gets penetrated into oblivion. And those diva vibes, that glorious red hair, that jewelry. I need more of him.
I have never had a normal thought since I realised Aragorn/Estel would have been around 10 years old — more like 7/8 considering his heritage — when Thorin's Company passes through Rivendell, so here are some brainrot headcanons (continued under the cut):
Estel is obsessed with Thorin. Just completely obsessed. Follows him around everywhere like a cat, begs him to play with him, offers to run errands for him. Literally every elf in Rivendell is completely stunned at the behaviour because Estel is, normally, a card-carrying ankle-biter.
The Dwarves, on the other hand, are shocked by the fact that by a few days into the visit, Thorin seems to like Estel too. Gloin would have sworn that he expected Thorin to throw the child off the banisters the minute he made him hold his pet python. Thorin didn't just hold said snake, but played with him, let him do little odd jobs, even letting him sit up with him at the dining halls. On two evenings, he even takes Estel out with a wooden sword, to show him how to "fight like a Dwarf lord". All the Dwarves are just as shook as the elves, minus Kili and Fili, who knew Thorin as Uncle Thorin and are completely unsurprised that he is so wonderful with little Estel.
Lindir and Elrond find a content python snoozing in Elrond's study. Lindir and Elrond are both utterly and irrationally terrified of snakes. After much screaming and climbing on sofas, every member of staff swears Estel had been in his mother's quarters all day. Nobody thinks to mention that they saw Bilbo and Thorin hanging about outside the study, because what relevance could that possibly have?
When the company left Rivendell, Estel was understandably quite unhappy because he'd miss them, also they were going to see a dragon, and he begged to go with them. Thorin does what most parents do before going on a trip, and promises to bring him a present from the dragon's lair when they returned.
Bilbo returns without Thorin, but with the promised present for Estel. He visits the boy in his quarters and they hold each other and share their grief. Bilbo then shows him the present. He explains how Thorin wanted to give him something more substantial than a golden cup scraped off the floor of a dragon's lair — he had told Bilbo, the night before the battle, to give the boy Thorin's own solid gold wristband.
On the same return trip, Elrond expressed his condolences over Thorin's death, and enquired if there were other casualties. When he finds out that Kili and Fili had also died in the battle, a strange, terrible expression twisted across his face and he said, almost reflexively, both? both together? good. that's good. The remaining Dwarves and Bilbo were all stunned, thinking it was Elvish apathy at best, and deliberate disrespect at worst. After all, they had no reason to know that Elrond, like his immortal brethren, found it somewhat difficult to gauge the ages of mortal beings — and had thought the two late brothers were twins.
Decades later on the night before the Fellowship were set to depart, the elderly Bilbo Baggins found it hard to sleep from worry, and wandered onto the balcony, and saw a lone man practicing sword moves in the courtyard. He realises both man and combat style seem faintly familiar, like the heavy striding and swinging and slashing are the steps to an old dance he once used to know, which now lives in a deep, forgotten place within him, under layers of unravelling memories. He can't quite put his finger on it. But there is a strange comfort in the sight, so soothing Bilbo's eyes start to close, falling asleep curled up right there on the balcony. He slips off into a wonderful old dream, lulled by the rhythm of fallen leaves crunching in the courtyard — where Aragorn "fights like a dwarf", solid gold wristband twinkling under the light of the stars.
𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐒 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐆𝐈𝐋-𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐃
high king gil-galad in the battle of eregion. season two rings of power.
Star Wars - Alien Archive: A Guide to the Species of the Galaxy
Deep in the stacks of the Graf Archive, an old traveller’s journal has been discovered and restored for public viewing. A long time ago this unknown traveller documented his stories about the many creatures found in each destination he explored, and includes famous movie locations such as the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine, Maz’s Castle and the holy city of Jedha. The archivist restored this journal and added facts and stats about the cultures, legends and famous members of over 200 species, including famous characters such as Chewbacca, Ahsoka, Wicket and many more. “Unable to authenticate the author, and therefore the accuracy of the stories within the journal, we have paired some of the content that has not been destroyed by age with data entries from our scientific records. With details of over two hundred aliens from across galatic history, we are happy to restore this enigmatic journal for public viewing. –Xoddam Lothipp, Deputy Director, Graf Archive” (aka, it’s an in-universe reference book, so it’s reasonably accurate, but some things may be added for artistic license or not wholly accurate, but from the POV of the “author” of the journal! Which makes for a fascinating in-universe reference book!)
SLOW HORSES (2022 — ) 🐴✨
"Oh, you can't go to the Park! River doesn't want that!" 🐈
yeah lower decks put a decon scene on my screen and my dormant entheadism reactivated like the winter soldier. sorry.
+ closeups!
One day river has a dream. He's old. To his mind's eye, he looks like his grandfather. He's in a care facility exactly like the one he dropped David off at - except River isn't alone. There's another old man there, with hair wisped over a bald spot and gold half-rimmed glasses perched on a nose sculpted with unusual perfection, like someone's paid good money to erase any signs that it was ever broken. The man carries a cherry wood cane, although he rarely needs it, and he has a permanently fussy look stamped upon him, with his pristine coat and his bespoke house slippers.
In the evenings, the two of them retire to one of their rooms. Together, they sit at a small table barely fit to hold a tray, and they play cards. The card game they play, the only card game they ever play, is the only game they know that gives neither one a clear advantage. It's also the only card game they both hate. They both know this, although neither one wants to be the one that admits it first. That's the real game they're playing, and the first to crack loses.
If River squints, he can spot on the other man's temple, poorly hidden behind the thinning hair, the crackling, spidery web of an old scar.
The voice that speaks hasn't aged a day.
"Tell me, River. Did you ever become the best?"
River startles awake with tears on his face. He doesn't know why.
He's older than that voice now by a few years, and it's always going to stay that way.
(And he's still at Slough House.)
Emziess Birthday Celebration: gold-onthe-inside requested: Character Set - River Cartwright (Slow Horses)
My last LOTR post did SO WELL! Here's more!!
Love y'all <3
i don’t know. i’m barely a person. i just want to be kind and hold someone’s hand. eat an ice cream cone. stare at the lake. feel the sun on my skin. lay in the grass. run through a sprinkler. it’s so easy to forget life is supposed to feel like a deep breath and not a gasp
