The blue tiled entrance facade of the Mausoleum of Shirin Bika Aga, Timur’s sister, located in Shah-i-Zinda necropolis in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. 1385-86 CE
Hubert Robert often incorporated many of the monuments he studied whilst in Italy into his paintings, this one being the Temple of Jupiter Serapis at Pozzuoli.
Vivaldi on his deathbed in 1741: please, put it into my will that the first movement of my Spring concerto can only be used to indicate fancy settings in cartoons or as hold music for the absolute worst call centres.
Vivaldi’s lawyer: Antonio what the FUCK does this mean
i love how no one ever questions tintin bringing snowy with him wherever he goes and this even continues to the point where tintin is going to the moon and they’re just like ok tintin here is your space suit and, of course, the special little dog-shaped space suit we made for your dog who is going to the moon as well
All male polycule constantly chainsmoking wearing sunglasses and only contacting each other through payphones and when they do they speak in incomprehensible syntax and talk about situations completely unrelated to what the other is talking about
idk when we decided that explaining yourself shouldn’t be part of an apology but like. if someone was a dick to me and apologizes but I still don’t understand why they did it I’m not gonna feel any better
“Sorry for hurting your feelings earlier. I was trying to say x, but I guess it came across wrong. I don’t think you’re stupid.”
or
“Sorry I snapped at you. I didn’t get enough sleep last night so my patience is a little low today.”
is a better apology than
“I want you to know that I am sorry that my actions offended you. I take full accountability for my actions and I am listening and learning. I hear you.”
“Every new event — everything I did for the rest of my life — would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.”
