i am who i am. no excuses.

Martin van Meytens, Marie Antoinette (age 12) 1767 / Diva, Beyonce

a picspam of some Marvel women for ladymarvels ♥

ten favorite fictional twentysomethings: Winifred “Fred” Burkle (Angel)

Are you new here? Because Blair’s the boss of all of us.

These statues depict the priestesses of Vesta, otherwise known as the Vestal Virgins. Serving for thirty years, these priestesses had the job of maintaining the sacred fire in the Temple of Vesta. Should these women break their vow of chastity, the punishment was death by being buried alive.

A WITCH is a practitioner of witchcraft. Witchcraft is the use of magical faculties, most commonly for religious, divinatory or medicinal purposes. This may take many forms depending on cultural context. The belief in and the practice of magic has been present since the earliest human cultures and continues to have an important religious and medicinal role in many cultures today. The concept of witchcraft as harmful is often treated as a cultural ideology providing a scapegoat for human misfortune. This was particularly the case in Early Modern Europe where witchcraft came to be seen as part of a vast diabolical conspiracy of individuals in league with the Devil undermining Christianity, eventually leading to large-scale witch-hunts, especially in Protestant Europe. Witch hunts continue to this day with tragic consequences. (x) 

Jess, you tripped the other day just standing there

“When you realize who the good people are in your life, you’re so lucky.”

Lady Jane Grey had an excellent humanist education and a reputation as one of the most learned young women of her day. A committed Protestant, she was posthumously regarded as not only a political victim but also a martyr.

And what are we if not women up to a challenge? Exactly!  I mean, did we not put the ‘grr’ in girl?

Tris is always my favorite, because she’s such a complicated girl— at times humorless and merciless and relentlessly hard on herself, at other times brave and compassionate and emotional. I have also loved watching her develop a sense of humor over time. There are so many things I like about her.

And all of my friends say it wasn’t meant to be