Oh well, whatever, nevermind

So it goes

[loveridden1999]

if i was a soccer player i'd simply kick that ball in the goal instead of wasting everyone's time

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[sacred-portal]

[akindplace]

you’re not hopeless you’re just really really tired and in desperate need of a break and im shaking you by the shoulders and telling you that all is not hopeless but you do need to rest

[shadow-von-vamp]

reblogging a post that says “do it scared” vs actually doing it scared

[tractorgoth]

[an-ruraiocht]

there's a lot of talk about reading comprehension and one thing i think is the biggest barrier to people on this site getting better at it is simply... rushing. rushing to share something you haven't understood, rushing to have an opinion without taking the time to think about it, rushing to declare that you don't understand something

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

please just simply slow down. you don't always have to respond to everything within a second or two. it is okay if it is not an instantaneous understanding. we all need to get more comfortable with thinking more slowly and more deeply and more carefully, and not letting our instant split second responses drive us all the time, because they are a barrier to genuine reflection

[ruhrohrexia]

i wont worry about it i say to myself with the always worried disorder

[twinkleshirt]

[enlaniakea]

`🌿: ^🍃₊🪷

[violaobanion]

MARIE ANTOINETTE + COUNT FERSEN requested by anonymous

[tiny-librarian]

The most fashionable, scrutinised and controversial queen in history, Marie Antoinette’s name summons both visions of excess and objects and interiors of great beauty. The Austrian archduchess turned Queen of France had an enormous impact on European taste and fashion in her own time, creating a distinctive style that now has universal appeal and application… Marie Antoinette’s story has been re-told and re-purposed by each successive generation to suit its own ends. The rare combination of glamour, spectacle and tragedy she presents remains as intoxicating today as it was in the 18th century.

Sarah Grant, V&A Curator of Marie Antoinette Style, 2025

[fashionsfromhistory]

Portrait of Marie Antoinette in Court Dress by François Hubert Drouais

1773

Marie-Antoinette is shown here at the age of 17. She was already married to the future king Louis XVI, and a year later would be queen. She wears formal court dress: a silk gown with embroidered stomacher, needle lace and silver trimmings, and a jewelled necklace. A leader of fashion, Marie-Antoinette was at first celebrated for her taste but came to be criticised for her extravagance. She died at the guillotine in 1793. This painting appears to be one of several versions derived from an earlier portrait of Marie-Antoinette as Hebe, goddess of youth, executed by the same painter Drouais for Louis XV of France in 1772 and currently in the Musée Condé, Chantilly.

Currently on view at the Victoria & Albert South Kensington exhibit Marie Antoinette Style (Accession Number: 529-1882)

[didanagy]

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006)

dir. sofia coppola

[filmgifs]

MARIE ANTOINETTE — (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

[joanna-lannister]

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

[joanna-lannister]

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

[fashionsfromhistory]

Armchair

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené & Other Artisans

1788

This chair and its pair (W.7-1956) were almost certainly part of a suite made in 1788 for Queen Marie-Antoinette's cabinet de toilette at the Palace of Saint-Cloud -- the rest of the suite comprising two further armchairs (one at Versailles, the other sold at Sotheby's New York, 22 October 2005, lot78), a sultane (daybed without a back), a bergere armchair and a fire screen (all in the Metropolitan Museum; inv. no. 41.205.1-3a,b), and a footstool (untraced). The frames were made by the joiner (menuisier) Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (1748–1803), carved by an unidentified carver, and painted and gilded by the painter-gilder (peintre-doreur) Louis-François Chatard (c. 1749–1819), who eventually delivered the suite to Saint Cloud. The suite is recorded in an inventory of Saint Cloud taken in 1789. At the top of this chair is carved the monogram MA for Marie-Antoinette, queen to Louis XVI of France. It was probably part of a suite delivered in 1788 to the Château de Saint-Cloud, Sene supplied similar suites of chairs to Versailles and the Tuileries. The armchair bears all the hallmarks of neoclassical style, popular in France after 1775, with its straight, tapering legs and decorative elements which include classical columns with Ionic capitals and laurel and acanthus leaf motifs.

Currently on view at the Victoria & Albert South Kensington exhibit Marie Antoinette Style (Accession Number: W.6&2-1956)

See more about the conservation of these chairs here: The Conservation of Marie Antoinette's Chair