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You are fighting your own hardware and it's killing you at just the right amount to keep you buying more. I mean, most armies would notice that they were fighting smoke and shadows, but not this lot, Ruby. You know why? 'Cause they have faith. Shut up. Faith. The magic word that keeps you never having to think for yourself.

DOCTOR WHO S01E03 Boom

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endless gifs of bill potts being beautiful | 7/?

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Lorde photographed by François Coquerel for ELLE France.

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Bjork, 1988.

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want you back (2017) / summer girl (2019)

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Zendaya at the MET Gala over the years (2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018)

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“[cougar] is a little more trendy right now than I think it should be. Men have been doing it for so long. If a man’s 40 years older than a woman they’re dating or married to, it seems De rigueur, but if a woman dates someone five or ten years younger, it becomes such a big deal. I find that to be really distasteful."  Lucy Liu in Schon magazine 2014

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Winona Ryder: “I went from weirdo teenager to pixie waif to them not knowing what the hell to do with me.”

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Tim Walker: ‘Rebel Riders’ featuring Anna Cleveland, Christina Carey, Erin O’Connor & Jamie Bochert for Vogue Italia, December 2015

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Hannibal (2013-2015) blooper reel

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I keep seeing people complaining about the memes in TLT as some kind of crappy authorial impingement on the narrative.

And I do get why they might feel like that when you're suddenly getting nerfed by 'none Houses, left grief' in the middle of John being Awful.

But I've yet to see anyone complain about Abigail calling something unique "a holy grail", despite the fact that surely this is also a jarring thing for an evil space necromancer to be casually using as a reference point.

Obviously the inclusion of the memes is a choice on Tamsyn Muir's part. But they very much have meaning in universe: the thing about every single person in this society casually referencing Tumblr memes from the 20-teens is that can only come from one place: the man who ended the world those memes came from, but hangs onto them as a little esoteric connection. And 10,000 years of his shitty little jokes and unexplained references filtering out into the society he created mean that Harrow can sarcastically talk about how Gideon "studied the blade" or Ianthe can reference SNL as easily as Abigail can name check the holy grail.

In retrospect, "none Houses, left grief" sits alongside "how many babies died in the bomb, Gaius?" as part of the chilling trail of breadcrumbs towards the realisation of what John Gaius is, what he did, and just how awfully casual he is about it.

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1888 costume designs by William John Charles Pitcher for the ballet Rose d’Armour :)

hello my dear! 💖

omg these are STUNNING!!!! 😍😍 thank you so much for sending this in!! ☺️☺️

I'm currently preparing my little bowl of halloween goodies for the last couple days of october, so I'm thrilled to be able to add this to the bowl of treats! ☺️💕🍬 🍭

thank you so much again for sending in this gorgeous plate! 🥰🥰

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I just realised that practically all of the nonsense adjectives from Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” make totally plausible boutique paint colours.

Tulgey green.

Brillig blue.

Frumious ochre.

Go ahead - try it!

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its like borderline passé to say lucy liu is distractingly, stupidly hot but every time im watching elementary and she puts her hands in her suit pockets i start foaming at the mouth