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oliviawhen:

What if sleeping beauty became a knight instead? 

A mini project I’ve been thinking about for awhile. You can find a backstory comic [here].

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o-dysseys:

LITERATURE MEME | 2 movements - (2) dark romanticism

Dark Romanticism, also called American Romanticism, is a subgenre of literature that arose in reaction to Transcendentalism. Dark Romanticism involves sin, self-destruction, and often supernatural forces.

G.R. Thompson describes the movement as follows:

“Fallen man’s inability fully to comprehend haunting reminders of another, supernatural realm that yet seemed not to exist, the constant perplexity of inexplicable and vastly metaphysical phenomena, a propensity for seemingly perverse or evil moral choices that had no firm or fixed measure or rule, and a sense of nameless guilt combined with a suspicion the external world was a delusive projection of the mind—these were major elements in the vision of man the Dark Romantics opposed to the mainstream of Romantic thought.”

Notable writers include Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.

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fuckyeahfancyladies:

Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star. She began acting in 1922, and within two years she was an internationally known actress and fashion icon. In 1935, she was passed over for the role of O-Lan in the Good Earth, and appeared in several B  movies before World War II broke out. During the War, she focused on helping the Chinese during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the 1950s, she returned to the public eye when she became the first Asian-American tv lead.

I saw a great show about her on PBS a few weeks ago. You can watch it online here: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365001055

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The famous journalist Nelly Bly, who got her start by impressing a misogynistic newspaper editor. She made her name when she went undercover in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. She became world famous when she attempted to travel around the world in 80 days (she set a world record when she finished her trip in 72 days). She later married a steel manufacturer, and has several patents to her name. She was forced into bankruptcy and returned to journalism, covering the women’s suffrage movement and World War I before her death in 1922.