Curated Insanity

Grabbiness: a technical term

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Georgia O'Keeffe, 

ph Laura Gilpin

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Toe stall, Egyptian Art

Fletcher Fund, 1921–1922 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Gold

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/576560

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The Household Gods, 1880

John William Waterhouse (1849 – 1917)

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Cate Blanchett photographed by Warwick Saint, 2000

yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine

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The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.

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[runecestershire]

So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.

Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.

Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.

That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop

[daimonie]

i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story

if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.

[whopooh]

The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.

I love this post.

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Feels

[vr-trakowski]

I believe the artist is Katy Doughty.  

[modmad]

Here’s a link to Katy’s tumblr!

[thoodleoo]

medieval artist #1: hey brother gaius i’m illuminating a manuscript right now and i need your opinion on something medieval artist #2: sure thing brother lucius medieval artist #1: so i’m supposed to be adding a handax to this, can you tell me if i got it right medieval artist #2: okay i’ll take a look medieval artist #2: medieval artist #1: medieval artist #2: i mean you’re not wrong

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Ginger Rogers in, “Swing Time” (1936)

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Bust of Pallas.  Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice.

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gene kelly & fred astaire in ziegfeld follies (1945)

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HILMA AF KLINT, Series VIII, Picture of the Starting Point, 1920.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Edmund Wilson, 1919 / in a letter to Maxwell Perkins, 1921 / in The New Yorker, 1926 / in a letter to Dr. Oscar Forel, 1930 /  in a letter to Dr. Mildred Squires, 1932 / in a letter to Maxwell Perkins, 1933 / in The Crack-Up, 1936

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Visitor standing before the Parthenon, 15 April 1911

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not for riches but for love medieval posie ring

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venice, 1962

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Peggy Guggenheim

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Oh, mother, mother! What have you done? ↳ Tom Hiddleston and Deborah Findlay in Coriolanus at Donmar Warehouse (2014)

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Christian Soriano is bae

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AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE HE GOT THAT FROM

I remember the season Christian was in. And he had a problem (because he was fresh out of fashion school) with understanding how to dress bigger women. And Tim Gunn, who has always been a proponent of needing to design fashion for more natural sizes, helped him to get out of that mind set by planting the seed. That growth we see is from this amazing fashion teacher! 

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Antique Watch Fob with Bat Fangs

19thC

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*pointedly crosses legs*