Do You Ever Think About This Quote By Mary Lambert Because I Think About It All The Time

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

suddenly remembered this poem as i was making breakfast this morning & frantically googled “poem remembered to buy eggs?????????” & somehow managed to find it & it utterly knocked the wind out of me just as much as when i first read it

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

The Magpie, Claude Monet, 1868-69

Happy birthday, Claude Monet (Nov. 14, 1840 - Dec. 5, 1926).

aziraphale + text posts bonus:

Luca’s parents and grandmother character designs by Deanna Marsigliese, Jason Deamer, and Enrico Casarosa from The Art of Luca.

William Bradford - Arctic and maritime paintings of polar ice, icebergs and the North Pole. Alas… another fast vanishing world.

Two master’s style emulations done for a fic prompt, drawn using Clip Studio Paint. Full fic prompt can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30983144