Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 283
March 21, 2016
clearlynotclaire:
@lbardugo i’m sorry for this...
meabhd:
I can’t get Inej how I pictured her and tbh it’s...
I can’t get Inej how I pictured her and tbh it’s putting me on edge…
Ok, but I love everything about this ❤
the-four-humors:
“A life lived in fear is a life...
“A life lived in fear is a life half-lived.”
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
One of my favorite movies EVER. This and The Untouchables.
i want to read more women's poetry do u have any suggestions?
Audre Lorde – The Black Unicorn if you don’t want to buy The Collected Poems. Unapologetic, angry, and political without losing the personal edge that makes her a necessary read for women outside her experience. Try A Woman Speaks, The Women of Dan Dance with Swords in Their Hands to Mark the Time When They Were Warriors, Sister Outsider, Need: A Choral Of Black Women’s Voices, there are so many. Her nonfiction writing on poetry, race, sexuality, etc. is also spectacular. Try Sister Outsider to start with.
I am deliberate
and afraid
of nothing.
Ada Limón – Bright Dead Things. There are poems like Prickly Pear & Fisticuffs and During the Impossible Age of Everyone where you cheer.
If we could light up the room with pain,
we’d be such a glorious fire.
Scherezade Siobhan – Father, Husband. My favorite Tumblr poet. Unafraid to write of topics that would fall to cliché in lesser hands. Her vocabulary is amazing in it’s width and breadth through not alienating, she wields it with precision. Try Brown Girl Missing, Survival Kit, Fight Like a Girl (fragment, sorry).
today i
didn’t ache for the knife of your voice.
Cecilia Vicuña – I mostly like her in fragments but that’s because I read her book which covered her unique performances. At turns frustrating and rewarding.
I’m not really here
I’m only the shape
of the emptiness
that holds me
sorrynotsorrybi:
Catharina “Toto” Koopman, October 1908 -...
Catharina “Toto” Koopman, October 1908 - August 1991
Badassness: Toto was born in Java to a Dutch-Indonesian mother and a Dutch father. She attended school in the Netherlands and showed a talent for language - she was fluent in 6 languages. After school she moved to Paris and started her modeling career, appearing frequently in Vogue Paris.
After Paris, Toto moved to London and then to Italy. When World War II started, she joined the Italian Resistance as a spy. She was captured by the Fascists twice and escaped both times. In 1944, Toto was captured by Nazis and sent to the
Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she underwent forced sterilization and medical experiments. She was released in 1945. Toto eventually moved back to London with her long-term partner, Erica Bausen, and stayed active in high society. In her later life, Toto developed a passion for archaeology, studied at the University of London and took part in excavations.Bisexuality: Toto had a series of lovers during her modeling career in Paris, including Randolph Churchill (Winston Churchill’s son), a leader in the Italian Resistance, and another badass bisexual, Tallulah Bankhead. It was Tallulah who introduced Toto to the Scottish-Canadian tycoon Lord Beaverbrook. Lord Beaverbrook was married and 30 years her senior, but they struck up a long affair that only ended when the Lord discovered that Toto was also sleeping with his son. Toto and the son, Max Aitken, Jr., were together for about 4 years, but split when Toto refused to marry him. Lord Beaverbrook had promised her a lifetime pension so long as she never married his son.
After her time in the concentration camp, Toto met art collector and fellow resistance spy Erica Brausen. The two fell in love and moved to London, where Erica opened the influential Hanover Gallery. They both continued to have affairs, but were devoted to each other, and lived together there until Toto’s death in 1991.
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tokyopt:
jamnsonphotography:
breesdiverseuniverse:
awidesetvag...
this is still the best story ever told at a talk show
Reblog every fucking time
Black Excellence
Wait for it… Wait for it…
princeoftherogues:
dork-bending:
THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE ABOUT THE NIGHT WITCHES DAMNIT.
BADASS...
THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE ABOUT THE NIGHT WITCHES DAMNIT.
BADASS LADIES BOMBING THE SHIT OUTA NAZI’S. WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE??
OKAY WE”RE GONNA DO HISTORY KIDs, GET READY FOR THE MOST FACE-MELTINGLY AWESOME WAR STORY YOU’VE EVER HEARD about Irina Sebrova and the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, or Night Witches as the Nazi’s called them because they hated them so much. The Night Witches were a group of Russian Aviatrixes during WW2,
THESE ARE THEM, AND
THIS IS THEIR BADASS LEADER IRINA SEBROVA.
now Russia had absolute shit equipment during WW2, and since the Night Witches were all women they were given the shittest of the shit equipment, and by shit, I mean World War One era biplanes that would hardly fly.
Yeah, ^THIS^ is what they had to fly, their job was to fly stealth missions. STEALTH. MISSIONS. In a super loud bi-plane that was originally meant to be fucking crop-duster. Now, in this plane, the navigator sat in front and the pilot sat in back (fairly common for bi-planes). Now, since these planes were so deafeningly loud and they were supposed to be flying stealthy night missions, the Night Witches solved that problem, BY TURNING OFF THE GODDAMN PLANE AND GLIDING ON AIR CURRENTS OVER THEIR BOMBING SITE. That is hardcore as fuck. Now, in addition to basically being flying death-traps, these planes had a slight problem, and by slight problem, I mean sometimes the bombs wouldn’t release. Now how do you solve that problem? How can you complete your mission if the bombs don’t drop? Well, if you’re a Night Witch you do what the navigators would do, AND CLIMB ONTO THE FUCKING WING AND DETACH THE BOMB BY HAND! You thought turning off the plane was badass? The plane was off while they were climbing onto the wing of a plane made of cloth and wood! Now to make things more badass, the Night Witches weren’t given supplies that were deemed ‘extraneous’ like, oh, a goddamn PARACHUTE. Seriously, no parachutes, and Irina Sebrova survived being shot down, TWICE, each time having to dodge German patrols while surviving the Russian winter. Now, for an American bomber in World War 2, if he survived 25 missions he was given an honorable discharge and it was considered he had done his duty to the Allies. Want to know how many missions Irina Sebrova flew? It’s more than 25. Irina Sebrova, Wing Commander of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment flew 92, that’s almost four tours of duty for an American, and those were just day missions!! Guess how many night missions Sebrova flew? ONE THOUSAND EIGHT. That’s right, she flew 1,008 night missions and 92 day missions, if she was American this would have meant she completed forty-four tours of duty. The Night Witches weren’t just badasses, they were heroes with such incredible amounts of courage that they carried out the most insane acts of braveryto protect their homeland and their people.
Some more pics of these amazing women.
March 20, 2016
the-stroke-of-a-pen:
Cool for the summer…
omg LOOK at these...
Cool for the summer…
omg LOOK at these adorable creatures. Jesper’s t shirt! The look on Wylan’s face! Matthias all German techno! Inej in the cutest outfit ever! I almost feel guilty for all the horrible shit I put them through in Crooked Kingdom.
