Born in another star

Come play with me.

[beccaxwrites]

Message me to have access to 465 gifs of Daniela Nieves in Vampire Academy S1 Ep 1&2. Daniela is Venezuelan. Please cast her correctly. All of these gifs were made by me. You are free to use them as long as you do not claim them as your own. Please do not add to other gif hunts. I do not have a problem if you use them in crackships, but you have to ask for my permission first and give me credit.  Like or reblog if you save or use any of them.

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[katharinepar]

January 1511 at Westminster: Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon celebrate the birth of Prince Henry.

‘This, however, was the moment Catherine had been waiting for. From her earliest days she had been told that her appointed destiny was to bring England and Spain together through marriage and blood. The guarantee of all those laboriously crafted and bitterly discussed treaties – and of her own future – lay in her womb. As the year turned from 1510 to 1511 and the court prepared for New Year’s Day, she laboured to bring the whole business to fruition. By 1.30 a.m. it was all done. Catherine had a son. England had an heir.’ – G. Tremlett, Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII.

[gifshistorical]

Sarah Bolger as Mary Tudor | The Tudors 4.06

[patrick-stewart]

Dev Patel as Gawain THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021)

[muvliw]

LEE HOJUNG as YOON SOL in NEVERTHELESS, Ep.4

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Chinese Paradise-flycatcher /Terpsiphone incei in dongzhai 董寨, henan ◇ photo by 仇绍强

[laurens-german]

“Peter. You won’t forget me, will you?” Me? Forget? Never.

Jeremy Sumpter and Rachel Hurd-Wood as Peter Pan and Wendy in PETER PAN (2003) dir. P. J. Hogan

[mydaylight]

During Deng Sui’s sixteen-year reign, her relatives never threatened the rule of the imperial family, a testament to her skill and talent. She ruled the country cautiously and attentively. She so loved the people that she could not sleep when there was a famine, and she cut the palace budget as a means of providing relief. She was enlightened in her appointment of officials, emphasizing that outspoken, able, and virtuous men who had a good understanding of politics and history should be recruited. The Du Gen affair may be seen as a rare deviation from this course, presumably because it directly threatened her right to rule. Her brother Deng Zhi recommended talented and virtuous men such as He Xi, Yang Qin, Li He, and Tao Dun to the court and recruited as advisers to the empress dowager Yang Zhen, Zhu Chong, and Chen Chan. The empress dowager placed a high value on education for the imperial family, establishing a school for all members, male and female, over the age of five. She was personally involved in the school, acting as invigilator during examinations. The empress dowager in her turn had received lessons on the Confucian classics, astronomy, and mathematics from the female scholar Ban Zhao from the time she entered the palace. She selected over fifty Confucian scholars and Erudites to proofread books in the Eastern Library, and ordered eunuchs to study the Confucian classics in the library so that they would be able to teach the palace women. She was herself productive; eighteen pieces of her works were gathered together in a collection after her death.

Source: Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Stefanowska, A.D.; Wiles, Sue. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E. - 618 C.E (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications)

[overdose-art]

Alphonse Mucha. Painting, Poetry, Music & Dance (1898)

[redstriinged]

Feng Jiu being Highkey Unimpressed ™ by Her Suitors

[peonypavillion]

Dancers

by ENOFNO

[artificial-strawberry]

the thing i love about yoon se-ri and ri jeong-hyeok, is that by the end of the series, they were both well off alone.

se-ri was happy to be back to her own life, she was making friends with her employees, she had a good relationship with her mother and a (slightly) better one with her not-as-much-of-an-asshole-as-you-could’ve-been brother, and she was being healthy and just generally enjoying most of her life.

jeong-hyeok was finally doing what he actually wanted to do and what he loved—playing the piano. he had a closer relationship with the other guys and his neighbors, he was smiling more and caring about his own health and happiness as well as those close to him. he was no longer a part of a loveless engagement and i assume his relationship with his parents also changed for the better as a result of what all of them had to go through.

they both built lives outside of each other and were happy. they weren’t two parts of a broken necklace that necessarily needed the other piece to function.

what i love about them is that they wanted each other. they led relatively great lives by the end of the series and had grown into happy and confident people, but they still wanted each other in their lives. they were already great as individuals, but they knew that together they would only make each other better.

i love that we saw them longing for each other, but not at the detriment of their own, individual lives.

[madhoshiyaan]

sanjay leela bhansali movies + reaction gifs

[anastasianikolaevnaromanova]

The death of Elizabeth I was the end of an era in England. It was also the end of a line that can be stretched back into the fourteenth century: the Boleyn women. The Boleyn family rose from humble origins to become one of the grandest in the land, counting two queens among its members. While the Boleyn men rose steadily through society and often found themselves in positions of trust and honour, it was the women of the family who were often the driving force behind their advancement. Never has there been a family as ambitious as the Boleyns, or who have achieved so much. The story of the Boleyn women is a story of family loyalty and of ambition. They were rarely simply wives and mothers; sometimes they made history.

The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femme Fatales Who Changed English History by Elizabeth Norton, 2013 (via historicwomendaily)

[bob-belcher]

[localbadgirl-deactivated2017121]

A few things:

01. Gypsy is a slur & there is no “positive” or “acceptable” way of using it if you aren’t Romani. It should not be part of your vocabulary – the same goes for the term “gypped”. If you want to talk about the slur censor it or simply call it “the g slur.”

02. Anti Romani racism exists everywhere and there is a slur for the us in every language. Gypsy is the slur used in the English language but there is also Zigan, Tigan, Cigan, Gitano, Zigeuner, etc. - a lot of them stem from the Greek word for “slave” and are considered even worse than the Gypsy slur. However all of them are still slurs and shouldn’t be used by you if you aren’t Romani.

03. Gypsy has never been anything other than a derogatory slur against Romani that has been screamed at us while we have been branded, enslaved, hunted down, murdered, put through a genocide and a holocaust, segregated and discriminated against. 

04. Romani is the proper name of the people that are being targeted by the G slur. Some people write it as Rromani which is also correct. The term Roma/Rroma can be used too, however not all Romani are Roma.

05. Romani and Romanian do not mean the same thing. Romani are the people that are being targeted by the G slur and we are brown people originally from India. Romanians are people from the European country Romania.

06. The official term for racism directed towards Romani is called “Antiziganism”, that term however is offensive since it includes the word “Zigan” which is a horrible slur against Romani. Please do not use that term and instead use “Anti-Romani racism”, “Anti-Romanism”, etc.

07. Anti-Romani racism is very extreme in Europe (segregation in housing, education and health care, forced sterilizations, evictions and demolition of settlements, police brutality, etc), which is why we even received the title of “Europe’s Most Hated”, but it’s not an exclusively European thing. Anti-Romani racism exists in America and Canada as well. (Canada even has an immigration ban on Romani.)

08. “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” does not display actual Romani people as far as I have heard so it does not represent Romani people/culture at all.

09. Your believes that Romani “don’t want to work”, “don’t want to send their children to school”, “steal children”, “are dirty”, “genetically prone to crime”, “are lazy”, etc. are nothing but racist stereotypes and left over Nazi propaganda. All of them are untrue as well. (Also: Romani would love to work and go to school but the extreme discrimination against us in the field of education makes that very hard. And the widely spread traditional anti-Romani attitudes and prejudices don’t make it any easier either.)

10. Stereotypes such as that all Romani women are “sexual temptresses” and promiscuous disregarding of age are obviously incorrect too. Virginity is actually considered important in Romani culture. Believing in those stereotypes is very harmful and dangerous as well because despite Romani being only a minority in most European countries we make up the highest % when it comes to sex trafficking victims.

11. Romani culture doesn’t have anything to do with witchcraft, wicca, paganism, etc. We didn’t create tarot, palm reading or crystal balls either. You can stop calling yourself a “Gypsy Witch” and faking Romani heritage now. The only reason why assumptions like that came to exist is because of racist believes and lies spread by the church. Our skills with medical herbs and palm reading were seen as “evidence of heresy” and from the 16th century onward we were outlawed, expelled and persecuted, culminating in the organized killing of our people. 

12. Fortune teller costumes are racist. Romani women have always been stereotyped as fortune tellers which is why the stereotypical image of a fortune teller is always linked with Romani women - dark skin, messy black hair, a big nose, a “weird” accent, a headscarf, big hoop earrings, gold coins added to clothes and an “untrustworthy/deceiving” nature, etc. (A lot of people even use the term “fortune teller” like a synonym for the G slur nowadays.) A person’s race/ethnicity is not a costume, so if you ever consider dressing up as a fortune teller chose something different. 

If you are Romani too please feel free to add things onto this list and please correct me if I made any mistakes.

[faersflower]

Re: 08.

In the UK [g slur] is conflated to also include the Pavee or “Irish Travellers.” Allegedly the show is exploiting those [g slur] rather than the Romani.

[thatsallfolks-blog]

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