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Bodice

c. 1892-1894

made by Henriette Et Marie

Victoria and Albert Museum

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The other day while walking I casually looked into a window and saw a room full of christmas decorations. On a couch a woman helping an older lady sit straight while laughing and looking at each other with such tenderness. And I don't know why but it meant so much to me, being able to presence a tiny bit of their everyday life. For a second I felt like if these two strangers can share this sweet moment, maybe everything will be okay, maybe people are made to experience pain and sorrow but above all, love

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BOTH bc i can't do anything right apparently

pick your poison LMAOOO

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I love the concept of a character needing something.

I'll explain myself, NEED to me doesn't have to be related at all to things like food and shelter, or what I, as the author, think the characters need.

It's more grounded on the most profound impulse of the character. Need is somewhat yearning.

I like characters who yearn so much for something that they, at last, get consumed by it.

Our world, a patriarchal and racist world, has been and still is grounded in power dynamics, which is associated, again, with desire, the need of submitting others for your own benefits.

Often, my characters are victims of the system but also the perpretators, because there's no way around the system which shapes your whole life.

Some of my male characters objectify women, yes, because, well, many men do and live completely normal lives.

I want to tell the story of now, the story of wars, of the increasing popularity of right wing media, of colonialism, of ignorance.

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ab. 1893 Scrap album fancy dress by Madame Gough, London (court dressmaker), Sarah Ann Gough (designer)

silk, cotton, linen, paper, glue, metal (fastening), wood, leather, baleen, wax, paint

(National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

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Vale llega un punto en el que lo que pasa es que no puedo vivir sin tener ESTO

Gold earrings with glass beads, pearls, and sapphires, Byzantine, 5th-6th century AD

from The Benaki Museum, Athens

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prefiero añorar un amor que nunca tuve a sufrir uno que se supone que debería estar teniendo

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sleepy girls club™

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Luigi Mussini (German-born Italian, 1813-1888) Painting portraying maydens in a pompeian bath, 19th century

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Two-piece silk evening gown

c. 1865-1869

pink and white silk brocade evening gown made in Paris, France in the 1860s

Minnesota Historical Society

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Idea from @caylachildofhades

I'm a Hermes devotee, if course I have to try not to nervous smile/laugh when something bad happens

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I love writing letters

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I'm reading 40 different books at once

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I'm learning multiple languages

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I can run in heels

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course everyone gossips to me

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I'm always the mediator

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I love to travel

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I love academia aesthetics

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course my ideal dates are picnics and museums

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I love telling people good news

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course people always make me deliver the bad news too

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I'm always full of energy

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I LIVE for art. Like really. Do I breathe and eat art? Almost. What should I do in this economy? 😭😭

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Terracotta vase decorated with a beautiful painting. Colors are incredibly preserved. From Sicily, 2nd Century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Photo: © Ozymandias (Flickr)

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ALSO we've been robbed how is not the new live action snow white just a brunette jean harlow?

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how I can see Snowing White absolutely wearing this is how I know it's from the 30s

Evening dresses, 1930s-40s.

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Alice White, 1930s

In 1958, White said about Marilyn Monroe's wiggle-walk, "I did it first."

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STATUE REPRESENTING THE GODDESS ISIS-APHRODITE. 

She is naked, standing with arms along the body, wrists adorned with bracelets, arm and ankle, and ribbons on his chest. Her hairstyle, made of long strands, is topped by a large crown topped with a vegetable basket with the disc between the horns. 

Polychrome terracotta. 

Egypt, Roman Period

I-III centuries. 

H. 34 cm

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