brash-and-bold:

ITS GIVEAWAY TIME!
Wow, I’ve almost reached 50,000 posts on tumblr! So, I figured why not give something away to the people who have dealt with all of these posts on their dashboard.

What am I giving away? 

1. A River Song journal replica
2. Any 3 Adagio fandom teas of your choosing
3. An avengers button set
4. A replica of Dean’s Raku-Hyperphysical necklace
5. 2 Achievement Hunter slap on bracelets
6. The Hobbit on DVD
7. A Sherlock Holmes pillow that says “I may be on the side of the side of the angels…But dont think for one second I am one” 
8. Any shirt/pullover/zipup from the what pumpkin store

BUT WAIT! THATS NOT ALL! THERE WILL BE 2nd AND 3rd PLACE WINNERS AS WELL

What do second place winners get? 

1. 2 Adagio fandom teas of your choice
2. A nic cage face pin OR pizza heart pin
   
   
   
3. 5 stickers of your choosing from redbubble! 

What does 3rd place get? 

1. One Adagio fandom tea of your choice
2. The remaining pin. (if second place chose nic, you get the pizza pin and vise versa)
3. 3 stickers of your choice from redbubble

Ew. Now time for the BORING rules

• You MUST be following me!  I will check! This is super important man
• Likes and Reblogs count
• No giveaway blogs
• You must be comfortable with giving me your address
• This ends May 31st! 
• I will ship anywhere in the world! 

Goodluck everyone! And may the odds be EVER in your favor.

(via superwholock-girl)

tyndall-blue:

riskycuriosity:

artemisiumabsinthia:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937. 

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs. 

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’. 

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli. 

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

(via creagantuire)

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Characters Set One

(Source: demonslayersinthenight, via cassandraclare)

willisthatyou:

“No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as London, its cities and towers and churches and bridges and streets, circled all about them like the memory of a dream. And if the Thames that ran beside them, sure and silver in the afternoon light, recalled a night long ago when the moon shone as brightly as a shilling on this same boy and girl, or if the stones of Blackfriars knew the tread of their feet and thought to themselves: At last, the wheel comes full circle, they kept their silence.”

Jem Carstairs and Tessa Gray on Blackfriars Bridge in 1878 (top) and 2008 (bottom). Art by Cassandra Jean (x).

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