iron gall

iron-gall ink: An indelible ink used for writing and drawing. Iron-gall inks came into widespread use by the 9th century; by the 11th century, they had largely replaced carbon inks as a writing medium. Iron-gall inks are acidic and can cause the underlying paper to deteriorate. They are black when fresh, but the acidic reaction with paper can turn the ink brown over time. {saa} & Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers... -- Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, I.v

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Natalie Dormer and David Oakes behind the scenes of their Venus in Fur promotional photoshoot x.

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ugh I love both of them

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Elle Fanning in “A Storm In The Stars”.

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I am so excited for this even though I really wanted to try to adapt The Monsters (read it, oh gosh) and there is no point doing so no.

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Only lovers left alive (2013) dir. Jim Jarmusch

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hey controversial opinion but clean water should be fucking free and people should never be allowed to make money off of it because its fucking needed to live

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Skogafoss, Iceland | by David Phan

More of our amazing world

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HH & I have booked a trip to Iceland in September. It is bewildering to finally be doing something for myself.

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Pictured above are the earliest extant bookcases in the world.

Functional and a little severe, they were installed in the last few years of the 16th century, when the Bodleian Library was being restored by Thomas Bodley. Located in Duke Humfrey’s Reading Room, they are still available for all Readers to sit at and use.

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Joseph Nigg (1782-1863), Grandmother’s Bouquet I

My grandmother passed away in May and there was a print of this painting in the funeral home. We were very close and when I fall asleep at night it is still unfathomable to me that she is gone. I haven’t been okay. It is remarkable how much we can blaze with love for the most important people in our lives. I am so grateful I had her in my life for as long as I did; now, I have to figure out how to carry on. As she often said, “That’s the way it goes.”

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Liberté, égalité, anxiété

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Immortal Inscriptions

For 310 years, and counting, The John Stevens Shop has created timeless stone carvings by hand and eye. Based in Newport, Rhode Island, the shop is the oldest continually running business in the US. 

The present owner and Creative Director, Nick Benson began working at the Shop aged fifteen under his father, John Everett Benson. John Everett Benson began working for his father, John Howard Benson, at the age of fifteen. 

As well as the modestly sized but no less exquisite examples I’ve shown above, John and Nick Benson have between them designed and carved inscriptions for the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, the Martin Luther King Memorial and the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda for The Hollywood Reporter. 

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when I was younger I didn’t understand why “may you live in interesting times” was considered a curse in ancient greece.

I get it now.

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Look at all their ufoc (unimpressed faces of color).

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Max! Come here! Remember me?

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I’m probably going to delete some of my earlier posts from this week about Zadie because they are too sad. She got very, very sick rapidly on Saturday and these have been some of the hardest days of my life. I love her so.

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Beautiful Floral Installation Suspended in London’s Garden Museum

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I feel so gross that one of the worst weeks of my life is now a blockbuster movie. The bombing only happened three years ago. I don’t feel like “this story needs to be told” - it was told in 24-hour live news coverage for a week straight. I was too scared to take public transit so I walked the three miles to campus. We weren’t allowed to leave our houses the whole day during the manhunt so we spun ourselves into anxious messes trying to find out what was happening. They found him only about four miles from my apartment.

I don’t feel a sense of victory about what happened. It is a heartbreaking, ugly thing that happened, and the sense of dread I feel when I talk about it, when I see commercials for the action movie about it, is still raw. I can only imagine how much worse the people who were injured or who lost people close to them feel. 

Maybe they want this story told. Maybe this will be “done right” and make some attempt to tell an honest, complicated story. But it still feels like pain exploited for money to me.

Not tagging this because people will fight with you about anything these days but you all know what I’m talking about.

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I’m just saying

so here’s our favorite adoptive space dad Bail Organa in Revenge of the Sith:

and here he is in Rogue One:

meanwhile, here’s Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith:

and here he is after the exact same amount of time: 

I’d like some of whatever Bail is having on Alderaan and exactly zero of what Obi-Wan is having on Tatooine 

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well one of them is the viceroy of alderaan and the other one is living as a hermit in space nevada, sorry that obi wan isn’t keeping up his moisturizing regimen on Planet Sand Hell while bail organa drinks kale smoothies in the shade

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And let’s not forget that Tatooine has two suns and is incredibly hostile to the aging process. Look at Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.

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