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“One day I shall be the princess, and spend my whole life dancing in fairyland.”

— Anna Pavlova, I Dreamed I Was A Ballerina (1922)

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it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010

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“she should be at the club” well i should be in the green house party paintings by salman toor

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"people in real life: hey man how's it going" is a killer phrase. instantly neutralizes whatever insane discourse you find online. gonna start using that from now on

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the voyage home is the physical representation of leonard nimoy’s eternal soul

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the sun literally sets and casts a golden hue over everything every single day and we fucked it all up and invented paying rent

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So funny when super conventionally attractive people have weird ass tumblr personality disorder and chronic poster syndrome like I’ll scroll through your blog and see some of the weirdest shit anyone has ever said and then get jump scared by a picture of the most beautiful person I’ve ever seen which is then followed by some more of the weirdest shit anyone has ever said

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Lando Calrissian

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matthias stom, “the incredulity of st. thomas” (1649) // caravaggio, “the incredulity of saint thomas” (1603) // jenny holzer, “someone wants to cut a hole in you” (1981)  

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To the person who just unfollowed me was it because of the bela lugosi jesus post

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Bela Lugosi as Jesus Christ on stage in Hungary.Circa 1914.

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THE LESSON OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS, OF GREEK TRAGEDY, AND ULTIMATELY, OF ALL RELIGIONS, IS THAT THERE IS AN INSTINCTIVE TENDENCY TOWARDS DIVINE INTOXICATION WHICH THE RATIONAL WORLD OF CALCULATION CANNOT BEAR.* IF YOURE LISTENING!! IF YOU EVEN CARE!!!!

*Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

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Marcia McBroom as Petronella Danforth BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970) dir. Russ Meyer

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So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

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Malcolm X dining at Chamon, a curry house owned by Bangladeshis in the Selly Oak neighborhood of Birmingham, England on February 12, 1965.

Photos by Kelvin Brodie

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Still thinking about the absolute conviction with which Billy Dee Williams gives his answer.