“The Gaze, Human Or Animal, Is A Powerful Thing. When We Look At Something, We Decide To Fill Our Entire

“The gaze, human or animal, is a powerful thing. When we look at something, we decide to fill our entire existence, however briefly, with that very thing. To fill your whole world with a person, if only for a few seconds, is a potent act. And it can be a dangerous one. Sometimes we are not seen enough, and other times we are seen too thoroughly, we can be exposed, seen through, even devoured. Hunters examine their prey obsessively in order to kill it. The line between desire and elimination, to me, can be so small. But that is who we are. There must be some beauty—and if not beauty, meaning—in that brutal power. I am still trying, and mostly failing, to find it.”

— Ocean Vuong, Survival as a Creative Force

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Raphael C. 1506 And Present Day
Raphael C. 1506 And Present Day

Raphael c. 1506 and Present Day

Interior of the Pantheon 


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does the mortifying ordeal of being known guy know that his paragraph from a six year old NYT opinion piece about emailing pictures of goats to coworkers has become God Tier Tumblr Gospel ? like does he KNOW though


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Jude Law In Wilde (1997)
Jude Law In Wilde (1997)

jude law in wilde (1997)


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Consider:

Victorian England: 1837-1901

American Old West: 1803-1912

Meiji Restoration: 1868-1912

French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830

Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.


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why must a film be “viewed”? is it not enough to see select homoerotic scenes in gif form, low quality?


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i feel like i made myself up


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Marco Bozzato By Sofia Goncharenko – Haze Magazine (Winter 2020)

Marco Bozzato by Sofia Goncharenko – Haze Magazine (Winter 2020)

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