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The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg

#;celluloid heroes. #;goddamn but i love her anyway. #;the scarlet empress. #;the silver screen dream.

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“He is tall,” said the girl, “and a strongly made man, but not stout; he has a lurking walk; and as he walks, constantly looks over his shoulder, first on one side, and then on the other. Don’t forget that, for his eyes are sunk in his head so much deeper than any other man’s, that you might almost tell him by that alone."

Macavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin, you would know him if you saw him for his eyes are sunken in...

#the parish boy’s progress #;oliver twist. #;they who call the whole world brother.

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Today's Seal Is: Peeking So Nicely

#;fauna.

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So I've seen conflicting stories about the colour black in history.

Some say it's very expensive and hard to maintain, so that's why rich merchants wore black. Evidence in portraits.

Some say that for dyes it's on the cheaper side actually.

Some say the expensive black doesn't come from dye but rather the colour of the animal, so black fabric comes from black fibre which comes from black sheep. How exactly would black sheep be more expensive than regular white sheep?

Which one is right? I know this is probably influenced by which century it's set in, like maybe some eras have an easier time getting black dye

I found a well-sourced blog post about this, luckily, because I'm a 19th-century focused researcher and I've heard conflicting things about black in earlier periods. It seems to be that high-quality black-dyed fabric was difficult to obtain in the west from the Middle Ages potentially through the 18th century because it required massive amounts of dye to get the color very deep ("true black"). Lesser black shades were quite common, though, so black, period, doesn't seem to be more expensive than any other color. Possibly the intensively dyed, deep blacks might have been? But not black in general.

source

Rich merchants did wear black- but so did other people. They just usually didn't have portraits.

The black sheep thing I've never heard before. And anyway, that could only apply to wool- not cotton, linen, silk, leather, etc.

#;not all that is over is past.

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Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

#;celluloid heroes. #;lisa frankenstein.

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I think the funniest thing I learnt today was that antis DID try to make their own ao3, but the restrictions made it impossible to do anything.

Nobody on the site could agree on one solid concept of "moral" and "immoral", so it spawned a plethora of huge arguments and the site had to be shut down.

And the tagline was "good fiction for good people."

Make of all that as you will.

#this is all hilarious and terrible #(my personal favorite is the paraphilia prohibition) #but the best/worst part is that i cannot see that tagline without thinking of the creepypasta entitled “normal porn for normal people” #;fan culture. #;internet culture.

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

#;current events.

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i think that today instead of doing any actual work i will work on my facilier x OC fic i have been kicking around since last fall

#three more days of this job! three fake days of sitting here and getting paid anyway! #;swan has a word.

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MITSKI – STAR (2024)

#!!! #;entombed within boombox and walkman. #;mitski. #;walk of fame.

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"Your vision is flawed." "I see the Padawan needs one last lesson."

#;across the stars.

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“We don’t talk about Pinhead..”

#ME. #;about swan. #;laugh. #;we have such sights to show you.

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I love this so much, I’m gonna start saying “nuts” we need to bring it back

#;the silver screen dream.

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Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton (TV Series, 2020- ). 

#;bridgerton. #;nicola coughlan. #;they do things differently there.

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stop freaking out about getting old and start planning out what kind of old person you're gonna be

#herr drosselmeyer #;text.

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CINDERELLA (2015) dir. Kenneth Branagh

#;dream factory. #;they can’t order me to stop dreaming.

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Long live the weirdos!!!

#yeah <3 #;dan stevens. #;walk of fame.

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requested by anonymous

#;ghosts.