Karl Urban as Eomer THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson
on losing love
leo & catherine, the great // your love finds its way back, sierra demulder // holly warburton // ?, sue zhao // cassandra: a novel and four essays, christa wolf // ? /// ? // horoscope for the heartbroken, schuyler peck // i bet on losing dogs, mitski // war of the foxes, richard siken
Yul Brynner as Ramses II - The Ten Commandments, 1956
THE LORD OF THE RINGS costumes appreciation: ― Legolas’ costume (costume design by Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor)
Alex Hogh Andersen - Koldt på toppen, 2017
glass, irony and good, anne carson // margaret atwood // enough, suzanne buffam // ? // in conversation: kathleen turner, david marchese // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // where to begin, sue zhao // the stream of life, clarice lisepector
this body is not a home
jody chan sick (via @geryone) \ edward hopper interior, model reading (1925) \ olivia laing the lonely city (via @soracities) \ joan didion on self-respect (via @girlfictions) \ dion palinckx (2019) \ james tate selected poems (via @heartshop) \ @artofbrianluong \ olivia laing the lonely city (via @soracities) \ edvard munch self-portrait in hell
Why do you suppose we only feel compelled to chase the ones who run away? DANGEROUS LIAISONS (1988) dir. Stephen Frears
Kukeri - originates from the old Slavic word "kuka," which means an evil spirit. The pagan festival is a centuries-old Bulgarian tradition where people dance through the streets in scary masks, animal skins and loud bells.
The pride of the Topkapi Palace Museum and its most valuable single exhibit is the 86-carat pear-shaped Spoonmaker Diamond, also known as the Kasikci. Surrounded by a double-row of 49 Old Mine cut diamonds and well spotlighted, it hangs in a glass case on the wall of one of the rooms of the Treasury.Its origin is not clear. Like many other historic diamonds, it is difficult to seperate fact from fancy. One of the versions of the findings of a diamond described it as thus:
“In the year 1669, a very poor man found a pretty stone in the rubbish heap of Egrikapi in Istanbul. He bartered it to a spoonmaker for three wooden spoons. The spoonmaker sold the stone to a jeweler for ten silver coins.The jeweler consulted another jeweler who knew immediately that the pretty stone was really a precious diamond. When the second jeweler threatened to disclose the whole matter, the two men quarreled bitterly. Another jeweler heard the story and bought the diamond, giving a purse full of money to each of the angry jewelers. But now the Grand Vizier, Kopruluzade Ahmed Pasha, has heard of the gem. When Sultan Mehmed IV is told of the affair, he orders the stone be brought to the palace, and he takes possession of it. Whether he paid for it is not revealed. And, of course, no one knows what history preceded it being thrown into the garbage heap.”
Source: kosem-sultan
having big garden with sculptures, wearing white Victorian dress, growing flowers and herbs, running barefoot, reading books in the shades of trees, enjoying sunshine and the melody of harp and settling vintage tea parties