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“I take it, Harriet, that you have no new answer to give me?” “No, Peter. I’m sorry, but I can’t say anything else.” “All right. Don’t worry. I’ll try not to be a nuisance. But if you could put up with me occasionally, as you have done tonight, I should be very grateful to you.” “I don’t think that would be at all fair to you.” “If that’s the only reason, I am the best judge of that.” Then, with a return of his habitual self-mockery: “Old habits die hard. I will not promise to reform altogether. I shall, with your permission, continue to propose to you, at decently regulated intervals—as a birthday treat, and on Guy Fawkes Day and on the Anniversary of the King’s Accession. But consider it, if you will, as a pure formality. You need not pay the smallest attention to it.” “Peter, it’s foolish to go on like this.” “And, of course, on the Feast of All Fools.” “It would be better to forget all about it—I hoped you had.” “I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.”

–Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Chapter IV, 1936.

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oh, you were not what was desired, but that makes you no less dear to me. a boy would have been the son of france, but you, marie thérèse, shall be mine.

@paletmblr's 30th event: period dramas marie antoinette (2006) dir. sofia coppola

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Know of a character who is an absolute failure of a mother but still kind of hot?

Submit her here!

Rules:

Characters must be adults (hopefully a given)

They MUST be mothers of some kind, but if it's an unconventional sort of situation you can argue for it

Ideally submissions will include an image and a description of why you've submitted the character

must be a fictional character, no real people

I can refuse any character I want for any reason because this is a dictatorship <3

I've never ran a poll bracket before so.... be nice to me

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he had it coming

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Like to STAB

Reblog to STAB AGAIN

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NB Gloves And Mittens on Etsy

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“After all, love is built on banal things.”

La pianiste (original title)

The piano teacher 2001

Michael haneke

#another piece of art movie #queen isabelle huppert #isabelle huppert #some movies are meant to polarize

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Isabelle Huppertfor ELLE by Paul Verhoeven, 2016

#best performance of that year #and no one can convince me otherwise #isabelle huppert #oscar nominee #elle

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Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)

#this movie is art #and isabelle huppert is a queen #isabelle huppert

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#the only right reaction to a queen #isabelle huppert #she's not from this world

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she's so real

#don't we all #hahaha #isabelle huppert

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Isabelle Huppert as the titular queen Bérénice, Théâtre de la Ville Paris.

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SUCCESSION || 1x09; 2x07; 3x08; 4x09; 4x10 Harriet Walter as CAROLINE COLLINGWOOD Sarah Snook as SHIV ROY

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My favorite genre-savvy novelist, who realized she'd been written in as the love interest and went on strike until she got promoted from Damsel In Distress to Best Friend And Intellectual Equal.

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5x06

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SUCCESSION (2018-2023) 1.05 | 4.04

I knew a woman in Paris, she did what you do. She was very intelligent. Oh, thank you. [...] You know, my friend from Paris who was your way? She actually was murdered. It was nothing to do with her being a prostitute, it was to do with a restaurant that went poof! What?