❀ Paris in spring (2018)

The restaurant inside the Musée d'Orsay (Paris).

The frescoes come from Gabriel Ferrier (1847-1914) and Benjamin Constant (1845-1902).

LMAO WHY IS THIS ME IM SO SORRY

Sweet baby

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MARGOT ROBBIE as BARBIE Barbie (2023)

till the end of the moon | 神仙下凡 (immortal descends to earth)

Scenery + Autumn - Episode 08 | Our Beloved Summer (2022)

Emilia Clarke | New Series "Secret Invasion" Launch Event in Los Angeles, California | June 13, 2023

23🐇01.23.23 arctic hare

✨KUPAŁA NIGHT

Kupała Night is a Slavic holiday associated with the summer solstice of the Sun, celebrated during the shortest night of the year, which falls around June 21-22 .

In Anglo-Saxon countries it is known as Midsummer.

Kupalnocka is devoted primarily to the elements of water and fire, which have a cleansing power. It is also a celebration of love, fertility, sun and moon.

The Slavic customs and rituals associated with the Kupała Night were to ensure health and harvest for the saints. Bonfires were lit in which herbs were burned. Various fortune-telling and dances took place during joyful games.

Girls put wreaths with lighted candles into the currents of the rivers. If the wreath was fished out by a bachelor, it meant that she would get married quickly. If he was swimming, the girl wasn't going to get married soon. If, however, it got on fire, drowned or entangled in the rushes, it was foretold of this old age. They are probably the remains of the old spring magic rituals ending the enchantment of the "good beginning", referring to the soulful rituals and the coming harvest.

In some regions it was believed that you could not bathe in rivers, streams or lakes during the day until Kupala Day, while bathing after dusk or before sunrise cured various ailments, as water was then a healing element belonging to the moon.

The Kupala Night celebrations began with the ritual making of fire from ash and birch wood (some sources mention only oak wood). Jumping over the fire and dancing around was supposed to cleanse, protect against evil powers and disease. According to beliefs, aquarians, waterlines and drowners, as well as most other water demons, liked to lurk for summer-thirsty people who unreasonably take a bath before Kupała night. Only after this holiday, swimming in water became relatively safe.

Photos from Roskosh Model

Rose's lunch outfit (Titanic, 1997)

tulips in Pralormo Castle (Italy) 🌸

Meanwhile in Venice (Burano's island), the swans appear in the canal.

Animals wander more freely without the crowd

Hi 😊

This is a friendly reminder that most victims of the original Titanic disaster were not, in fact, obscenely rich. (Apparently some people have forgotten this.) They were third-class passengers, immigrants looking for a better life who were doomed by the decisions of others and the lack of life boats.

Similarly, not every person on the submersible lost in the Atlantic is guaranteed to be a billionaire. (Some Titaniacs have mortgaged their homes for the chance to go on this kind of trip.) And even if they are all billionaires, this is still a horrible way to die! It’s good to remember that as humans, we should not rejoice in other’s tragedies. We should express sorrow, rage (at those responsible, NOT the victims), and sympathy, and find a way to prevent future tragedies just like this one.

So I'm hearing somebody tried to visit the Titanic and it didn't go well.

I cannot emphasise this enough, because people in general are just not aware of what the the sea is like: the Titanic is not just "in the sea". It's not just "on the sea bed".

The Titanic is sitting on the part of the sea bed so unimaginably remote from our world, so barren, so impenetrably dark, so crushingly hostile, that it is called - in technical terms -

Like, that's not hyperbole or metaphor or any sort of poetic language. That's just what it's called, because that's what it is. The endless, flat, featureless plain at the bottom of the Abyss. The actual literal Underworld.

Nobody goes to the Abyssal Plain. Ever wondered why it took so long to find the wreck? Because Nobody. Goes. There. It is not our world. The very rare expeditions - mostly unmanned - are a huge deal. They are Perilous Undertakings. Those fabulous high-tech submarines that the Navies have, the ones that can lurk for months underwater without needing to surface? They don't go down there. They can't. They would be crushed like a can underfoot.

The idea of somebody trying to go on a merry jaunt to see the Titanic is on the same level as when Wallace and Gromit decided to take a day trip to the Moon. Except the Moon is in many ways friendlier than the Abyss.