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AKA Sarah T. (saraht @ AO3, saraht @ dreamwidth).  A hodgepodge of pretty things, fannish and not.  Mycroft will always be my darling, but I'm currently experiencing an X-Men movieverse renaissance.  Go figure!

[ancientstuff]

Ground-Penetrating Radar Reveals Entire Ancient Roman City

For the first time ever, archaeologists have used ground-penetrating radar to map an entire city while it’s still beneath the ground. A preliminary map of Falerii Novi, an ancient Roman city located 50 kilometers (50 km) north of Rome, has been compiled with data taken from ground-penetrating radar. It’s “preliminary”...

This must have taken AGES to do, but what an amazing result.

[romegreeceart]

“… Part of the importance is that our survey is showing us an ordinary Roman town in Italy, not a special town — but it is extremely impressive to see this level of architectural detail across the whole site-”

[parabatais]

I only act like I know everything.

[sundancearchives]

Euzhan Palcy: Trailblazing black female filmmaker

After French West Indian filmmaker Euzhan Palcy’s debut film, Sugar Cane Alley, earned her France’s distinguished César Award for best first work in 1984, an impressed Robert Redford personally invited her to attend the 1985 Sundance Institute Filmmakers Lab (depicted in the above photos). There she workshopped her adaptation of the novel A Dry White Season, about South Africa’s then still-prevalent apartheid. A few years later MGM would produce the movie, making Palcy the first black female director to helm a major Hollywood studio title. Her dedication to an unrelentingly accurate portrayal of apartheid in the film drew Marlon Brando out of his self-imposed, years-long retirement to accept a role that earned him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor, and made Palcy the first black director—male or female—to direct him to an Oscar-nominated performance.

Photos: © 1985 Roger Christiansen | Courtesy of the Sundance Institute Archives

[bimorgana]

“[Beth] did not rebuke Jo with saintly speeches, only loved her better for her passionate affection, and clung more closely to the dear human love. […] She could not say, “I’m glad to go,” for life was very sweet to her; she could only sob out, “I try to be willing,” while she held fast to Jo, as the first bitter wave of this great sorrow broke over them together.” – Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

[netals]

“Some of them say that we’re sick, we’re crazy, and some of them think that we are the most gorgeous, special things on earth.” Paris Is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

[letsgetsalty]

Agdgsgsgsg I’m LIVING for this Reef2Reef thread. This guy was worried about his urchins getting sunburnt so he made them little hats

[letsgetsalty]

IT GETS BETTER

[bogleech]

In the wild these urchins will in fact carry a small rock or shell exactly on top like this and im so happy there's people taking advantage of that and who care about their urchins as pets.

[commander-ledi]

i visited an aquarium at some point, and our tour guide told that when the staff had a party, they put a little decorative plastic hat from a booze bottle into the sea urching tank, and just left it there because the sea urchins liked it, and kept taking turns in wearing it.

[goingknowherewastaken]

Discovering that sea urchins wearing hats is a thing in this world means so much to me rn

[cinemagal]

Jennifer Lopez as Ramona HUSTLERS (2019)

[harriet-spy]

She was fifty years old when she made this movie.  FIFTY.

[cevanscentral]

I feel like any problem in the world in my opinion, is probably rooted in a lack of compassion - just a sense of compassion for other people. It’s a general lack of compassion for other people’s struggles. So, if I could somehow infuse that, that would be the superpower I would choose.

Happy 39th Birthday Chris Evans, (June 13, 1981)

[afrodesiacworldwide]

[fluffygif]

[docileyieldingobedientlovingsoul]

Ohhh yesss I would love one of those happy meals! 🥰🥰🥰

[harriet-spy]

I’ll take three, please

[fitzdyke]

thinking about how there’s an entire subcategory of actor titled “my parent was an icon of screen and stage who went on to play a Hogwarts professor, and I am their red headed son with an underrated acting career in world class dramas” and we don’t even talk about it

[fitzdyke]

the holy trinity

[met-photos]

The Aeroplane by Alfred Stieglitz, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography

Gift of J. B. Neumann, 1958 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Photogravure

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/270054

[cristinaricci]

Bill & Ted Face the Music Official Trailer #1 (2020) dir. Dean Parisot

[tygermama]

this makes me so fucking happy

[agelessphotography]

42nd Street, New York, Neil Libbert, 1960

[lexsfosters]

So what if we’re not just in the universe but the universe is within all of us?

[awrinkleintimefilm]

Ava DuVernay with her star, Storm Reid. “A Wrinkle in Time” was not easy to adapt. “That’s why I frigging did it, because it was hard,” the director said. Credit: Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times

[addictedtokaraoke]

[harriet-spy]

Happy Mother’s Day, from the mother of all mothers.