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this is one of my fav tweets of all time but one part of it haunts me so i need to know:

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“Nguyen Thi Hien, 19, head of the militia squad in Yen Vuc in Thanh Hoa Province, survived more than 800 airstrikes and was buried alive four times in B‑52 bomber attacks. 1966. Mai Nam/Patrick Chauvel Foundation” (x)

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the french beatles

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Sara Mrad | Ripples in the Wind

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Black Satin Brocade Bodice with Yellow Flowers and Green Velvet Bows

c.1890

made by American designer Miss Foley

brocaded silk satin, cotton net, and beads

Phoenix Art Museum

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puppy love

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is THIS your man? [shows an image of a malnourished injured exhausted man with big sad eyes looking up at the camera with blood smeared all over his face and mouth. and he is visibly trembling]

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1904-1906 Black lace and white silk dress (attr. to Madame Rose H. Boyd, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

(Minnesota Historical Society Collections)

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Madeleine Vionnet c. 1939

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Dress made of cream silk tulle and blue taffeta

c. 1900

maker unknown

Museu Nacional do Traje

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-you can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. you could swear, curse the fates. but when it comes to the end, you have to let go. jared harris as captain mike clark in the curious case of benjamin button(2008)

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I really like this thing The Terror does where no one ever kisses. At first I thought it was just being neo-Victorian, than it was about the vibes, but now I just think it's because as they said in interviews this show is about love between people and as a result they purposefully choose to only use elements that can be equally used to build romantic, platonic, familial and sexual relationships. If Bridgens and Peglar or Hickey and Gibson or Sophia and Francis kissed, their relationship would stand out, would be marked as special which is why they become worthy of a "bigger" gesture than their other relationships and that's the opposite of the point that The Terror is trying to make. Even Bridgens, who literally dies of a broken heart, is sobbing at James' deathbed that there will be poems. How people express love in The Terror is never differentiated in a way to imply that one kind of love is more important than the others.

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Silk brocade sack back gown, 1776 – 1778. © The Olive Matthews Collection, Chertsey Museum. Photo by John Chase Photography.

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Afternoon Dress, 1895

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Illustration from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Willy Pogany (1910)