Morior invictus

British / Conservative / Orchestral Violinist / Writer / Historian

[thewildetyme]

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Maya Angelou

[zegalba]

black cat by kanodesigns

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Dance Class Artist: Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) Date: 1872 Genre: genre art Period: Belle Époque Movement: Impressionism Medium: oil on cardboard Dimensions: 19 cm (7.4 in) high x 27 cm (10.6 in) wide Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA Happy International Dance Day!

[c0ssette]

John William Waterhouse “Lamia” 1905,detail.

[fayriequeene]

[taxlesstitties]

what the FUCK was Tchaikovsky thinking when he wrote the pas de deux for the sugar plum fairy????dude wrote that first buildup and then he fucking edges you with some fakeout crescendo that sounds absolutely amazing. then boom, you think he's going in for his big finish, he's got that second moment where all the instruments are coming together and it sounds otherworldly but he's like WAIT hoes I ain't even finished yet. then BOOM he hits you with the most magical, transcendent, beautiful fucking note change after that third buildup and MY GOD!!!! it's just too good. Tchaikovsky, that absolutely madman. I know the Russians were tripping the fuck out in the ballet when he dropped this. just,,MUAH perfection!!!

[fayriequeene]

@adadjokeforstrings

[theundercovercat94-deactivated2]

[desaturated7-deactivated2021090]

incels are just the first generation of men who have been brought up addicted to porn. every single incel talking point about women is from porn. incels think women are having sex from the time they hit puberty onward bc they watch porn with pedophilic undertones or actual cp/loli, incels think women can have sex at a moments notice w any man they want bc that's what happens to women in porn, incels think women regularly have extreme sex like anal or gangbangs bc that's what porn shows them, incels think women like men who are abusive or violent bc that's what women in porn like. u know that weird meme that's being going around abt white women fucking dogs? yeah that's been an incel thing for years. why is that when men are overwhelmingly the perpetrators of beastiality? bc most men will have come across animal abuse porn by the time they're graduated high school and incels, who watch porn even more than normal men, see women having sex with animals regularly. incels are just men who's only contact with women has been through porn, men who accept that porns depiction of women is accurate, and they hate women because they totally believe what they see in porn. when they try to roleplay what they see with real women, and the women have boundaries and personalities and lives outside of sex, it infuriates them not because they're mad women have been abused and misrepresented, but because they're upset they are not getting the ultimate male fantasy they were promised from childhood.

[goodoldfashionedthoughtcrimes]

I watched an interview with an Incel. He claims that women in their 20s have had sex with “hundreds” of guys. The reporter was a woman and she said that she doesn’t know of any woman that has slept with that many men. The Incel just insisted that she needed to interview more women and that she just wasn’t aware enough.

Even the most sexual active women I know haven’t had sex with one hundred men, let alone hundreds. They really do believe that porn is accurate.

[fieldsarebreathing]

[carolathhabsburg]

France, early 1870s.

[carolathhabsburg]

Swedish soprano Christine Nilssen as Ophelia. 1868

[carolathhabsburg]

Miss Marie Studholme, british actress. Late 1890s

[carolathhabsburg]

Atelier Reutlinger. France, early 1890s

[vint-agge-xx]

Photograph of Princess Alix of Hesse, later Alexandra Feodorovna. She is standing facing the camera with a sofa beside her to the left. She is wearing a long dress and jewellery including a crescent shaped hairpin. There is a fan in her right hand and a painted backdrop behind. The photograph is signed and dated ‘Alix 1889’ in the upper left corner. Princess Alix of Hesse married Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia at the Winter Palace on the 26th of November 1894. Along with their children they were murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

[paintingispoetry]

Hildegard Thorell, Model with Mirror, 1899

[chaoticnutcase]

[violaobanion]

JANE EYRE (2011) dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga

[venicepearl]

Isabella Caroline Somerset, Lady Henry Somerset (3 August 1851 – 12 March 1921), styled Lady Isabella Somers-Cocks from 5 October 1852 to 6 February 1872, was a British philanthropist, temperance leader and campaigner for women’s rights. As president of the British Women’s Temperance Association she spoke at the first World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Association convention in Boston in 1891.