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its story time kiddos

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reblog for good things to happen to you

the universe will listen

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“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (via understands)

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this is SO Les Mouches

Gif credit: dietrichmarlene

“Marlene Dietrich lights a cigarette, straightens her bow-tie, and adjusts her top hat. Clad in a black tailcoat, she strides onto a modest stage. She is met with jeers. While she waits for quiet, the camera lingers on her sculptural face, sharply drawn eyebrows, and ironic smile. She saunters over to the audience, leans on a railing, and begins to sing. After the song, she accepts champagne from a male admirer, then spies the man’s date. She looks the woman up and down; the woman titters nervously. Dietrich plucks a flower out of the woman’s hair, lifts it to her face and smells it, then leans down suddenly, takes the woman’s chin in her hand and kisses her firmly on the mouth. The audience laughs and applauds, the woman hides her face in pleased embarrassment, and Dietrich smiles, sniffs the flower, and flicks the brim of her hat. Dietrich turns towards the audience and raises her hat, accepting the applause.

This scene from Morocco (Paramount, 1930) is one of the most famous cross-dressing scenes in cinema history. Queer viewers have embraced it as an isolated and cherished expression of lesbian desire and sensual androgyny. Alongside Greta Garbo’s cross-dressed monarch in Queen Christina (MGM, 1933) and Katharine Hepburn’s cross-dressed con woman in Sylvia Scarlett (RKO, 1935), Dietrich’s Amy Jolly is often characterized as one of the lone early representations of women cross-dressing and expressing desire for women in American cinema.”

-From Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, by Laura Horak

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everyone’s favorite tv show momma

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i love it when italians argue about italian. like we don’t even know how our language really works we just roll with it

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POSE 2 (2019)

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oh god i love patti lupone so much

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I’m ready for Patti LuPone’s Twitter to be absolutely fucking wild. This is the equivalent of giving that bitch a sword.

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115 lmao

I took a test on like where you are on the ‘nonverbal intimacy scale’ and the average female score is 102 and male is 93.8 and I got 56 lolololol

here it is if ya want (reblog/reply w/ what you get!!)

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When you start stanning Patti LuPone do not stop at the surface, continue down into the dark crevices of that thicc gay italian gremlin I promise it’s worth it

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Emoji spell for positivity to come your way this week. This is my first emoji spell so please be nice to me and I’d appreciate any advice on this! Likes charge! Reblogs cast!

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George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in Invisible Stripes  (Lloyd Bacon, 1939)

Bogart played second lead for many years until his breakthrough success with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon in 1941

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Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night (1940)