The Lilac Grove

Faeries, old movies, cozy books, and queer subtext. They/he, 40s.

[anitapallenberg]

Swann in Love / Un amour de Swann (1984) | Dir. Volker Schlöndorff

[mournfulroses]

Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Turn: The Journal of an Artist originally published in 1982

[lesbile]

[vanessagillings]

[bygone-hollywood]

Carole Lombard

[clarabowlover]

By William E. Thomas (1928)

[sociolinguo]

In far northern Maine, there's a new push to preserve Acadian French before it fades away

A local French teacher brought about a dozen of her counterparts to the St. John River Valley this summer for a weeklong immersion in Acadia

"In northern Maine's St. John River Valley, many families trace their lineage back to the Acadians, members of a French ethnic group who arrived in the late 1700s after the British banished them from what are now the eastern Canadian provinces.

But a living piece of that lineage — Acadian French — is fading as many fluent speakers grow older. One high school French teacher from Fort Fairfield, however, is racing to preserve the language for future generations."

[connerys]

Love in the Afternoon (1957) dir. Billy Wilder

[filmgifs]

Sidney Poitier & Diahann Carroll in Paris Blues (1961)

[gatabella]

Marlene Dietrich, 1935

[princessnamora]

Eartha Kitt as Anna Lucasta in Anna Lucasta (1958)

[dailyanimatedgifs]

Autumn was now upon them. A time of year when raccoons need to find plenty of food, so they can store ample fat and grow long fluffy coats for the coming winter.

POM POKO 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ 1994 | dir. Isao Takahata

[naldibutnice]

Tallulah Bankhead by Dorothy Wilding

[keyfili]

𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤. 𝔄𝔫𝔡 ℑ 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔦𝔱 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔶𝔬𝔲. THE GREEN KNIGHT 2021 • dir. David Lowery

[snowbairdd]

- And then the summer night smiled for the third time. - For the sad, the depressed, the sleepless, the confused, the frightened, the lonely.

SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (1955) dir. Ingmar Bergman

[genderkoolaid]

as a lover of historical fiction and art about women and horny art and silly art i am so so into this premise. everyone can't stop being like "ohh his is dick made of wood too" it's magic dumbass. i am obsessed with how this sounds like an obscure medieval european folk tale. peter dinklage plays a basketmaker with the power to bring life to inanimate objects for an spinste's sexual pleasure. suspend your disbelief about his cock and have a little fun

[genderkoolaid]

and the leading lady is played by a woman whose gay man. perfect movie perhaps

[genderkoolaid]

for those who haven't seen the trailer.

[genderkoolaid]

#I assume his dick is ribbed for her pleasure and well-lacquered#like yes I assume the wicker guy who is ostentatiously 100% wicker everywhere we can see also has a wicker dick#I also assume a basket-making wizard who can make a whole-ass articulated dude out of wicker in one month#while *also* keeping up with his bill-paying day-job baskets#knows how to make a dick where none of the pokery is anywhere near the jiggery#sorry to everyone who's only seen shitty big-box store baskets that are made out of spite and neoliberalism#his dong is wicker and also perfectly fit for purpose#wicker? I hardly knew her! etc.

beautiful + true tags from @tyrannosaurus-trainwreck

[infinitemarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Eve Arnold, 1955.

[7pleiades7]

Nymphs of Nysa (Nymphes de Nysa) (1900) by Julius LeBlanc Stewart (American, 1855 – 1919), oil on canvas, 143 cm (56.2 in) x 115 cm (45.2 in), Musée d'Orsay, Paris