First Look At Jodie Turner-Smith As Anne Boleyn In Three-part Miniseries Anne Boleyn (2021), Dir. Lynsey

June 1943. New Britain, Connecticut. Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant. 

Photo by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information

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the inherent romanticism of being thought of.

Because…..he had a plan…pass it on 📝📝📝

i used to think that icarus’ death was just a tragic accident—the kind so prevalent in greek mythology, where the hero survives the most dangerous part but tragedy befalls in the most unexpected/preventable way as a result of hubris/arrogance/carelessness. but icarus’ fate was no accident. tragic, yes, but also beautiful in its inevitability: a tribute to the inexorable entanglement between love and death, desire and destruction, intimacy and decay — all of which are ultimately just forms of want and loss. after all, everything has a price, an equal and opposite reaction.

desire is synonymous with fire. it’s something i think mortals are only capable of experiencing in tiny doses: little fires in our guts, live wires down our spine, warm flushes across our cheeks. like taking very small sips of too-hot tea, desire must be drawn out over a lifetime of intimacy—lest it burn us up completely. but apollo feels things with all his immortal intensity: he is pure fire and light and heat. i am not sure there exists a purer form of love than that of the sun.

this is why icarus’ fate is no accident, nor another allegory on the dangers of hubris. it was inevitable from the start. the same way achilles’ virility and vitality was paid for with his death at such a young age, the heat from apollo’s fleeting, fatal moment of desire for icarus is the same as a lifetime’s worth of slow-burning love between two mortals.

i like to believe that icarus didn’t lose his life—not exactly. he just lived it all at once in a single, blazing moment of intimacy with the sun.

Rob Stanier

Love Jones (Theodore Witcher, 1997)

Architectural decay portrayed in art pieces

‘Roman Ruins’ by Hubert Robert, 1760

‘Capriccio of Classical Ruins’ by Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1725 and 1730

‘Landscape with Classical Ruins and Figures’ by Marco and Sebastiano Ricci, 1725-1730

‘Ruins in Baalbek’ bu Jules Louis Coignet, 1846

‘Gothic Church Ruin’ by Carl Blechen, 1829-1831

‘The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel’ by Louis Daguerre, 1824

‘Christ and Adulteress’ by Ascanio Luciano, 1669

‘Detail of View of the Arch of Constantine with the Colosseum’ by Canaletto, 1742-1745

‘Ruins of the Palace’ by Ramon Martí Alsina, 1859

So I made an Asrian playlist. It is very 80′s-licious with a dash of 70′s.  I hope it is sufficiently Extra and Dramatique™.

Careless Whisper .//. George Michael

Love Kills .//. Vinnie Vincent Invasion

As The World Falls Down .//. David Bowie

Total Eclipse of The Heart .//. Bonnie Tyler

Don’t You Want Me .//. The Human League

Every Breath You Take .//. The Police

Too Much Heaven .//. Bee Gees

Right Here Waiting .//. Richard Marx

Heat Of The Moment .//. Asia

Break Your Promise .//. The Delfonics

Hungry Like The Wolf .//. Duran Duran

Baby Come Back .//. Player

Hello .//. Lionel Richie

Starting All Over Again .//. Mel & Tim

Time After Time .//. Cyndi Lauper

Hopelessly Devoted To You .//. Olivia Newton-John

Suedehead .//. Morrissey

Take Me Home Tonight .//. Eddie Money

Who Can it Be Now? .//. Men At Work

Don’t You (Forget About Me) .//. Simple Minds

On Spotify.