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Greta Garbo’s iconic eyes in magazine covers throughout the 1920s.

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Brothers™

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Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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Mary Ruefle

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I promise you that.

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The Goldsboro Headlight, North Carolina, April 13, 1899

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The Dutch Masters, Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine

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Write something, discard. Post, delete. Draw, erase. Some things are better left between God and I.

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The Lehigh Burr, Pennsylvania, 1929

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                                  A Celebration of Beauty (Series 3)

1.  A Balneator by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912)

2. “ Joseph, le nègre “ by  Adolphe Brune (French 1802-1875)

3. “ Portrait of a Moorish man seated “ by  Karoly Csùzy

4.  “The Barber of Suez” by Leon Bonnat (1876)

5.  José Silbert (French, 1862-1936) “Le montreur de cacatoè”

6.  Ludwig Deutsch “The Inspection” (1883)

7.  Moorish Prince (Head of an Algerian), 1897. Elizabeth Nourse (1860-1938)

8.  Ludwig Deutsch The Palace Guard (detail)

9.  Mariano Fortuny Marsal - Moroccan

10. “Head of a Moor” by José Tapiro y Baro (Spanish, 1830–1913)

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dark academic YA + adult books, for the reader who doesn’t enjoy the old classics:

the raven cycle — maggie stiefvater (YA)

welsh kings, magic forests, obsessive research, private schools.

wilder girls — rory power (YA)

lord of the flies retelling, all-girls boarding school, remote island.

six of crows — leigh bardugo (YA)

murder, crime, heists, magic.

truly devious — maureen johnson (YA)

murder mystery, eccentric students, elite boarding school, 1900s

the night circus — erin morgenstern (A)

magical circus, mysterious psychics, mind games, star crossed love.

the diviners — libba bray (YA)

1920s new york city, wlw + mlm rep, ace rep, occult magic, mysterious museums

vicious — v.e. schwab (A)

an experiment gone wrong, blackout poetry, rivals, strange powers

the cruel prince — holly black (YA)

FAERIES, enemies to lovers, political power struggles, another magic forest

station eleven — emily st. john mandel (A)

shakespeare, thespians, post-apocalyptic wasteland

serpent & dove — shelby mahurin (YA)

witches, french backdrop, 1880s, enemies to lovers, WITCHES

feel free to add on!

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getting better is like *absolves childhood me of guilt for things i was too young to understand* *forgives present version of me for not being compassionate enough to my younger self* and so on

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I want my gay rights now! - Marsha P. Johnson (NYC Pride Parade, 1973)

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And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced:

Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:

And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

It flung up momently the sacred river.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

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To pose Woman is to pose the absolute Other, without reciprocity, denying against all experience that she is a subject, a fellow human being.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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19th century painting of the ballroom at the Winter Palace, Russia by Mihaly Zichy

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The West Plains Journal, Missouri, September 26, 1912