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Would have Louisa Ought To Be In Pictures?

I spent the last weeks of 2024 and the 1st week of 2025 being really bored and doing a deep dive into Louisa May Alcott’s life and family lines online. Besides wondering how I can I find out more about her aunt whose husband was alcoholic and possibly battered her (that is, if it was true), I kept coming across anecdotes about her love of theater and how she wished she could have acted in theater…

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(ID in alt) you guys even fuck w/ the flash on here???

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Terrific candid taken on set of Walter Lang’s THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS (1954).

Pictured: Mitzi Gaynor, director Lang, Ethel Merman, vocal director Ken Darby, Donald O'Connor, Johnnie Ray, and Marilyn Monroe.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Letter written to his sister Ludmila, 1905

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Card of the Day - The Devil - Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Venus and Jupiter will be at odds tomorrow, exacerbating any self-sabotage to which you are prone. When these two get together, they like to lead the good life and have a way of being off with the faeries, urging you to go overboard and fall off the wagon. The Devil is known for leading you astray into temptation. The most you can probably do if you are susceptible to their influences is to plan…

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Barbra Stanwyck on the cover of The New Movie Magazine in January 1932

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heads up, seven up

A WIP Tag Game

Tagged by my beloved @theawkwardterrier, thank you bestie🩷

Rules: post the last seven lines you wrote, then tag if you wanna

It is a light that restores him, but he comes back to himself in darkness. He isn’t sure how long he has been here; it feels simultaneously like an eternity and like no time at all, as if he has always and only existed here, in a vast expanse of nothingness, a place indistinct, formless and shapeless, yet also as if he has only come into being this very moment.  Nor can he yet understand exactly what it is that happened to him. He was … scattered, in some way, pulled apart into pieces, like fabric unravelling thread by thread, until there was nothing really of him left, no conscious thought or feeling or sense of self, just the darkness and the shapelessness. Existence without being.  Until there was light and warmth, a touch that brushed against him as gently as gossamer, bringing those scattered pieces back together so that he could conceive of a self to be - and now, slowly, as words begin to form and unfold into thoughts, he begins to know himself once more. And slowly, painfully, Felassan opens his eyes.

I'm tagging @emilykaldwen, @manicmermaidbaby, @fake-mouthstatic and @apinchofm if you want to play!

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Myrna Loy 1920’s Photo by Elmer Fryer

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976.

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Adebanji Alade

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"X-men is becoming woke!" I'm sorry, have we been seeing the same series?

The main teacher is a disabled man who uses a wheelchair. The team has a powerful African lady who is literally called a god. In some universes, she is in an interracial relationship with Wolverine. The three most powerful members of the team are Jean, Storm, and Rogue, who are ALL women. Bishop is a smart and powerful black man. Forge is Native American and is super smart and builds cool futuristic tech stuff. One of the protagonists is a chinese-american girl whose love interest is a dark-skinned Latino dude. Mystique is literally gender fluid and married to a woman. Mystique also got the woman pregnant by giving herself a penis, which is how Kurt was born. Kitty Pryde is confirmed to be bisexual. Magick is confirmed to be bisexual. Iceman came out as a gay man. Wolverine dated the literal actually HERCULES in one comic. Deadpool has been confirmed by multiple writers (AND THE MOVIE) to be pansexual, and even has a (VIATNAMESE) nonbinary love interest in one comic. The entire series is about minorities living in a society that despises them.

But yeah, sure. Complain about Morph, a SEXLESS SHAPESHIFTER WHO WAS BARELY EVEN IN THE ORIGINAL SHOW, being nonbinary and having a crush on Wolverine.

Xmen has ALWAYS been woke. It's a metaphor for oppression and how anyone who differs from the societal norm is treated terribly. OF COURSE they're going to have queer characters in there 💀

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Obsessed with the way Dick is part of the World's Finest trio and Kara is part of the Superman-Supergirl-Wonder Woman trio

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Myrna Loy

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Jean Harlow by George Hurrell, 1932.