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“You see him? That man down there? He must be drunk… because he’s been sitting there for hours. He looks homeless too, if I had to guess. He’s going to freeze to death if he stays out there any longer. And no one is going over to help or anything. Would you help out that guy? You think that you will stop walking and help that disgusting, stinking drunk, little piece of trash, huh?” — Squid Game

Qian Kun - Fang Yi: Heaven Gaia Spring/Summer 2022

“is this character good or bad” “is this ship unproblematic or not” “is this arc deserving of redemption or not” girl…

A dress made of cotton muslin, gilded metal thread and Indian jewel beetles (sternocera aeqisignata), Britain, 1868-1869 CE. Over 5000 beetle wings or parts of wings were used to decorate this dress.

Now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Hunger is obviously a major theme in Hannibal—it’s literally the cannibal show—but the difference in how that’s portrayed with Hannigram is intriguing.

Hannibal was starving for connection before he had Will, and then everything changed for him. As Bedelia tells Will, “Did he daily feel a stab of hunger, and find nourishment at the very sight of you? Yes.” Hannibal’s hunger is sated by so much as the sight of Will. A mere look at him is enough to satisfy him.

But Will is different. Rather than being sated by his connection with Hannibal, it is the very thing that makes him hungry. There’s a frame in the Italy chapter that makes it look like he’s trapped in a starvation cage. In the script for his sailing scene, he’s literally described to look hungry:

Both Hannibal and Will have a possessive, obsessive, all-consuming love for one another, but it affects them quite differently. Hannibal is nourished by the very sight of Will, but for Will, no amount of the profound attention he experiences from Hannibal can fully sate his hunger—it’s a high he can’t help but chase. It fuels his pathological need to return to Hannibal again and again, no matter how self-destructive it is. I think this is why Will is more outwardly possessive of Hannibal than Hannibal is of Will. Hannibal wants Will to be his; Will wants Hannibal to be no one else’s. Both forms of possession, but Will’s is more jealous because of the way he experiences Hannibal’s attention. It’s a high, it’s a hunger—it’s a need, not a want.

the ceiling in sant’ignazio in rome

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

Hannibal (2013-2015)

1x01 || 3x13

These stunning mosaics decorate Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome which, according to legend, was built following Pope Liberius’s dream of the Virgin Mary followed by a miraculous summer snow fall the next day indicating where the Virgin wished to have her church. As a result the site is often called “Our Lady of the Snows.” In the 13th century Pope Nicholas IV wanted to redesign the original 5th century mosaic and commissioned Jacopo Torriti in 1291. Upholding the founders dedication to Mary the scenes tell the story of her life with the Coronation as the most prominent scene. It was the first time in Italy that the Coronation was displayed in such a monumental manner. The basilica is also the burial site for the renowned baroque artist Bernini. Both sites are open to visitors.  

Nuremberg Chronicle, Genesis c. 1493

Hannibal (2013-2015)

3x02 - “Primavera”

hannigram [ Hannibal s2 ] x 457 [ Squid Game s2 ]

Lucas Cranach, the Elder (details)

HANNIBAL S01E01 / SQUID GAME S02E06

(source for poem: two-bees-poetry)

Katharine Hepburn's iconic movie outfits - 1/?

An Ode to the Velvet Suit - WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)

Jupiter Van Gogh

jonathan young E debut + kyle adams R pining

🎥 @medium-observation

Penny Dreadful 2.06 Glorious Horrors

Hugh Dancy + accidentally being called Will

bonus:

𝖂𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖓 𝖎𝖓 𝖆𝖗𝖙 𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 + 𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖙𝖊𝖘

Mary Magdalene by Jan Boeckhorst / Lucretia by Rembrandt / Cleopatra by Guido Cagnacci / Medea by Giuseppe Bezzuoli / Salome by Onorio Marinari

Vanitas Still Life (detail) Aelbert Jansz. van der Schoor

thinking about leyendecker lawrence of arabia...

peter o'toole core

Peter O’Toole, in London (1961) | T. E. Lawrence in Miranshah (1928)

hannibal digestivo (2013-2015) || the last days of judas iscariot stephen adly guirgis (2005)

Dracula and Jonathan’s Tango - from The Polish National Opera production of ‘Dracula’.

With Choreography by Krzysztof Pastor and Music by Wojciech Kilar.

rené lalique jewelry

memento mori

T.E. Lawrence once owned a bronze replica of Hypnos, the god of sleep.

In 1909, when he was on his way back from a tour of Syria, T. E. Lawrence passed through Naples and wrote a friend: "The bronzes in the Naples museum are beyond words". He paid a Neapolitan bronze foundry eight francs for a flawed freehand copy of the Hypnos head now in the British Museum (itself a Roman copy of a Greek work dating from the fourth century BC).

He wrote to his brother Will that it was "very good work, but a bad cast, modem naturally. I asked the price and tumbled down with it to eight francs, little more than the value of the metal. You will admire it immensely; and I'll give you five minutes to find out the fault in the casting".

After returning to Oxford he placed it on a seat in the bay window of his study in the garden bungalow, where it became his most cherished ornament. According to Vyvyan Richards, Lawrence would lie on the floor and contemplate it. He wrote that "nothing, not even the dawn–can disturb me in my curtains: only the slow crumblings of the coals in the fire: they get so red & throw such splendid glimmerings on the Hypnos & the brass-work". He also wrote to his brother Arnold: "I would rather possess a fine piece of sculpture than anything in the world".

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