"I am half-sick of shadows,"

Tired (she/her)

[artistic--ghost]

"Carmilla, standing near the foot of my bed, in her white nightdress, bathed, from her chin to her feet, in one great stain of blood."

[nortism]

Normal 19th century guys with normal role models

Based on my own post

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[bethanydelleman]

I am a certified hater of audience participation but let me tell you, it is almost impossible not to clap during this scene. Even as a full grown adult.

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

Tea gown, c. 1897 by House of Worth

This dress is made of satin and velvet

This dress can be found in: Palais Galliera

[i-am-a-stupid-robot]

[sweeetestcurse]

Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood in Nope 07/??

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[cinematicjourney]

Bluebeard's Castle (1963) | dir. Michael Powell

[todaysbat]

Image description: photo of a brown sign with white text that reads: "You can't save everything cute, eat everything that tastes good, and kill everything you're afraid of and expect a working ecosystem to come out of it." -- Flip Nicklin, wildlife photographer

Image source: photograph by op

[bbcwhereareyou]

"There is a plague in this country of headlight brightness," she told the House Appropriations Commitee in July. "It is shockingly bright. If you look back to halogen light bulbs, you're reaching somewhere around 700 to 1200 lumens. New LED technology, these sons of b—s get to 12,000 lumens."

Gluesenkamp Perez brought the — it turns out — bipartisan issue as an amendment to the Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Bill, asking the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to study the impact of headlight brightness and set a maximum brightness standard.

"It's not a binary choice between walking around in the dark and the fire of 1,000 suns," she said. "The standards on this have not been reformed since before I was born."

(source)

[babyanimalgifs]

for anyone that’s having a bad day, here are pictures of animals sniffing flowers

[heroes-get-made-deactivated2022]

A few more:

[gawrkin]

How it started:

How it ended:

(Source: Dream of Rhonabwy)

[queer-ragnelle]

The rider approached the place where Arthur and Owain were over the gwyddbwyll... The squire greeted Arthur and said that Owain’s ravens were killing his young lads and squires. Arthur looked at Owain and said, ‘Call off your ravens.’ ‘Lord,’ said Owain, ‘your move.’ They played.

— Rhonabwy's Dream translated by Sioned Davies

Gwalchmai snapchatting Cai and Bedwyr while Owain's ravens decimate Geraint. Arthur is locked in. ♟️

Please do not tag this as BBC Merlin.

[Source photo from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms]

[bluestockingbaby]

Hey all, my real life friend has been dealing with her families health issues for a long time on top of grad school. Her mom has some serious medical issues that resulted in emergency surgery and amputation. If you are able to donate, please consider helping her out.

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[foodffs]

Skillet Truffle Mushroom Pizza

Follow for recipes

Is this how you roll?

[thejazzera]

Portuguese magazine Cinegrafia, No. 6, 1929

Scanned from the book "Portugal Século XX, Crónica em Imagens, 1920-1930", Joaquim Vieira, Círculo de Leitores, 1999.

[hateusandseeifwemind]

[pinene]

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

[tadeadshihamurder]

someone on reddit explained 😭

[no-one-offical]

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[desmolbean404]

That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

[teaboot]

Remember! When companies lay off all their staff because AI is cheaper, this sort of shit is what you can leverage for a better contract when they are inevitably forced to hire everyone back :)