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thedailywhat:

Don’t Tell, Show of the Day: After a photo of US Marine Brandon Morgan being welcomed home by his partner Dalan went viral in a big way on Facebook, Morgan issued the following response to the thousands of comments it generated: 

To everyone who has responded in a positive way. My partner and I want to say thank you. Dalan, the giant in the photo, can’t believe how many shares and likes we have gotten on this. We didn’t do this to get famous,or something like that we did this cause after 3 deployments and four years knowing each other, we finally told each other how we felt. As for the haters, let em hate…to quote Kat Williams, everyone needs haters, so let them hate. We are the happiest we have ever been and as for the whole PDA and kissing slash hugging in uniform…it was a homecoming, if the Sergeants Major, Captains, Majors, and Colonels around us didn’t care…then why do you care what these random people have to say?

[jmg.]

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Magic, all around her…

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bohemea:

Cate Blanchett - InStyle Australia by Regan Cameron, June 2006

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Downton Abbey

Finally watched the first episode. Lovely show, simply stunning.

Stevie Nicks, simply stunning!

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vivelareine:

A recent acquisition by the chateau de Versailles: Punch-bowl from the dinner service with a sky-blue background of Louis XV

This punch-bowl formed part of the large dinner service “à fond bleu céleste” (with a sky-blue background) executed for Louis XV between 1753 and 1755 at the royal porcelain Manufactory, then installed in the Château de Vincennes. It consisted of 1,749 pieces of soft-paste porcelain decorated with flowers and fruits in cartouches underlined in gold. The sky-blue background used was created by the chemist Hellot specially to mark this commission. After it was delivered, this service was used by the royal family until the end of the Ancien Régime.

Exceptional for its decoration and its ample size matching the huge set to which it belonged, this punch-bowl also stands out for its excellent state of conservation and its novelty at the time of the commission: it was a new design imported from England for a new drink, punch, served at the end of the meal with dessert. It accompanies the seven pieces belonging to the same service already on view in the palace of Versailles in the “porcelain” dining-room.

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“Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus” by John William Waterhouse

One of my most beloved paintings ever.

Portrait of Mary Gainsborough by Thomas Gainsborough, 1777