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1913 Swedish evening dress by Augusta Lundin

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mine would probs be: one direction, taylor swift, ed sheeran, the script and coldplay 

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Blue and Green Silk Evening Dress, 1913-1914, French.

Designed by Jeanne Hallée.

Met Museum.

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‘Portrait of Urania’ by British School, 19th century.

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No fucking way LMFAO

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Ruination, Austin Hodges

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If the government really wanted to actually cut down on vape usage they would force manufacturers to add an unmutable slide whistle sound effect that played every time you take a hit

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'but girl she killed people!' so. she deserved to what do you want me to do about it

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Evening dress, early 1860s.

Fashion Museum Bath

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René Lalique, Diadem of pearls, diamonds, gold and enamelwork, ca. 1903 (Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim)

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speaking of Dirtbag Thomas, I love fics where he is Just So Into His Sister

people have different headcanons about whether the whole trauma-driven incest situation was fully consensual on his part. I like it to be enthusiastically consensual. (not because I'm into incest in general in fiction- I'm pretty fictional-incest-neutral, really, where consenting adult characters are involved; it's not a kink OR a squick of mine -but more because I just love that angle on Thomas deeply)

give me Sir Thomas Sharpe, Baronet, grumbling about how the ancient pharaohs married their sisters, so he doesn't see why he can't. it's downright unfair, he thinks, especially when his sister is so very perfect and lovely and wonderful. yes, she has her unpleasant points, but he is very good at levers both mechanical and mental; he can usually push the right subtle "buttons" to make her stop (he thinks). Lucille might have to kiss him about it- and remind him that, as long as they stay safe at home, she can be as much wife to him as he likes

and he likes. boy, does he like. because he is, again, a pretty charming broken dirtbag

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i think a big reason that I get frustrated with the "liberals have never made anybody's lives better" is that in the US it used to be legal for insurance companies to charge you more if you were sick or even just straight up deny you the ability to sign up for them if you already had a "pre-existing condition", and this was only stopped by the passage of the ACA during Obama's term. but a lot of people who talk about politics on here are too young to really be affected by that since they would have been on their parents insurance (which the ACA required insurers extend until you're 26). and this was all done via politicking and not blowing up insurance CEOs mansions or whatever.

I'm not saying that the ACA fixed insurance forever, god no. but "you can't deny someone insurance for being sick" is a massive change and people don't realize it!

Most adults want the law’s prohibition on insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions to stay. Two thirds (67%) of the public say that it is “very important” that this provision remain in place, including most Republicans (54%) However, only about 4 in 10 people (39%) are aware that that provision is part of the ACA.

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Y’all I can’t believe the “whistleblower assassination” and “literally falling apart in the sky” company is being represented by a man named Rich White

You could not call a character this in a movie because everyone would say “that’s not realistic” and yet!

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She is brightness, she is luminance. She will hypnotize you and drag you into her world. Her name...

... is Light Mode. 

This drawing turned out a little more serious than I had originally intended. I get so many comments about using light mode for my computer and phone that it became the inspiration for some new artwork!

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Brutalism is when there’s concrete. The more conk they crete, the more brutalismer it is.

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Thomas Sharpe for the character ask!

How I feel about this character: Poor Little Meow Meow. Wet Cat Man. Rancid and Charming and Pretty.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Edith and Lucille, usually together, but I can also enjoy exploring pre-canon exclusive Sharpecest. Focal Thomas/Edith with implied background OT3 can be okay, but true exclusive Thomas/Edith is of no interest to me.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: He seems to really like the dog. Or kind of tolerate the dog. He did leave the dog outside to die, but eh- water under the bridge.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I don't like the interpretation that he's totally innocent/had no role in the Bluebeard plot beyond doing what Lucille said/he's totally redeemable and Better Than Lucille. I think he's a more fun character if he's just as- or almost as -twisted as her, in his own way. Just like she's equally sympathetic to him.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: Dude...you couldn't have floated your threesome idea a bit more gently or at a better time?