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@plunderherz / plunderherz.tumblr.com

Musician - Vaudeville worker - Wayward Victorian Orphan - I like tea - I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
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dionysusmuse

Rachmaninov’s Elegiac trio, but it’s a snow storm in Moscow during the winter of 1892 and someone is practising the cello part in the next room

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talesfromthecrypts
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classicfilmblr

Remember that it’s New Year’s Eve, the last day of the year! Whoever dies on this eve must drive Death’s carriage. 

The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström

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murroyilodel

Tab Murphy (screenwriter for Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame) posted on FB the “first treatment” that he had written of the movie. There are thirteen pages in all, but already the first three are a riot. I just highlighted parts that made me roll:

  1. Look at it you all, Murphy was already writing the villain’s origin story before Diz Inc. got in the act and did it for other villains.
  2. 18th century?!??
  3. BORIS AND BELA.
  4. BONAPARTE.
  5. THEY REALLY WERE SHAPING PHOEBUS AFTER GRINGOIRE.
  6. HIS POEMS ARE SO BAD THAT EVEN HIS HORSE CRINGES.

*warning: g-slur

Edit: Putting the rest of the pages behind “read more”, since people asked about them!

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powerofthestruggle

Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904

this is an extremely important picture

Ive never seen someone from 1904 having fun omg

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scootsenshi

He has a nice face

No but the history behind this picture is really interesting

The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn’t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.

It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.

But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people weren’t exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and that’s the pose he wanted to strike.

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thisisarebeljyn

I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing.

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avatar-dacia

Hey, look; “Man Laughing Alone With Rice” is back on my dash.

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jumpingjacktrash

always reblog Happy Rice Guy. once upon a time, he really enjoyed his lunch, and that’s beautiful.

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