show me how to struggle gracefully

let the scaffolding inside of me be strong enough to hold this tired body up once more

[history-of-fashion]

1800 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Varvara Ladomirskaya, later Naryshkina

(Columbus Museum of Art)

[history-of-fashion]

1802-1805 François Gérard - Portrat of Juliette Récamier, née Bernard

(Carnavalet Museum)

[history-of-fashion]

1805 Francisco de Goya - Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate

(National Gallery of Ireland)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Dress, Possibly for Mourning

c.1820

British

The MET (Object Number: 13.49.27)

[eggplantgifs]

Kaoruko Wada: Titanic » 2025 Junior World Championships

[cloudyfacewithjam]

Happy Hadestown West End cast recording release day!!!

[kvothes]

so true

[zapatism]

most unstable girl you know: i need to get a masters degree

[dearreader-archive]

i’m going to go lie flat on some train tracks

[ashstfu]

no rizz. just insane music taste & a peculiar amount of knowledge about very niche topics and historic events

[alexiostheweirdovampire]

My favorite words are Fun Fact and Did you know

[raininyourblackeyes]

On today's episode of what figure skating is actually about:

[fashionsfromhistory]

Ensemble

c.1855

American or European

The MET (Accession Number: 1992.31.2a–c)

[escuerzoresucitado]

"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice."

Edward W. Said, Orientalism.

[praisedstargirl]

[nico-is-a-corn-plant]

On my knees begging for a west end hadestown album

[mysteriouseggsbenedict]

I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind

[lancernolancing]

adam's reaction to making the podium