always and everywhere

hellwyrgen on lb i like the medieval, classic film, vampires, and sherlock holmes 🏰🎞️🦇🔍

[razzlebathrobe]

Basil Rathbone as Paul Gherardi in A Notorious Affair (1930)

[everydaylouie]

véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien)

[norrmajeane]

Applause (1929), dir. Rouben Mamoulian

[random-brushstrokes]

William Fraser Garden - A Recollection of Stevington, Bedfordshire–A Spinney in December (1882)

[aropride]

this was written 100 years ago but it reads like a post i would make on my tumblr blog in 2026

[itscolossal]

Collages of Thousands of Strangers Convey Vast Scale of Memory and Death

[hell-wyrgen]

wasn't gonna drink tonight but im missing three piece tweed suits like a mf

[mysteriousartcentury]

Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865), was a noted British amateur portrait photographer of the Victorian Era. She produced over 800 photographs mostly of her adolescent daughters. Read more

[forsapphics]

MARLENE DIETRICH

photographed by Eugene Robert Richee for Morocco (1930)

[caribbeanangel]

Lagos, Nigeria. (1968)

[cyclesofmystery]

Clare Victor Dwiggins, 1908

I was amused by this rather “freaky” bit of Edwardiana, especially since I always got the feeling that Charles Dana Gibson, when drawing the Gibson Girl, was at least partially fantasizing about being stepped on or something.

[ingridverse]

[westiec]

me: man I sure hope somebody has shown op Charles Dana Gibson's "The weaker sex" where the four Gibson girls are studying the tiny little man like a bug

tumblr user ingridverse: way ahead of you

[cyclesofmystery]

That’s mainly the piece I was thinking about when I made my original post (and one of my favorites of Gibson’s)! Another user @phenoob mentioned in their tags Gibson has a piece literally titled “Stepped On,” which I am embarrassed to say I was not familiar with:

[itscozytime]

playing tomodachi life living the dream

[akajustmerry]

friend sent me an Instagram reel yesterday with 1000s of likes that was basically like "pride and prejudice is timeless actually because it's about an autism4autism romance 🥰" and then the creator proceeded to cite moments in the book and film where Lizzie and Darcy are "socially awkward" and....listen. I'm far from an Austen scholar, but I have taught Austen novels as an educator and this kind of psycho-pop analysis that views characters as individuals with autonomy over their actions, rather than tools in a story written at a particular time to say something about that time, pisses me off more than I can say without sounding like an asshole. I'm sorry but Darcy isn't rude and awkward and even cruel to Lizzie because he has autism, he says and does those things because he's a wealthy upper class land owning man raised to see a middle class woman from a large family with no male heirs like Elizabeth as inherently beneath him which he expresses to her multiple times because it is socially acceptable for him to do so in a society where someone like him is privileged above almost all others. He is "socially awkward" around her because of misogyny and classism (PREJUDICE) and she is "socially awkward" around him because a woman of her standing at that time simply wouldn't have had much to do with the gentry but to actually push back against the shit that Darcy says would be social suicide for her whole family so she protests the only way she can which is refusing his advances (PRIDE). not to be the "context collapse is the death of media literacy" guy. But this is the problem with the kind of head empty, let people enjoy things, if I can't relate to it what's the point type crowd. Youse think you're being so quirky justifying incoherent and anachronistic interpretations with your rampant individualism, ensuring that other people never confront anything that challenges them in these stories like patriarchal misogyny and classism. Pride and Prejudice becomes an "autism4autism romance", completely undermining the historical context of its status as one of the great social satires about the class and gender politics that Austen so expertly observed around her. This attitude is why we have nonsensical historical dramas that actively hate history like fucking edgy bdsm "Wuthering Heights", Bridgerton, The Buccaneers, and even a 2025 Frankenstein movie where the monster is just misunderstood and does no wrong uwu etc. because individual relatability and catharsis is king over anything actually saying anything about anything now. Everything is relatable and nothing is meaningful.

[thechemistryset]

Herbert Ross, Pennies from Heaven, 1981

[terrierpuppy]

[maertyrer]

Unknown Artist Carved wooden head of a Christian martyr

Ivory teeth, with severed head showing accurate anatomical detail, from the chapel of an abbey in Champagne, France, 272 x 180 x 185 mm, 16th century

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

what’s the most devastating song that comes to mind? like you’re on the verge of tears listening to it