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Title: Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1864-1932) Artist: John Singer Sargent (American [active in England], 1856-1925) Date: 1892 Genre: portraiture Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 127 cm (50 in) high x 101 cm (39.8 in) wide Location: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Exhibited at the Royal Academy the year after its completion, this painting was instrumental in winning John Singer Sargent the position of the UK's premier high society portraitist.

The subject of the painting is Gertrude Vernon, an Englishwoman who in 1889 had married Sir Andrew Agnew, Baronet of Lochnaw Castle. Singer Sargent depicted Lady Agnew in three-quarters view, wearing a white gown with a mauve sash and backed by a wall of blue silk. Her portrait's fame made Lady Agnew a prominent figure in British society, although her later years would be marred by ill health and financial difficulties.

Photo credit: National Galleries of Scotland

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Tangled (2010) dir. Nathan Greno and Byron Howard

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"Ashamed of his monstrous form, the Beast concealed himself inside his castle with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first year. If he could learn to love another and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?" BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)

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ANASTASIA (1997)

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The Secret Garden (1993)

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i think of this ProZD video constantly its always so fucking funny

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So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon

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#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

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Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

sleepymccoy

@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally

Source (non Aboriginal)

And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history

Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)

chaotic-archaeologist

This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.

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My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.

The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.

jinkohhh

as a gilgar gunditj woman, i was not expecting to see my culture on my dash.

thank you for spreading our words and treating our culture with respect.

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video description: looping animated art in an art nouveau inspired style. It shows a nude woman standing in a keyhole shaped frame. Behind their head is a large snowflake. The woman bends down and picks up snow like a piece of cloth, while raising she turns, so now she is with her back to the viewer, then turns again with the cloth around her shoulders. The cloth is almost transparent and floor long. The wind picks up and blows her hair and the cloth forward, then the cloth seems to disintegrate and turn into snow flakes starting at the bottom till she is again completly nude. end video description

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huge fan of when cats reach out and touch each other with disrespectful intent

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I LOVE white on white violence

juliedillon

A watercolor painting of a swimmer encoutering some sapphic mermaids, edited slightly for tumblr. (The titty-out version is over on my bluesky at juliedillon.bsky.social )

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a deeply underrated part of the gay taylor swift conspiracy theories is that if they're right and she really has spent over a decade sending subliminal messages based on minute details for people to decode then she's uuuuuh. I mean she's insane. she's jigsaw. she's the riddler. her dad bought her career because if she didn't have music to distract her she would have started building deathtraps.