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Christopher Deeton

Fear is a liar, 2016

christopherdeeton.com

[jeezycreezysuperstar]

I met a photographer in New Orleans who said Anne Rice told him she started dressing flashier because Elvis came to her in a dream and told her to. God bless Anne Rice.

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After screaming, [Cassandra] calls out the name of Apollo sixth times, then again a seventh time, but the seventh time, by shifting the inflexion of the name slightly, she shows its etymology. Apollo’s name is cognate with the Greek verb apollesthai, “to destroy utterly, kill, slay, demolish, lay waste.” By crying out “Apollon emos”, Cassandra can designate the god as “my Apollo” and “my destroyer” at the same time in the same words.

Anne Carson, excerpt of Cassandra Float Can, from Float (via mythaelogy)

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John Singer Sargent - Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears, 1899 (detail), oil on canvas

[astrosource]

Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. NGC 1300 spans over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble image reveals striking details of the galaxy’s dominant central bar and majestic spiral arms. In fact, on close inspection the nucleus of this classic barred spiral itself shows a remarkable region of spiral structure about 3,000 light-years across. Like other spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, NGC 1300 is thought to have a supermassive central black hole. △

APOD: Jan. 9, 2016

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Annakiki F.W 2017

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[regardintemporel]

Werner Bischof - Caryatids, Acropolis, Athens, 1946

[rhaenyras]

unsolicited list of favorite quotes from badass historical women

I only need three things to subordinate [a horse]: an iron whip, an iron hammer, and a sharp dagger. I will whip it with the iron whip. If it does not submit, I will hammer its head with the iron hammer. If it still does not submit, I will cut its throat with the dagger. Emperor Taizong praised my bravery. Do you really believe that you are qualified to dirty my dagger? (Wu Zetian)

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you? (Cleopatra)

God forgive you, but I never can. (Elizabeth I)

Courage? I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? (Marie Antoinette)

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre. (Theodora)

I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I take when someone has taken from me. (Mata Hari)

In my end is my beginning. (Mary of Scots)

If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death? (Cixi)

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. (Victoria of the United Kingdom)

I am not afraid… I was born to do this. (Joan of Arc)

I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to. (Caterina Sforza)

I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem. (Catherine of Aragon)

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me. (Anne Boleyn)

I am not fighting for my kingdom and wealth now. I am fighting as an ordinary person for my lost freedom, my bruised body, and my outraged daughters. (Boudicca)

(feel free to add more!! and please let me know if any of these aren’t legit because some might actually be unsourced)

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Westminster Cathedral. London, UK.

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Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914) - Clematis