HWÆT!

Kate, 20, currently spanning England and Scotland. Studying English at St Andrews. Fool of a Took.  

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Vintage women being badass. You’re welcome.

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Don’t fool yourself into thinking ladies were demure and silent in the past. 

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I would like more female characters being this open

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Our daily life has fallen among prosaic things and ignoble things, but our dreams remember the enchanted valleys.

W.B. Yeats, from Beltaine: The Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre (Routledge, 2012)

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René Magritte

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i have greensleeves stuck in my head but, like, the horrible otamatone version

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just in case anyones forgotten this absolute masterpiece

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What I love most about this is that you start it and you go “eh, it’s not THAT funny, they just sound like crumhorns really.”

AND THEN THE THIRD ONE COMES IN.

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Coming in 2018: Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (we’re beyond excited!!!) 

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/upcoming-exhibitions

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Monet’s house in Giverny, France. 🌿🌸

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Bassano del Grappa, Italy (by Antonio dalla Porta)

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Happy International Women’s Day!

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If I reblog anything worthwhile today, it’s this

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Throw away your little bedsocks and your Welsh wool knitted jacket, I will warm the sheets like an electric toaster, I will lie by your side like the Sunday roast. / I will knit you a wallet of forget-me-not blue, for the money to be comfy. I will warm your heart by the fire so that you can slip it under your vest when the shop is closed.

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood (via book-of-flights)

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Dude, are you okay? Totally!

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This section of a 15th-century Spanish floor has tiles reading speratens (have hope) and ne oblyer (do not forget).

Each tile also has a shield found on Tuscan coats of arms (the upside-down, black-and-white teardrop), suggesting it was made for an Italian patron. 

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But this, you will be nauseated to learn, is a tale of redemption. In about my 13th year, it so happened that a copy of Galahad at Blandings by PG Wodehouse entered my squalid universe, and things quickly began to change. From the very first sentence of my very first Wodehouse story, life appeared to grow somehow larger. There had always been height, depth, width and time, and in these prosaic dimensions I had hitherto snarled, cursed, and not washed my hair. But now, suddenly, there was Wodehouse, and the discovery seemed to make me gentler every day. By the middle of the fifth chapter I was able to use a knife and fork, and I like to think that I have made reasonable strides since.

Hugh Laurie, “Wodehouse Saved my Life”

The Daily Telegraph 5/27/99

(via gwinny3k)

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The tree of virtues, bearing leaves such as ‘Diligence’, ‘Mercy’ and ‘Reson’ (London, British Library, MS Additional 37049, f. 47r)