Posters For National Theater Of Korea's Production Of Macbeth, Designed By Yuni Yoshida And Photographed

And while Cinderella and her Prince did live happily ever after… the point, gentlemen, is that they lived.

“Bal Masque” cocktail dress ca. 1958 via The Victoria & Albert Museum

“The Duchess of Windsor patronised top Paris designers throughout her life. Christian Dior was a particular favourite. She was sixty-two years old when she selected this black evening dress. It was called ‘Bal Masque’ and came from the 1958 spring-summer collection designed by Yves Saint Laurent for the house of Dior. The style of the dress is influenced by the bell-shaped skirts fashionable in the 1860s. This influence can also been seen in the way it has been constructed. This dress has a tightly fitted boned corset and a bell-shaped skirt supported by a layered petticoat.The lightweight overdress is made of a double layer of spotted black tulle. It is studded with sparkling black bugle beads which are arranged in festoons caught at intervals by 42 bows of satin ribbon. The dress buttons down the back.”

The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent’s King by placing it under threat of capture which cannot be avoided.

Another fun part of the Nightwing One Year Later comics, when Dick is searching for a job:

-”Ric” isn’t the first time Dick tried being a taxi driver

-Dick actively decided he didn’t want to join the NYPD when he was searching for jobs

-when he first goes to Bones gym where he ends up teaching trapeze, this happens:

(Nightwing #126)

which was a trip for me because it’s not every day you read about someone you know in a comic. The Flying Gaonas were/are a circus family, one of the best flying trapeze families ever and someone young Dick Grayson was probably familiar with. I’ve only met one of the Gaonas, and only in passing, but it was a name that surprised me to see it pop up. I assume Alex is a made up character, but I wasn’t expecting the reference! Incidentally, this book as an accurate explanation of how to do a proper swing on the trapeze, so someone writing this knew what they were doing. Between this and Dick working at a real-life museum a few issues later, this arc feelings much more grounded in the real world than other ones have. 

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1930-1932

The FIDM Museum

this was my ask! :D :D :D your post about potential metas (and also your lovely dick grayson timeline) was one of the things that inspired me to dig up my old tumblr and finally start using it (the other being my need to rant about dick grayson and circus). i don’t really have anything to add other than i miss this dynamic and i have definitely been ignoring the modern stuff and reading 90s comics. and just ugh! siblings! family! 

the dick and tim meta was not long (ok, it was but it was great) and you should definitely talk about their relationship! (if you feel like it) (i just want dc to let them be brothers again i miss it) (this is the void again btw, that's who i am now i guess 😂)

GOD i got this lovely ask way too long ago to have not responded yet, but I was trying to sort out if I had a well thought out meta for you. I don’t. I just wanna give a very unordered ramble.

Dick and Tim were really the first close sibling bond either of them had. Dick of course had Jason as a brother first, but at the time Jason was Robin, Dick was off being a predominantly Titans character in New York, and not vibing with Bruce, so even though they got along they weren’t close.

But Dick and Tim!! True sibs. The best boys.

Here is Dick calling Tim his little brother long before they’d become actual adoptive siblings [Secret Origins 80-Page Giant]. I love one (1) man.

Dick had his own life going on outside of Gotham, but he still became Tim’s mentor almost as much as Bruce, and his confidant far more. The number of times Tim and Dick hung out and Tim got big brother advice is...so many.

[Robin #61]

And they were Batman and Robin together the first time Dick donned the cowl, where they worked together perfectly and also had a fun time doing it. Plus, Dick lived in the Manor and made Tim learn household tasks

[Robin #12]

And also!! I get emotional! About them being so connected so early on!! Tim’s introduction was all about Dick, not about Bruce. His backstory was from Dick’s, and the first person he sought out in his introductory storyline was Dick, before he met Bruce at all.

Tim got a hug from a kid at the circus when he was a tiny tim and then saw that kid’s parents die, and that set the whole course of his life. He remembered details of that for yeeeears and it’s what led him to figure out Batman’s identity.

Obvs Dick’s backstory is defined by losing his parents, and so they both come from this same event which completely changed them in different ways, and then led them back together and I :’)

Dick genuinely means so much to Tim. That’s his idol, the Robin he looked up to, the kid he attached to so thoroughly, and then his older brother and mentor and confidant and partner. And Tim is Dick’s little-brother-by-choice, the first one he mentored to be Robin, worked with as Batman, could and would beat a clown to death to protect.

And then for like 15 years Dick and Tim were this tight trio along with Bruce (Babs and Steph having their own families, Cass being as much under Babs’s mentorship as Bruce’s, Jason being dead, and Damian not existing yet) and closet not-but-basically siblings, and great, and I love them.

[Gotham Knights #8]

In conclusion, current DC should stop sleeping on them and also everyone should read comics from the 90s which was the best batfam era, the end.

Paolo Sebastian, F/W 2015

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Elsa Schiaparelli, 1940

The Metropolitan Museum of Art