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elkane: Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:54:21 -0600

Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto Titanic in 1912, attends a first class dinner, develops a taste for the finer things in life, pockets the Heart of the Ocean, survives the sinking, pawns the diamond, spends the following ten years building his wealth and in 1922 moves to West Egg as Jay Gatsby… Millionaire with a shady past and fear of swimming pools.

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:51:38 -0600

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via bookmania)

sfux: i feel like people who eat breakfast really have their lives together

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:51:38 -0600

sfux:

i feel like people who eat breakfast really have their lives together

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Sun, 19 May 2013 23:15:04 -0600

laurenthehu-man: what the junk

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:14:54 -0600

laurenthehu-man:

what the junk

Markus Zusak

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:37:44 -0600

Markus Zusak

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Wed, 15 May 2013 08:24:33 -0600

"Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:21:22 -0600

““Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.””

- N’tima (via olivia-ross)

angstlich: .

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:19:58 -0600

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tyndall-blue: riskycuriosity: artemisiumabsinthia: Josephine...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:59:14 -0600

tyndall-blue:

riskycuriosity:

artemisiumabsinthia:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

lettertojane: Ursus Wehrli

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:54:14 -0600

lettertojane:

Ursus Wehrli

it0ldyous0: hhumanoid: lanaisqueen: coastalnative: grace-ala-...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:53:06 -0600

it0ldyous0:

hhumanoid:

lanaisqueen:

coastalnative:

grace-ala-face:

te-rquoise:

Don’t get any closer to each other

This is the most interesting thing I’ve seen all year.

I don’t know how to feel about this

I feel like this has some really deep meaning. I see it as two people can be close and it can allow for something beautiful, but as soon as they get to know each other too well it becomes ugly. Because if you knew every thought in someones head, the bad might out weigh the good. And you could never undo what you have learned about them. The spots on the butterfly’s wings are human eyes which have seen the truth but have no way of revealing it, or warning you not to get closer and protect the butterfly. The butterfly is their beautifully balanced relationship threatened by the knowing/seeing of too much, or closeness. The people symbolize anyone.

OMG ^

crying

wow

Charles Bukowski

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:49:41 -0600

Charles Bukowski

Dylan Moran

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:41:03 -0600

Dylan Moran

significantirrelevance: Oooooh this scene!I fell in love with...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:44:16 -0600

significantirrelevance:

Oooooh this scene!
I fell in love with Leo all over again

fynorway: Northern Lights Fjord (by Fjordlapse)

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:43:22 -0600

fynorway:

Northern Lights Fjord (by Fjordlapse)

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Sat, 11 May 2013 23:32:15 -0600

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Tue, 07 May 2013 08:32:13 -0600

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Mon, 06 May 2013 22:51:36 -0600

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:51:01 -0600

“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”

- Clementine Paddleford (via blua)