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Henry Cavill for InStyle Magazine
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The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent.
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The only thing that never tires me, is you..
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The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies
The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.
Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”
I am in love with this.
askdjfshdjf ‘the last of us’ is sooo good. and I fucking love Tess. she’s a bamf and Joel follows her and it’s beautiful………….. she’s going to die isn’t she…
she is.
#omg #what wait okay because au where jim and spock get stuck on earth #and spock has to grow his hair out human-style #and jim forces him to wear humourous t-shirts #(because they did save the earth. twice even.) #and jim sees him ruffling his hair and wearing the shirt one morning #and says ‘looking good’ (via thylaa)
go sit in the corner and think about what you have just done
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Gaspard Ulliel as Montparnasse, the dandy of the Underground.
dedicated to Martina
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OK guys I just booked a ticket to KA on Friday. Operation “getting drunk and sobbing over Les Mis” is a go.
You might, but I bet we’ll all be so busy behaving stupidly that we won’t even have time to notice ;) (And if that doesn’t help we can get drunk)

OKAY
OK guys I just booked a ticket to KA on Friday. Operation “getting drunk and sobbing over Les Mis” is a go.

Gwendoline Christie is the actress for Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones. She stands at 6 feet 3 inches tall and took swordfighting, horseriding, and stagefighting lessons for her part, as well as gaining 14 pounds of muscle, to accurately portray Brienne. (x)
She was also terrified of cutting her hair because she’d spent her life believing it was one of the only things that would make people see her as feminine despite her height. In an interview with TV Guide she said:
I struggled for a long time with [cutting] my hair, but then I’m grateful for the opportunity to realize that femininity doesn’t have to come from hair or any of those traditional female archetypes of appearance, So, that’s been exciting actually. I can’t speak with any kind of authority whatsoever because I’m just an actor and I only have my opinions, but I do think it’s really refreshing to have a woman depicted on a mainstream TV show that doesn’t obey typical aesthetics of females and the way they have been portrayed in the past. And I’m really excited to be portraying one of those women. And I hope that her popularity signals a greater expansion of people’s views about men and women and that gender types can be more flexible.
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askdjfshdjf ‘the last of us’ is sooo good. and I fucking love Tess. she’s a bamf and Joel follows her and it’s beautiful………….. she’s going to die isn’t she…
This (predominantly US-American) understanding of ethnicity vs. nationality will never cease to utterly baffle me.
oh my… I don’t even know how to comment on this… sheesh, I mean… I guess it really is a mostly american thing (at least that’s what I heard from a friend there). If someone lived in America his whole life and is american, but has italian great great grandparents he still considers himself partly italian… but that’s not how it works here?
It’s not how it works for me. a friend from university is born german and lived here until she was 11, moved to japan then and is only back to study here. but she doesn’t feel german and that’s okay. she doesn’t even look japanese but she feels japanese. and that counts more than… “ethnicity” (god I hate that word)Well, I suppose “race” plays a much bigger role Over The Pond for several reasons; considering that historically it’s just layers over layers of immigrants and each new wave of that caused the residents to dissociate from the new ones. Then there’s minorities who were singled out for various reasons (or who didn’t even want to come there in the first place) - not just slavery/segregation, also what happened with the japanese during WWII and long-lasting prejudice (at least on the east coast, from what I’ve heard of), towards “late” (19th century and laster) immigrants from Poland, Ireland or Italy - who, in response, of course, formed a sub-culture of their own which then became a huge part of their identity.
And now there’s this giant country that’s really composed of a much more heterogenous population than most who’re all trying to hold on to some idea of identity, especially since there’s so much dissent (thanks to Wiebke for teaching me that word) over so many things, not just (but mostly) political.
So I kinda get why this ethnicity thing is a bit of a big deal - but still, even that seems to be more related to identity than to how one actually looks (cf. “passing privilege”), and just seeing it used as equivalent to “race” and to reduce it down to one’s features just FREAKS ME THE FUCK OUT