Atomic Space Babe

(MARAUDERSAFFAIR)

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Sharon Tate as Odile de Caray in EYE OF THE DEVIL (1966) dir. J. Lee Thompson

[butchqueersapphic]

Paris lesbian club, 1934

[mlleclaudine]

Greta Garbo photographed by Don Gillum (1926)

[troublealwaysfindsyou]

the jump from 2019 to 2025 is insane

[whimsifae]

Insomnia, Casey Childs

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[clawmarks]

Gruppe aus Rosen - Martin Gerlach - 1893 - via MKG Hamburg

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[didanagy]

EMMA (2020)

dir. autumn de wilde

[hamletthedane]

Fun fact: this scene is a direct reference to a pretty common joke in Regency-era erotic cartoons:

Historically, English women did not wear any version of underwear under their dresses until the very late 1800s (unless they were menstruating). When dresses slimmed way down during the Regency era's neoclassical movement, skirts became much easier to fully lift - apparently leading to many women warming their bare skin in this way.

It was a common enough practice that there was even a suggestive slang term for it, as others have pointed out:

[percussiveadventure]

Nice to know these gentlemen were eating ass

[greensword101]

@isalisewrites

[zoirohs]

Vivien Leigh as Lady Emma Hamilton

THAT HAMILTON WOMAN (1941) dir. Alexander Korda

[dancyrilkingston]

RITA HAYWORTH GILDA (dir. Charles Vidor, 1946)

[yesterdaysprint]

The Brockway Record, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1933

[inthedarktrees]

Howard Sochurek, “Prayer Marathon in Memphis,” Life, 1952

[detailedart]

Details: Ghost clouds - Les Nuages Fantômes. Ca. 1897, by Richard Riemerschmid.

[catsofyore]

Cat butt photo bomb. Photo from my collection. 1955.

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[painted-fire]

John Singer Sargent, detail of Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler, 1893