#May 16

[shisasan]

May 16, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927  [volume 3] 

[lonestardust]

RONEN RUBINSTEIN and RAFAEL SILVA for Hello Magazine by © Margot Judge. May 2023.

[akasanata]

No, little Jonathan, don't go sleeping outside your room

Enter Dracula's three weed smoking girlfriends

This whole page. Wow. So well done.

Possessive much, Dracula?

Poor Jonathan, the fact that he now feels Dracula is the lesser evil kills me

[yallemagne]

Yes, I too can love.

[on-this-day-mcr]

On this day, May 16

In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed the first show of the 2022-23 Swarm tour at The Eden Project in Cornwall, England. At this show the songs “The Foundations of Decay”, “Surrender the Night” and “Boy Division” were performed live for the first time. (🖤)

Watch the show here! 

Sophie Garrett 

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Society ladies on Park Avenue selling tickets to a fair at Luna Park, Coney Island, May 16, 1922. Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (?!) is selling tickets at a kiosk.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[thethirdromana]

Dracula's roommates, in gifs

All gifs by talented tumblr gif-makers, commentary by me. I haven't seen most of the films so all commentary is on vibes alone.

Dracula (1931)

Full marks for spookiness, and here we have a book-accurate two brunettes and a blonde. I'm impressed by the amount of fabric that these ladies are collectively wearing, especially given that the front hem of their dresses is longer than floor-length. I wonder how many takes they had where they just tripped up and faceplanted the spooky stone floor?

Brides of Dracula (1960)

There are only two brides in this, as part of the plot is the acquisition of a third bride. The main vibe these two give me are of a sleepover just as the edibles are kicking in. They seem very friendly. Might get the munchies later though.

Dracula (1968)

It's hard to tell from the gif, but this is what Wikipedia claims to be the only version where one of the brides of Dracula is black (on the left, played by Nina Baden-Semper). I'm surprised more adaptations don't do this, given the physical description we get only requires that two are dark and one fair. Sadly they don't get any dialogue in this, just some expressive hand-movements.

Count Dracula (1977)

Dear lord, could this be more 70s?? The hair, the dresses, the makeup, even what I assume is a cod-medieval tapestry could only be from one decade. I don't much like the kind of brattish submissiveness happening in this gif (ymmv, of course). But apparently one of them is French, which is fun.

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Interesting how much more active the brides become as the years go on. I mean, the lip-licking is right there in the text, but this feels very full on compared with the coquettish earlier brides. They do look fabulous though - so fabulous that all other brides follow the same model from this point onwards.

Dracula 2000 (2000, unsurprisingly)

A modern-day Dracula provides us with some modern-day brides, though in essence they're much the same as the 1992 ones. I have never seen anyone on Tumblr ever mention this film, which makes me suspect that it's atrocious.

Van Helsing (2004)

Dracula starts off with three brides in Van Helsing but if I remember correctly, they don't appear on screen at the same time (if they do, I couldn't find a gif of it). I kind of wish they'd gone for the period-ish costumes of the ballroom scene for the brides, but instead we get 1992 again, in both costume and general red-lipped vampishness.

[t470n]

So what I'm hearing is every character in Dracula is bisexual

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Jonathan: fuck you Dracula i can sleep wherever i want!

Dracula's Three Weed-Smoking Girlfriends: Look here - he is young and strong; there are kisses for us all.

Jonathan: *pretends to sleep harder*

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)

(Photo by Bernard Dupont)

Conservation Status- Endangered

Habitat- Central Atlantic Ocean; Central Pacific Ocean; Indian Ocean; Mediterranean Sea

Size (Weight/Length)- 230 kg; 120 cm

Diet- Seagrass; Algae; Sponges; Small fish

Cool Facts- Being the only member of its genus, the green sea turtle is a gentle giant. Surprisingly, these turtles are not named after their shell color like most sea turtles and instead are named after their green colored fat under their carapace. Green sea turtles are mostly herbivores, acting as lawnmowers for lagoons. Most beaches that these sea turtles use for nesting are fiercely protected by local people, often seeing the turtles as a point of pride for their community. The eggs are carefully relocated for temperature control, warmer eggs become female and cooler eggs become male. With warming temperatures, wild green sea turtle hatchlings result in a disproportionate number of female turtles. In addition, floating trash, boat strikes, and poaching are the most common cause of death for these turtles, even above their natural predators like sharks. 

Rating- 12/10 (Their shell is a living ecosystem.)

[hey-color-palettes]

Can you make a pallette for Richie Tozier (1990 kid version) please :)

★ #a04c1b ★ #dccec1 ★ #782613 ★ #441607 ★ #241817 ★

[lonestardust]

MR. & MR. CARLOS & TK REYES-STRAND 🖤 5.16.2023.

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode nationale, no. 264, 16 mai 1891, Paris. Robes de soirée pour mariage. No. 7. — (1) Toilette de soirée. (2) Robe de faille bleu-ciel. (3) Robe de crêpe crème. Bibliothèque nationale de France

(1) Toilette de soirée. Robe de mousseline de soie rose. Corsage drapé, ouvert en cœur, soutenu seulement par une épaulette drapée. Appliques de passementerie blanche autour de l'encolure. Jupe plate, coupée en travers par des passementeries blanches, plissée derrière à larges plis faisant la traîne. Petite coiffure chaperon, en mousseline de soie chiffonnée, ornée pat une petite plume blanche.

(1) Evening ensemble. Pink chiffon dress. Draped bodice, open in the heart, supported only by a draped epaulette. Appliques of white trimmings around the neckline. Flat skirt, cut across with white trimmings, pleated behind with wide pleats forming a trail. Little hood hairstyle, in crumpled silk muslin, adorned with a small white feather.

Métrage: 12 mètres mousseline de soie, grande largeur.

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(2) Robe de faille bleu-ciel, à corsage drapé, retenu sur la poitrine par un galon d'argent. Touffe de plumes blanches sur l'épaule gauche. Jupe ronde, légèrement froncée tout autour. Coiffure formée par un oiseau couché.

(2) Sky-blue faille dress, with draped bodice, held on the chest by a silver lace. Tuft of white feathers on the left shoulder. Round skirt, slightly gathered all around. Hairstyle formed by a reclining bird.

Métrage: 18 mètres faille.

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(3) Robe de crêpe crème. Corsage drapé, retenu par un gros nœud crème sur la poitrine. Manches flottantes, bouillonnées sur le bras, retenues par des nœuds sur les épaules et à la saignée. Jupe drapée à hauteur es genoux et plissée derrière. Un gros nœud retient devant la draperie. Coiffure de perles fines, terminée derrière par une aigrette.

(3) Cream crepe dress. Draped bodice, held in place by a large cream bow on the chest. Floating sleeves, bubbled on the arm, retained by bows on the shoulders and at the bleeding. Skirt draped at knee height and pleated behind. A large knot holds in front of the drapery. Headdress of fine pearls, finished behind by an aigrette.

Métrage: 20 mètres crêpe crème.

[yallemagne]

I can't wait for Jonathan's Pain Months. Because I just remembered. The night before the Weird Sisters almost made him one of them. He was writing while thinking of being like a lady who once had sat right there writing. While musing about the recurring of time, the meeting of past and present. Turns out there was a lady, or rather more than one. And he's the new one to join the past ones. It was foreshadowing. It's crazy.

Jonathan, dreamily: "Oh, to be a lady... writing love letters to a faraway beloved..."

Weird Sisters: "HEY GIRLY WANNA BECOME PART OF THE FAMILY??"

Jonathan: "YOU JUST APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE!"

Weird Sisters: "If you join you can materialize from moonbeams, too <333"

Okay okay, I gotta say something serious about this.

So, you know how Dracula said those Things about old houses? How they have histories? Souls, even? Jonathan's my theatre bitch, so he picks up on this. He sneaks into this room and says "ah yes, I feel a feminine energy from this room, very comforting but wistful, yearnful, even". AND MY BABY GIRL WAS RIGHT?!

But while he has the romantic fantasy of being a lady worriedly waiting for her love to come back from battle, it is outshined by his desire to return to his real life back with Mina. He could have been one of them, but unlike the woman in his fantasy, unlike the women who accosted him, he does not toil away waiting to be found, he escapes, breaking the chain. I don't doubt that the latter two Sisters may have been lured in by the same peaceful energy that compelled Jonathan to stay in that room. But Jonathan had someone to run to, and they did not.

Great, now I got a lotta feelings about damsel Jonathan right now.

[callmebrycelee]

HAPPY 57TH BIRTHDAY, JANET JACKSON!!!

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