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Lavender looks good on you

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Pics from the joint honeymoon…

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Oh my god dude

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The province is banning hiking/camping/etc until there's any degree of rain (>a week probably, the place is currently one big tinderbox) and I'm slightly charmed at just how incredibly needlessly ominous the graphic they came up for the press release is.

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Chema Mendez aka Mendez Mendez (Dominican, b. Dominican Republic, based Bavaro, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic) - Growing, Digital Art

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SHAWN HATOSY as JACK ABBOT THE PITT S01E13 : 7:00PM

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AU where gurathin is a professor at the local community college who hates hates HATES grading all these AI essays, and MB is a part-time Adult Education student taking a Build Your Own Mechasword workshop and auto-writing a few (okay, a lot of) term papers in exchange for Sanctuary Moon fanart

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Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”

[Text ID: “I am trying to stop doing / things that don’t make any sense. Body, / forgive me. I am trying. I am trying. I am still trying.]

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CALLUM TURNER as JOHN ‘BUCKY’ EGAN MASTERS OF THE AIR · part four

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Yvonne Jacquette (USA b.1934 ) Night Wing: Metropolitan Area Composite II (1993) oil on canvas 204.8 x 144.1 cm

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(touching your open wound) damn you’re so wet

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Gale seeing Bucky and just 😍

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you're my backbone // you're my cornerstone // you're my crutch when my legs stop moving - gone, gone, gone by phillip phillips

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"#his existential nerd ass LATIN tattoos are so deeply important to me #i have approximately 2836372 thoughts about them" would love 2 hear more of these thoughts 👀

and i would love to talk about it!!! while robby only has two canonical tattoos that we know of, i have a personal robby's tattoos extended universe that i will also talk about, because why the hell not.

so as other folks have noticed, the tattoos on his biceps are... kind of shitty. they're faded, the lines aren't crisp, they're uneven. they're OLD. thinking about the progression of his tattoos makes me go off the wall bonkers crazy, because i like to think he got memento mori first, and then every subsequent tattoo? is a little more hopeful.

robby is not a half-measures guy. robby, almost to his detriment, needs to have a REASON to do something. i think his tattoos are deeply intentional to him, even if they're from when he was a slightly overdramatic youth. his tattoos all fit a thematic arc, to me. i think he treats them as reminders for what he thinks Matters Most at the time he got them.

MEMENTO MORI - literally "remember to die," usually translated as "remember you must die" or "remember you will die"

a reflection of one's mortality, that death is inevitable. some people interpret this to ~live life to the fullest~ in the face of the fact that you're not going to live forever, but i think robby got this tattoo after his first bad loss of a patient during his residency.

everybody has to die. not everyone can live, but robby wants to remember them anyway. robby is going to remember them whether he wants to or not.

AMOR FATI - "love of fate" or "love of one's fate"

alright, so we know we're going to die, now what are we going to do about it? where this one gets real fun is what this particular phrase can reveal about robby, because amor fati is often associated with nietzsche and eternal recurrence. was he an undergrad philosophy major? minor? did he just take intro to philosophy and it burned into a formative part of his brain for him to remember several years later? who can say. anyway, eternal recurrence is the idea that everything that has happened will happen over an infinite period of time, and nietzsche used this as a litmus test to affirm life. do you want to keep living the same life you're living forever and ever, amen? i think robby gets this one after memento mori, after he's had more big wins than he's had big losses. it's his reminder of why he does what he does.

not everyone can live, but robby is going to keep trying to save who he can. he is going to keep trying over and over and over again.

now, this brings us to BONUS TATTOOS! these are my personal headcanons, and you can take them from my cold dead hands.

CHAI - "life"

keen-eyed readers might have noticed that @alethialia and i both write robby with a chai symbol on his right wrist, and now i will explain why! the short answer is that noah wyle has wrist tattoos, and we can see them on screen. since robby canonically has tattoos, we know he's not against them (and this is also something that reveals how strictly he adheres to his faith, because, y'know. forbidden!) and since i love any excuse to continue to Get Symbolic With It, i had to ask myself the question: what would robby tattoo on his wrist?

robby's tattoos are already an Existential Crisis starter pack, so i wanted something that tied into his faith and could be meaningful to him in that way—because seriously, dude. you can't have everything be in fucking LATIN.

and a shoutout to @kritischetheologie here, who entertained my questioning when i messaged her before she had even watched the pitt, asking what symbol she thought he would have after giving her a quick and dirty rundown of his character and his existing tattoos.

literally putting the symbol for life on his pulse point makes me want strap myself onto a rocket and launch myself into outer space. it's his most visible tattoo! it's the one he sees all the time! a reminder to LIVE, a reminder that life is precious, a reminder that he does what he does to save lives. this tattoo is on every single robby that i write even if i don't explicitly mention it; this is MY canon.

next we can consider the fact that noah also has another tattoo on his left wrist. i go back and forth with this one, because this is a tattoo that he keeps hidden underneath his watch band. this is a tattoo that's more personal, that he wants to be able to see whenever he wants but doesn't want everyone to be able to see all the time.

in some universes, this is a tattoo he gets for jack, but i have more on tattoos for jack later, so the other option i like to think about is: this is a tattoo he gets to memorialize adamson. his mentor, the man who taught him so much and the man he's trying to be. is it just an A? maybe. but adamson = son of adam = running with the interpretation of adam from the hebrew adamah, or "earth" or "ground" (because again, i love any excuse to Get Symbolic With It), maybe he has a tiny little globe. many considerations here!

FINALLY, we have the tattoo that makes me even more bananas than the chai tattoo, and that's the matching tattoo he gets with jack when they decide that, hey man, you're kind of it for me, let's get married about it (i also have several thoughts about this, but that is Another Post for Another Time).

SONG OF SONGS, BABY.

robby has i am my beloved's on his chest. jack has my beloved is mine. they handwrote the text for each other. i am so normal about it.

this post was so much longer than i meant for it to be, but thanks for coming to my TED talk. i'll be here all week.