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Rachel House as Mary Read in Our Flag Means Death | for my love @meluli

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"There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew." - Favourite Star Trek Captain (Free Choice)

TV Appreciation Week 2024 (Day 7)

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Janeway in love with seven is like the most precious thing bc she keeps her emotional self kinda private from everyone on board but then *bam* SEVEN, anything to do with Seven and suddenly she's showing everybody her weakness unintentionally bc she's so deep for this woman she doesn't even realize she's telling the whole ship she's in love with her just by being in sevens court at every turn without any regrets. I love janeway. I love how janeway loves seven. I love how kathryn janeway allows herself to love seven, unequivocally.

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Sometimes I post for no reason other than I know there’s people out there like me who just like to kill time staring at a pretty face. If this post has found you then I know you’re my people. You’re welcome.

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Kate Mulgrew in rehearsals for her new play The Beacon @ the Irish Rep, NYC

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Eurasian Red Squirrel/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (June 22, 2018).

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Eilif Peterssen (Norwegian, 1852-1928) - Summer Night (1886)

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Seth Armstrong (American, 1983) - Neutra (2024)

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Dreamscape.

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101 DALMATIANS (1996) dir. Stephen Herek

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when a stranger calls (1979)

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Colleen Dewhurst in Eugene O'Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, in 1973, a role that blew her heart apart.

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From Interview Conducted 1989 New York City The dream we hold for anything is not in vain. Having the dream realized is rare or sporadic, but it’s real. This is true in the theatre; this is true in marriage; this is true in friendship; it’s very painfully true in motherhood. What I mean is you come into all of these things with ideas of what it should be, could be,  must be, and the reality is grittier, tougher. It’s still beautiful and worthy and worth it all, but you still get hit in the face with how hard things are.

It’s worth it.

It’s worth it when your heart swells with love; it’s worth it when you look out and coming to the door is a friend who wants to help; it’s worth it when you see that your kids are going to be alright– they get it. It’s worth it when you have a part that speaks to your heart, blows it open with all that it provides as a challenge, and when it works, when you connect with your fellow actors and your audience.

I can think on all this–a kind of prayer, I guess–when I’m driving home from whatever I’ve faced.

I’m tired of people complaining about the theatre–about everything. The world will survive, for God’s sake, and so will the theatre. It’s going to change; it’s going to look unlike anything you dreamed of, but it’s worth the fights and the challenges, and I’m telling you that none of that beauty and none of those rewards are going to the people who keep whining about how it–whatever it is–didn’t meet their expectations. Rise to whatever you want and meet it on its terms, then rise above them. 

You have to have a child to try to be good mother. You have to be in the thick of the theatre to earn a part that will test you to become a good actor. You have to be a good friend to become a good person.

You know what I’m saying? Live your fucking life. Be in the middle of it, working on it.

[Follies Of God]

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mary quant products in face paint: the story of makeup - lisa eldridge (2015)

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Graphic Languages — A Visual Guide to the World’s Writing Systems, Edited and Designed by Oliver Häusle, Slanted Publishers, Karlsruhe, 2025 [Copyright Bookshop, Gent]