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love-pinups · 1 year
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R.I.P. to one of the all-time great beauties. 😭
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agnesandhilda · 10 days
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widespread use of circlusion as a concept would be great for the timeless literary enterprise of bringing all stories back to sexual neurosis
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callmethehunter · 1 year
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It seems funny that a few short months ago I was an ungratified singer and now they're calling me the next sex symbol. It can't be bad. I must admit that I don't really know what or how people think about sex symbols. Maybe if the audience can see a cock through a pair of trousers, then that must make you a sex symbol.” Robert Plant, 1969
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thegoldeneraa · 8 months
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she was so graceful
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vintagequeens · 9 months
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Sharon Stone
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mariocki · 10 months
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Peter Wyngarde sprawls around being louche as a self-styled modern day Caesar, Tiberio Magadino, in The Saint: The Man Who Liked Lions (5.8, ITC, 1966)
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kdjonesfla · 1 year
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Raquel Welsh, Actress and Star
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tmarshconnors · 6 months
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Marilyn Monroe
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so i got a weighted blanket and my dreams ever since have been extremely vivid, which is apparently a confirmed phenomenon with them. mostly they're just very surreal, sometimes scary but usually harmless or funny.
but last night. last night i had a fully plotted romcom play out where i was kylie jenner's personal assistant? and i was helping her manage the rollout of her relationship w/ timothee chalamet, who she was sincerely really into. but! turns out timothee is gay and married to a secret husband! who also had a really nice brother who looked exactly like justin theroux circa charlie's angels but was not actually justin theroux, who ends up becoming my snarky yet kind sidekick in trying to disentangle the kylie/timothee/gay nameless husband (i feel bad my brain never came up with a name for him) mess with a minimum of public fallout, in a way that allowed everyone to learn to love themselves and~ live their truth ~
there were a lot of scenic malibu estates, little dogs and secret hotel trysts (not involving me, though i did get a fun little scene trying to sneak around behind a hotel cleaning cart w/ Not Justin Theroux.) genuinely a good time, almost made up for the occasional deep rem nightmare involving sleep paralysis demons.
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love-pinups · 1 year
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Pinup Marilyn.😍
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telefonamitra20anni · 10 months
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Il perché dei bambini.
Il dove e il quando, il come e il perché.
Aveva un modo particolare di dire grazie, pronunciato flebile, pudico sommesso. Come lo pronuncerebbe chi crede di non meritare tanto. Il suono di quel ringraziare ricorda una carezza, di cui si può fare a meno, ma che si accetta con il pruriginoso desiderio di volersi scansare. In quel suo pronunciarlo, c'era il mondo di un bambino che ha fatto i conti con certe durezze della vita troppo presto; c'era un bambino a cui il fascismo, e la guerra e le sue fatiche, hanno levato l'infanzia. Avete fatto caso alla curiosità e verità dei bambini? Chiedono il perché di ogni cosa. Marcello era quello stesso bambino, che si chiedeva il perchè ma poi ha smesso. Da adulto non ha mai amato ricordare la sua infanzia, ritornare nei luoghi d'origine gli costava emotivamente troppa fatica; voleva separare l'oggi, dal quel passato. Da bambini però, si ha la capacità di trasformare le cose con il super potere della fantasia. Quando scattava l'allarme dei bombardamenti, e bisognava correre al rifugio, quel momento di terrore, in un attimo, con la forza della fantasia che solo i bambini hanno, diventava un gioco. Giocare, jouer, è stato il suo riscatto. Lo ha fatto anche da adulto. Sempre. Sosteneva che recitare lo fosse. Recitare gli permetteva di essere eternamente bambino, gli lasciava il lusso di vivere mille infanzie possibili, non vissute, ma sentite. Fare l'attore, era la maniera di non scostarsi da quella carezza che si faticava a ricevere, era vincere la timidezza, lasciarsi andare al gioco della fantasia non ancora del tutto consumata, e poterlo fare da adulto che chiede ancora il perché.
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cazzyf1 · 2 years
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Niki: I have never bothered about such ideas, nor ever had the slightest feeling that my sort of racing driving has any connection at all with sex symbolism.
Also Niki:
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ohhellno · 2 years
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Happy Heavenly Birthday Jayne Mansfield 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
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vintagequeens · 1 year
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Ursula Andress
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archeolgstarch · 2 years
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i know there’s a lot of talk about lara possibly getting a new love interest in the future tr game, but i reserve my belief in that lara is someone who is very hard to get romantically involved with. my lara definitely presents as demi/ace and only shows intimate and sexual interest in someone she has a deep emotional connection with which is very, very hard for someone who has experienced the amount of trauma she has experienced. my lara turned 30 this year but she’s still figuring that part of her out still. 
that being said i think the only heavily developed ships for lara on this blog are with @afraidofchange‘s alice s.hepard and @vendicarus‘s e.zio a.uditore. that’s not to say that i’m not open to more ships for her. i’m just saying. a lot of ooc discussions and plotting will go into it because i have to really feel it to be able to write it.
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jadenvargen · 24 days
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free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources
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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.
---NOVELS---
Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."
Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."
+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)
Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."
Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."
If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."
also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins
Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 
---ESSAYS---
Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film
--DOCUMENTARIES--
Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.
Meeting the man
--DEBATES:--
Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )
Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )
Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)
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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.
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