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The Magic of Camelot: A Medieval Soap Opera by Christopher Varaste

Barbie® Bazaar - August 2000

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We’re Harkonnens. So this is how we’ll survive, by being Harkonnens.

Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson // achilles & partoclus // house of dragon, 1x07 // plainwater, anne carson // the truth about forever, sarah dessen // lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson

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Kate Phillips as Jane Seymour and Lydia Leonard as Jane Parker in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

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academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

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What's the good of all the flowers on graves. I've never really understood it.

Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena, [Prague, July 29, 1920]

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HOTD fandom: Hotd is not really about picking sides, it's about how power corrupts and all the characters are morally gr-

HBO promo: pICK A SIDE NOW

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Detail of Lucrezia Borgia as St Catherine, from Disputation of St Catherine of Alexandria

by Pinturicchio

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Claire Bloom as Anne Neville in Richard III (1955)

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history + france's almost queens

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hii there, do you know where can we watch the full movie of La Conjura de el Escorial?

Sorry, anon. As far as I know, the only platform you can see it on is FlixOlé (the platform of spanish cinema). Although I don't recommend it, it's a bad movie.

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do you watched society of the snow?

I haven't been able to watch it.

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do you heard about Cristóbal Balenciaga series?

No, anon. I don't have time to watch it 😭

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remember your life doesn't end at 20. dante alighieri got exiled from florence at 36! you still have time <3

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the bonaparte siblings (requested by anon)

"They were not worried about seeming out of place, they did not fear making mistakes or doing something silly; they had no concern for responsibilities; they had a self-confidence that was not even accompanied by a sense of the duties high position entailed. And this self-confidence sustained them despite everything, and so long as their luck held, it made easy for them things that to others seemed simply impossible. […] The audacity to attempt everything, the certainty of succeeding everywhere— in short, all the attributes of genius, except for genius." — Frédéric Masson

J O S E P H's close bond with the Emperor was often tested throughout their political careers, but never broken. He was without question his closest companion but proved to be more successful as a businessman before and after the Empire.

L U C I E N was never offered a crown or a throne, and broke off from the rest of the family as early as the 1800s. He frequently opposed his brothers' views and notably refused to divorce his wife in favor of a diplomatic alliance. Unlike his siblings, his title was bestowed by the Pope.

E L I S A, contrary to her sisters who primarily held consort roles or acted as strawmen, is believed to be the only Bonaparte sister, and only woman, with actual political powers bestowed by the Emperor. She's the only one of the adult siblings to die before him.

L O U I S' frequent conflicts with the Emperor led Napoléon to annex the Kingdom of Holland in 1810, driving him and his family into exile. Louis would go on to become the father of Napoléon III.

Despite a tumultuous relationship, P A U L I N E was considered Napoléon's favorite sister, and proved to be the most loyal of the imperial siblings, liquidating her assets and visiting him in Elba.

Often regarded as the most influential of the Bonaparte sisters, C A R O L I N E was constantly caught in-between her husband and her brother. She was instrumental in the divorce and remarriage of the Emperor. Her political legacy not only didn't survive the fall of the Empire, but effectively predated it through a series of conflicts with her brother.

J E R O M E was the last sibling standing by 1860, and out of them all was the only one to support the Emperor at Waterloo. He would also be the only one to see the re-creation of the Empire and his nephew on the throne.

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ART HISTORY MEME→ [4/6] themes and subjects Death and Memento Mori

Death and the Maiden, Hans Baldung (1518-20) | Allegory of Death: In Ictu Oculi, Juan de Valdés Leal, (1672) | The Frailty of Human Life, Salvator Rosa (1656) | Self Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle, Arnold Böcklin (1872)