Quill Of Stars

Only in my sleep to I manage to face reality, The rest is just a dream.

[theartofanimation]

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[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Dress

Girolamo Giuseffi

c.1912

Indianapolis Museum of Art

[fashionsfromhistory]

Starry Night Costume

1926

Hillwood Museum

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Butterfly Costume

House of Worth

c.1912

Whitaker Auctions

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yesterday my dad told me something that I think maybe more people need to hear.

You’re allowed to just do things for fun.

He told me that in this modern society, especially the United States, we seem to have this attitude that we shouldn’t do something unless we’re aiming to be the best at it. If we can’t sing like Beyonce or Frank Sinatra or something there’s no point to singing. If we can’t make the next big breakthrough there’s no point in looking into mechanics and engineering.

But, he tells me, it took him a long time to figure out that life doesn’t have to be a race. If you want to take up the piano when you’re a teenager or later you’re not going to master it. You’re not going to be able to play to huge concert halls, but that also shouldn’t stop you. You can study a language out of curiosity and then drop the ball if you want. You can just get okay at something or even be terrible at it. You can drop it for days or years and then pick it up again and it doesn’t have to be a shameful thing.

I’m really glad he told me that because today I opened my sketchpad for the first time in months and just started drawing. And it looks terrible. But I don’t care. I don’t have the talent or patience or spacial awareness to get anywhere near good at drawing, but it’s fun. It helps me focus my mind and nobody has to see it.

And because of what he told me, I’m thinking maybe someday soon I will take up the bass guitar. And I won’t worry about how well I do, or how fast I learn, or that I haven’t played an instrument since sixth grade, or that I don’t have that much time to practice. I’m just gonna enjoy the experience. Maybe I’ll try swing dancing again and take a class because I’m not the best dancer but damn if it isn’t fun.

Yeah, you don’t have to be good at things. It’s not a requirement. Maybe that seems obvious but it had never occurred to me before. You’re allowed to just enjoy what you’re doing. For me, that feels like a life changing revelation. I don’t have to be good at something to like it. I don’t have to put 100% effort into everything I do. It’s kind of amazing.

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[serious]

So far you’ve survived 100% of your worst days. You’re doing great.

a gentle reminder (via serious)

[cutestsuggestion]

i always dream of our happily ever after

[tecochet]

so my exams are around the corner, i need to study, but i procrastinate alot. can you maybe draw something that will make me motivated to study everyday?

just look at the moon every now and then :)

[kushandwizdom]

Eventually you'll end up where you need to be, with who you’re meant to be with, and doing what you should be doing. You're gonna be alright

- Expherience

[xeolly]

[twitterlols]

[mushanga]

how fuckin short is mr clean

[hotvampireadjacent]

how fucking big was that 12 year old

[immentallydeficient-deactivated]

hes destroying the evidence that the giant 12 year old ever existed

[1st-1]

[florenceandisabellamachine-deac]

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Ensemble

Fontana

1954

The Fontana sisters, Micol, Zoe and Giovanna, designed this dress for Ava Gardner to wear in the 1954 film “The Barefoot Contessa.” Gardner was a devoted client of the Fontana Sisters, on and off the screen, and her patronage helped them to gain notoriety and achieve the success they did, particularly in America. The 1950s in particular saw great success for the house, as they designed for many American actresses and luminaries as well as Italian dignitaries and aristocrats. Known for their wasp-waisted, full-skirted evening dresses dripping with style, the sisters used high-quality, beautiful materials and frequently decorated the sumptuous silks and velvets with exquisite embroidery, as evidenced in this example. 

The MET

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[acreaturecalledgreed]

Orange Cat: [unfriendly/somewhat sharp meow]

Second cat slowly looks at the camera.

Man, filming, bashfully and sounding somewhat frightened: Sorry!

[ocfos]

I’ve never fuckin seen a cat move like that, and it feels so goddamn eerie.

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