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ocean vuong - on earth we’re briefly gorgeous / mark doty - death of antinous / mitski - why didn’t you stop me

(CONTAINS JJK MANGA SPOILERS // FLASHING IMAGES & BLOOD)  thank you for 1k,,, I released a new video Link

Joan Didion, Blue Nights.

maybe you should talk to someone - lori gottlieb / white ferrari - frank ocean / the poem of the soul - louis janmot / @inkskinned / x / honeybee - trista mateer / the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us - sufjan stevens

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

what if

Narumitsu Week 2021 - Day 5: Appearances

After investigations

(sorry about the ugly borders)

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

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I've rewatched man from uncle and maaaan it's still one of the best movies I've ever seen it's great the soundtrack is great the storytelling is great the dialogue is great the cinematography is great the fake relationship is great because who doesn't want to see that big unstable russian fall in love with that small quirky german also don't get me started on that unfinished kiss

it’s not fair

I made this for class and am proud! Seems like it could find a home on tumblr

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

Art Prints

Wallflower Ghost on Etsy

We’re painted red to fit right in

The holy trinity of WSJ mentor figures.

The usual “he’s kinda stupid but he’s my stupid so I’m stuck with him”

This will never not be funny.

I said it in the notes on the last post but I’m gonna say it again.

I’m married to someone with severe memory problems. Automation of household appliances & systems helps him a lot and helps me a lot because it reduces the number of things I have to keep in my brain at all times. I love doors that lock themselves, being able to schedule dog food being delivered, a thermostat I can manipulate from wherever. Beyond my little bubble it should be noted that voice controlled appliances can be really good for people with mobility concerns. Appliances that can measure and talk and remember little tasks can be such a blessing for people.

I will never forgive Amazon and Google for taking technologies that could be really helpful and weaponizing them, and fuck everybody who acts like its some kind of conspiracy theory that those devices are spying on you. You absolutely should be distrustful of those devices but just make sure you’re getting angry at the right people.

i think anne magills paintings and Edward hoppers are like .. exact opposites. hoppers has the distinct clarity to it, a sharpness in the lines and the angles that contributes to an overwhelming sense of loneliness in almost every one of his paintings. even in his paintings that dont portray isolation there is a feeling of separation

loneliness vs. aloneness

magill, on the other hand, has this haziness to her paintings that emanates a warmth even when the subjects in her paintings are alone.

both paintings feel so comforting, and even in the second one where the girl is alone she is still in the presence of the visceral world around her - there’s a familiarity in magills painting that she captures nicely.

i guess i just think it’s interesting because hopper and magill are two of my favorite artists and they paint similar scenes with very different tones -

I’ve always thought that hoppers paintings are a snapshot of urban loneliness - the distinctness of it, the use of cool colors, the stark contrast between the people and their settings - whereas magills paintings seem almost like memories - their use of haziness and blurriness is exactly how someone wild remember something, indistinct, full of feeling and lacking detail

just came across the most menacing uquiz of all time… Taylor Swift or NBC Hannibal?

WEEK 2 DRABBLES ARE HERE!

Now, let’s refresh your memory.

For the second week of LDWS, our true l- our writers were asked to write a drabble between 150 and 200 words, based on the word deck from the point of view of an outsider.

THEY DID SUCH A GREAT JOB!

(this is a purely illustrative gif of an outside observer of the goings on at Q’s flat, not a prompt)

READ THE DRABBLES AND VOTE!

hOW?

Read the drabbles & Pick three favourites!

Vote for them on this form!

Add some feedback for the writers!

That’s it! You have done your civic duty and voted!

Vote!

Read the drabbles below the line.

Continua a leggere

i'm here asking for help again since twitter's algorithms are fucking heinous.

desperately need help gathering funds & escaping my abusive family. in this place i'm at risk of severely hurting or killing myself if not being murdered by my pedophilic+fascistic sibling. i can't be here anymore. this is hell on earth. please help me get the word out, i need donations so i can at least afford to find safety and respite in this shit country.

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The Lion Sarcophagus 

Termessos, Pisidia, Asia Minor (Turkey)

1st/ 2nd century CE

The lion monument is a funerary monument shaped as a Corinthian prostyle temple with three columns (tristyle). The walls and columns rise up on a base of four steps, forming a room of about 3 m. width and depth, within which an ornate sarcophagus is stationed. The unfluted columns were 3.66 m. tall, including base and capital, and 1.73 m apart, measured from center to center, their location is indicated by mortises in the stone slabs.

The entablature consists of a high architrave with an attached frieze and dentils cornices with masks. The decorations on the entablature differ significantly from what has been brought up in the drawing. On the frieze, the acanthus is not used but the bay leaf, and in the architrave crowned fillet continuous there are continuous tendrils instead of the usual palmettes. 

The sarcophagus is still in its original place and is badly weathered, but uninjured except for a hole in the middle of the front long side; this front shows two Beasts, it seems, lions and panthers, holding an amphora; above it a frieze with sea monsters divided into several fields; Tendril ornaments fill the narrow fields at the side, while a laurel thread is attached at the bottom. There is a second, very simple sarcophagus next to the monument on the third mare of the substructure, forming a wide heel; a place that probably indicates that a relative or Servant of the honored by the burial temple rested. The one on the large sarcophagus The attached inscription turned out to be illegible.

So I just found out that there are more people making works on AO3 with a million tags on them in protest to AO3 not removing that one fic (you know the one). I would just like to state my own personal opinion about that right up front: if you’re trolling AO3, no matter your reason for doing so, you’re the asshole.

I know we all call it AO3, but the a stands for Archive. It’s a site built on the premise that fanworks deserve to exist and shouldn’t be taken down, unless the author is making that decision for themselves. 

This means that there are lots of works on AO3 that I think suck. There are works that are poorly written or boring or morally reprehensible. And guess what? All of that is protected because it’s not about a single work, it’s about fanworks in general and all of us having a place we can rely on to have our backs. 

The whole point of AO3 is not deleting works just because someone complains about them. The work needs to violate the Terms of Service and if it doesn’t, then it shouldn’t be removed. The rules that protect me protect those other works too. 

The volunteers at AO3 take the site’s goals and premise very seriously. They aren’t going to make snap judgements about a work, not even a work with a million tags. They also aren’t going to make snap judgements about implementing a limit on tags when there hasn’t been one before. 

They need to talk things out and discuss the short and long term ramifications. They need to talk about where to draw the line, and how can they explain why they decided to draw the line there? Will this decision affect works that already exist on the Archive? What do we do about them? Those authors posted before this new rule came into being, so you can’t punish them for a rule that didn’t exist at the time. 

Creating more works with the same issue just means that volunteer tag wranglers have even more work to do. Mass reporting a work that has already been reported just means that Policy & Abuse volunteers have even more work to do. If you fill up their lives with nonsense tags or repeat reports, you know what they can’t do? The thing that everyone (including them) wants them to be doing. 

People who volunteer for AO3 also read on AO3. They are as annoyed about these works as you are. But making more work for them to do isn’t the answer. Being patient is. It’s going to take time for them to make decisions about things like tag limits. It’s going to take time for them to code the limit into the site. It’s going to take time for them to test the code and make sure it doesn’t break anything. And in the meantime:

Filter out the author and bookmark your filter in your browser so you don’t have to enter it every time.

Add the work-blocking code to your site skin so you never need to see that work again, as long as you’re logged in.

There are tools you can use to avoid the things you don’t want to see. Creating a bigger problem isn’t the solution. It’s just a dick move.

Small Town Grocery Store Stories: LGBTQ+ friendly edition

Me: minding my own damn business in the grocery store

One of my students and a few of his teammates enter the dairy aisle. 

My student is holding hands with one of his teammates. 

My student: Oh hey, Professor X!

Me, who has both my student and his girlfriend in my class: …Hello

My student, looking at his hand-holding partner: Oh! Don’t worry. My girlfriend knows. Not that I’m cheating! I’m not cheating. I’m not gay.

Hand Holding boy: Not that being gay is a bad thing! It’s a good thing!

My student: Right! But no, listen. We aren’t together, we just hold hands in public sometimes.

Hand Holding Boy: Especially on Friday nights. And weekends. And at away games.

My student: Because sometimes people will say shit and then we can punch them! And if the fight started because someone was being homophobic, coach won’t get mad at us.

Hand Holding Boy: Always nice to punch a homophobe. And [gesturing to another boy in the group] maybe they’ll think twice about saying something to [other boy’s name] if he ever gets a boyfriend and wants to hold his hand for real. The Gay One, resigned but smiling: I’ve decided it’s sweet and not really fucking weird.

i’m obsessed with this

and then, two months later....

🥺

will someone PLEASE make an edit of screenshots of edward elric looking like a gremlin to the tik tok sound of pudgy can i get an owa owa PLEASE