— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods

hogwarts houses as halloween aesthetics

gryffindor: haunted houses, pranks, drunk on sugar, face paint, dresses up as the knight in shining armour, pro at halloween games, ‘ghostbusters’, halloween pranks.

hufflepuff: baking treats, pumpkin picking, cute costumes, vanilla candles and pumpkin spice, fairy lights, lanterns, ‘hocus pocus’, campfires, movies under blankets.

ravenclaw: most creative costume, random facts about halloween, ‘buzzfeed unsolved’, pumpkin carving, gothic novels, witches and spells, board games, black cats, halloween puns.

slytherin: midnight trick or treating, graveyards, horror movies, dresses up as dracula, ghosts, fake blood, ‘the shining’, jumpscares.

raskolnikov be like “I know a spot” then takes you to the bureau and tells you he’s a murderer

are you more Razumikhin "goes a whole winter without lighting his stove, says he sleeps more soundly in the cold" chaotic, or Raskolnikov "faints in the middle of the police station when his crimes are mentioned" chaotic

“Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I’ll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I just... I really wanna live in a studio ghibli movie. I just wanna eat bread and stare at a large body of water filled with kind water spirits and big flowy seaweed. That’s really all I want in life.

what really struck me as a realization was when dostoyevsky said “A normal man, it is true, hardly exists. Among dozens – perhaps hundreds of thousands–hardly one is to be met with.” the idea of collective normalcy shattered right here.

» John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896)

Ophelia

Isabella

A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew’s Day

Mariana

Christ in the House of His Parents

The Black Brunswicker

I always liked Roger from 101 Dalmatians because I admire a person who, when faced with someone they dislike that’s invading their space, just aggressively plays jazz instruments at them until they leave.

Century

15th

16th

17th

18th

19th

20th

Art movement

academic art

art nouveau

baroque

classicism

cubism

dadaism

expressionism

fauvism

impressionism

neo-classicism

post-impressionism

pre-raphaelism

primitivism

realism

renaissance

rococo

romanticism

surrealism

symbolism

ukiyo-e

Continent

asia

europe

latin america

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oceania

us & canada

Themes and motifs

animals

architecture

biblical figures

fantasy

greek myth

historical figures

interiors

landscapes

literary characters

mythology

nature

norse myth

portraits

roman myth

society/people

the moon

the sea/ocean

the sky

urban/cityscapes

war

Genre

abstract

animal painting

cityscape

genre painting

history painting

landscape

portrait

seascape

self-portrait

still life

When Byron said, The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain and when Shelley said, Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought and when Keats said, Touch has a memory