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"memento mori."

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✧ joséphine ✧ she/her/he/him ✧ autistic ✧ illustration, history, dressmaking, sustainable living, and cats.
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pacingo

tag nine people you'd like to know better thank you so much for the tag @the-world-is-treating-me-bad and @rufusrant!! I finally found the time to sit down and do these 😁

last song: good vibrations by the beach boys!! was feelin' a little dance-y in the morning, it's a great song to vibe to!

currently watching: not watching any series atm because i can't, but i've been getting back into youtube and have been watching GMM compilations 💀

currently reading: yikes! another question i don't have a sure answer to!! i'd say it was either omerta or the godfather, both by mario puzo

current obsession: SMOSH. and the youresoloud yt channel!!

thanks for the tag my love! @pacingo <3

last song: heroes - david bowie!! nostalgia moment :')

currently watching: killing eve :D i won’t make it till the finale though i know what happens and i won’t be able to take it😭

currently reading: uhhhhhh yes lee child’s jack reacher - no plan b!

current obsession: action cinema!! if you know you know💀 (i am mentally unwell)

thanks sven!!!!!

last song: blitzkrieg bop ~ ramones

currently watch: hannibal and supernatural

currently reading: fanfic……….

currently obsessed: SUPERNATURAL!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg i love it soooo much there’s a lot of brain rot going on over here

TAG GAME, heck yeah, thank you KK!! :))

Last Song: Lithium - Nirvana

Currently Watching: This is so hard to answer because I finished both of the things I was watching (HLVRAI and Shephard's Mind) YESTERDAY and don't wanna start anything since I'm going on vacation for a few days starting 2am today. But uhhhh. I watched half of the first episode of Chell's Mind (so about a minute and a half of video) at 3am yesterday/today before realizing my brain was being broken and couldn't process the words right so maybe that counts?

Currently Reading: I JUST. FINISHED READING. a fanfic. So technically nothing. Uhhhhh. This is a cool fic I read recently though :) It's really sweet and features what is probably my favorite Benrey headcanon in it so yayyy <3

Current Obsession: Half Life adjacent stuff, basically the base games + Mind Series + HLVRAI

(By the way by the way, if anyone else who sees this wants to be on my cool mutual tagging list, hello and tell me please :) It does not matter if we are total strangers, friendly people are very !!! <3 whether I know them or not)

YIPPEE TY FOR TAGGING ME :D also Lithium is such a banger song

Last Song: Good Omens Opening Title

Currently Watching: Good Omens (rewatching, very excited for s2)

Currently Reading: Good Omens, uhh does the sheet music to Bach's Violin Gigue count?

Current Obsession: Good Omens, Napoleonic Era, Will Wood (and the Tapeworms)

sOROTOp omg thank yogu for tagging me <333

Last Song - 'This is Love' by Air Traffic Controller

Currently Watching - Various Youtube videos opened in different tabs, no TV series at the moment!

Currently Reading - Various fic! I have some actual books I want to crack open soon, but I've been busy </3

Current Obsessions: Frempire period, Minecraft (not like...the smp stuff, like the game itself i bought it recently and have been having a great time), my own characters tbh (Ludo....ludo....l u d o.....), various fandom things that i can't post here for fear of being cringe on main, like this very specific genre of happy ending hurt/comfort achillean splatterpunk??? i don't know what else to call it but i am always and forever OBSESSED with that stuff so let me eat your recs (i'm not even sure that exists anywhere in the world), and uhhh cats. irl cats. my cat caroline. she is giant floof. obsessed with her.

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venicepearl

Saint Olga by Nicholas Roerich - 1915

Olga (c. 890–925 – 969) was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor of Kiev. Even though it was her grandson Vladimir who converted the entire nation to Christianity, because of her efforts to spread Christianity through Rus', Olga is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church with the epithet "Equal to the Apostles". Her feast day is 11 July.

Source: Wikipedia
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Republican columns about to explode.

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slinted
"From Kevin G Shinnick:
“I made a comment recently where I claimed that Republican administrations had been much more criminally corrupt over the last 50 plus years than the Democrats. I was challenged (dared actually) to prove it. So I did a bit of
research and when I say a bit I mean it didn’t take long and there is no comparison.
When comparing criminal indictments of those serving in the executive branch of presidential administrations, it’s so lopsided as to be ridiculous. Yet all I ever hear about is how supposedly “corrupt” the Democrats are. So why don’t we break it down by president and the numbers?
Obama (D) – 8 yrs in office. Zero criminal indictments, zero convictions and zero prison sentences. So the next time somebody describes the Obama administration as “scandal free” they aren’t speaking wishfully, they’re simply telling the truth.
Bush, George W. (R) – 8 yrs in office. 16 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 9 prison sentences.
Clinton (D) – 8 yrs in office. 2 criminal indictments. One conviction. One prison sentence. That’s right nearly 8 yrs of investigations. Tens of millions spent and 30 yrs of claiming them the most corrupt ever
and there was exactly one person convicted of a crime.
Bush, George H. W. (R) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment. One conviction. One prison sentence.
Reagan (R) – 8 yrs in office. 26 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 8 prison sentences.
Carter (D) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment. Zero convictions and zero prison sentences.
Ford (R) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment and one conviction. One prison sentence.
Nixon (R) – 6 yrs in office. 76 criminal indictments. 55 convictions. 15 prison sentences.
Johnson (D) – 5 yrs in office. Zero indictments. Zero convictions. Zero prison sentences.
So, let’s see where that leaves us. In the last 53 years, Democrats have been in the Oval Office for 25 of those years, while Republicans held it for 28. In their 25 yrs in office Democrats had a total of three executive branch officials indicted with one conviction and one prison sentence. That’s one whole executive branch official convicted
of a crime in two and a half decades of Democrat leadership.
In the 28 yrs that Republicans have held office over the last 53 yrs they have had a total of (a drum roll would be more than appropriate), 120 criminal indictments of executive branch officials. 89 criminal convictions and 34 prison sentences handed down. That’s more prison sentences than years in office since 1968 for Republicans. If you want
to count articles of impeachment as indictments (they aren’t really but we can count them as an action), both sides get one more. However, Clinton wasn’t found guilty while Nixon resigned and was pardoned by
Ford (and a pardon carries with it a legal admission of guilt on the part of the pardoned). So those only serve to make Republicans look even worse.
With everything going on with Trump and his people right now, it’s a safe bet Republicans are gonna be padding their numbers a bit real soon.
So let’s just go over the numbers one more time, shall we? 120 indictments for Republicans. 89 convictions, and 34 prison sentences. Those aren’t “feelings” or “alternate facts.” Those are simply the stats by the numbers. Republicans are, and have been for my entire lifetime, the most criminally corrupt party to hold the office of the presidency.
So those are the actual numbers. Feel free to copy and paste!”
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ms-cellanies

If you NEVER reblog a post make sure you REBLOG THIS POST.

Based on this why would ANYONE who is against corruption and criminal activity vote for any Republican?  And these stats are only for the executive branch.  Imagine what would be found if this included Congress.

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maggiec70

Hello! Do you happen to know if Marie-Antoinette actually dressed up as a milkmaid at Trianon? I heard this tidbit many times but I have no idea what the source is.

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She and her "ladies" did dress for their play times at Le Hameau, but not as any milkmaid that anyone had ever seen before. They wore "simple" muslin dresses, usually white. with minimum trims and flounces, their hair unpowdered, wearing wide-brimmed straw hats with ribbon bands. It was the duty of a group of groundskeepers to keep the pathways at the little play farm meticulously swept and free of the slightest hint of animal droppings, and all the animals, including a couple of cows, plus the geese and chickens, absolutely pristine and safe enough for Antoinette to actually touch without getting her royal fingers dirty. There were also sheep, nice and wooly, and each one colored differently--pink, blue, yellow, and green. I have no clue why.

So Antoinette and the girls sat around on delicate little chairs and sipped tea, thinking they had a clue what it was like to live on a farm.

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mairithetree

A subtle flirt in the garden by mairithetree

“It’s a pity you always hide your face underneath these hats. You should reveal yourself more, my dear.” 💕

For Pride Month, a sapphic romance set during the 18th century in the park 🥰 The dresses are “robes à la française”, I took inspiration from these photos : link, link, link & link ! It took me some time to finish it and I’m happy with how the dresses look ✨

This illustration is a companion piece of that one I did last year 💖: link

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