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I study physics at oxford university and I can say that we’re pretty great :)

dont even TALK to me unless your favorite science is chemistry. biology ppl get a semi-pass. physics people get fucked. 

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Celestial Mapping and Celestial Proportions by Tallmadge Doyle

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Aunt Carrol wants me to go to Europe with her?

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04.15.2016 Les Jardins de Diane, Fontainebleau (France)

The gardens and the castle were empty. I managed to shut off my mind for few hours and simply enjoy myself in the moment,  I need to spend more often such quality time.

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Don’t feel bad if you’re sensitive to negative feedback because apparently after one particular bad review Hans Christian Andersen was found just sobbing while lying face down in the dirt

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Sir Frank Dicksee, Sylvia, Particolare.

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Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), Sweetest Story Ever Told (c.1910), pen and ink over graphite underdrawing, published in Collier’s Weekly, August 13, 1910. Via Library of Congress.

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i want to live in rome and wear billowing white blouses everyday and eat pomegranates and risotto and wine and go to cathedrals to see the art and explore the catacombs by candlelight

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quadruple stop chords on the violin by era

renaissance: what’s a chord??

baroque: r e a l l y s l o w g m i n o r c h o r d

classical: annoyingly upbeat g major chord

romantic: choppy, quick stops that change notes really fast

twentieth century: now you’re playing this dsch motif really fast so then your cadenza can sound virtuostic lmao

contemporary: grip the neck of the violin with a fist and slam the bow so hard on the strings they all snap and hit you in the face so you start crying

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The Ladies Waldegrave (details) by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

oil on canvas, 1780-1781

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“The Duke of Anjou [later Monsieur, Duke of Orleans] was made to occupy himself with only futilities and bagatelles.  Very proud of his pretty face, he likes to decorate himself, he seeks out trinkets.  Nothing gives him greater pleasure than to be dressed as a woman.”

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fair ravenclaw, from glen …

for @parselmouthingoff. happy birthday alexis!

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What do I believe? In the private life, in holding up culture, in music, Shakespeare, old buildings.

-Susan Sontag

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By Janus | Chinese wuxia style. Chinese people call this kind of ambience ‘江湖jianghu’.