#summer 1915

[internatlvelvet]

Bloomsbury group, July 1915: Lady Ottoline Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; Vanessa Bell

[rabbitcruiser]

World War I: German submarine U-20 sank RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.  

[mermaidenmystic]

Summer ~ 1895 ~ Walter Crane (British artist, 1845-1915)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Tom Thomson

Summer Day

Summer 1915

[morbidology]

Coober Pedy, a unique Australian town, is famed for its vast deposits of gem-quality opals and its unusual subterranean lifestyle.

Located in the South Australian outback, this remote settlement houses around 3,500 people, most of whom live in "dugouts" — homes carved directly into the earth. Life underground shields residents from the region’s harsh desert climate, where temperatures soar to over 104°F in summer and rain is scarce, frequently leading to dust storms.

Established in 1915 after opal was discovered, Coober Pedy quickly attracted settlers willing to brave the challenging conditions. Aboveground living proved impractical, so residents turned to the earth for relief, digging out homes that naturally maintain a comfortable temperature of 74°F, making air conditioning unnecessary.

These underground homes are well-equipped and surprisingly modern, featuring built-in bookshelves, tables, and even a swimming pool. Coober Pedy's resourceful residents have not only created a comfortable way of life but also a town filled with enduring charm and resilience in one of the world's most extreme environments.

[shakespearesdaughters]

Movies To Watch In 2025

Black Swan (2010)

The White Crow (2018)

The Dancer (2017)

Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

Girl (2018)

Silk Stockings (1957)

Polina (2016)

Incendies 2010

Berthe Morisot (2012)

Summer in February (2013)

Helene (2020)

Modigliani (2004)

Camille Claudel, 1915 (2013)

Mona Lisa's Smile (2003)

Final Portrait (2017)

Edward Munch (1974)

Goya's Ghosts (2006)

Caravaggio 1986

Frida (2002)

Loving Vincent (2017)

Séraphine (2008)

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

Renoir (2012)

The Eternity's Gate (2018)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Little Women (2019)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Maurice (1987)

Before Sunset (2004)

School Ties (1992)

The Skulls (2000)

The Emperor's Club (2002)

Cracks (2009)

The Riot Club (2014)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Doctor X (1932)

Never Let Me Go (2010)

Nocturama (2016)

Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)

The Holdovers (2023)

The Handmaiden (2016)

Rope (1948)

Cruel Intentions (1999)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Dorian Gray (2009)

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

The Imitation Game (2014)

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Tolkien (2019)

The Dreamers (2003)

Miller’s Girl (2005)

An Education (2009)

Jane Eyre (2011)

A Dangerous Method (2011)

Christopher and His Kind (2011)

Practical Magic (1998)

Knives Out (2019)

The Craft (1996)

Twilight (2008)

The Addams Family (1991)

Atonement (2007)

God's Own Country (2017)

Atlantis (2001)

Hugo (2011)

Stardust (2007)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

The Mummy (1999)

Rushmore (1998)

Wicked (Upcoming, no set release year yet)

Return to Oz (1985)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

The Secret of NIMH (1982)

Crimson Peak (2015)

[petaltexturedskies]

Summer is a fairy who, in three or four days, turns nature green again.

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 23 May 1915 featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920

[terminusantequem]

Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991), Summer Seaside Doorway, 1971. Oil, acrylic and charcoal on canvas

[marzipanandminutiae]

I don't know why people are suddenly so weird about body hair. I live in Germany and when my mom went to school one girl in her class went to the USA on summer vacation. When she came home she told everyone "Did you know American girls shave their armpits? That's so weird!" and everyone agreed that it's weird. That was in the 70s. I was born in the early 90s and when I became a teenager mandatory shaving was still kinda new. I hope people become more normal about hair again. It's completely natural and in my opinion pretty too

Yeah the individual country differences are also interesting. I know there's the famous "is it true that French babes don't shave their pits?" exchange in Home Alone, and that was in the 1990s. I think the first Milady Decollete ads that are often cited as the beginning of mainstream post-Roman body hair removal for women, c. 1915-17, were exclusively run in the US. Though Britain picked up on it not long after, as I understand. And like I said, even within the US I've read nonjudgmental descriptions of women's armpit hair in literature as late as the mid-1920s. So it was far from a done deal, culturally, when those first ads ran.

I'm solidly neutral on the look of it, myself. I don't think it looks good or bad in particular; I'm not turned on or turned off by it. It's not one of the main things I notice about a woman, physically, when evaluating if I'm attracted to her or not. But I do think it's so weird that it's been arbitrarily declared Ugly and Gross for JUST WOMEN and we have to put all this effort into removing it whether we want to or not.

(If you want to, great! I know a lot of people do for sensory or personal aesthetic reasons! But others either actively don't want to or just don't care and find it a hassle, and they shouldn't have to.)

[rabbitcruiser]

Miami Beach was incorporated on March 26, 1915.

[nofatclips-home]

The Ultimate Film Studies Watchlist:

Pre-1920s 4:52 The Films of the Edison Labs 6:05 The Films of Louis and Auguste Lumiére 6:57 The Big Swallow (1901) 7:56 Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902) 9:04 The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10:07 Fantasmagorie (1908) 10:56 Suspense (1913) 11:41 The Birth of a Nation (1915) 13:48 Intolerance (1916) 14:56 J'accuse (1919)

The 1920s 15:52 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) 16:46 The Phantom Carriage (1921) 17:29 Haxan (1922) 18:07 Sherlock Jr. (1924) 18:51 Greed (1924) 19:33 The Last Laugh (1924) 20:25 Battleship Potemkin (1925) 22:25 A Page of Madness (1926) 23:10 Metropolis (1927) 23:51 Napoleon (1927) 25:02 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 25:43 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 26:57 Un Chien Andalou (1929) 27:22 Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

The 1930s 28:50 M (1931) 29:35 Freaks (1932) 30:24 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) 30:54 Duck Soup (1933) 32:04 L'Atalante (1934) 33:01 Modern Times (1936) 33:36 Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937) 35:45 Stagecoach (1939) 36:26 The Rules of the Game (1939) 37:48 Gone with the Wind (1939)

The 1940s 39:18 The Great Dictator (1940) 39:59 Fantasia (1941) 41:20 Citizen Kane (1941) 43:15 To Be or Not To Be (1942) 44:56 Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) 45:49 Casablanca (1943) 46:56 Double Indemnity (1944) 48:18 Ivan the Terrible (1944) 48:51 Beauty and the Beast (1946) 49:50 Paisan (1946) 50:39 Brief Encounter (1946) 51:25 The Bicycle Thieves (1948) 52:43 Children of the Beehive (1948) 53:15 The Red Shoes (1948) 54:17 The Third Man (1949)

The 1950s 55:35 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 56:28 Los Olvidados (1950) 57:26 Rashomon (1951) 58:42 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 59:34 Tokyo Story (1953) 1:00:59 Ugetsu (1954) 1:01:35 Rear Window (1954) 1:02:42 The Night of the Hunter (1955) 1:03:42 Ordet (1955) 1:04:17 Pather Panchali (1955) 1:04:57 Seven Samurai (1956) 1:06:25 The Searchers (1956) 1:07:25 A Man Escaped (1957) 1:08:27 The Cranes are Flying (1957) 1:09:08 Touch of Evil (1957) 1:09:51 Vertigo (1958) 1:11:22 The 400 Blows (1959)

The 1960s 1:12:53 Psycho (1960) 1:13:42 L'Avventura (1961) 1:14:39 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 1:15:35 La Jetee (1962) 1:16:10 Vivre Sa Vie (1963) 1:17:17 8 1/2 (1963) 1:18:04 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) 1:18:50 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) 1:19:26 Woman in the Dunes (1965) 1:20:01 Persona (1966) 1:21:08 The Battle of Algiers (1966) 1:21:52 Andrei Rublev (1966) 1:22:42 Playtime (1967) 1:23:18 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 1:24:28 Kes (1969) 1:25:23 Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) 1:26:25 The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 1:27:07 Army of Shadows (1969)

The 1970s 1:28:25 The Conformist (1970) 1:28:53 A Touch of Zen (1971) 1:29:37 The Godfather Part I & II (1972-1974) 1:30:37 Pink Flamingos (1972) 1:31:45 The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) 1:32:39 The Exorcist (1973) 1:33:08 La Maman et la Putain (1973) 1:34:22 Badlands (1973) 1:34:53 The Conversation (1974) 1:35:32 A Woman Under the Influence (1975) 1:36:45 Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelle (1975) 1:37:52 Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) 1:39:05 Nashville (1975) 1:39:40 Jaws (1975) 1:40:47 Barry Lyndon (1975) 1:41:17 Taxi Driver (1976) 1:42:28 Eraserhead (1977) 1:43:37 Stars Wars (1977) 1:44:41 House (1977) 1:45:09 Alien (1979) 1:46:22 Apocalypse Now (1979) 1:47:32 Stalker (1979)

The 1980s 1:48:43 Raging Bull (1980) 1:49:33 The Shining (1980) 1:50:27 Pixote (1980) 1:51:10 Koyaanisqatsi (1982) 1:52:08 Videodrome (1983) 1:52:32 Ran (1985) 1:53:27 Come and See (1985) 1:54:23 Tenshi no Tamago (1985) 1:55:23 A Short Film About Killing (1988) 1:56:20 A City of Sadness (1989) 1:57:24 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) 1:58:31 Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) 1:59:42 Do the Right Thing (1989)

The 1990s 2:00:54 Goodfellas (1990) 2:01:48 Close-Up (1990) 2:02:49 A Brighter Summer Day (1991) 2:03:51 Man Bites Dog (1992) 2:04:42 Hardboiled (1992) 2:05:43 Satantango (1994) 2:07:12 Pulp Fiction (1994) 2:08:28 Clerks (1994) 2:09:34 The Lion King (1994) 2:10:21 La Haine (1995) 2:11:25 Cure (1997) 2:12:00 Festen (1998) 2:12:54 Beau Travail (1998) 2:13:27 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) 2:14:22 The Matrix (1999) 2:15:10 American Movie (1999)

[mousetrappedcomic]

Mousetrapped Weekend Filler #1: The Winkler Street Orphans, Summer 1915

Sorry, weekends are when I recover and work on comics for the next week, but I will try to post production art.

[classicalcanvas]

Title: Summer Day

Artist: Tom Thomson

Date: 1915

Style: Art Nouveau

Genre: Landscape

[just-an-emily-existing]

Soooooo this is a very late Thomas day art but he’s here now lol

🩵✨Get To Know The Little Blue Goober✨🩵

Element: Earth

Birthday: June 5 1915

Real Age: 109

Age he plays by: 20

Zodiac: Gemini

Chinese Horoscope: Rabbit

Spirit Animal: Fox

Height: 5'5

Sexuality: Gay

Gender: Genderfluid

Pronouns: He/They

Personality Type: ENFP

IQ: 86

Nicknames: Puffball (D10) Tommy-boy (Bluebell) Short Stack (James and Henry) Son (Edward).

Allergies: Fish and Peanut Butter

Disabilites: ADHD, Autism, and PTSD from WW1 and 2

Right or Left Handed: Left

Quirks/Habits: Cracking knuckles. Can't sit still to save his life and needs something to fidget with. Is always cold for some reason. Has a scar from fighting with Percy. Has long fingernails. Is very ticklish.

Home Town: Brighton, England

Nationality: British

Siblings: None that are alive

Original Driver: Teddy Harris Welch

Original Fireman: Connor Duffy Charlton

Who is the most important person in his life: Percy and Edward

Person he looks up to the most: Edward

Best Friend: Emily (Me)

Lover: Percy

Rival: Diesel (They're kinda like frenemies)

If he could have a superpower it would be: Flight

If he was a human, what job would he have: Astronaut

Biggest Fear: Being forgotten or his fandom hating him.

Biggest Flaw: He can have a bit of a rude lip sometimes

Favorite Animal: Husky dog

Favorite Hobby: Drawing

Favorite Color: NWR Blue

Favorite Food: Breakfast sausage

Favortie Drink: Lemonade

Least Favorite Food: Anything alcoholic

Favorite Season: Summer

Favorite Movie: TATMR

Favorite Book: The Odyssey

Favorite Singer/Artist: Freddy Mercury

Very skilled at: Making messes

Least skilled at: Cooking

Greatest Achievement: Having a show all about him and his friends

Pet Peeves: Chewing with mouth open

Introvert or Extrovert: Extrovert

Organized or Messy: Messy

Is he good at singing: No

Can he bake: No

Can he cook: Absolutely not

Does he play any sports: No but he did play Soccer once with James and Percy

Instrument: Drums

Motto: Always have fun

Theme Song: No time for Toxic People - Imagine Dragons

🩵✨Headcanons✨🩵

Acts like a Gen Z kid.

Will not hesitate to fight you if you fuck with him or his friends.

Hates to admit he’s wrong.

Has a bit of an inferiority problem with all the bullying from The Big Engines and wonders if he’s good enough.

Thomas loves getting into Twitter discourse.

Plays Roblox.

Has cried while watching Disney movies.

Has punched a hole in his shed door.

This man will sleep for a whole day and asked what happened like he just woke up from a coma.

Horrible spice tolerance.

Gets track rage (Engine version of road rage).

Loves to do cosplays and has gone to a couple of conventions.

Not a good liar, this man can't keep a secret to save his life.

Knows all the FNAF lore.

Thomas doesn't own a single pair of matching socks.

Thomas knocks people over by hugging them no matter how big they are.

In his younger days, he used to be a sleep walker.

Is great with kids and would love to be a father someday.

Has a pet racoon named "Mama Trashy" and her 4 babies, "Bin, Compost, Dirty Boy and Banana Peel".

Sings in the shower.

🩵✨Theme Songs✨🩵

Life is a Highway - Rascal Flatts

No Time for Toxic People - Imagine Dragons

Motto: Life is like a box of chocolates and I love chocolate!

[mimi-0007]

Lucy Diggs Slowe (July 4, 1885 – October 21, 1937) was an American educator and athlete, and the first Black woman to serve as Dean of Women at any American university. She was a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the first sorority founded by African-American women.

Slowe was a tennis champion, winning the national title of the American Tennis Association's first tournament in 1917, the first African-American woman to win a major sports title. In 1922, Slowe was appointed the first Dean of Women at Howard University. She continued in that role for 15 years until her death. In addition, Slowe created and led two professional associations to support college administrators.

Lucy Diggs Slowe was born in Berryville, Virginia to Henry Slowe and Fannie Potter Slowe. While various sources put her birth year as 1885,[3][4] others have said 1883. She was one of seven children. Her father's occupation has been reported as a hotel operator, restaurant proprietor and farmer. He died before Lucy turned one and her mother died shortly after. Following her mother's death, Lucy and her sister Charlotte were raised by her aunt Martha Price in Lexington, Virginia. At thirteen, Lucy and her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended the Baltimore Colored High and Training School. She graduated second in her class in 1904, receiving one of the two-sponsored scholarships to Howard from the Baltimore City School Board.

Slowe was the first person from her school to attend Howard University, the top historically black college in the nation, at a time when only 1/3 of 1% of African Americans and 5% of whites of eligible age attended any college.

After graduation in 1908, Slowe returned to Baltimore to teach English in high school. During the summers, she started studying at Columbia University in New York, where she earned her Masters of Arts degree in 1915.

[jewish-vents]

I’m Jewish through my dad but I wasn’t raised in the community(i learned what Purim was two weeks ago, i was fully not in it), so when I got to college last august I decided to really dive in and it’s been a beautiful sort of homecoming for me. I joined SAEPi and got into Chabbad leadership at my campus, and I’m almost at the point where I can do the Chabbad Shabbat prayers before and after dinner without stumbling over my words. Gonna surprise my grandma if I see her in the summer. Anyways.

When October 7th happened it was a shock to my system, because I was a baby Jew barely getting my feet. My parents never mentioned antisemitism to me as something that could affect me in the future, it was always a thing of the past. But I was right there standing in the doorway between jew-ish and Jewish, and it pushed me over the edge. I had many friends with family in Israel. I had a couple friends whose friends died in the attack. Everyone in that group was my family. It felt personal.

When the march in dc happened I went with one of my friends, and it was sad, but amazing to see in person how strong we are. In the plane terminal on the way home he and I got cornered and called baby killers, among other things, because he was wearing a kippa and his Israeli first responder coat. That was my first time experiencing antisemitism and it was terrifying, even though I didn’t get hurt. It was terrifying even though my friend was built like a tank and would’ve protected me. It was terrifying just to sit in the train car with him and watch a woman stare at him with wide eyes like he was some kind of criminal. I stepped closer to him as if to remind her he’s human. I stared back at her with just as much fear and watched her snap out of it, confused.

Last week was holocaust awareness week at my college, and one of the things I did was spend a couple hours in the plaza reading the names of people that died. I found 34 Feldmans and Fotts. I found family names, Chana and Fayge and Jeshua and Sophia Feldman one after the other, and still am wondering if that was part of my family that didn’t make it to the US in time.

I called my grandma and asked for everything she could remember about her family lineage and how we got here, everything she had from that part of her life. I thought that there would be plenty to lean into, family recipes and heirlooms and stories, but there was barely anything. She has a Star of David necklace and a ton of repressed memories, next to nothing else. The recipes I could find were through my great aunt, some short instructions from my great grandmother on the back of a letter she sent to the aunt about what to ask for from a kosher butcher.

My family made it here in 1915 and 1921, they escaped before the holocaust, but they still weren’t untouched because of the ways they were ostracized and othered when they got here. My grandmother will barely admit she’s Jewish because none of her kids passed it on, it’s easier for her to let it go. I didn’t understand this until I realized that one couldn’t be hurt by the grief and pain of a family they aren’t part of.

Even those that survive are not left unscarred.

How could this not be personal? How could it not be generationally affective when it’s pushed so many to minimize their Jewishness out of self preservation? Raise their kids thinking they aren’t Jewish and hope their names never end up on a list of living or dead Jews? People still don’t see us as human. the antisemites still want to scar us. They want us to forget who we are.

It’s unreal to me when goyim act like American Jews in the current day are unaffected by the past and safe from antisemitism. I’ve been here less than a year and have been screamed at in an airport, have uncovered serious intergenerational trauma, and realized that of my Jewish family I have nothing to hold on to but a torn in half piece of paper with a sentence long tangent about brisket.

We are strong and we will outlive them, but god are we still fucking fighting for our lives.

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