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I don’t want to come at Neil Gaiman or anything as many of the book's mistakes were fixed in the show, but that was a shock. As a member of the LGBTQA+ community, I am aggravated that, because of the show, he is being lauded as a great ally. He could have penned the show as an apology to the community but instead chose to brush everything wrong under the rug.
#good omens#neil gaiman#I have not posted anything on social media in years#it just made me feel so gross
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i love sacrilege and i do enjoy some blasphemy from time to time, it is all very sexy
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We responded to each other immediately, perhaps because he was so vulnerable under his social veneer and I saw so much of myself in that contradiction.
Myrna Loy on her relationship with Montgomery Clift
(via the-myrna-loy-blog)
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“Tell me where it hurts, she’d say. Stop howling. Just calm down and show me where.
But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.”
- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
via @violentwavesofemotion
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latin phrases worth knowing:
(in case you wanted to know because i fucking love this language)
ad astra per aspera - to the stars through difficulties
alis volat propriis - he flies by his own wings
amantium irae amoris integratio est - the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love
ars longa, vita brevis - art is long, life is short
aut insanity homo, aut versus facit - the fellow is either mad or he is composing verses
dum spiro spero - while I breathe, I hope
ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem - with the sword, she seeks peace under liberty
exigo a me non ut optimus par sim sed ut malis melior - I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad
experiential docet - experience teaches
helluo librorum - a glutton for books (bookworm)
in libras libertas - in books, freedom
littera scripta manet - the written letter lasts
mens regnum bona possidet - an honest heart is a kingdom in itself
mirabile dictu - wonderful to say
nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part
omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now
poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made
qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it
saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be
sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still
si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war
struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears
sub rosa - under the rose
trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise
urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble
ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remains
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Portrait of arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife, fashion illustrator Dagmar Cohn, 1947
via reddit
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“Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.”
Marquis de Sade (via fuckmetodubstep)
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““How is it possible that a disease characterized by coughing, emaciation, relentless diarrhea, fever, and the expectoration of phlegm and blood became not only a sign of beauty, but also a fashionable disease?” Day, an assistant professor at Furman University in South Carolina, asks in an introduction … [She] emphasized emaciated collar bones and encouraged a stooped posture, Day explores the evolution of the scientific understanding of tuberculosis, along with its influence on beauty. She concentrates on the years between 1780 and 1850, when at its peak tuberculosis caused around 25 percent of deaths in Europe, even as it was glamorized.
It helped that the wasting away of tuberculosis sufferers aligned with existing ideas of attractiveness. The thinness, the ghostly pallor that brought out the veins, the rosy cheeks, sparkling eyes, and red lips (really signs of a constant low-grade fever), were both the ideals of beauty for a proper lady, and the appearance of a consumptive on their deathbed. If you didn’t have the disease, you could use makeup to get the pale skin and crimson lips, and wear a dress that slumped your posture. […] As Day notes, “tuberculosis” only appeared in print in 1839. Instead names including phthisis, consumption, scrofula, hectic fever, and graveyard cough identified its emaciation and decline. Although tuberculosis was an epidemic across classes, and [sexes], it became associated with respectable women. Part of this was a belief in being born with an inclination to the disease, which could be triggered by too much dancing or mental exertion.
“Sanitary reform, plus social concerns, combined to transform tuberculosis in the latter half of the 19th century from a condition presented as conferring beauty and intelligence into a biological evil that was the product of social conditions that could and should be changed and controlled,” Day writes. […] The light fabrics, which framed exposed clavicles and skeletal shoulder bones, were rightly seen as terrible for the often damp and chilly English climate. The later use of separate parts in corsets, such as the steam-molded corsets of the 1860s, also moved fashion away from the willowy waists of “tubercular chic” into a curvy form believed to be more healthy. As tuberculosis waned in its positive associations, it became more connected to poorer classes; health became a marker of privilege. […]
Women as deathly thin, delicate, fragile, and sickly, as something to be cared for by men, remain a fashion fetish… ”
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920 (dir. Robert Wiene)
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Nick Charles does what he’s told in After the Thin Man (1936)
Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
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i dropped off my resume at this place at 1:15 and got called for an interview at 1:45 holy dang
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Charles Sumner: [writes joyfully about how Charles Dickens got Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to stop wearing outdated tight pants from the 30s and dress fashionably]
Me: How tight were the outdated tight pants that Henry would have been wearing, anyway?
Me: OH MY GOD.
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