card castles

sherlock, doctor who, a bit of photography, art, and attractive men, and whatever else catches my eye.

[refinery29]

Meryl Streep’s Lifetime Achievement award speech hit all the high notes.

Gifs: Golden Globes on NBC/Chale Ghel

[stickinemwithpointyendsandlace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYTmZHfoqYI

[diceprophet]

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN

[freshbrewedlife]

Babes in Boyland

[rain-tea-coffee]

[everybodylovesfkatwigs]

[cassiebleu]

Venise, Italie - Juillet 2016 

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[mindblowingscience]

Canadian-American Astrophysicist Professor Vicky Kaspi has been awarded Companion of the Order of Canada (the highest ranking of the award). 

In 2016 only 3 Companion of the Order of Canada awards were given out (compared to dozens more Officers of the Order of Canada), so this is a big deal that she won.

The “Order of Canada” is “a fellowship that recognizes the outstanding merit or distinguished service of Canadians who make a major difference to Canada through lifelong contributions in every field of endeavour, as well as the efforts by non-Canadians who have made the world better by their actions.”

Read more here.

[heaveninawildflower]

Lilac (Syringa vulgaris).

Illustration taken from ‘Sturm’s Figures of Plants’ by Jakob Sturm and Johann W. Sturm. Published 1798.

Getty Research Institute.

archive.org

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There’s an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

[mydarkenedeyes]

Henrik Uldalen

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📷 (at SoHo, Manhattan)

[apagewithaview]

[history-inpictures]

The bombing of this London Church didn’t stop the marriage of Tom Dowling and Martha Coogan by Father Finn, 1940

[grace--upon--grace]

[absinthundrosen]

[atthemomentofsurrender]

Michelle Obama for Vogue (December 2016) 

Most of us are now familiar with her story: born and raised in a blue-collar family on the South Side of Chicago, endured an hour-and-a-half commute to attend the city’s first magnet high school, worked several jobs and borrowed a lot of money to get herself through Princeton, then Harvard Law. But what I didn’t know was how tentative and insecure she was in the beginning. […] She recounts the story about being told that Princeton “was reaching too high. That the schools I was applying to were too … much for me.” You can still hear the disgust in her voice all these years later. “And then I got there and I looked around and thought: I’m just as smart as these people! What were they thinkin’? So there are a lot of people who will try to step on your confidence based on their assumptions about who they think you are.” A murmur of recognition ripples through the audience. “For all of you sitting here, with those doubts in your head—because those whispers of doubt, they stay with you for a very long time—ignore them… . I still carry that with me today, as First Lady of the United States, because there are people who don’t think I should be doing that either.” [x]

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[yesdarlingido]

Subway. Buenos Aires (by Daniel Merle)

“In transit. I saw them. Just two kids in love. I got my 135 mm and made one shot”