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Light me a cigarette, will you, angel?

The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks

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all my haters become satyrs when i play on the panflute of success

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ugh the Ancient Roman who joined our birdwatching club won't shut up about "bad omens" or "signs of impending war" 😒

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the public library is for lovers

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POZZO: […] Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all. (Pause. Judiciously.) It is true the population has increased.

—Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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”I have this artistic idea but not the skills to achieve it to the standard I want.”

congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!

Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?

Don’t let the fear of it not being perfect on the first try stop you from being Weird About It!

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Keith Haring drawing on a 1962 SCAF/Mortarini Mini Ferrari 330 P-2 during the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 1984.

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love downloading a pdf to never read. just in case. like lol. you’re coming home with me

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“Ridiculous of you to mix human and vampire business. It always ends poorly. But how can I stop you? How can I say no to you?”

“It was a grand and loving gesture on Lestat's part, and I was now the owner of the brightest club in the district.”

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | SEASON 1

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What's your process for identifying a font? Do you follow a specific method/have specific books that your recommend?

For modern fonts, especially free fonts, I tend to use What Font Is. (There's also WhatTheFont, but it only includes commercial fonts and I haven't had as much luck with it.)

For fonts from the 60s/70s/80s, I look through Photo-Lettering's One-Line Manual of Styles, which is a huge collection of samples of fonts that were available in the 70s. For even older fonts, there's various older catalogs to search in, though that doesn't come up very often.

Unfortunately modern fonts are more decentralized, so there's no one catalog that covers them well. Fontscape tries, but its coverage is limited. Sometimes if a font looks like a particular foundry's style, I'll see if I can find it on their website. E.g. Emigre and House Industries tend to have a recognizable style.

Sometimes the font looks similar to a font I know, or I find a font on What Font Is that's not right but close. In that case, I go to the font's page on Fonts In Use, and check under Related Typefaces to see if any of them match. (E.g. for this post, I recognized that it looked like Data 70, so I went to the Fonts In Use page for Data 70, and found Magnetic Ink in the related typefaces.)

Sometimes I use Identifont, mostly for cases where there's a lot of common fonts that are very similar. The Differences tool is really helpful to compare two similar fonts side by side to make sure I've got the right one.

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stop earning advanced degrees i need you to finish your fanfiction

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David Bowie and the End of Gender, Anne Rice, Vogue, November 1983

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attempting to atheistify the ancient tribal sun worshipper but the more scientific sun facts i tell them the more hyped they get about the sun

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Medea is married to a Greek hero, however, lives among Greeks, and has achieved a remarkable ability to argue with the subtlety and persuasiveness of a Greek man. Furthermore, she has adopted, it seems, the outlook of the heroic Greek male, for whom to be slighted or ridiculed is unbearable, to compromise with one’s enemies impossible. She practices deception with success when that is needed but can also face down her husband, who appears far less resolute and “manly” than she in their debates. Indeed, throughout their relationship it has been Medea who aided and supported Jason, rather than the other way around. When Jason leaves Medea for his Corinthian princess, Medea appears desperate and helpless, but step by step she takes charge and wins what she needs to triumph over those who have now become her enemies.

From the Editor’s Note to The Complete Euripides

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not very new hyperfixation rediscovered write a poem abt it

edit: made another one :D