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Becoming Harriet Vane
Bluestocking, feminist, itinerant scholar. She/her. Fueled by tea. Always open for questions and discussions. This adultbooklr-ish blog also includes architecture, ephemera, history, and fictional detectives. Curator of @teaformrholmes.
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#the hour bbc#it's not that i didn't enjoy other shows on the list but#the hour you can't miss#a brilliant and beautiful and prescient show#just thinking about romola garai's hand trembling as she reaches out to touch the lamp with its chipped paint in the final sequence#suffering
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by Cicely Mary Barker
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rainy streets & archaeology reading
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PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2022
DAY 5 FAVORITE DYNAMIC → HBO ROME’S LUCIUS VORENUS + TITUS PULLO
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Quick survey how old are you and do you care about your wedding like is it actually that serious for you
#mid-30s#i have lost two loves#i do not think i shall marry now#but i know (and it is knowledge that haunts me) that i fit the wedding dress my mother and her mother sewed in 1980#queue
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He is watching the action of her hand, stroking his, as if observing an animal. Then he looks at her, his eyes traveling all over her face, seeming to check that she means what she is saying.
The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell
#the marriage portrait#maggie o'farrell#the narrative does NOT seem to want me to root for this relationship and yet!!!#book quotes
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Fencing women, 1890, University of Iowa.
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costume appreciation:
Mei’s wardrobe from House of Flying Daggers [2/5]
(costume by Emi Wada)
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This has been in my drafts for ages, so the answer may no longer be needed, but the drawings in this edition are by Barry Moser. I have the full Commedia with them, and I really like them.
“abandon hope, who enter here”
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A Room with a View (1986)
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Currently reading: Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
#historical fiction#maggie o'farrell#the marriage portrait#many thoughts about this but i want to wait to Discuss until i have finished#currently reading#adultbooklr
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Fictional Horse Tournament
Group Haley - Round 1
#this match-up seems unfair! they're friends!#also beauty is the narrator so of course we know him and his voice better#anyway i voted for ginger because i cried for her when i first read this at the age of... 8? 10? somewhere in there
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Thomas Couture (1815-1879)
"The Romans in their Decadence" (1847)
Oil on canvas
Located in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
#i appreciate the commitment to the vision#here are the romans. in their decadence#thomas couture#art history#19th century#queue
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holding hands ❤︎ - requested by happydaynow
#i truly appreciate that matthew goode is giving this silly show (affectionate) such commitment#and one of the things i like is how credible he is as someone who has not really relaxed in approximately 120 years#who has practiced Alertness for various kinds of threats for much longer than that#adowtv#matthew goode#teresa palmer#queue
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#i know there are some rabbinic stories about the guys i know as jesus and his disciples#this i know ONLY because of a specific hebrew document from 13th-century iberia#so anyway: i don't think that's enough to count as playing a ROLE#he's just... there.#so i chose 'no role at all'#he doesn't DO anything in judaism#attested historical existence but uh?#maybe i would have a fuller answer if i read all the commentary in my jewish annotated new testament (as i have not)#judaism#and my patchy knowledge thereof
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thinking about how dracula has never been accurately adapted into a film and thinking about how dev patel would play the hell out of jonathan harker
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angelic music
#sublime recording#also i can never listen to this piece without thinking of#morseverse#oops?#classical music#schubert
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