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aokuro-alldayeveryday: corporal—purin: 帝光青黒（と通販のお知らせ）

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:46:30 -0400

aokuro-alldayeveryday:

corporal—purin:

帝光青黒（と通販のお知らせ）

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:45:50 -0400

licensetocreep: Guys, its been almost 24 hours. Where the hell are the Fuck or Die Sterek fics?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:45:38 -0400

licensetocreep:

Guys, its been almost 24 hours.

Where the hell are the Fuck or Die Sterek fics?

freewilllhunting: if you’re going to try to seduce me please do not bother with ‘sexy’ clothes or...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:45:25 -0400

freewilllhunting:

if you’re going to try to seduce me please do not bother with ‘sexy’ clothes or lingerie just put on a starfleet uniform it will work much much better

cottonfist: 09. HANGING OUT WITH FRIENDS “Couldn’t ask for a...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:44:59 -0400

cottonfist:

09. HANGING OUT WITH FRIENDS

“Couldn’t ask for a better crew… a better family.”

medievalpoc: Unknown (formerly att. Johann Zoffany) Dido...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:43:04 -0400

medievalpoc:

Unknown (formerly att. Johann Zoffany)

Dido Elizabeth Belle

Scotland (1779)

oil on canvas

Scone Palace, Perth (private collection of the Earl of Mansfield)

Although this painting falls outside the usual scope of this blog, it is one of my favorite historical European paintings. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and enslaved African woman named Belle.

This painting was most likely commissioned by her father, the nephew of the Earl of Mansfield, and depicts the beautiful and vivacious Belle alongside her cousin, Elizabeth Murray.

The first time I saw this painting was in an art history classroom, accompanied by a story regarding the dehumanization of Africans in the Unites States, and the scores of visiting Americans who were scandalized by this painting. In America and several places in Europe, contemporaneous paintings always depicted people considered Black in subservient positions in relation to people considered White, if they bothered to paint them at all. To raise a bastard daughter of color alongside legitimate heirs was antithetical to American thought.

Dido Belle was raised and educated alongside the other highborn daughters of the household, and remained a favorite of the Earl and her father well into her thirties, after which an advantageous marriage was arranged.

Her position in the Earl’s household supervising the poultry yards was typical for any lady of high birth at the time, but her job overseeing the lord’s correspondence was usually a task reserved for a highly educated male clerk or scribe and is evidence of her importance and elevated rank. She received an allowance of £30 per year, more than any except the heiress herself and a sum unheard of at the time for any illegitimate daughter.

Upon Lord Mansfield’s death in 1788, Belle was furnished with a £500 lump sum in addition to a £100 annuity, as well as a suitable marriage to John Davinier, with whom she had three children. In Mansfield’s will, her status as a free person was carefully confirmed, since many would have been all too happy to divest her of her fortune.

Belle died in 1804 and was interred in St. George’s Fields, the parish to which she and her husband belonged.

My interest in this story was renewed recently when I learned that an upcoming film, Belle (currently in production), will be a dramatized biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle’s life. The titular role will be played by South African actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

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derek hale + bruised & battered

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:42:08 -0400

derek hale + bruised & battered

“Even if I cannot eat your soul, I am still one hell of a...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:41:34 -0400

^{“Even if I cannot eat your soul, I am still one hell of a butler. A demon’s butler.”}

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:41:29 -0400

vagisodium: pornolympics: 2 inces shorter and i could legally be a midget. ok are you telling me...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:39:57 -0400

vagisodium:

pornolympics:

2 inces shorter and i could legally be a midget. ok

are you telling me that you’ve been illegally a midget this whole time. call the cops

halogenic: have you ever had a dream that was so vivid it stuck with you in the back of your mind...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:39:43 -0400

halogenic:

have you ever had a dream that was so vivid it stuck with you in the back of your mind for years?

iguanamouth: current emotion: any picture of spike the dinosaur from land before...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:39:34 -0400

iguanamouth:

current emotion: any picture of spike the dinosaur from land before time

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:38:52 -0400

5 minutos antes da prova: DECORA QUALQUER COISA CARAMBA, DECORA, DECORA

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:38:23 -0400

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sayatsugu: My booth’s picture for the programme of Comic World...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:37:08 -0400

sayatsugu:

My booth’s picture for the programme of Comic World Taiwan 34.

and I really should get my doujinshi prepared……ORZ