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oldshrewsburyian · 23 minutes
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How about Percy in pink smoke
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that fancy lad
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oldshrewsburyian · 1 hour
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Wait wait wait. I'm as guilty of writing Henry V fic as the next person in this thread, but go back to the bit where Chalamet is writing Henry V fanfiction.
not timothee chalamet fans writing fanfic of Henry V
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that’s like writing fanfic of Henry VIII
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oldshrewsburyian · 3 hours
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Giovannino dei Grassi and Belbello da Pavia, Visconti Book of Hours
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oldshrewsburyian · 5 hours
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We’re watching the Return of the King right now, and got to the part where Denethor is introduced.  My husband asks me for the context of why Denethor is Like That, since I just finished reading the book.  So I explained how Denethor has been using a Palantir for years to get information, and how Sauron has been manipulating him by only letting him see events that give him a worst possible impression of reality.
So my husband replies “Oh!  So Denethor is basically just like your grandpa after he starts getting all his news from Fox.”   And honestly, yeah pretty much.
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oldshrewsburyian · 8 hours
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Takako Irie (Sanjuro)—I don't know a lot about her, but I found her when I was going down a Kurosawa rabbit hole on Wikipedia and I think she's just luminous? Also Wikipedia says in her later career she became known as a "ghost cat actress" because she starred in a string of ghost stories! Very very cool!
Olivia de Havilland (Adventures of Robin Hood, Gone With the Wind, The Heiress)— The woman who took on the Studio System at the height of their power and Won! A double Oscar winner! Is magnetic and beautiful in everything she's in and gave us all the juicy scandal with her sibling rivalry with Joan Fontaine! Before the Oscar Slap was the Oscar sister snub! Also everything she wears in Robin Hood she makes beautiful even a purple green and orange monstrosity how does she do it! Anyway this scene is one of my old Hollywood favourites
This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.
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Takako Irie:
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Olivia de Havilland:
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She is just perfection. She has a smile that is looks like it is barely holding back, and yet so reserved as well.
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Broke the contract system and won freedoms for actors (the de Havilland Law is still in effect I believe). 2 time Oscar winner. Beautiful and smart
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She legally challenged the movie studios' unfair contracts and won, setting a precedent for other actors to be treated more fairly. This was at great cost to her financially and essentially getting her blacklisted for years but the resulting judicial opinion is still known as the De Havilland Law and has won her a great deal of praise and admiration.
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Her performance in The Heiress is one of my all-time favorites, she’s so good at making melodrama feel real and grounded without sacrificing any of the passion/drama.
Serenely beautiful, she struck a balance between crowd-pleasing fluff and prestigious drama. Famously at odds with her equally successful sister Joan Fontaine, she was too much of a lady to ever say anything public. Successfully sued Ryan Murphy for portraying her as a saucy gossip in Feud.
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the period costume + eye patch combo in That Lady is just an absolute serve
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She has the most adorable and cherubic face and voice
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oldshrewsburyian · 10 hours
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day 01/100 | one hundred days of books
i've spent this week reading ninth house, after finally getting my hands on it last november. i recall there being controversy when it was first released, but honestly, i still don't understand why it provoked so much anger. the book comes with its own undercurrents of anger, and with so much still unresolved i don't expect that to end any time soon, but there's also something cathartic in it, every time a man gets brutalised for his misogyny, every time alex gets to truly show who she is. this was definitely not an easy read, but it was a powerful one.
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oldshrewsburyian · 12 hours
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people’s dismissal of history as a worthwhile subject of attention really begins to make sense when you see these utterly baffling takes like ‘today we all have to work to earn money and pay rent, I wish it were [Roman antiquity / the Middle Ages / the Renaissance] and I could just lounge in an orchard somewhere playing the lute’ etc. … even when they fall short of transparent fantasies of aristocratic luxury, this idea that people [general] worked less and had access to fresh food and could afford wine, is divorced from reality. even short of ‘oh, and who is gathering the harvest in this scenario?’ - which is an extremely valid question - I also just feel: aren’t you bored? of this image you’ve invented, of whole centuries, completely without detail? and I wouldn’t understand why people study history either if I thought it were all one big monotonous swathe of Nice.
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oldshrewsburyian · 12 hours
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you are going to hate me for this but choose any section from the iliad you want & rewrite it in the style of rupi kaur
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oldshrewsburyian · 20 hours
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*bursts into tears* SAM
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oldshrewsburyian · 22 hours
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DEBBIE OCEAN & LOU MILLER OCEAN’S EIGHT (2018) dir. Gary Ross
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oldshrewsburyian · 1 day
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you guys wanna see the most accurate and blasphemous representation of the words ‘catholic shaming’?
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Professor Jasper Tempest
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oldshrewsburyian · 1 day
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hot girl spring is out. mary lennox spring is in. get in loser we’re frolicking in the garden; we’re talking to birds; we’re getting lost in the heather; we’re wandering gothic manors in the dead of night and discovering secret cousins concealed in attic bedrooms, we’re jumping rope
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oldshrewsburyian · 1 day
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Girl mutuals meet me in the hoagie room
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oldshrewsburyian · 1 day
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obsessed with the wording of this. what greater speech therapy device could there be than this: the humble pebble
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oldshrewsburyian · 1 day
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 Reading - Ksenya Istomina
Russian, b. 1991   -
Oil on canvas ,   105 x  90 cm.
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oldshrewsburyian · 2 days
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Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
Brian du Bois-Guilbert: Have you confessed yourself, brother, and have you heard mass this morning, that you peril your life so frankly? Wilfred of Ivanhoe: I am fitter to meet death than thou art. Bois-Gilbert: Then take your place in the lists and look your last upon the sun, for this night thou shalt sleep in paradise. Ivanhoe: Gramercy for thy courtesy, and to requite it, I advise thee to take a fresh horse and a new lance. For by my honour, you will need both.
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