ceramic bowl by Ze'ev Raban, decorated with Song of Songs 2: 11, 1925-1950

Micrographic composition of Shir HaShirim, by Baruch ben Shemariah of Brisk in 1824

Seder Plate from Pre-expulsion Spain, 1400s. earthenware with tin glaze.

'betzeis yisroel,' from ben shahn's haggdah illustrations.

Omer calendar, Hungary, 1820

The Judgement of Shelomo, initial word panel for Shir HaShirim, Tripartite Mahzor, South Germany, ca. 1320, detail

Joseph Tchaikov illustration of Song of Songs in Yiddish, 1919

@dov.bsky.social ive decided to be your enemy

The Monk by the Sea https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/the-monk-by-the-sea-1810

Seder Plate of R. Moshe Judah Leib Friedman of Peshkan.

Mother https://www.wikiart.org/en/joaqu-n-sorolla/mother-1895

manwe

turin and beleg

Numenor, c. 3319

tol-in-gaurhoth

Putting Irony Partition Failure here for posterity

the feeling of being simultaneously a sin-eater for all the worlds ailments and also realizing we've committed a bunch of sins we seem pathologically unable to atone for is probably going to drive me mad

mass trauma response reinforcing itself with endless deliberate retraumatizations

Here's an old Passover advertisement from a Portland, Oregon newspaper in 1916, which has aged awkwardly.

False Image Decals, by Christina Ramberg American, 1946–1995 1969 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/184175

'you lack nuance' (you refuse to engage in the collective neurosis of the subject)

Twin Peaks: The Great Northern hotel at night.

People who say Worf can't be forgiven because they puked on a bat are the same people who simp for these folks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=umfo... i get that ohtori academy is like the worst place on earth, a symbolic reservoir of our collective sin of Gender, but its aesthetics are also absolutely on point

tfw youll never be psychologically manipulated and seduced at an aristocratic francophile all girls' school

Twin Peaks: A One Eyed Jacks chip with a missing piece.

Similarly: Húrin

Whiz is not a french villiage and cheese whiz is not a cheese.

Passover begins on the evening of 1st April: depiction of a matzah with creatures. #Passover BL Or 2737; 'Hispano-Moresque Haggadah'); 1275 CE-1324 CE; Spain; f.22r @blmedieval.bsky.social

Maedhros

I raise you Lionel Hutz Celeborn: But it says here on these rings: "Free gift. No evil ploy." Annatar: [chuckles] They got this all screwed up. "Free gift? No, evil ploy!"

cf: bereishis rabbah

alternate version: annatar and galadriel

wait lyle lanley is also tempting

Legendarium Characters as Simpsons Bits, 3. Annatar

Calendar January https://www.wikiart.org/en/limbourg-brothers/calendar-january

every single time I read the word "looksmaxxing", I think of this silly meme and now you can too:

Legendarium Characters as Simpsons Bits, 1. finrod felagund

This time his practical jokes had gone too far, and Wally was finally booted off the hill.

Ginger decides to take out Mrs. Talbot’s flower bed once and for all.

“Yes, sir … we caught him trying to smuggle this in under his coat.”

“Whoa! Listen to that, Marge! ... I said that kid was playing a mean sax!”

“Uh-oh.”

And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor’s “For Sale” sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.

“Yes. Will you accept a collect call from a Mr. Aaaaaaaaaa?”

this is exactly what it feels like to go to a pharmacy nowadays

did the haredi parties vote for the death penalty bill? im assuming not bc it only got 62 votes