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kate bush rlly was like. I am 18 years old and im gonna write a song about an emily bronte novel and i'm gonna sing it entirely in falsetto and then it was the best song ever released
Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (1944) dir. Howard Hawks
Some of y’all have never stolen your crushes suitcase and replaced her clothes with thousands of dollars worth of designer clothes and perfume before sending it back to her with a love letter included and it shows.
“This photograph of Joni Mitchell skating across Lake Mendota in Wisconsin is unreal to me. I love the negative space in the photo, and how it gives the sense of total freedom.”
Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor
Director and choreographer Jerome Robbins (2nd from left) rehearses Rita Moreno for one of the dances in West Side Story, 1961
You said you and me was gonna get out of town and for once just really let our hair down. Well, darlin’, look out, ‘cause my hair is comin’ down!
Thelma & Louise (1991), dir. Ridley Scott.
submission by @salparadisewasright
HOLY FUCK
IT’S BACK
After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snatchers, who could cash in on both the corpse and the ring.
The evening after Margorie was buried, before the soil had even settled, the grave-robbers showed up and started digging. Unable to pry the ring off the finger, they decided to cut the finger off. As soon as blood was drawn, Margorie awoke from her coma, sat straight up and screamed.
The fate of the grave-robbers remains unknown. One story says the men dropped dead on the spot, while another claims they fled and never returned to their chosen profession.
Margorie climbed out of the hole and made her way back to her home.
Her husband John, a doctor, was at home with the children when he heard a knock at the door. He told the children, “If your mother were still alive, I’d swear that was her knock.”
When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in her burial clothes, blood dripping from her finger but very much alive, he dropped dead to the floor. He was buried in the plot Margorie had vacated.
Margorie went on to re-marry and have several children. When she did finally die, she was returned to Shankill Cemetery in Lurgan, Ireland, where her gravestone still stands. It bears the inscription “Lived Once, Buried Twice.”
what did i just read
Irish women are strong as fuck
“I lived, bitch” irl
Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933)
If your default mental photo of Marilyn Monroe is an over-saturated glamour shot of her with her mouth open, please take a moment to replace it with this one of her giving zero f***s about some bears eating garbage.
hey remember when jane austen, a woman, referred to a character named richard as having “never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name” in 1817. yeah me too.
“There was one evening that we were at the plantation.We had worked a long day, and everyone was tired. Beyoncé is standing on stage, and we couldn’t get the playback for the music to work. She said “I’m just going to go ahead and sing it. Let’s just go. We need to do it”. We’re all kind of standing there, and she starts to sing “Freedom” acapella. The hairs on everybody just stood up. That moment, being on a plantation in Louisiana with a black woman standing on this stage, only lit by fire, it was the single greatest moment of my life doing this work. In the front was Oscar Grant’s mother, Trayvon Martin’s mother, Freddie Gray’s mother all sitting there watching.That i got to experience that moment and that her voice filled the air of that plantation, it gave life to the people standing there, predominantly black group. That is something that i will literally never forget as long as i live.”
Hannah Beachler Lemonade/Black anther/Moonlight production designer
the dark vincent
this has to be one of my favourite periods of good ol vince like. He went to art school and low key thought it was boring and stupid so he QUIT, but not before he first painted a skull with a darn hecking cigarette hanging out of its mouth like. talk about iconic!
