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If you've been feeling lost about what to do in these times, why not help a Palestinian family in need?

Donate to my family here

Donate to the Karim family here

Donate to Nour's family here

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You think Watson ever felt guilty when Mary died as he was mourning Holmes, wishing he'd spent more time with her instead of grieving someone already gone? You think he buried her close to the honorary grave he made for Holmes, or separate so he could properly give each of them his attention when he came to visit? You think he buried them with a single plot between them, waiting for his own turn? You think he spent time creating checks and balances of who he was meant to be hurting over more?

You think when it was all over he ever went back to Mary's grave and begged her to come back too?

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funniest thing to me is people trying to distance holmesxwatson from bbc Sherlock so they replace “johnlock” with “watmes”. Like, who? How do you even pronounce that? Idk man just slap acd in front of it it’s fine man

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『ウェディングピーチ』 [愛天使伝説ウェディングピーチ - ウェディングピーチ]

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Mihály Munkácsy (Hungarian), The Music Room, 1878, oil on canvas.

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People who insist tumblr must be 90% LGBT because their self-curated dash is have never gotten a weird comment on a post and went to check the person's blog and discovered an entire deep subculture of christian and tradwife users reblogging anti-abortion quotes and transphobia between each other. I promise you they're on here.

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i love conan doyle's female characters with all my heart however. agatha christie's women are better .. more fleshed out and varied in personalities, with more inner depth and allowed to be absolutely deranged! nick buckley and vera claythorne are the characters of all times

even if the mystery itself is mid, it will likely have an awesome woman to carry the story on her back and make it memorable - perchance even more than one!

and i haven't even read a single story with ariadne oliver or miss lemon in it so i probably haven't even seen the best of christie's female characters

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have you watched "idol tenshi youkoso yoko"?

i often saw it in crossovers with idol densetsu eriko and wondered if they are connected...

It looks very cute, although I haven't seen it personally! Idol Tenshi Youkoso Yoko [1990] came out the year after Idol Densetsu Eriko [1989] and both are by Ashi Productions. ^^

I do know there is official art of them together, along with their pets (Eriko's two dogs and Yoko's flying squirrel), although I didn't know Yoko's name at the time!

The source of the image on the left seems to be B-Club Special: Legend of Idol, @animarchive has more high quality images, although this seems to be the only one with Eriko, and the poses and outfits match those of the toys.

There are also these Idol Collection toys by Yujin of them together (along with Eriko's pets and her rival, Asagiri Rei!)

Seems similar to how some companies will put all their magical girls together in promotions and such. ^^

Like Studio Pierrot's magical girls.

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1994 Phantom Manor stretching portraits by Julie Svendsen

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having thoughts about that one chapter in attwn

so the least racist character in this lovely company of the worst people on earth is emily brent emily fucking brent. "black and white all are our brothers in christ" so she can despise everyone equally because they're all sinners and should all go to hell! so they can all be equally below our virtuous lady's moral high ground! equality win

why did vera start justifying lombard's crime? when lombard first confessed, she was just as terrified as everyone else, she also saw the act as depraved and cruel ...

or was her question not meant as "africans' lives are not as valuable anyway", but "since they were local, they should've known better how to survive"? anyway it's really disturbing.. what lead to that change what does it all mean!!!

i must note that im reading a translated edition, and the original title and all the offensive racial references are still present here.

makes me wonder if that was an intentional choice? a commentary on how people from british white society views themselves as "civilised and virtuous" (which is brought up by characters in the novel), while they're themselves capable of terrifying crimes, while also finding excuses for them in victorian morality - or straight up proclaiming the lives of those deemed "uncivilised" are disposable?

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I saw you reblog one of my posts and I went to check out your blog and I gotta ask: what’s the name of that kind of 80-90s style anime you post about often and what is it about? From the looks of your reblogs and posts it sounds super interesting 🩷

Hi! I tag meticulously, so you'll find the name of the show and characters and everything in the tags of each post! ;3; Unless I'm reblogging something I literally know nothing about, untagged posts are not the norm on my blog at all.

Most likely, you mean Idol Densetsu Eriko. ^^ It's a very popular eighties anime [mangaka like Togashi Yoshihiro referenced it in their works] that still gets aired today in Arabic-speaking countries and was also popular in several European countries, but sadly, was never dubbed into English. It's the last anime subtitled by Doll of Licca fansubs, the focus of which was old [often shoujo] anime. ^^ And what a final project it was!

[This image taken from this post by @yyh4ever.]

This is an idol anime, but a very down-to-earth one. No magical girl transformations. The closest thing to supernatural elements is when Eriko first performs, some cameramen see a "fairy light" glowing about her... and twice, you see her father's spirit, which his family seems to sense...

Oh, this isn't spoiling things, Eriko is a rich, naive, but honest and earnest heir to a wealthy family--her father, Tamura Yuusuke, runs Tamura Productions and her mother, Tamura Minako, is a retired singer. Eriko goes to a prestigious and strict girl's school that doesn't allow anything so salacious as makeup... she lives a charmed life and enjoys regular school days with her friends, girlish Asami and tomboyish biker Yasuko.

But in her very first episode, tragedy strikes. Eriko loses both her parents to a traffic accident--her father dies and her mother slips into a coma. Only fourteen springtimes young, Eriko is suddenly alone, apart from her family's loyal driver Karasawa and kindly maid Yuki.

Yuusuke, her father, was the younger, but more accomplished brother. Now that he's dead, his often overshadowed older brother, Kousuke, can rise to the top, claiming Tamura Productions and Yuusuke's fortune!

Eriko, having no other living relatives, it seems, ends up in the care of her greedy uncle, who immediately exploits Eriko's talents when he realizes what a good singer she is.

If you enjoy old shoujo anime with a plucky, idealistic protagonist who does her best to grin and bear whatever life throws at her and pushes onward even if her heart is breaking, who inspires others with her honesty and determination, you'll enjoy Eriko. You'll also enjoy Eriko if you like beautiful songs (the real-life Tamura Eriko who was herself only 15 when she recorded these songs, adding authenticity, although some have troubling lyrics... sigh, the 80's)! You'll also enjoy Eriko even if you dislike the idol industry (for better or worse, as sweet as the protagonist is, the world around her can be cruel--from paparazzi, scandals, and dirty old men who harrass young idols and face zero repercussions at all as their behaviour is both a public secret and made light of...)! If you love the sweetly nostalgic and sentimental, heartwarming stories in older anime, you'll love Eriko. If you love coming of age / end of childhood stories, you'll love Eriko. If you love well-written rivals and girls of opposite personalities with very different backgrounds becoming friends, you'll love Eriko and Rei (who is both a rival and something of a secondary protagonist in her own right--she gets a lot of focus episodes and backstory.)

Also, there are cute puppies. Pianissimo and Fortissimo do not speak, they have no great bearing on the plot, they are just adorable, furry little moral support and comic relief.

Dock points if you dislike mild fanservice of young characters (very brief panty shots [think 90's Sailor Moon with its many upskirt scenes], never gratuitous or the focus of scenes, but it's definitely there--Eriko's clothes are just short but otherwise mostly appropriate, Rei is the one in more sexualized and revealing clothes, although she's 16, so not a minor by many countries' standards, but by U.S. standards, she is--I'm warning just in case that's a dealbreaker for you!)

There might be some age gap romances too, I don't remember the age difference between one affianced rich couple, but it's overall light on romance and a lot of it is one-sided pining. I'm on the last two episodes and there has only been a single kiss between two characters close in age, pfft.

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my beautiful wife vera elisabeth claythorne did nothing wrong ever

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Gouache illustrations by Benjamin Albert Stahl for "The Best of Sherlock Holmes" (Franklin Library, 1977) (pt 2/2)

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Gouache illustrations by Benjamin Albert Stahl for "The Best of Sherlock Holmes" (Franklin Library, 1977) (pt 1/2)

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My body tea and my hairline receding

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Madge Bellamy as Madeline in White Zombie (1932) 

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THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) dir. Luc Besson —costume design & original sketches by Jean Paul Gaultier