S. Ross Browne
Ummm…I am so VERY into this right now!
But Black people in period or fantasy settings totally makes the stories unreal.
Also holy shit I love these.
How come I don’t run across this stuff regularly?
Because of racism and the retroactive erasure of POC in Medieval Europe. Pretty much the same reason you almost never see these works of art either unless you’re already looking for them:
um yes
Yes, these pics need to be out there more, as well as the stories of the sitters.
The only one I could identify off the top of my head was Juan de Pareja (gentleman in the brown doublet and white collar). I read his biography when I was a kid. He was a slave and then a freedman of European painter Diego Velasquez and a skilled artist in his own right.
(Source: darksilenceinsuburbia)
fellowship-of-the-superwholock:
supernatural subtitles
YOU’RE MISSING MY FAVORITE ONE:
these are tears streaking down my face people
WHAT ABOUT THE HISSES AT LUCIFER ONE
YOU ARE MISSING THE BEST ONE
Artwork by Fenghua Zhong
Artist: Ferdinand Keller
Title: Bocklin’s Tomb
Alois Kalvoda (1875 - 1934): Skupina olší / A Group of Alders.
Oil, 1897.
DROMOMANIA
[noun]
also known as travelling fugue: an uncontrollable psychological urge to wander. People with this condition spontaneously depart from their routine, travel long distances and take up different identities and occupations. Months may pass before they return to their former identities. The term comes from the Greek: dromos (running) and mania (insanity).
[RHADS]
You know, I put on the big act, storm away in a huff, then I fly off, wait for you to double cross Mal, beat you to the rendezvous spot and grab the loot before you can get to it. What, you didn’t see it coming? You know, I’m a little disappointed. Some of the crew’s performances weren’t quite as nuanced as they could have been. I thought they might have tipped the fact that we were playing you from the second Mal took you out of that crate. Oh, well. Guess not. You’re not going to die, you big baby. The authorities will be here in a few hours to dig you out.
(Source: jamesvega)
