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Ivan Aivazovsky, Waves (detail), 1849
vivelareine:


… Everything you wrote me about your daughter pleased me, and I share with you a mother’s feeling for the behavior of this dear child. How touching it is! But we need a Dauphin. I am impatient; my age does not leave me much time to wait.

—Maria Theresa to Marie Antoinette, 1 April 1780
overidealism:

Beksinski by *AaliyahNavras
smooth:

szwagier’s soup

Dancing at a London jazz club, 1950s.
These young jazz fans/”beatniks” in Britain became the precursor to Mods.