oh look its hotd oc fixit fanfic idea i will never write (that is connected to my got fanfic i will also never write)
Was googling the new Dungeons and Dragons movie, glanced at the wiki plot:
What I thought I saw: A group of thieves travel to a realm to stop a gremlin from enslaving the world.
What is actually there: A group of thieves travel to a realm to stop a great evil from enslaving the world.
Destiny (1900), by J.W. Waterhouse
This work was painted by Waterhouse to support the injured soldiers and widows of the British army that fought in the Boer War against South African rebels (1899-1902). More than 300 artworks were sold for a total of 12,000 pound sterling.
The work resembles the 1894 version of The Lady of Shalott, but the red and white dress and blue cup represent the colours of the Union Jack, clearly stating that this is a British lady looking at a departing army that is visible in the mirror.
mythology family ♥︎ lady of shalott for @susiephone
in the arthurian legends, the lady of shalott was a young woman named elaine of astolat, who died of unfulfilled love for sir lancelot, the greatest of king arthur’s knights.
every Byzantine empress consort, regnant & augusta
→ CONSTANTINIAN DYNASTY (from 324-363)
You may think you know my story. Many have told it. It has long passed into history, into myth. I have seen more of heaven and hell than most people dream of. But I was always a willful girl and followed my heart and spoke my mind. And it is high time that I told you my story myself.
Ophelia (2018), dir. Claire McCarthy
(OTTOMAN) WOMEN’S HISTORY MEME | 5 princesses: Mihrimah Sultan, daughter of Süleyman I
Following in her mother’s footsteps, Mihrumah acted as Suleyman’s intimate counselor and sent him news and forwarded letters when he was away from the capital. She was instrumental in the decision to undertake the siege of the Mediterranean island of Malta in 1565, for which she offered to outfit four hundred galleys. It was in these years that Mihrumah worked with the royal architect Sinan on two of Istanbul’s most exquisite mosques, one in Rustem’s memory in a busy market neighborhood near the Golden Horn and the other in her own name at the Adrianople gate in the old Byzantine city wall. — Leslie Peirce, Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
