headlessbird:

wizzard890:

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
-Michelangelo

I could stare at this until I die.
hellyeahhorrormanga:

THE STORY OF OKIKU (The Well Ghost)

Once there was a beautiful servant named Okiku. She worked for the samurai Aoyama Tessan. Okiku often refused his amorous advances, so he tricked her into believing that she had carelessly lost one of the family’s ten precious delft plates. Such a crime would normally result in her death. In a frenzy, she counted and recounted the nine plates many times. However, she could not find the tenth and went to Aoyama in guilty tears. The samurai offered to overlook the matter if she finally became his lover, but again she refused. Enraged, Aoyama threw her down a well to her death.

It is said that Okiku became a vengeful spirit who tormented her murderer by counting to nine and then making a terrible shriek to represent the missing tenth plate – or perhaps she had tormented herself and was still trying to find the tenth plate but cried out in agony when she never could. In some versions of the story, this torment continued until an exorcist or neighbor shouted “ten” in a loud voice at the end of her count. Her ghost, finally relieved that someone had found the plate for her, haunted the samurai no more.

Some Japanese also fear planting chrysanthemums in their garden as they think that that will be able to invoke the spirit of Okiku and she would then start haunting them!
bechnokid:

ALL OF THOSE PINK DRESSES. 
….WANT.
It’s funny how Normaler totally works out in the Pokejinka world because THEY’RE BOTH JELLICENTS, AHAAHAHDGLAHSDLFG.

YEEEEES
inallthingsbalance:

Stone Path - Zen Temple
elasmosaurus:

Pen sketches - Rapunzel
szymon:

Hong Yi paints using coffee stains

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fairytalemood:

“Beauty and the Beast” by Elisabeth Alba