Sandro Botticelli,The Birth of Venus (details)

Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes (1948)

Fay Wray in It Happened In Hollywood (1937)

Good Morning. And, Fuck Christopher Columbus!

idk why ppl keep saying this emoji 😬is a smile… cus every time i see it, this is what comes to mind:

The snuggle is real

My heart 💗💗💗💗

Sensual goddess fresco discovered in ancient Pompeii bedroom

Archaeologists have found in an ancient Pompeii bedroom a fresco depicting a sensual scene of a goddess and swan.

The figure of goddess Leda being impregnated by a swan representing Roman god Jupiter was a fairly common theme in home decoration in Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum, another ancient town destroyed in A.D. 79 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius near present-day Naples.

But Pompeii archaeological park director Massimo Osanna praised this fresco as exceptional since the goddess appears to look at whoever’s looking at the fresco upon entering the bedroom.

“Leda watches the spectator with a sensuality that’s absolutely pronounced,” Osanna told the Italian news agency ANSA. Read more.

hobbies: giving myself unnecessary anxiety

they’ve escaped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (via dostevsky)

Rear Window (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock