Born on this day: sensationally beautiful burlesque dancer turned Russ Meyer glamazon Haji (24 January 1946 - 9 August 2013). Haji graced five of Meyer’s sexploitation masterpieces (starting with Motorpsycho in 1965) and enlivened them all with her exotic, sultry presence (she is awe-inspiring in Good Morning and … Goodbye! (1967) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) - but she will forever be remembered as the vicious Latina go-go dancer Rosie in one of my all-time favourite films, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). She gives a towering performance as the sexy lesbian girlfriend of tough-as-nails villainess Varla (Tura Satana), sometimes literally spitting with rage, picking her teeth with a switchblade, and employing a thick comedic Spanglish accent. (Haji and Satana had already known each other for years, having danced together in Los Angeles strip clubs since the early 1960s). One of Haji’s best moments is when the drippy good girl Linda misguidedly offers the trio of homicidal go-go dancers a soft drink, and Rosie snarls, "Honey, we don't like nothin' soft! Everything we touch is hard!" Details of Haji’s early life are misty: of British-Filipino descent, she appears to have been born Cerlet Catton (or Barbarella Catton, depending on your source) in Quebec, Canada and began dancing at age 14. Haji’s niche in the glamour jungle is certainly secure.

Sometimes I think about those flashbacks we get showing the Originals’ earliest days as vampires. Here are some Rebekah things: 

- When Rebekah is explaining all of the ‘side effects’ of the curse, we catch a memory of her experiencing bloodlust for the very first time. Considering her shock, we can assume she was the first to experience this/give in. It also tracks with the scene we get with Mikael forcing her to complete the transition. If she was the first to turn, even by mere moments, it would make sense why she grappled with the ugliest parts of vampirism first... SOB.

- Amongst her siblings, Rebekah might not be the strongest but I like to think there are other ways she wears this supernatural Original strength. There is absolutely no canon proof of this, but I’m making the executive Kay!Rebekah decision that in an eating contest (vampire style), girl could win if she put her mind to it. Even if it’s due to pacing herself... MANNERS.

- I often wonder when the Mikaelsons realized they would not age. Yes, Esther’s whole deal was making her children invincible, but the flashbacks lead us to believe the intent was to make them un-killable, perhaps not immortal. With Rebekah’s fixation on wanting a family, did she begin to realize their bodies had simply *stopped* when she no longer got her period? I imagine this was part of the realization, confirmed only as the years started to pass and they remained exactly the same... SOB.

big man...why is he so big...(hes full of love)

Aster rn

on care, and scary things

@naffeclipse let's see if I'll ever be normal about this line

Sunrise

lit my gardenia candle ... had a waffle ... woke up way too early ... good morning friends i am officially back to school !!!

I’ve trained it well

Alaina Capri / production still from Russ Meyer's Good Morning... and Goodbye! (1967)

LINGZHU, THE PEARL SPIRIT.

Nezha is the reincarnation of the Pearl Spirit, right? Does the Pearl Spirit even have a human form or is it just a pearl? I would like to know but I still decided to give them a human form for my LMK AU.