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Well, bye tumblr

Everyone on Tumblr rn

because apparently this needs to be said AGAIN

in the most general aesthetic terms possible

1600s: most witch-hunts ended in this century. no witches were burned in North America; they were hanged or in one case pressed to death

1700s: the American Revolution. Marie Antoinette. the French Revolution. the crazy King George. most pirate movies

1800-1830: Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice! those dresses where the waist is right under one’s boobs and men have a crapton of facial hair inside high collars

1830-1900: Victorian. Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end

1900-1920: Edwardian. Titanic, World War I, the Samantha books from American Girl, Art Nouveau

1920s: Great Gatsby. Jazz Age. Flappers and all that. most people get this right but IT IS NOT VICTORIAN. STUFF FROM THIS ERA IS NOT VICTORIAN. DO NOT CALL IT VICTORIAN OR LIST IT ON EBAY AS VICTORIAN. THAT HAPPENS SURPRISINGLY OFTEN GIVEN HOW STAGGERING THE VISUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ERAS IS. also not 100 years ago yet, glamour.com “100 years of X” videos. you’re lazy, glamour.com. you’re lazy and I demand my late Edwardian styles

I just saw people referencing witch burning and Marie Antoinette on a post about something happening in 1878. 1878. when there were like trains and flush toilets and early plastic and stuff. if you guys learn nothing else about history, you should at least have vague mental images for each era

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“Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end” sounds like the longest weirdest worst movie I’d pay to see in theatres five times.

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Jamie Lee Curtis recreates the iconic “Psycho” shower scene that originally featured her mother, Janet Leigh

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*watches the charmed reboot trailer*

Me:

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The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon.

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It is an absolute travesty that Tamora Pierce’s books haven’t been made into movies yet.

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Forget movies, I want an HBO series like “Game of Thrones”

Seriously, it would be PERFECT! Each quartet could be 2-4 seasons, new cast members joining every few seasons, new plots, AMAZING stories. IT WOULD BE FANTASTIC!!!

#whythefuckhasntthishappen

Jonathan: *sends Daine on a diplomatic trip*

Daine: *raises an entire museum of dinosaurs from the dead and destroys the imperial palace*

Daine: *overthrows the emperor and installs his nephew as the new ruler*

Daine: Nailed it.

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North by Northwest (1959) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Cary Grant in “North by Northwest” is my forever mood

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Two kinds of people:

People who took the news of feathered dinosaurs like this:

And those who took it like this:

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I hate it when people say “science ruined dinosaurs” as though dinosaurs are just some pop culture monster invention and not real things that existed and that we are continuing to make new discoveries about

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Amen

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Listen I don’t care if you think feathers on a dinosaur look stupid if a 9 ton apex predator is coming at you at 25 mph, you’re not going to laugh at its feathers. YOU’RE GOING TO HAUL ASS