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#same

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Safety Last! (1923)

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MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

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and we’ll never belong.

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at least we were together

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Cheryl Chen, from "Epistle: River to Ophelia"

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Montmartre, Paris (by Bastien)

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BRIGHT STAR (2009)

dir. jane campion

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Anton Chekhov, from "A Living Chattel" in Complete Works of Anton Chekhov

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BAILEY BASS as Claudia

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022) 1.06 - Like Angels Put in Hell by God

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She was a romantic, sentimental child, with a preference for solitude, few friends, and a propensity to be moved to tears when the roses in the garden bloomed, when she smelled the rags and soap the nuns used as they bent over their tasks, and when she stayed behind to experience the melancholy stillness of the empty classrooms. She was considered timid and morose.

Isabel Allende, The House of The Spirits

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We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. The naked woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor is a victim of accidie, or the naked woman is an exhibitionist, and it would be “interesting” to know which. We tell ourselves that it makes some difference whether the naked woman is about to commit mortal sin or is about to register a political protest or is about to be, the Aristophanic view, snatched back to the human condition by the fireman in priest’s clothing just visible in the window behind her, the one smiling at the telephoto lens. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

Joan Didion, The White Album (1968-1978), in: The White Album

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Rachel Zegler Modern Luxury Manhattan photographed by Daniel Jackson February 14, 2024

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nah cause the fact that jane austen wrote a character like emma woodhouse is still insane to me. she threw all the standards out the window and was like hey, here’s this incredibly complex and nuanced character, she’s selfish, privileged, manipulative and arrogant, but she’s also really fucking kind, she would do anything for those she loves (including sacrificing a lot of her liberties), she is able to admit that she’s made a mistake and grow from it, because those things are not mutually exclusive. and i think the reason why everyone is trying to girlbossify their heroines to make them like lizzie bennet (which is an insult to her character but that’s another story) is because they’re scared to write characters like emma. which is understandable, because she’s unlikeable-ish, and they don’t want to take that risk.

honestly the way jane wrote emma is IMPECCABLE and not everyone can pull it off, but i wish female characters with actual flaws were more popular.

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New photo of Adam & Britt behind the scenes rehearsing the bathroom stall scene in Episode 6, photographed by Ben Stiller!

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Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.03: IS MY VERY NATURE THAT OF THE DEVIL.