Meow

Maria. To your service.

[dontlovewilloughby]

About 70% of my internal monologue regarding clothes is "I have been such a horrible consumerist. I own too many clothes. I am donating half of it to charity and I am never buying any more ever again", while the remaining 30% is "I'm sick of low heels, I only have low heels, I should buy some high heels, they make everything look good, and how do I not have a single red dress everyone needs one good red dress also a pencil skirt and possibly a three-piece suit"

[missingaudrey]

Audrey Hepburn at the Annual Academy Awards respectively in 1954, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1976, 1979, 1988 and 1992

[excepttheeyes]

James Potter epically losing a Quidditch match and refusing to come out from under the invisibility cloak.

[taelusive555]

the writing reference “said is dead” post is bad

said is not dead. said is very much alive and should be predominantly used in fiction writing, because if you always use words like mumble and observe and articulate and state and express then it will get very noticeable and irritating!! use “said” and “asked” more than anything, and substitute other fancier words in only when necessary and when it will enrich the content of your writing.

[cinecat]

West Side Story (1961)

[actualmariettaedgecombe-deactiv]

I want a history drama where it’s just the same series of events (IDK like one year?) and every episode is written by/based on the opinions of a different historian/every episode is from a different characters perspective because maybe THEN people will understand something about how history works.

[galenaes]

Art History Meme | [2/4] Colors

↳ Purple

[jawdusted-blog]

Why you should be in passionate horny love with Elizabeth ‘Nellie Bly’ Cochrane

Born in 1864/65, Elizabeth, one of 15 children, was always ‘the rebellious one’. Fierce as fuck from an early age, she testified against her abusive stepfather in her mother’s divorce trial.

In 1880 she enrolled in a teacher-training college but had to leave after her first semester due to lack of funding - then moved to Pittsburgh to help run a goddamn boarding school. 

This is where we get to the good shit. Age 18, she wrote a letter-to-the-editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch bitchslapping the everloving fuck out of a sexist ballsack of an article entitled ‘What Girls Are Good For’. 

The editor was so goddamn wooed by her razor-sharp tongue that he RAN AN AD asking her to identify herself. Elizabeth owned up, and was hired instantaneously, her badassery radiating from her pores and intoxicating all within a twenty mile radius.

Working under the pen-name Nellie Bly, Elizabeth kicked the butts of morons everywhere, writing articles aimed at social justice, particularly labour laws to protect working ‘girls’ and reform of Pennsylvania’s divorce law, which greatly favoured men.

Not content with changing the world from behind her desk, Elizabeth became a founding mother of investigative journalism. She was expelled from Mexico for exposing political corruption, and henceforth wrapped in cotton wool by her editors. Infuriated by their mollycoddling, Lizzie left them a note essentially telling them to fuck themselves and hot footed it to NYC. She was still only 23.

Within six months she was hired by Joseph fucking Pulitzer himself, and continued her batshit crazy investigations uninhibited. Her very first assingment had her feigning mental illness to expose repulsive conditions in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum. Her cutting report was so fucking horrifying, compelling and persuasive that it triggered public and political action, leading to reform of the institution.

In the next couple of years she had herself thrown in jail and hired by a sweatshop, all for shits and giggles. Oh, and to uncover incomprehensible injustice, cruelty, poverty, and the concealed, heinous treatment of the vulnerable and voiceless. 

But was pioneering journalism, social revolution and batshit badassery enough for our Liz? Like fuck it was. On a whim Nellie did what any self-respecting 25 year old woman in the 1800s would do - she emulated Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, and did it in 72.

Millions followed her journey, and its appeal to a semi-literate populace resulted in greatly increased newspaper readership. So while travelling the entire globe (IN THE 1800s, AS A WOMAN) by ship, train, burro and balloon, she helped the world to read.

Having essentially conquered the entire goddamn universe before hitting 30, Nellie retired, and wed 72 year old industrialist Robert Seaman. Their marriage was a happy one, and after his death she took over Iron Clad Manufacturing Co.

But Lizzie was a writer, what would she know about the metal industry? Well, she INVENTED the steel barrel that became the model for the widely used 55-gallon drum and turned her inherited businesses into multimillion-dollar companies, so apparently a fuck ton.

Furthermore, she set a precedent for working conditions, ensuring her workers had good pay, gymnasiums, staffed libraries, and health care, all completely unheard of at the time, while still writing to further the plight of the Suffragette movement.

Nellie may have died age 58 of pneumonia, but HBICs live on forever.

[doctornerdington]

Um, holy shit.

[pre-raphaelisme]

La Reine Clothilde by Thomas Cooper Gotch

[dontlovewilloughby]

I'm torn between two recipes I could try tomorrow and I haven't got enough ingredients to do both... I wonder whether trying to combine the two would end in disaster? Also, I've got a sponge cake to assemble in the morning and then my sister and I are planning to make mango chutney for the first time and it's eleven thirty at night so I really don't know why I'm looking up chayote-and-tofu recipes in the first place.

[chilldreaming-deactivated201407]

Okay but consider this: mermaids in space

[nanenna]

Space mermaids? As in: alien mermaids that live in the vacuum of space and swim between the stars? A setting that uses the analogy of deep space as the open ocean but keeps all the sea monsters? DO WANT!!

[obsessiforge]

Luring astronauts into black holes with a song that carries across the void where no one can hear you scream

[behindthesefangirleyes]

This post turned real fast

[fashionsfromhistory]

Tea Gown

Liberty & Co.

c.1885

MET

[shakypigment]

[blanzifiore]

La Belle Dam Sans Merci by Marc A. Fishman,

[jellywolfess-deactivated2018120]

How the hell does anyone defend casting a man to play a woman's role...

Especially when you are talking about a movie based on an actual person and not just a fictional character.

I mean imagine the outrage if Hollywood cast a man to play Amelia Earhart.

Making a biographical movie of Emily Dickinson? Let’s cast a guy to play Emily~

No one would think that was okay…

…yet we do it all the time with trans women.

[raminkloo-deactivated20150424]

Congratulations to Ramin Karimloo for his first Tony nomination in his Broadway debut as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.

[artdusktea]

please love celebrities without invading their privacy please love them as people and respect them please love them but don’t feel entitled to them or their life they are not yours they are theirs

[queensofalbion]

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