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Shadow of a Doubt | Alfred Hitchcock | 1943

#shadow of a doubt #film

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Harris Reed is one of my FAVORITE contemporary designers. I love this so much

#i love this #met gala 2024 #style

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#lmao

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challengers is like the new barbie movie to me in that I can just tell I would not feel anything that's being so vividly described online if I saw it

#this is saltburn for me #film

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#the x files #fan art

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#morning tunes #Spotify

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#so many romance novels god

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"A special form of repetition in Goethe's work is what we call doubling."

↬ DARK | S01E04 DOPPELLEBEN | Directed by Baran Bo Odar

#Netflix’s dark

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Diane Arbus. A young family in Brooklyn going for a Sunday outing. New York. 1966

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

#diane arbus #photography

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Today I'm thinking about how all of K.J. Charles' Regency-set romances are partly a fuck-you to the horrible gender and class (and sexuality and race, naturally) dynamics of the Regency, especially among the upper-middle and upper classes, and how much the happy endings (including for the supporting het pairings) all seem to involve people escaping the ton and all that nonsense forever. Band Sinister, Thief in the Night, The Gentle Art of Fortune-Hunting... characters pair off into glorious m/m relationships (in one case with the option of future polyamory :D ), or make delightful het marriages that get them well out of "society", or in my absolute favourite case, turn out to be entirely ace and aro and fulfil a childhood dream that I won't spoiler but it's the absolute fricking best. Most of the m/m and m/nb relationships throughout Charles's work involve a significant class difference somewhere along the line.

Absolutely no romanticising the marriage market from Charles. In fact, Regency social expectations and pressures invariably comprise one of the obstacles to be faced and defeated, if not the actual villain. I love it. <3

(I speak as an Austen fan, and I think it's no exaggeration to say that Austen massively distrusted the social rules in which she lived and certainly held opinions that put her on the very liberal end considering her situation, but she still lived within them. Whereas a lot of Austen's imitators since have rather treated the ton etc. as... at best a cosy dystopia, at worst something actually good and romantic? That Charles goes "oh absolutely not" just makes me love her so much. <3 )

#kj charles #i love that she embraces how horrible to regency was <3

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instagram.com/junebeginnings/

#design

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I dont really care if your favorite character is getting beaten and traumatized. it should be happening to my favorite character instead.

#yes

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DEAD RINGERS (1988)

#dead ringers #film

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Nikolay Tolmachev

#art

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ROPE CONTENT?? FROM THE SAW FAN ARTIST?? amazing taste, no notes!!

here i can’t help myself to draw the og be gay do crime

#rope 1948 #fan art

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Behind every gay person is a gayer, more evil gay person.

#rope 1948 #fan art

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#music #morning tunes #this fucking rules #Spotify