Hannibals,Hamilcars!

Spiriti questi? Personae? Tangibility by no means atasal but the crystal can be weighed in the hand and passing with the sphere:Thetis,Maya,Αφροδιτη, no overstroke no dolphin faster in moving

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[dangertoozmanykids101]

For those of y'all who do have access to follow a TikTok link. Here's the video!!

[d4rm4nd4]

[cleverthylacine]

I love this but I’d like to let y’all know a few things that I know because I’m old. They make this story even WORSE.

The old man in Ohio didn’t invent Victoria’s Secret. He bought it from someone else--he bought a lot of his brands from other people. 

Victoria’s Secret first opened in 1977.  In Palo Alto, California. At that time I lived in West Virginia and I was 13, but I knew about it because they ran tiny, tasteful ads in Ms. -- the magazine for 70s feminists. The ads were black and white, with no pictures of uncovered women in them.

Roy Raymond and his wife Gaye opened the store with their own savings.  The short version of the story is here: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Raymond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%27s_Secret

and I’m including it because that’s where I learned a lot of this.  Because I was a child when Victoria’s Secret was actually good, but when all this stuff about Lex Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein the pedophile’s BFF, came out, I knew I couldn’t be crazy for remembering that Victoria’s Secret used to be different.

The Raymonds opened the store because Roy Raymond wanted to buy his wife some nice lingerie but it was a totally embarrassing experience. You either went to the ladies’ section of the department store, which at that time was not at all welcoming to dudes, or you went to a sex shop, and a lot of the stuff at the sex shop was cheap and ugly.  There was also Frederick’s of Hollywood and they had a catalog you could order by mail or phone from but the emphasis there was also on being racy and provocatively sexy.

So they named the store Victoria’s Secret to emphasise that you wear lingerie under your other clothing, or in private with people you love, and it’s an intimate thing. And the decor of the stores was very tasteful.

Now I turned 18 in 1982, and that was the year that Wexner bought Victoria’s Secret, but the Raymonds continued to run it for a while.  Raymond said once that he when he met Wexner it felt like he was talking to the devil, and I believe it. This guy was hanging out with Epstein playing his reindeer games FFS.

But sometime in the 80s I started to shop at Victoria’s Secret a lot and it was before they really started changing it. At that time it was really very nice. It was done up like a Victorian drawing room, things were displayed on mannequins, things were kept in drawers and there was dark wood paneling and classical music playing and they would go and fetch you stuff.  

You could NOT be seen inside the store from outside. They generally managed it so the customers didn’t have to see much of each other unless they came in together.

They had started sending out catalogues showing the lingerie on models at about that time, but nothing like the ones they have now. It was all tasteful, there was an actual effort to make you think about the Victorian era.

They made these nightgowns/robes called the Canterbury and I actually wore them as dresses.  I had different colours and I’d layer them Pink House Style over each other--the nightgown was sleeveless with a placket, the gown had sleeves and buttoned all the way up and down so you could leave it open to show off the underlayer, and I would buy them in coordinating prints and colours, and they were not, uh, what men generally think of as sexy at all.  It was a very proto-Lolita look. I could’ve fit a petti under them but I didn’t.

They had lace and pintucks and ribbons and were gorgeous.  I don’t know when VS stopped selling them but I had them all thru the 80s and I bought panties there too.  I’ve always been a weird bra size so no bras there, but.

Back then I fuckin loved Victoria’s Secret.  A lot of their stuff looked Pink Housey back then tbh.

I stopped shopping there in the 1990s because of a lot of reasons. That was when Wexner really started rebranding (ruining) the shops and the brand. It was a tough time for me, I’d just gone no contact with my mom and I was broke a lot, I had a terrible marriage, et cetera, ad nauseam.

But I’d go back in every now and again and the soft pastels and the cottons were becoming a smaller and smaller part of the offerings and they modernised their image and they stopped making the stuff that I wanted to buy. The windows were bigger, the stores went from dark wood panelling to whiter and airier, they started selling gym clothes and miracle bras and the emphasis on being hot and sexy and attractive to men came along and got dialed up to 11.

I was completely grossed out in 2002 when they started doing the PINK line, which according to one of the documentaries on Epstein, was his influence--it was designed to recruit teens and tweens into the market for their stuff.  I just knew that I did not go to Victoria’s Secret to buy fuckin’ sweatpants, and I stopped shopping there; the miracle bra did sound kinda cool, but they sure’s fuck didn’t make it in a 38G.

The original Victoria was actually kinda Victorian, and feminist magazines took their ads for their mail order catalogues!

But Les Wexner (while saying he wanted to emphasise the female customer more, LMAO) changed it from a place where you could go to get really luscious cotton and lace (and silky polyester too, but with a nice feel to it) nightgowns and underwear and gowns that were pretty and opaque and covered enough to be worn as dresses in the day time, in a beautiful environment, to another freaking mall shop, and another place that made girls and women of all ages, sizes and assigned genders at birth feel like there was something wrong with them that miracle bras and pushup panties could fix.

The couple that opened the place got divorced. The guy who sold the business to Wexner committed suicide in 1993 by jumping off the golden gate bridge because none of his other businesses succeeded. 

And now everyone who remembers when Victoria’s Secret was actually nice is old. :(

[adaed5]

Damn, that addition. This makes me really sad and makes me love the tiktok even more.

[cleverthylacine]

Thanks. That’s why I said it.  I want people to know that that piece of shit bought up something that was fun and pretty and happy and turned it into this unholy mess.

I really miss those Canterbury gowns and robes. You can get stuff like that from Eileen West now, but it’s much more expensive, they’re nearly all floor-length, and the colours and prints aren’t all in a family of designs you can mix and match.  It was just a really nice shop that I enjoyed a lot and it’s been turned into a a shitshow, and I’m sorry that those of you who are the age I was when I loved and enjoyed it can’t experience it the way that I did.

Wexner and Epstein can burn in hell.

[elfwreck]

Catalogs #24: Victoria's Secret 1982

An, exploration of 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s pop culture, featuring lots of scans, movie reviews, books, magazines, vintage fashion and nostal

1982 catalog - before the change in ownership in 1985.

[cleverthylacine]

Perfect addition!  <3

[vasilispaneuropean]

Fuck this shit man, you shouldn’t eat processed carbs for your health and not for fucking Victoria’s Secret.God I hate this generation so much

[artist-sargent]

Mrs. George Batten (Mabel Veronica Hatch), 1897, John Singer Sargent

Size: 43.2x88.9 cm Medium: oil, canvas

[romanticism-art]

Heroine Bobolina with hunters breaks under a hail of shots on a boat through the Turkish fleet, 1880, Ivan Aivazovski

[artist-rembrandt]

Man in a Golden Helmet via Rembrandt Van Rijn

Size: 86x70.5 cm Medium: oil

[vasilispaneuropean]

MY TOP 207 ALBUMS FOR 2015

207) Tomato Dodgers - “Ketchup Chemtrails”

206) Chon - “Grow”

205) Nappy Roots - “The 40 Akerz Project”

204) Killa Tay - “Eargasms pt1 & 2″

203) Equipto & Otayo Dubb - “Baby Steps”

202) Berner & The Jacka - “Drought Season pt.3″

201) Caspian - “Dust & Disquiet”

200) Above Them - “Water Lane”

199) Marais / Aussenseiter - “Split”

198) Wiki - “Lil Me”

197) SeaKings - “Dregs”

196) Time Spent Driving - “Passed & Presence”

195) Mandala - “Valley People”

194) Radkey - “Dark Black Makeup”

193) Soccer Team - “Real Lessons on Cynicism”

192) Subjects/Rulers - “ST”

191) Throwers - “Loss”

190) Ravin - “Ravin II”

189) Bilal - “In Another Life”

188) Human Potential - “How to get where you want to go”

187) Brother/Ghost - “Buried”

186) Straya - “Healthy Steps”

185) We Had A Deal - “Counting Leaves”

184) Truman - “Ikebana”

183) Dirt Nasty & Smoov-E - “Breakfast in Bed”

182) Trophy Lungs - “Day Jobs”

181) Sleeper Wave - “S/T”

180) Zs - Xe

179) Not Like Igor - “This is just to say”

178) Sleep Kit - “II”

177) Our First Brains - “What You Were”

176) Greyscale - “Limn Everything”

175) Struckout - “What you Deserve”

174) Tenement - “Predatory Headlights”

173) King Chip - “Clevelafornia”

172) Le1f - “Riot Boi”

171) Fiesta Bizarra - “Sadness Sorrow Imathgination”

170) Ravin - “S/T” 

169) Brooks Was Here - “III”

168) Krayzie Bone - “Chasing the Devil”

167) Big K.R.I.T. - “All my Life”

166) Pastor Troy - “War In ATL”

165) Raury - “All we need”

164) Cheatahs - “Mythologies”

163) Bread Pilot - “S/T”

162) Messy Marv - “The money in the bitch purse”

161) Apollo Brown - “Grandeur”

160) Daz Dillinger - “Who ride wit us vol.6″

159) Nefaste - “Première Pas”

158) Mac Miller - “Good A.M.”

157) Reigning Champion - “Disposer Poems”

156) Marcus D - “The Lone Wolf LP”

155) Soul Structure - “The Body of Man”

154) Gatherers - “Quiet World”

153) Foreign Tongues - “Fragile, as said before”

152) Solip - “Lack”

151) C-Bo - “The Mobfather 2″

150) Spice 1 - “Haterz Nightmare”

149) Eli MC - “Trace d’Opium”

148) Yearbooks - “Inside”

147) Mark Ronson - “Uptown Special”

146) Gulfer - “What Gives”

145) Fist Benders - “S/T”

144) When All We Love is Lost - “Merely a Formality”

143) Dizzy Wright - “The Growing Process”

142) Deathdealer. - “Volume One”

141) Osoluna - “S/T”

140) Refused - “Freedom”

139) Oso Oso - “Real Stories of True People Who Looked Like Monsters”

138) Denzel Curry - “32zel / Planet Shrooms”

137) Bosse-De-Nage - “All Fours”

136) Funeral For A Friend - “Chapter and Verse”

135) Saintseneca - “Such Things”

134) High Dive - “New Teeth”

133) Nayru - “This Disease of a Language”

132) Murs & 9th Wonder - “Brighter Daze”

131) Milo - “So the Flies don’t Come”

130) Nacho Picasso - “Blunt Raps 2″

129) Father John Misty - “I love you honeybear”

128) HEALTH - “Death Magic”

127) Sleater-Kinney - “No Cities To Love”

126) The Tallest Man On Earth - “Dark bird is home”

125) Beach House - “Depression Cherry”

124) Estates - “It’s Great To Be Alone”

123) The Obsessives - “Heck No, Nancy”

122) Scallops Hotel - “Plain Speaking”

121) Daisyhead - “ The smallest light”

120) Julien Baker - “Sprained Ankle”

119) Lil’ Ugly Mane - “Oblivion Access”

118) LNDN DRGS - “Aktive”

117) Saintly Rows - “Heaven in the hollow”

116) Dr. Yen Lo - “Days with Dr. Yen Lo”

115) Pusha T - “ King Push (Darkest before Dawn: The Prelude)

114) Heems - “Eat Pray Thug”

113) Falling Up - “S/T”

112) Ringo Deathstarr - “Pure Mood”

111) Freddie Gibbs - “The Shadow of A Doubt”

110) Puff Daddy & The Family - “MMM”

109) Kirk Knight - “Late Knight Special”

108) State Champs - “Around The World and Back”

107) Spencer Radcliffe - “Looking In”

106) Silversun Pickups - “Better Nature”

105) Big Grams - “S/T”

104) Paul Wall - “Slab God”

103) Lydia - “Run Wild”

102) Protomartyr - “Agent Intellect”

101) Ought - “Sun Coming Down”

100) Desaparecidos - “Payola”

99) Tomorrow, St.Peter - “S/T”

98) Nat Birchall - “ Invocations”

97) Nai Harvest - “Hairball”

96) Annabel - “Having it all”

95) Cavalcades - “Lights Begin To Dance”

94) Whenskiesaregray - “S/T”

93) Make Do And Mend - “ Don’t Be Long”

92) Gallows - “Desolation Sounds”

91) The Maine - “American Candy”

90) Nacho Picasso x BSBD - “Stoned & Dethroned”

89) Diamond Youth - “Nothing Matters”

88) You’ll Live - “Moving Past this”

87) Teen Daze - “Morning World”

86) Neck Deep - “Life’s not out to get you”

85) The Underachievers - “Evermore: The art of duality”

84) Baio - “The Names”

83) I Don’t Want to Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - “Things are getting better”

82) Pentimento - “I, No Longer”

81) Semi Hendrix - “Breakfast at Banksy’s”

80) MED, Blu & Madlib - “Bad Neighbor”

79) Ritual - “S/T”

78) Handguns - “Disenchanted”

77)  Rae Sremmurd - “Sremmlife”

76) Jank - “Awkward pop songs”

75) Petal - “Shame”

74) Godspeed! You Black Emperor - “Asunder, Sweet and Other distress” 

73) Baroness - “Purple”

72) Everything Everything - “Get to Heaven”

71) Injury Reserve - “Live From Dentist’s Office”

70) Careless - “I Wish You Away”

69) Winter Break - “S/T”

68) As Gideon Weeps - “Little Life, Little Death”

67) Prurient - “Frozen Niagara Falls”

66) Delta Sleep - “Twin Galaxies”

65) Ostraca - “Deathless”

64) Hindsights - “Cold Walls Cloudy Eyes”

63) Wavves / Cloud Nothings - “ No Life For Me”

62) Killah Priest - “Planet of The Gods”

61) The Sidekicks - “Runners”

60) Adrian Younge & Ghostface Killah - “12 reasons to die”

59) Chelsea Wolfe - “Abyss”

58) Defeater - “Abandoned”

57) Neon Indian - “Vega Intl Night School”

56) Donovan Wolfington - “How to treat the ones you love”

55) The Game - “The Documentary 2/2.5″

54) Roots Manuva - “Bleeds”

53) DVS - “DVTV”

52) Future - “DS2″

51)Colleen Green - “I Want To Grow Up”

50) Jeff Rosenstock - “We Cool?”

49) Kamasi Washington - “The Epic”

48) Billy Woods - “Today I Wrote Nothing”

47) The Wonder Years - “No Closer To Heaven”

46) Foxes - “Organic Vessels”

45) Redman - “Mudface”

44) Ghost Of A Dead Hummingbird - “Sin Forma”

43) Birds In Row - “Personal War”

42) Rolo Tomassi - “Grievances”

41) Camera Shy - “S/T”

40) The Armed - “Untitled”

39) Walleater - “I/II”

38) The Weeknd - “The beauty behind madness”

37) Motion City Soundtrack - “Panic Stations”

36) Lana Del Rey - “Honeymoon”

35) Wavves - “V”

34) Coheed and Cambria - “The Color Before The Sun”

33) Viet Cong - “Viet Cong”

32) Cloakroom - “Further Out”

31) Ceremony - “The L Shaped Man”

30) Modest Mouse - “Strangers To Ourselves”

29) Frank Turner - “Positive Songs For Negative People”

28) Laura Stevenson - “Cocksure”

27) Beach Slang - “The things we do to find people who feel like us”

26) Self Defense Family - “Heaven Is Earth”

25) Coma Regalia - “Ours Is The Cause Most Noble”

24) Cassus - “This Is Dead Art; This is Dead Time; But We May Still Live Yet”

23) Gleemer - “Moving Away”

22) Clarence Clarity - “NO NOW”

21) WESTKUST - “Last Forever”

20) Deafheaven - “New Bermuda”

19) Man Overboard - “Heavy Love”

18) Citizen - “Everybody is going to heaven”

17) The World Is A Beautiful Place And I am no Longer Afraid to Die - “Harmlessness”

16) Dance Gavin Dance- “Instant Gratification”

15) Pet symmetry - “Pets Hounds”

14) Title Fight - “Hyperview”

13) Joey Bada$$ - “Bada$$”

12) Kurt VIle - “B’lieve I’m Going Down”

11) Sun Kil Moon - “Universal themes”

10) The Alchemist And Oh No present - “Welcome to Los Santos”

9) Foals - “What went down”

8) Tame Impala - “Currents”

7) Loma Prieta - “Self Portrait”

6) The Saddest Landscape - “Darkness Forgives”

5) The Dear Hunter - “Act IV: Rebirth on Reprise”

4) Foxing - “ Dealer”

3) Young Jesus - “Grow/Decompose”

2) Dogs on Acid - “S/T”

1) Fidlar - “TOO” 

 MY TOP 22 EPS OF 2015

22) Ordinary People - “Nothing New”

21) Letters To Catalonia - “demo”

20) If Only There Were no Other People In The World / Weak. - “split”

19) Wild Pink - “Good Life”

18) O’God The White Whale - “Never Knows Best”

17) Your Old Droog - “Nicest”

16) Ghost Cat / Always Wanted War - “Split”

15) Android 18 - “Six”

14) Northernmost - “Pinedale”

13) I’m Glad it’s you - “daydreams”

12) Use Big Words - “Gently”

11) Sabonis - “S/T”

10) Touche Amore / Self Defense Family - “Self Love”

9) GDP / The Front Bottoms - “split”

8) If Only There Were no Other People In The World / Weak. - “split” The Devil Wears Prada - “Space”

7) The Menagerie - “I Just Want To Be Happy Again” 

6) WATERMEDOWN - “somewhere sleepless”

5) Suis La Lune - “Distance/Closure”

4) Prince Daddy & The Hyena - “Adult Summers”

3) Never Young - “S/T”

2) Octaves / Caravels - “Split”

1) All Get Out - “Movement”

[whichisreallygood]

[vasilispaneuropean]

Stream: Joanna Newsom's new album Divers

Neo-folk songwriter returns with her first LP in five years.

I spent the last four days just listening to Joanna Newsom’s new album Divers.I have to say that i waited for a long time for her to put some new music out.Divers really pays off.The first single of her new album “Sapokanikan” is totally amazing and well balanced with the harp and everything.But my personal favorite was definitely “Leaving the City”.One of my favorite 2015 albums for sure.

 4,8/5

[deathandmysticism]

How to photograph a cadaver before an autopsy, Paris, early 20th century

[witchywonderworks]

The entire Book of Kells is now viewable online! 

Thank you to Trinity College in Dublin, for what must have been a huge amount of work. 

[vasilispaneuropean]

Various Artists - In Utero, In Tribute, In Entirety, by Robotic Empire

12 track album

This is the definition of a perfect Nirvana cover album.Robotic empire had gathered some crazy bands on this one (Pygmy Lush,Circa Survive,Thursday,Thou,Young Widows,Ceremony,Daughters,Whirr etc).All of these covers are masterpieces and they succeed to reincarnate through each song, the Kurt Cobain spirit.Most of these artists seem to have a special connection with Nirvana and if you are kind of familiar with the bands ,you can tell that Nirvana was a main influence for’em (just check out what circa survive did with “scentless apprentice”)

5/5 must listen

[memewhore]

[computasputin]

lol same

[aeschereisdead]

Gold medallion of the Emperor Justinian I. Made in Beirut. 6th century.

[vasilispaneuropean]

La guerra dei trent'anni, by Chambers

8 track album

CHAMBERS are a post hardcore band from Italy.They sing in Italian.I first heard them 3 years ago, on their second effort “La mano sinistra”.I was really impressed and although i dont speak italian ,i felt a connection with this album.On their newest effort “La guerra dei trent’anni” i listen to a completely different style than “la mano sinistra”.Their new album is more technical but lacks in the spontaneity that the mano sinistra had to offer.Overall i find it kind of boring and flat, but  hey, maybe thats just me.I think it deserves a listen especially the songs:”Perdiamo” & “In Viaggio”

2,75/5

[vasilispaneuropean]

Sad