Alva Bernadine

City Hunter 2 - Don’t Die, Falcon: Magnum with Love and Revenge: Part 1

Групповой Портрет Лётчиц-Героинь 46 Авиационного Полка ("Ночные Ведьмы") | Group Portrait of Pilot-Heroines from the 46th Aviation Regiment ("Night Witches");

Sergey Bocharov, 1985.

Writing high fantasy is harder for me than it used to be because I'll write "The door swung open" and I'll imagine some tumblr user with three different grad degrees in medieval history dunking on me with a 2,000-word post about how door hinges weren't invented until 1956 and before that they'd just smash them open with axes and rebuild them each time.

hey don't worry, earliest door hinges discovered from around 1600 BCE okay?

"Fame Escorting Pegasus"  1875 model for sculpture, daguerreotype Musee D’Orsay. Paris.

~ Eugène-Louis Lequesne

no talking stage, let's disappear together

Peur du soleil Afraid of the sun

huile sur lin 40 x 50 cm

2025

A Viking Gold Bracelet, Circa 9TH-10TH Century A.D.

Pennanular in form, composed of twisted wires flattened at the terminals.

3 in. (7.5 cm.) wide.

Courtesy: Christie's

The Golden Girls – 7.02: The Case of the Libertine Belle

Jade pig, Western Zhou Dynasty, 8th Century BCE. Unearthed from Guo Zhong's Tomb in Sanmenxia, Henan Province, Collection of the Guo State Museum.

Courtesy Alain Truong

The goal is to harm the poorest among us.

No government department was ever created because someone was doing the right thing.

Dept of Ed empowered girls, students of color, students with disabilities, and funded communities in need.

Fascist Republicans want servants.

DOE makes Republicans feel shame. Of course Republicans hate successful policies.

David with the Head of Goliath (Guido Cagnacci, 1645-50)

The Boat of Flowers

Marjo Wiberg, a Finnish long pile rya rug for Ryijypalvelu. Circa 157 x 109 cm.

Shirin Neshat, Iranian-American artist, whose exposed body parts are covered with Persian script with Farsi quotations from Iranian feminist erotic poetry. Iran. 1997