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fitsofgloom · 7 months
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"Think of the throned Queen before whom the shadowy Powers bowed and worship, for that is I. Think of the hideous, withered Thing thou sawest naked on the rock, and flee away, for that is I. Or keep me lovely, and adore, knowing all evil centred in my spirit, for that is I."
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stazjohnson · 9 months
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Indiana Jones and SHE pencil doodle.
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How to tell if you have been reading too many Victorian books:
If someone comes to you in distress/pain is your first thought just: We NeEd BrAnDy!!!🥃
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kekwcomics · 1 year
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THE THRILL OF HORROR (Taplinger., 1975)
Inside: stories by H Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson & the rest of the gang...
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blackswaneuroparedux · 10 months
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And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.
H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
She Who Must Be Obeyed.
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minervadashwood · 6 months
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How often indeed has a reader been annoyed after purchasing a manual on some sport or amusement in which he is interested— let us say on shooting— to find that, to all appearance, it has been written by a millionaire for millionaires. -- H. Rider Haggard, A Farmer's Year
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oktobercountry · 7 months
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My heart did not beat, it exploded.
I did not warm to a subject, I boiled over.
I have always run fast and yelled loud about a list of great and magical things I knew I simply could not live without.
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pilibdc · 2 years
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July 4th Bookhaul volume 2: BMV
Within Toronto there are three BMV locations. BMV is a cross between a used bookstore and a chain (Chapters/Indigo for my fellow Canadians). This specific one consists of three floors. First floor is Literature, mystery/pop lit and horror. Second is all the non fiction categories and children/ya. Final floor is Comics, Fantasy and Sci-Fi.
Rebecca: Daphne du Maurier
Pellucidar: Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Streaked Blond Slave: Carter Brown
The Loving and the Dead: Carter Brown
Lady Susan/ The Watsons/ Sanditon: Jane Austen
The War of the Worlds: H. G Wells
Historical Adventures 2; The Virgin and the Sun/ Fair Margaret: H Rider Haggard
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christabelq · 2 years
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A few shots of Theda Bara playing the title role in the 1917 silent movie CLEOPATRA. I'm reading about Cleopatra at the moment in Kara Cooney's WHEN WOMEN RULED THE WORLD: 6 QUEENS OF EGYPT, so she's very much on my mind. If you're interested in the female rulers of ancient Egypt, I'd definitely recommend this book. It goes into detail about how they rose to power, the challenges they faced because of their gender and how the patriarchy usually tried to take credit for their achievements and wipe out all trace of them after they were gone. Like a lot of what you read about the ancient world, some of it's guesswork, but the arguments are convincing and seem to fit the evidence. I ❤️ this subject, so might get around to writing a proper review when I'm done. As for the movie pics, I get that Elizabeth Taylor's take on the character is better known, but I think Theda looks more iconic.
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So I'm listening to She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard. It's funny how "white woman ruling a remote tribe in Africa or wherever" was a whole thing in colonial adventure fiction, but the only echoes of that trope that normies are likely to encounter in modern culture are Katy Perry in her "Dark Horse" video and possibly Miss Piggy in Muppet Treasure Island.
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silveragelovechild · 11 months
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fitsofgloom · 10 months
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Every Little Thing SHE Does Is Magic
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halewynslady · 1 year
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Deadnaming: when She keeps calling you by the name of your late ancestor.
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I think that He who must not be named and She who must be obeyed Should get together.
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evelynwaughblack · 11 months
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Dominic Sandbrook & Tom Holland discuss Sir. Henry Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885). 14 May 2023.
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confusedbyinterface · 2 years
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Victorian adventure novel fans:
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