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200x more anxious after this morning's job interview than i was before it... don't know what to think... stoicism and it's "only focus on what you can control, don't worry about the judgements of others" mindset, please save me...

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As a writer I chose "present a self-written speech to 25,000 people" simply because I know how slim the odds are that I'll ever get the opportunity to expose that many people to any of my other works...

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Also shout-out to the Swedes for just borrowing the French "adieu" into their vocabulary and just spelling it "adjö"

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Clementine Keith-Roach for Casa Vogue 2010 Shot by Tim Walker

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Saw these luvers at the New Orleans Botanical Garden

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"Sarah Hannah Jones was buried there after she died on September 5, 1909. There, behind St. Peter’s Church, among the markers on the grassy hill that slopes down into one of the main cargo routes to Ireland, a Celtic cross designates her gravesite. It features the curious inscription 'POET PHILOSOPHER & FAILURE.'

There is little explanation to be found about the cryptic words. The church was consecrated in 967, and the oldest parts of the physical building date back to the 8th century. Sarah’s husband, James, remarried another woman named Sarah. She died in 1929, and a year after James followed. All three are buried in the spot, their stones stacked under Sarah Hannah’s cross. James’ inscription is strange but a little less mysterious: 'ALAS POOR YORICK.'"

- via Atlas Obscura

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“You and i are Earth 1661”. Tin-glazed earthenware plate found in a London sewer, from the Wellcome Collection’s “Dirt” exhibition.

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Alfonso Simonetti - The Letter (1870)

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British stage actress, Miss Gladys Cooper. By Bassano, early 1900s

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Literally Anne Bonny from Black Sails

cinema needs more henchwomen i think. not like sexy femme fatales who will turn good when the hero seduces them. just regular goons. women who will hit you over the head with a crowbar or get drunk in a saloon and shoot your hat off.

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everything is storytelling and me i also dont feel so real

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Some girlies are Pride and Prejudice (2005), I'm Jane Eyre (2006).

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can't leave this gem in the tags @chaewberry

An excerpt from the end of a letter where Mary Shelley rejects the advances of her long-time friend Edward Trelawny, 26 July 1831:

"My name will never be Trelawny. I am not so young as I was when you first knew me, but I am as proud. I must have the entire affection, devotion, and, above all, the solicitous protection of any one who would win me. You belong to womenkind in general, and Mary Shelley will never be yours.

I write in haste, but I will write soon again, more at length. You shall have your copies the moment I receive them. Believe me, with all gratitude and affection,

Yours,

M. W. Shelley."