JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, Cumberbatch and Freeman.

Monday! Yep.

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

An illustration of an owl with head slightly tilted and crescent moon above. Poem text reads "かたむいた月のふくろうとして" I am unsure of an appropriate translation.

'Owl and Crescent Moon' - Kozaki Kan, ca. 1990s.
#OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

If you can’t handle me at my *vines surrounding you threatening, gripping your limbs in a creaking embrace* then you don’t deserve me at my *crow familiars lovingly dropping trinkets at your feet*

Some advice:
Be kind.
Collect books, not enemies.
Leave the world a better place.
Stay on the good side of the old gods and you will forever find peace in the mossy dark places of the world.

🎶"Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home. I'm so cold. Let me in-a-your window"🎶

Uncut sapphire crystals

The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend
With objects manifold.

Lover's Complaint #ShakespeareSunday

“With blue of heaven's own tinct."
-Cymbeline
#ShakespeareSunday
#DoctorWho

QTP with a gif of a powerful woman

"we will meet again in another life when we are both cats" back uppercase text above graffitti artwork of a black cat silhouette on a pearl-white painted brick wall - artist unknown

this lives forever rent-free in my head

Illustration by Charles E. Brock, 1895. Elizabeth is seated at a pianoforte while Colonel Fitzwilliam is turning the sheet music for her. Mr. Darcy is standing haughtily near them, trying to make conversation with Elizabeth. It is captioned "You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy?"

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

-Pride and Prejudice 
#JaneAusten
#InternationalWomensDay

'Giuditta decapita Oloferne' (Judith Beheading Holofernes), cropped, by Artemisia Gentileschi c. 1620 A part of an oil painting depicting a scene from the deuterocanonical Book of Judith. Two women, Judith and Abra, pin down Holofernes, left out of the frame here. With one hand, Judith holds his head, and with the other, she slices his throat with a long sword.

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free.

– Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights 1847

#InternationalWomensDay

a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman has a purple hoodie on ALT: a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman has a purple hoodie on

" new friends and stranger companies." - Midsummer Night's Dream (A1, S1) #ShakespeareSunday

The vaulty heaven so high above our heads.
RJ 3.5
#ShakespeareSunday

“So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent” - Sonnet 76 #ShakespeareSunday #TheShining @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“And when the cross blue lightning seemed to open
The breast of heaven, I did present myself
Even in the aim and very flash of it.” - Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 3) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

GIF of the Tardis traveling through the time vortex Alt: GIF of the Tardis traveling through the time vortex

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you
who Time ambles withal, who Time
trots withal, who Time gallops withal,
and who he stands still withal.

As You Like It 
Act III Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday
#NewAndBlue
#Tardis

Picture of 'God' in a church, extending his hand. Then, another picture of a cat doing the same thing, but then with beautiful toebeans.

When art imitates reality.

#Screenshot of the Sixth Doctor standing in front of the Tardis dressed in his usual coat except that the coat is colored in various shades of blue instead of multiple different colors

The soul of this man is his clothes.

All's Well That Ends Well
Act II Scene 5
#ShakespeareSunday
#NewAndBlue
#DoctorWho
#BigFinish

Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in nun’s habit with books behind her.

‘Love opened a mortal wound.
In agony, I worked the blade
to make it deeper. Please,
I begged, let death come quick.

Wild, distracted, sick,
I counted, counted
all the ways love hurt me.
One life, I thought—a thousand deaths’ ~ Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for #InternationalWomensDay

Photo of statue of Leona Florentino.

‘My fate is dim, my stars so low
perhaps nothing to it can compare,
for truly I do not doubt
for presently I suffer so.’ ~ Leona Florentino for #InternationalWomensDay

"The lights burn blue."
Richard III A5 S3
#ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho

The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
Richard III
#ShakespeareSunday

Sheldon from "Big Bang Theory" is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a bottle of water while talking to Leonard. It is captioned "That's a true-blue friend." Alt: Sheldon from "Big Bang Theory" is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a bottle of water while talking to Leonard. It is captioned "That's a true-blue friend."

"To seek new friends and stranger companies."

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act 1, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: New & Blue

three cats on a sailboat in the ocean Alt: Three animated sailor cats setting a new course on their pink boat and sailing the ocean blue.

"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail!"

Romeo and Juliet
Act 1, Scene 4
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: New & Blue

Is it new and old too? How may that be?

The Taming of the Shrew III, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

~C.S. Lewis
🎨Jane Crowther