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Kate Sharma is finally here and I , a desi girl could not be more excited than I am today! I’m so happy that the production team chose Simone Ashley. I simply cannot wait for all our lovely Kathony moments in Bridgerton season 2! Let’s celebrate with a fanart today. I added bits and pieces of the process and inspiration as well. I’m looking forward to how the official costume team would fuse Regency fashion with South Asian fashion.

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Downton Abbey Modern AU Christmas Aesthetic (2/12)

Sybil & Tom

**images not mine

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Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra in Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola // Megan Fox as Jennifer Check in Jennifer’s Body (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama

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DRACULA’S DAUGHTER dir. Lambert Hillyer

DRACULA dir  Tod Browning, Karl Freund

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this halloween season, please remember that nosferatu (1922) is an allegory for the ‘invasion’ of jewish immigrants. count orlok is an antisemitic caricature, and his image in the movie is quite literally responsible for anti-jewish nazi propaganda. the movie itself is about jews perversing and defiling western culture, assaulting gentile women, etc. etc. please, please don’t ignore the potent antisemitism in the movie.

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

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Sadie Frost in Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Costume design by Eiko Ishioka

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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, b. 22 October 1870 ↳ “Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing. Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry. I know Hyacinthus, whom Apollo loved so madly, was you in Greek days.�� 

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, b. 16 October 1854

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it is oscar wilde day today

so remember!!!!

be gay!!!!!!

do crime!!!!!

talk about wallpapers!!!!

make him proud!!!!

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Here’s this man who believed when he died that his name would be toxic for generations to come. For hundreds of years, his works wouldn’t be read. He would stand for nothing but perversion. Utter disgust of a society that couldn’t bear people like him.

Well, two years ago, the Irish government and the French partook and shared in the restoration of his sarcophagus, his tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetary in Paris, and it had to be restored, because the polished stone of its surface had corroded through kisses.

Wouldn’t it just be allowed to wake him up, just for five minutes, just to tell him that, then he could go back to sleep again?

– Stephen Fry, 2016

Happy 165th birthday to a wonderful dandy ♥

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— The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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we must bring this fashion back in the name of vampires

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Movies you'd recommend to homosexual dandies with a tendency towards passionate love affairs and aesthetic fancies?

for my dandy men

a single man (2009)

anders als die andern (1919) [silent film]

another country (1984)

brideshead revisited (1981) [miniseries]

christopher and his kind (2011)

edward ii (1969) [taped theatrical production]

maurice (1987)

the picture of dorian gray (1945)

wilde (1997)

for my dandy ladies

bessie (2015)

carol (2015)

frida (2002)

mystère à la tour eiffel (2015)

reaching for the moon (2013)

the handmaiden (2016)

the hours (2002)

the world unseen (2007)

tipping the velvet (2002) [miniseries]

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ENDLESS LIST OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS: LESTAT DE LIONCOURT

I am proud; I am an egomaniac of a being; I do love attention; I want glory; I want to be wanted by God and the Devil; I want, I want, I want, I want.

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Happy birthday to her.

House of La Marck & of Tudor: Anne of Cleves (Anna von Kleve)

Anne of Cleves, also known by her German name Anna von Kleve, was born on September 22, 1515. Her parents are John III, Duke of Cleves and Maria, Duchess of Jülich-Berg. She was the second child and daughter for the couple. Anne’s siblings are Electress Sibylle of Saxony, Duke William of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and Amalia of Cleves.

Amalia and Anne were both considered as possible wives for Henry VIII of England. After he saw portraits of each of them, he chose Anne. It is probable that he chose her over her younger sister Amalia was because the latter had less favorable hereditary rights in her father’s duchy.

However, the marriage did not last long and was annulled only 7 months and 3 days after the ceremony. Anne agreed to the annulment which was made official on July 9, 1540. Since the marriage had not been consumated, Anne remained officially a maiden.

The former queen received a generous settlement, including Richmond Palace, and Hever Castle, home of Henry’s former in-laws, the Boleyns. Henry and Anne became good friends—she was an honorary member of the King’s family and was referred to as “the King’s Beloved Sister”. She was invited to court often and, out of gratitude for her not contesting the annulment, Henry decreed that she would be given precedence over all women in England save his own wife and daughters.

Anne of Cleves died of breast cancer on July 16, 1557. She was the last of Henry VIII’s wifes to die. Catherine Parr had died nine years earlier.

// Joss Stone as Anne of Cleves in The Tudors