An Efflorescence of Cranky Enthusiasm

a stained glass living room design by Harris Armstrong

I can't be the only person who immediately looked for the least common ones to try and use them more, right?

Scumwit and dirt goblin are pretty great, tbh.

I'm more interested in the mid-range. People actually call others dipclown, buttgoblin, and poopboy??

FOR ALL MANKIND (2019 - ) 1.05: Into the Abyss

Wonderful 15th century doorway at Kilcooly Abbey, Co Tipperary, Ireland

Kingfisher perched on a lotus leaf

Johnson Chua

Costume details from the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005)

Does a fanfic need to be good? Should it not just make the writer (me) happy?

Botanical Mirrors // Wood Lore Florals

Sossusvlei, 2022

FLEUR DE LYS-SHAPED BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, use of Rome (Paris, c. 1553). Illuminated manuscript on paper.

180 x 80mm. i + 117 leaves, each page with 24 lines written in a 'roman' hand in black ink within a liquid gold border in the shape of a half fleur de lys, spaces infilled with liquid gold fronds on blue or red grounds, line-fillers and one- and two-line initials of the same colours, eleven lobe-shaped miniatures. Nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, semé with fleur de lys, doublures of red morocco gilt, edges gauffered and gilt (upper cover detached). [Christies Auction House, 2006 catalog]

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For All Mankind (2.09 "Triage") Jodi Balfour as Ellen Wilson Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison

artist: muaillustration