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I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.
– Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse
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hotvintagepoll · 18 days
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Deborah Kerr (Bonjour Tristesse, An Affair to Remember, The King and I)— For several decades she held the record for most Oscar nominations without a win (6 in total), and she was a prolific leading lady throughout the 40s and 50s. She's best known today for the romance An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant, and as the governess in The King and I. Many people have this erroneous perception of her as extremely prim, proper, and virginal, but this could not be further from the truth. When she first came to Hollywood under MGM she was typecast into boring decorative roles, but broke sexual boundaries for herself and Hollywood generally in From Here to Eternity, when she made out (horizontally!) with Burt Lancaster (on top of him!) in the famous Beach Scene. She went on to play many sexually conflicted women, a character type that would define most of her post- Eternity work. She continued to break Hays Code boundaries with Tea and Sympathy, which addresses homosexuality/homophobia head-on, and even did a topless scene in The Gypsy Moths 1969!! One of the only classic stars to do so. She deserves a more nuanced and frankly a hotter legacy than she currently has!!!
Ethel Merman (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam)— Possessed of a bold, brash voice, and an even bolder and brasher presence, Ethel Merman might be more well known for her stage roles, but she made several movies, and was bold and brash in them as well. Also I think if I don't submit her, she's going to come back and haunt me.
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You've gotta love any woman who got typecast as lead-MILF
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Deborah Kerr:
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I think she was one of my first crushes before I realised I was bi in The King and I when I watched it as a kid honestly. The kissing scene in From Here to Eternity is iconic for a reason. Actually tried to learn the accents for the characters she was playing if they weren't English which is more than pretty much anyone else was doing then. Played very restrained characters who frequently seemed to be desperate not to be so restrained. Did horror movies without venturing into hagsploitation tropes. Gave Marni Nixon the credit she deserved for her share of the singing in The King and I.
Anne Larsen is a peak late 1950s bisexual with big MILF energy. Have you seen the behind the scenes pics of her wearing a suit?? Have you????? Vote Deb as Anne Larsen.
Nominated for an Oscar six (6) times and never won, but besides her having actual talent (hot), and besides her looking Like That (very hot, also beautiful), she was always playing women who are, like, crazy repressed. Which makes it fun and easy for me to read these characters as queer. Icon!!!! You know what's hot? Playing ambiguously gay in vintage Hollywood.
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Her face and talent and body, yes, ofc, duh. But also!!! Her HANDS!!!! I may be but a simple lesbian, but she is the best hactor (hand actor) that ever lived and that's HOT! For propriety's sake I feel I must redact a large portion of my commentary on this subject. Anyway. She's hot in her most famous roles (mentioned above), and also some of her sexiest hacting is on display in An Affair to Remember (her hand on the bannister when Cary Grant kisses her off-screen??? HELLO???), Tea and Sympathy (when she's trying to persuade Tom not to go out and she keeps flexing her hands like she wants to reach out to him but can't??? ALLY BEHAVIOR! WE STAN!), and The Innocents (which opens and closes with extended shots of her hands bc director Jack Clayton was also an ally and he did that for ME). Much of her appeal also lies in the fact that she often played deeply repressed characters and you know what's hot? When those uptight characters finally unravel. It's sexy. It's cathartic. It's erotic. Plus, she's beautiful to look at in both black & white and technicolor, and the more of her films you see, the more you can't help but fall in love!
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Literally is in thee most famously sexy scene of all time (or maybe just during the hays code era which is what we're talking about HELLO), which is the beach scene with Burt Lancaster in from here to eternity. To quote a tumblr post of a screen capture of a tweet of a video of joy behar on the view: "y'know, there used to be movies where they were kissing on the beach... From Here to Eternity. They're kissing-- Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr are Kissing on the Beach and then the WAVES crash!! You know exactly what they did!"
She might have a reputation of being chaste and virginal or whatever, but we all know it's the quiet ones who are certifiable FREAKS
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kyoukamybeloved · 6 months
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“You sound like you’re certain he’s human.”
“There’s no way I could hate a man-made character string this much.”
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“Look at us getting along so well. That’s what makes me love you!”
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@even-fools-are-right-sometimes // this is how i love you, yukla // @iamcon-fu-sion // Françoise Sagen, Bonjour Tristesse // The Abduction of Persephone, Gian Lorenzo Bernini // History student falls in love with astrophysics student, @boykeats // Snowbound, objectlesson // @even-fools-are-right-sometimes // Marathon, Louise Glück
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Deborah Kerr + 🤦🏼‍♀️
bonjour tristesse (1958) / tea and sympathy (1965) / the innocents (1961) / the grass is greener (1960) / beloved infidel (1959) / the naked edge (1961) / vacation from marriage (1945) / heaven knows, mr. allison (1957) / a song at twilight (1982)
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faintingheroine · 3 months
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Only vote if you have read the book or read my posts about it so much that you know it quite well. Don’t just pick your favorite work out of these. You can look at what me and others have said about these comparisons in their respective tags.
I am sure that I am forgetting someone with how many characters I have compared to her over the years, so you can use the “Other” option liberally. The character you liken to her doesn’t have to be from another literary work, all the ones I have picked except Noriko are from literary works but you can pick “Other” if you liken her to a character from TV shows, films or games too.
I didn’t put “Snow White” since I liken her story to this fairy tale in an archetypal sense, I don’t think that there is a character similarity.
Please explain your reasoning for the options you choose.
I must say that I am quite excited about this poll.
@literatureismyentirepersonality @artemideaddams @princesssarisa @ariel-seagull-wings @pileofsith @amourduloup
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Poems/books for being seventeen?
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Silas Denver Melvin, from Grit
I saw an exquisite pink and blue shell on the sea-bottom. I dove for it, and held it, smooth and hollow in my hand all the morning. I decided it was a lucky charm, and that I would keep it. I am surprised that I have not lost it, for I lose everything. Today it is still pink and warm as it lies in my palm, and makes me feel like crying.
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Françoise Sagan, from Bonjour Tristesse (1954) // movie still from Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
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Kara Jackson, Teenagers Are Not Exempt From Poetry (read full prose piece here)
Some recommendations of books I’ve read that deal with girlhood or being a teenager (not my faves, but enjoyable. Probably wouldn’t read them again, but objectively literature that might be of interest to you):
Brutes — Dizz Tate
The Virgin Suicides — Jeffrey Eugenides
The Ice Palace — Tarjei Versaas
Teenage Wasteland — Anne Tyler
Normal People — Sally Rooney
My Dark Vanessa — Kate Elizabeth Russell
We Were Liars — E. Lockhart
my notes on each recommendation:
SEVENTEEN: Exactly what being seventeen felt like to me. He has absolutely beautiful poetry on age, Seventeen is the first of those in the collection. I’ve loved measuring my growth by how I relate to these poems. You can download the entire collection for free, just check out his account @sweatermuppet, I’m sure he has a link somewhere (or drop him an ask)! One of my favourite collections, it really embodies the feeling of being young, so the rest of the poems might also be of interest to you. I find myself rereading them all of the time. Love your work, Silas! Can’t wait for more poetry
BONJOUR TRISTESSE: I don’t remember the protagonist’s age exactly, but the author was seventeen when she wrote it. Very breezy, very summery, contains the whole spectrum of teenage emotions, from raging anger to audacious freedom. The protagonist is both astute and very childish. This book is so obviously written by a teenager, and I mean this as the highest compliment. You don’t get adults writing about being seventeen like that. She is seventeen. Seventeen is this story’s essence. I haven’t seen the movie, but it’s on my watchlist. Heard it’s good though!
TEENAGERS ARE NOT EXEMT FROM POETRY: I read this the other day and think it would have been very affirming for teenage me, who felt insecure about reading and writing poetry. Some lines really stuck with me and I think the writer’s youthful voice captures the solace teenagers might find in poetry very well. There is a freshness to that discovery. I remember reading Ginsberg for the first time and life feeling ten times wider even though my English was not broad enough for me to understand his work in its entirety. Discovering art at that age is a privilege, I believe most people will struggle to feel the same awe and wonder in later years. The author of this prose piece mentions many different poems that might interest you!
BRUTES: Read it last year and honestly found it kind of disappointing. Very interesting style, though, as most (all?) of it is written from the perspective of a group of teenage girls, using ‘we’ and ‘us’ instead of ‘I’ and ‘me’. I think I would have liked it a thousand times more, had I read it earlier in life. Fantastic book cover
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES: Very obviously written by a man, but nevertheless an interesting study of teenage love and obsession (there’s an excellent movie adaptation by Sophia Coppola!)
THE ICE PALACE: If I remember correctly, the protagonists are younger than seventeen, but it’s a very moving story about how young people grieve. Norwegian author, which I found very interesting, as I haven’t read a lot of Scandinavian literature
TEENAGE WASTELAND: Not for me, this one! But you might have different taste. After reading some reviews, it seems like people either hate or love this short story
NORMAL PEOPLE: I am not a huge Sally Rooney fan, but I do understand why people adore her so much. I thought Conversations With Friends was a better book, but that’s partly because I found it more relatable. Normal People is a very intelligent story on young love, class differences and the reality of many relationships. The opposite of a ‘happily ever after’ book, left me feeling unresolved and unsatisfied, as I believe it intended
MY DARK VANESSA: I’m not sure if recommending this too a teenager is wise, but it is certainly a very good book. Heavy stuff, though. Deals with emotional manipulation and violence directed at a teenaged girl in form of a predatory relationship. Rarely read something that made me feel so uneasy by manipulating me as the reader. I read it as a teen and it impressed me very much! Be safe, please. If you are easily disturbed, check any content warnings!
WE WERE LIARS: Something suspenseful that will suck you in, a summer-y and kind of light book. Definitely entertainment literature, but there’s nothing wrong with that. Probably won’t change your life, but also won’t bore you. Cool friendship dynamics between teenagers!
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andreabaideas · 2 months
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about me
Hi, everyone/ Hola a todos / Salut!
i like many things, that i usually like to discuss with other people.
90's bitch (born in 1995).
• Nothing is sacred (except my family) that means that i can laugh at, criticize and enjoy things all at the same time.
• Many fandoms : The Hunger Games, Twilight (renaissance), True Blood, Daisy Jones and the Six,Poldark , Drácula (book) , Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice), Darren Shan saga, Hannibal (Bryan Fuller), The Walking Dead, Agatha Christie. Edgar Allan Poe. Guy de Maupassant. Stephen King. Lost Girl, Les revenants, Vampire Mascarade, Vampire Diaries universe, Guillermo del Toro's universe. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). Old french movies (Nouvelle Vague). Animated movies too.
There are plenty more, but those are the main ones.
• "Bonjour Tristesse", "Les enfants de la pluie" and "Portrait de la jeune fille en feu" own my heart.
• Anything with witchy vives ❤️.
• Feminist ♀️(everyone should be TBH).
• I love art and photography.
• I LOVE indie, folk, rock, pop and classic music.
• I love horror movies, mainly gothic tales, but i've watched a lot of different things really, many old and weird ones too. One of my faves its Carnival of souls (1962), that no one i know has watched (besides me).
• Indie movies ❤️ too
• Vampire obsessed. If It has vampires i've probably watched It TBH.
• I speak three languages fluently , though English isn't my first language. Je parle français très bien. My native language IS spanish (i'm from Madrid, Spain). ¡Hola gente!
• I like many actors and actresses.
My faves are :
Men : Sam Claflin (my fave ❤️❤️❤️) Aidan Turner, Richard Armitage, Robert Pattinson (❤️), Josh Whitehouse, Blake Ritson, Joseph Morgan, Sam Reid, Sam Heughan, Kiowa Gordon, Peter Facinelli, Lee Pace, Joe Anderson, Rami Malek, Alexander Skarsgård, Stephen Moyer, Michael Fassbender, Ben Barnes, Paul Amos, Gregg Sulkin (❤️).
Women : Kristen Stewart (❤️❤️❤️), Riley Keough (❤️❤️❤️), Noémie Merlant/Adele Haenel/Jean Seberg (those three❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️...Too many hearts to fit here), Sarah Michelle Gellar, Eva Green, Jena Malone, Jennifer Lawrence, Lorenza Izzo, Suki Waterhouse (❤️❤️), Camila Morrone (❤️❤️), Gemma Arterton, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterstone, Amanda Seyfried, Zoe Kravitz, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Phoebe Tonkin, Lupita Nyong'o, Krysta Rodríguez, Lily Donoghue.
Also Les revenants cast ...and most of the french and francophone actors and actresses too.
And theres much more, but i think this is enough.
Welcome to my blog! Bienvenus! ¡Bienvenidos!
Feel free to ask me things, i like to make theories and metas too.
Also feel free to ask in spanish and french!!! (trolling and hate wont be answered, obviously)
Ciao!
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machinefetishist · 6 months
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do you have any dsbm recommendations for someone who’s just getting into it? you seem to know your stuff lol
i’d suggest you start with some of the more popular projects such as lifelover, nocturnal depression, happy days, xasthur, kekht arakh, apati, psychonaut 4, sadness, ghost bath, none, dyster, no point in living, an autumn for crippled children, planning for burial, alcest, white ward, shining, forgotten tomb, hanging garden, drowning the light, harakiri for the sky, i’m in a coffin etc.
and then depending on what genre you like best (blackgaze/doomgaze/narcotic etc), you can find less popular ones. my favorite underrated dsbm projects are: sorry…, minute of agonia, left alone…, moongazer, deadlife, austere, angor animi, sacrimoon, soulless, kanashimi, bonjour tristesse, eufori, this white mountain, thy light, an open letter, photophobia, from sunset forest & grief, exiled from light, ofdrykkja, autumn nostalgie, so much for nothing, melancholic despair, archurahl, aversion to mankind, thy pallor, deadspace, worthless life, the angelic process, intig, finally happy, xójira, hurt, beyond melancholy, hopeless, lunedi, i shalt become, neurosexxx, make a change… kill yourself, blade and bath, decalius, abduction, aara, afsky, aoratos, coldworld, darkenhold, darkher, havukruunu, morkera, nordicwinter, old silver key, panopticon, pure wrath, saor, selfdestroyer, seth, wormwitch etc.
this is my dsbm playlist, if you wanna listen to it on shuffle to see what kind of bands you like
you can always dm me for more recs/clarifications!
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anawkwardlady · 3 months
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What I read in 2023 :
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
finished Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos De Laclos
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison
No Longer Humain, Osamu Dazai
Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, My Soly Exchange Diary, My Alcoholic Escape from Reality, My Wandering Warrior Existence, My Pancreas Broke But My Life Got Better, Kabi Nagata
Pink, Kyôko Okazaki
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric LaRocca
Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni/Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai, Ryukishi07
Umineko No Naku Koro Ni/Umineko No Naku Koro Ni Chiru, Ryukishi07
And thats it, I read less that I thought I would tbh.
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kvetchlandia · 1 year
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Jeanloup Sieff     Writer Françoise Sagan, Paris      1956
“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”  Françoise Sagan, “Bonjour tristesse”  1954
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beljar · 1 year
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I saw an exquisite pink and blue shell on the sea-bottom. I dove for it, and held it, smooth and hollow in my hand all the morning. I decided it was a lucky charm, and that I would keep it. I am surprised that I have not lost it, for I lose everything. Today it is still pink and warm as it lies in my palm, and makes me feel like crying.
Françoise Sagan, from Bonjour tristesse, March 15, 1954
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hotvintagepoll · 2 days
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Deborah Kerr (Bonjour Tristesse, An Affair to Remember, The King and I)— For several decades she held the record for most Oscar nominations without a win (6 in total), and she was a prolific leading lady throughout the 40s and 50s. She's best known today for the romance An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant, and as the governess in The King and I. Many people have this erroneous perception of her as extremely prim, proper, and virginal, but this could not be further from the truth. When she first came to Hollywood under MGM she was typecast into boring decorative roles, but broke sexual boundaries for herself and Hollywood generally in From Here to Eternity, when she made out (horizontally!) with Burt Lancaster (on top of him!) in the famous Beach Scene. She went on to play many sexually conflicted women, a character type that would define most of her post- Eternity work. She continued to break Hays Code boundaries with Tea and Sympathy, which addresses homosexuality/homophobia head-on, and even did a topless scene in The Gypsy Moths 1969!! One of the only classic stars to do so. She deserves a more nuanced and frankly a hotter legacy than she currently has!!!
Hend Rostom (Cairo Station, Eshaat Hob)— Egyptian movie star called the "Marilyn Monroe of the East", need anyone say more
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I think she was one of my first crushes before I realised I was bi in The King and I when I watched it as a kid honestly. The kissing scene in From Here to Eternity is iconic for a reason. Actually tried to learn the accents for the characters she was playing if they weren't English which is more than pretty much anyone else was doing then. Played very restrained characters who frequently seemed to be desperate not to be so restrained. Did horror movies without venturing into hagsploitation tropes. Gave Marni Nixon the credit she deserved for her share of the singing in The King and I.
Anne Larsen is a peak late 1950s bisexual with big MILF energy. Have you seen the behind the scenes pics of her wearing a suit?? Have you????? Vote Deb as Anne Larsen.
Nominated for an Oscar six (6) times and never won, but besides her having actual talent (hot), and besides her looking Like That (very hot, also beautiful), she was always playing women who are, like, crazy repressed. Which makes it fun and easy for me to read these characters as queer. Icon!!!! You know what's hot? Playing ambiguously gay in vintage Hollywood.
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Her face and talent and body, yes, ofc, duh. But also!!! Her HANDS!!!! I may be but a simple lesbian, but she is the best hactor (hand actor) that ever lived and that's HOT! For propriety's sake I feel I must redact a large portion of my commentary on this subject. Anyway. She's hot in her most famous roles (mentioned above), and also some of her sexiest hacting is on display in An Affair to Remember (her hand on the bannister when Cary Grant kisses her off-screen??? HELLO???), Tea and Sympathy (when she's trying to persuade Tom not to go out and she keeps flexing her hands like she wants to reach out to him but can't??? ALLY BEHAVIOR! WE STAN!), and The Innocents (which opens and closes with extended shots of her hands bc director Jack Clayton was also an ally and he did that for ME). Much of her appeal also lies in the fact that she often played deeply repressed characters and you know what's hot? When those uptight characters finally unravel. It's sexy. It's cathartic. It's erotic. Plus, she's beautiful to look at in both black & white and technicolor, and the more of her films you see, the more you can't help but fall in love!
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Literally is in thee most famously sexy scene of all time (or maybe just during the hays code era which is what we're talking about HELLO), which is the beach scene with Burt Lancaster in from here to eternity. To quote a tumblr post of a screen capture of a tweet of a video of joy behar on the view: "y'know, there used to be movies where they were kissing on the beach... From Here to Eternity. They're kissing-- Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr are Kissing on the Beach and then the WAVES crash!! You know exactly what they did!"
She might have a reputation of being chaste and virginal or whatever, but we all know it's the quiet ones who are certifiable FREAKS
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jemimaland · 11 months
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dream girl book recommendations ✨
girly, smart book recommendations that will make people think you're cool.
anything by eve babitz or joan didion (but i recommend eve's hollywood and play it as it lays)
a biography of a woman from history (like marie antoinette, madame du pompadour, the romanov sisters)
the virgin suicides by jeffery eugenides
the new me by halle butler
breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami
last summer in the city by gianfranco calligarich
summer crossing by truman capote
bonjour tristesse by francois sagan
gigi and the cat by colette
the woman in the purple skirt by natsuko imamura
any persephone book (but especially to bed with grand music by marghanita laski)
I'm glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy
girl, interrupted by susanna kaysen
fleabag: the special edition by phoebe waller-bridge
winter in sokcho by elisa shua dusapin
the vegetarian by han kang
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coquette-club · 11 months
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Hey! I really want 2 have a vintage americana/born to die summer. Do u know any perfumes, makeup, dresses (or jus any outfits in general), books, etc? ty, luv u bby <3 🍒⭐🎧
omg YES like i may be a dark coquette girlie but i can never stray from by classic/americana roots
for perfumes itll be quite simple think anything fresh floral, soft spicy, cherry, and candy sweet
i recommend
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lolitaland by lolita lempicka: a sweet orange creamscicle
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sweet & so sweet by lolita lempicka: a delicious cherry cola scent and
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clinique happy heart! a bright floral fresh perfume
for makeup keep it simple by focusing on eyes, cheeks, and lips
make sure to have a good eye opening mascara (preferably lengthening), a lighter eyeshadow (brown, white, pale blue etc depending on your skin tone), and a good eyeliner. the mascara is best for everyday and the shadow + liner best for more dressy moments
for cheeks stick to oranges, cool pinks and reds for a natural flushed look
and for lips a nice cherry red lipstick is a musthave, you can literally throw it on even if ur not wearing any other makeup
for outfits i have a few examples also keep an eye out for my depop posts bc i show how to get the look on a budget!
for the look get apron dresses, milkmaid dresses, gingham print, cheer skirts, tennis skirts, varsity jackets, mary janes, sneakers, cowboy boots, bardot and halter tops and denim shorts, you can also get american flag prints. lemon and cherry prints and polka dots
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for books: other than obvi lolita i recommend
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Summer Darlings by Brooke Lea Foster
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their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston
im out of image space so ill rec more books as a list
summer by edith wharton
the old west series (forbidden,breathless and tempest) and wild sweet love by beverly jenkins
innocents by cathy coote (tw though its in the same vain of the lolita canon but its not a romance at all)
and pure by rebecca ray (same as above, deeply meditative character study but beautifully written)
bonjour tristesse by francois sagan
sex and rage by eve babitz
a streetcar named desire by tennesse williams
the beautiful and damned by f scott fitzgerald
valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann
hollywood babylon by kenneth anger
the blacker the berry by wallace thurman
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Hello again M🕵🏻‍♀️,
I just read your answer to the 1950s film anon with the MUBI screenshots and got so very excited! 📽️😻🎞️
Your suggestions are in oh-so-excellent tastes! I had to come here to share my favs (okay some might be from the 60s…😳🫢)
🚬”Breathless” (Jean Seberg & Jan Paul Belmondo, need I say more?!)
🥲”Bonjour Tristesse” (again, Jean Seberg, and the novel by Françoise Sagan was an absolute banger too!)
📸 “Rear Window” (My fav Hitchcock. James Stewart is actually not annoying in this one.)
🌂”Mon Oncle” (Jacques Tati might be an acquired taste, esp. in America…but I love the minute details he obsess over in all his films that create the whole quirky-kitsh-odd, sometimes bizarre atmosphere)
💎”Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (🙄I know, cliche…but I just love Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in this one, even with the despicable depiction of quasi Japonesque character Mr. Yunioshi played by Mickey Rooney. Funny how Peppard also went on to act in action films/shows later, just like Belmondo)
👑”Roman Holiday” (I’m partial to Gregory Peck in this one.)
⛵️”Plein Soleil” (Alain Delon is breathtaking in this one…)
Ohgosh~🫣there already are too many! Sorry! I’m just so excited for the transformation of your space where I can now find and talk about two of my odd varieties of obsessions (Bangtan & films)!
P.S. Much newer, but do you happen to like Wim Wenders films by any chance? What about Jim Jarmusch?
Your excitement is contagious, anon! This list takes me back to high school, each film has a different memory attached to it.
If you like Jean Seberg, I recommend listening to a series from the You Must Remember This podcast. Her career and life was discussed in detail in parallel with Jane Fonda. Look it up and you'll find it easily. The shooting for Bonjour Tristesse was a bit of a hell for Jean.
Your comment about James Stewart took me out because I understand the feeling. I'm not a fan, there's something about him that annoys me (maybe the way he talks?), but I can see that he was a good actor. I don't have anything serious to criticize.
Yes, Tati is an acquired taste. It never got to me to the point of wanting to watch a lot of his filmography, but he is one of a kind and an influence to those that came after him (Greta mentions him for the inspiration behind Barbie as well)
With Breakfast at Tiffany's, a cliche or not, does it matter? It's too iconic. Yes, it has a reputation and good material for specific tumblr/pinterest aesthetics, but for good reason. If we take all that aside, we're still left with something of value, given that it's also an adaption of a Capote novel.
There's so much to talk about Audrey Hepburn that it requires a separate post. I don't think Hollywood had another actress like her or even coming close to that kind of presence. She was a movie star in her own category. Anyway, I never became a fan of Gregory Peck (I didn't go and search his films) but damn the guy was hot. Can I have a Roman Holiday too? Just like that? 😄
Alain Delon in Plein Soleil is a sin. And a perfect summer film. With this guy, I have to manage to separate the actual person and his political beliefs from the star he was in the 60s. Same with Brigitte Bardot. Ignore and store that in the back of my head so I can enjoy the films.
As to your questions, I could never get into the Jarmusch vibe, although I did watch a few of his films. I don't have anything against him he's good and a true artist, but it doesn't match with my taste. With Wim Wenders, I know Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas, The American Friend, Pina. Again, it's the type of director that has his place in film history, but I never focused particularly on him.
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