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MARIE ANTOINETTE costumes appreciation: ― Marie Antoinette’s cream and pink dress (costume design by Milena Canonero)

not sorry neither ashamed

my main advice for writing an enemies to lovers relationship is to resist the urge to make the characters' loathing and attraction mutually exclusive opposing forces. it's okay if they're getting weirdly into it and having Thoughts whilst also sincerely wanting to kill each other with hammers.

sometimes the best place for an "oh" moment of realization is while reeling from a punch and tasting blood in your mouth. it's kind of like a fucked up first kiss.

Elizabeth Swann + being smothered by the patriarchy her corset.

Sposabella, 1988.

Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends & we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.

Steve Rogers & USO Ladies 

I’m loving the historically accurate undergarments

i am not immune to stories in which characters who have endured harsh, empty existences become absolutely transformed by someone’s sincere love for them and learn to live

made for the hegemon edelgard zine a while back!

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:

Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~