.Queen of Valkyries.

It was a time before photography, when “people were desperate to give each other not just images of themselves, but part of themselves,” she [Grootenboer] told Artsy. (…) Instead of standing in for the whole person, [the lover’s eye] depicted just a minute feature. What’s more, they embodied a specific action: the gaze. “It is the look of someone that the [lover’s eye] is a carrier of,” Grootenboer explained. “It is the look that someone wants to imagine, and wants to feel as resting upon themselves.” (…) “In that way, they articulate the essence of portraiture: the act of looking at you, the ability of a painting to hold you in its grip.”

THE SANDMAN (2022-) - Now I’m listening. Or trying to.

SIX OF CROWS APPRECIATION WEEK ★ day 5: favorite brotp ↳ Kaz Brekker & Jesper Fahey : “Who’s Jordie?” Kaz paused. He’d known the question would come, and yet it was still hard to hear his brother’s name spoken. “Someone I trusted.” He looked over his shoulder and met Jesper’s gray eyes. “Someone I didn’t want to lose.”

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

“The Hollow Crown”, Richard II