Wake Up, #63

I swear to thee; We shall fly beyond this isle… the corners of the world our mere prologue. I’ll seek to make thy happiness so great that e’en the name of liberty’s forgot.

[probuccalfat]

be sincere and true to yourself or suffer soul death you don’t have any other choices

[forsapphics]

Ce fut dans un chaud crépuscule (Two Women Kissing in Nature) (1903)

from "Le Poison Des Pierreries" illustrated by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859 - 1938)

[yesterdaysprint]

The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907

[goatsandgangsters]

an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

[diana-andraste]

Theda Bara in lost film The Devil's Daughter, 1915

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[yesterdaysprint]

The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, October 18, 1916

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Florence Harrison, table of contents illustrations for Christina Rossetti: Poems (1910)

via internet archive

[godstiel]

i blog for girls who are umm relentlessly tormented. By the misery

[alittlewoozyhere]

My great grandma, Violet Leib. It runs in the family.

[mintyfresh2763]

It's so strange to me how I went absolutely feral over the His Dark Materials trilogy back in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL when I was TEN YEARS OLD and now years later im wasting my time scrolling on Tumblr

What happened

[sneakersformen]

[beachguurl]

[vexheart]

[catchymemes]

A Knights Dress by Frieda Lepold ⚔️

[goth-queen]

[thegikitiki]

Behold the 1966 "Power Ranger" aesthetic before it was cool. Exercise in the sixties looks suspiciously like modern interpretative dance or a very intense audition for a laundry detergent commercial. If you aren't wearing a head-to-toe pink spandex bodysuit while lunging at a beach ball, are you even trying to stay fit? It’s peak "glamour-robics."

Source: Family Circle - Diet & Exercise Guide, 1966.

[rosieandthemoon]

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn