Much Ado About Nothing New

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[bestiolin]

ekayyne

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry wr. c. June 1925, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. III: 1925-1930

[davidhudson]

Happy 67th, Emma Thompson.

1995.

[gusvanscant]

'In the Mood for Love' (dir. by Wong Kar-wai) [2000]

[littlemissssunshineee]

If you ever feel like you don’t matter just know there’s a tumblr mutual who thinks about you when they hear a certain band, see a certain color, show, book, or even just see a post that reminds them of something you might like even though they’re across the world from you

[petaltexturedskies]

No one ever gets tired of the moon. Goddess that she is by dower of her eternal beauty, she is a true woman by her tact — knows the charm of being seldom seen, of coming by surprise and of staying but a little while; never wears the same dress two nights running, nor all night the same way, commends herself to the matter of fact people by her usefulness, and makes her usefulness adored by poets, artists and all lovers in all lands; lends herself to every symbolism and to every emblem: is Diana's bow and Venus's mirror and Mary's throne; is a sickle, a scarf, an eyebrow, his or her face, as looked at by her or by him; is the madman's hell, the poet's heaven, the baby's toy, the philosopher's study; and, while her admirers follow her footsteps and hang on her lovely looks, she knows how to keep her woman's secret — her other side unguessed and guessable.

Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works

[dalyblue]

Is IA? Or was part of the original promotion at some point?

[ashstfu]

my god, i crave slowness. deliberate living. conversations that last entire afternoons.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Benedick constantly: anyway Beatrice, whom I hate and absolutely don't want to talk about ever, she said...

[backjustforberena]

EVE BEST- Nurse Jackie: Behind the Scenes - "All About Eve"

[lewerta]

Morning light over Fuji

Photo by Riki Shinagawa

[artistprovocateur]

Jean Alfred Marioton, French (1864–1903)

Studies of Figures Nº 25 (1905)

[mariacallous]

“She speaks in prose for most of the play. One always has to find reasons why a character speaks in prose or in verse, and it seems to me that, for Beatrice, prose lends itself to running rings round her meaning, to spontaneity and to dodging the bullet. It felt to me as though she was both wanting to be found out, and absolutely loath to be found out, at the same time. Her jokes are a brilliant mask and also a trap.”

— Harriet Walter, Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare’s Roles for Women

[silkandsteel]

This makes sense.

[feytouched]

cannot stop thinking abt the paris review’s essay series on the history of significance of certain colours, hue’s hue:

Periwinkle, the Color of Poison, Modernism, and Dusk

Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe

Marian Blue, the Color of Angels, Virgins, and Other Untouchable Things

Incarnadine, the Bloody Red of Fashionable Cosmetics and Shakespearean Poetics

Jonquil, the Light Yellow of Early Flowers, Mad Painters, and Dust Bowl–Era Pottery

Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death

Lilac, the Color of Half Mourning, Doomed Hotels, and Fashionable Feelings

Hooker’s Green: The Color of Apple Trees and Envy

Blaze Orange, the Color of Fear, Warnings, and the Artificial

Chartreuse, the Color of Elixirs, Flappers, and Alternate Realities

Living Coral, the Brutal Hue of Climate Change and Brand New iPhones

Mustard, the Color of Millennial Candidates, Problematic Lattes, and Aboriginal Paintings

Russet, the Color of Peasants, Fox Fur, and Penance

Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence

[feytouched]

But Wait, There’s More! as i found out after making the initial post, there are a few other colours katy kelleher also covered in other outlets: payne’s gray, haint blue, rose madder, falu red, glaucous, fuchsia, caput mortuum, prussian blue, gamboge, celadon, and puce.

also shoutout to her other series, the ugly history of beautiful things, which talks about: lockets, angora, perfume, pearls, mirrors, and orchids.

[bestiolin]

yove.lour.self

[nixscriptum]