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men invented maps they had to spread on tables so they could watch each other bend over hands flat arms outstretched
A Sprite by a Lakeside Temple (Max Roeder, 1894)
A collection of ruby glass, late 1800s.
JENNIFER CONNELLY AS JENNIFER CORVINO PHENOMENA (1985)
whoever came up with kissing someone's hand as a sign of respect knew what they were doing. slut.
eating a delicious fruit like an animal and the juice runs down your faceand goes down your arms and all over your face and hands soooo natural. sexual too
Bath time, 1897 Virgilio Tojetti
John Keats, from "Endymion", The Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
Oksana Skorik after Swan Lake in the Mariinsky Theatre, ph. by Catherine Pollak.
sometimes a girl just has to look at the clouds and marvel at the beauty of God’s creation and then maybe she’ll feel sane again
the way nothing feels as good as walking around in only a shirt and underwear
Caligula (1979) dir. tinto brass
i am a perfectly nonchalant person. except on days where i crave love. then i choke up and go insane and begin howling at the moon
anyone else feeling the Effects lately. due to all the Things
I was born to sit in a cafe doing fuck all
open me up
tell me u like me
fuck me to death
love me until i love myself
there's a tunnel under ocean blvd
Art Detail : “Birth of Venus”, Sandro Botticelli, 1485
Women all around the world have created traditional dishes and dances and sewn the clothing and organized the parties and preserved the photos and created the rituals and practices and customs and decided on the decor and set the trends of their communities and I am very proud to descend from them. Women make the world vibrant and warm. People say, oh but you haven’t invented as many machines and gadgets or you haven’t written as many classic books or you haven’t built the architecture but guess what? I don’t care because I will always take pride in how women have contributed to coloring the world in various unique ways
“Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night. Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you.”
“the tradition of the drowning woman in the background of ‘anna karenina’" - sydney schultze // the awakening - kate chopin // hamlet act IV scene VII - shakespeare // “ophelia” - friedrich wilhelm theodor heyser // “utonulá” - jakub schikaneder // the awakening - kate chopin // “la jeune martyre” - paul de la roche // “found drowned” - george frederic watts // david copperfield - charles dickens // the bridge of sighs - thomas hood // “past and present no.3” - augustus leopold egg
i jus wanna annoy 1 man for the rest of my life
Kate Chopin, from The Awakening
Members of Bodenwieser Ballet dancing at Centennial Park in Sydney, Australia. c. 1939-1941.
Photographed by Max Dupain.
No offence but without tenderness we are in hell
in my garden just hieronymusly sloshed off these earthly delights
always remember the Final Girl Code:
- do it alone
- do it scared
- do it with a knife in your hand if you have to
Jennifer Connelly in Étoile (1989)