#John Beaton

[batgovernor]

Using form: Amphibrachic tetrameter: John Beaton, 'Regeneration'

Hay ripens. I sharpen my tapering scythe blade and chamfer its wafer of paper-thin steel with stone swoops; it’s hooked like a peregrine’s talon. The snaking shaft sweeps and the first swathe is side-laid beside me, clean slain. As I swing I can feel the gravid field yielding. Sheaves kneel and then fall in the breeze in formation. Their early seeds dance there like next April’s rain-showers…

[cinematic-phosphenes]

THE GILDED AGE (2022-) + ART [6/∞]

🌸 Bertha Russell in S1E2 | Mrs Hugh Hammersley (1892) - John Singer Sargent 🌸 Madame Paul Poirson (1885) - John Singer Sargent | Marian Brook in S1E9 🌸 Maud Beaton in S2E2 | Before the Ball (c. 1870s) - Alfred Stevens

Dress inspo found by: @tomcraweley + @whartonists

[voguefashion]

Truman Capote's Swans

"To be one of Truman's Swans, it wasn't enough that a woman be elegant, beautiful, and rich. She had to be amusing." -Laurence Leamer, Capote's Women

Babe Paley (1915-1978), photographed by John Rawlings for American Vogue, February 1, 1946.

Slim Keith (1917-1990), photographed by Horst P. Horst for American Vogue, February 1, 1949.

Lee Radziwill (1933-2019), photographed by Cecil Beaton for American Vogue, March 15, 1962.

C.Z. Guest (1920-2003), photographed by Irving Penn for American Vogue, March 15, 1954.

Marella Agnelli (1927-2019), photographed by Horst P. Horst for American Vogue, October 1, 1967.

Gloria Guinness (1912-1980), photographed by Horst P. Horst for American Vogue, January 1, 1949.

Pamela Harriman (1920-1997), photographed by Horst P. Horst for American Vogue, September 1, 1962.

[milksockets]

'charles james, 1949, photograph by cecil beaton' + 'john galliano suit, s/s 1989' in the historical mode: fashion + art in the 1980s - richard martin + harold koda (1989)

[guy60660]

John Osborne | Cecil Beaton

[notasapleasure]

Time to share the inspiration for my Franklin expedition/Terror tag again (it's on my blog somewhere already I swear but yk how tumblr search is)

By Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant)

[rayandco]

John Gielgud as Oberon by Cecil Beaton. January 1945. Accession Nos. S.1587-2015, S.1585-2015, and S.1586-2015

[nerds-yearbook]

Decades after he had left it, Jack Harkness slipped through time and found himself once more back in 1941 where he encountered the REAL Captain Jack Harkness whose identity “Jack Harkness” had stolen after the real Jack Harkness’ death in World War 2. ("Captain Jack Harkness", Torchwood, TV)

[troublewithangels]

max adrian as puck, peggy ashcroft as titania and john gielgud as oberon in a midsummer night's dream at the haymarket, 1945

📸 by cecil beaton

[shoshiwrites]

28. Write a ~300 fantasy one of them has about the other

For the couple of your choice! Juno xx

Help I'm Jo/Bucky trash (mildly NSFW under the cut)

She’s got the typescript for the book scattered on the table, Kay’s own notes and a few of the photographs, stamped APPROVED, marked by her friend’s pencil. The draft itself is covered in notes, hers, Kay’s, the censor’s, blue and red marks and pen ink and pencil smudging at the edges. Excised, her comments on the silence of the radios, anything about targets. She scratches a line on her finger, itching at the ring. One of the photographs has been cropped to hide the wall of an airmen’s bunk, the pinups tacked to the wall. She wants to laugh, something almost bitter, like the coffee a foot away on the table, the lingering hint of saccharin. It’s chilly here inside, the gloomy cold day blending into the last, and the next. The air raises goosebumps on her ankles, under her socks, bunching and falling. She’s got the start of a headache, she knows it, too much time spent squinting at the page. 

[OTP asks!]

She can’t explain it, why she lets herself imagine it — trousers yanked down, briefs too. Lets herself. Like it hadn’t been as sudden as a flash, the vision of him. Right here, in the draft of the empty hall. The shock of the thought doesn’t dull, not for a minute, the feeling of warmth, and a hand at her hip, and a hand at her thigh. Dark curls bobbing between her legs. She wonders if her cheeks are as pink as they feel. She wonders, for one brief second, if this is what it means to go mad. The thought of it almost makes her laugh, not the same laugh as the censor’s, the idea that you could send a boy to drop bombs and hide the naked women on his wall. The laugh of someone so tall under a table, the idea that she’d wanted it enough to imagine it unprompted. Quieter too, darker, scraping — the ring on her finger. The thought that he just might do it, if she ever asked.

[batgovernor]

Using form: John Beaton, 'Killing a Coho'

I grip its tail, hammock its back, and swing its head down with a crack on rock, then feel its spasms judder through my hands as, with a shudder, it stills, a grand finale that fulfills some ancient impulse in my mind. Poking my finger through a gill,I cause the raker fronds to spillblood that drip drips as I carrythe silver deadweight of my quarry,my kill,toward a tidal poolthe sunset has…

[adamsvanrhijn]

THE GILDED AGE (2022–)

[thedanceronthestreets]

Knowing jf the options are:

Maud beaton really is a confirmed lesbian but she dies in a fire by episode 6 (we never meet her companion)

Maud beaton is not a confirmed lesbian and finds out oscar is gay and hands him to the police

Maud beaton magically turns oscar straight (note: not bi, jf's brain is not big enough to even consider that)

Maud beaton magically turns oscar straight and also brainwashes oscar into handing john to the police

[autumncottageattic]

An Ideal Husband, also known as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, is a 1947 British comedy film adaptation of the 1895 play by Oscar Wilde.

[hartskullsworld]

John Waters

The Pope Of Trash

[backstreetsbackalright]

Some Memorable Reading from 2022

Gayl Jones, Corregidora (1975, Random House)

Annie Ernaux, The Possession (2002, Gallimard)

Kathryn Scanlan, Kick the Latch (2022, New Directions)

Chantal Akerman, My Mother Laughs (2013, The Song Cave/Mercure de France)

Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982, Knopf)

Joy Williams, The Changeling (1978, Doubleday)

Michael DeForge, Birds of Maine (2022, Drawn & Quarterly)

James Welch, Winter in the Blood (1974, Harper & Row)

Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022, Drawn & Quarterly)

John Darnielle, Devil House (2022, MCD)