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April, 1928 "La Vie Parisienne" magazine cover with an illustration of "jealousy" by Cheri Herouard. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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Lleu doodle

#lleu #the winter prince #<3

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If im reading a 800 page book I should be freed of all other responsibilities in my life. Like sorry I can’t do that right now because im reading this long ass book. Yeah you know how it is

#it should literally be a full time job

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Columbia University students at the Gaza solidarity encampment reading Wisam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals and Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine (ph. Ian Bartlett).

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A dagger with a scabbard. Date of creation: 1560/1580. Material: iron, gold, wood, onyx, ruby, enamel, garnets, chalcedony.

The pommel consists of a lion's head carved from chalcedony with garnet eyes, and two female onyx figurines lie on the guard.

The hilt and blade are decorated with curls of gold enamel, as well as cameos with images of figures from Roman mythology.

From the exposition of the Armory of Dresden, Germany.

#weapons #16th century

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I don't know if I'll ever truly believe that the Tawny Man trilogy really exists and not just in the fevered imaginings of my gay little brain

#rote post of all time in my eyes #ass april reblog

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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

#for more uplifting quotes read shirley jackson’s we have always lived in the castle

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daphne du maurier books come in three flavors:

1. let me tell you about the time 30 years ago when I lost my heart to a tender adventuring scoundrel before I realized that life is pain and the only constant is the blue Cornish sea

2. This Family is Insane and I’m going to tell you their story for anywhere from 5 to 200 years but at least they have the blue Cornish sea

3. the past is real and it will kill you but the blue Cornish sea never changes

#daphne du maurier #incidentally I have read three books by her so far and they fit these three categories

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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

#genuinely sick how many people demonize protesters #all genocide is bad until the current one & all student protests are good until the current one #funny how that works #palestine

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weird lace things i’ve made

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What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Jon Snow - and family that haunts him, because sometimes ghosts make for the best love stories.

#this is SO gorgeous #mesmerized by rhaegar’s luscious hair #rhaegar targaryen #lyanna stark #jon snow #asoiaf

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“The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I” from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Willy Pogany (1910)

#willy pogany #rime of the ancient mariner

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Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia in season one of The Borgias (2011-2013)

#the borgias

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"The Fool," Watercolor, 2023.

For the group show Otherworldly and Wild by @wowxwow, live now

Available for purchase via WxW <3

#traditional art

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“You will be the rightful King of the Six Duchies, of the Out Islands, of all the Cursed Shores! All. I will give you all your dreams, if only you come back!” My dream was dead in my arms. I continued to walk.

#prev this is truly so breakdown inducing I remember reading this part at 3am the night before classes started #I was too sleep deprived to feel every emotion at once and yet I couldn’t stop until I knew for sure he was alive #godddd the way his dream was dead in his arms and he continued to walk…line scene book trilogy series of all time #fitzloved #tawny man #rote