#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…

[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

[lisamarie-vee]

[adamsvanrhijn]

THE GILDED AGE (2022–)

[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…

[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

[tirralirralirra]

This reminds me of the (brilliant) hark! a vagrant comic from Kate Beaton

Speaking of, I'm sure a lot of people on this site remember that Kate Beaton is the originator of many a beloved meme, but perhaps we're due a refresh of that seeing as I see her comics adapted a lot without proper credit!

Doyle Canon: This is Dr. John Watson. He has managed to have multiple love affairs on three different continents. He is a love machine. A sex god, if you will. Able to woo multiple Victorian ladies.

80% of Sherlock Holmes Adaptations: This is Dr. John Watson. He looks like a hamster.

[rayandco]

John Gielgud as Oberon by Cecil Beaton. January 1945. Accession Nos. S.1584-2015 and S.1588-2015