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peet’s coffee and my ophelia essay crunch

Illustrations from L Frank Baum’s Oz books (WW Denslow & John R Neill, 1900 to 1920).  (via Wikipedia)

history | charles dana gibson

charles dana gibson was an american illustrator, who is best known for his creation of the gibson girl, which was an iconic representation of an independent euro-american woman at the turn of the 20th century. a gibson girl was described as “a member of upper-middle-class society, always perfectly dressed in the latest fashionable attire appropriate for the place and time of day. the gibson girl was also one of the new, more athletic-shaped women, who could be found cycling through central park, often exercised, and was emancipated to the extent that she could enter the workplace. in addition to the gibson girl’s refined beauty, in spirit, she was calm, independent, confident, and sought personal fulfillment.”

Garden of Hope - James Gurney (detail)

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coffee diaries

like they will always be mean girls bullies its true

there is nobody more evil or obnoxious than someone who grew up with any bed bigger than a twin in their childhood bedroom

i adore how arcane fans have unanimously decided that vi braided jinx’s hair when she was little and silco braids her hair when she’s grown up i love how it’s practically canon now not even debatable

coffee and cafés

just finished dracula it was so good but where do i go from here what is my personality if not the girl who brings dracula around everywhere she goes

Flaming June - 1895 - Frederic Leighton