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i love this moment man, it has you for a second wondering if hunter's moon is going to react badly to the news that marc has DID but turns out that nope he doesnt have any issues with that he just thinks marc's plan is dumb and marc is being stupid for going for it like he usually does, god i love this guy

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On today's episode of behind the scenes photos I've never seen before...

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#cuties

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TOM HOLLAND AS PETER PARKER Spider-man: No Way Home (2021) dir. Jon Watts

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My daughter has decided that our cat has to pick her cereal for her in the morning now. Why?? "He knows what I like"

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The most common mistake people make when thinking about prehistory and how to avoid it.

In "The Dawn of Everything, A New History for Humanity" David Graeber gives what I think might be the best piece of advice I've ever heard for understanding deep human history, and that is to get your mind out of the Garden of Eden.

People speculating about prehistory before modern archeology were quick to frame early humanity as existing in a "state of nature", either with pure innocent tribal communism, or being brutish barbarous cavemen, then something happened to bring us from the state of nature into "society". Did we make a Faustian bargain by domesticating plants and animals? Why is evidence of intergroup violence in prehistory so rare? How did we fall from the innocent state of nature? This, of course, smacks of the biblical creation story, so even if people don't believe it literally, they seem to have a hard time letting go of it spiritually even in a secular context.

This is pretty much nonsense, of course. Humans have existed for over 2 million years. Anatomically modern humans have existed for at least 300 thousand years. Behaviourally modern humans (with symbolism, art, long distance trade, political awareness) have existed for at least 50 thousand years, from our best evidence, but possibly a lot longer. The time between the Sumerians inventing writing and urban living 5,000 years ago and now is only a narrow slice of human history.

If we want to understand human history properly, we shouldn't understand people of the past as fundamentally different from us. They were intelligent, politically aware people doing their best in the world they found themselves in, just like we are today. We didn't fall from innocence with the development of behavioral modernity, religion, farming, war, money, capitalism, computers, or anything else. The world has changed a lot, but people have been experimenting with different ways to live for as long as there have been people, like this example I've posted before about disabled people's role in late pleistocene Eurasian society.

People have been the same as we are now for at least the last 50 thousand years. We have lived in countless different ways and will continue to experiment. There was no fall, and we don't live at the end of history.

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Not Morpheus making every single screenshot we take look like a photoshoot.

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Being an adult in this recession and being like wow I am totally "splurging" on 3 new sets of cotton underwear and 3 pairs of socks like whoaaaaa hold your horses duke of the land where's all this money gonna come from

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How to put a Ship in a Bottle

Source

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Faith in Greece restored for the next five minutes...

It is a fact though, I don't think I am that much biased about it. We say that food is tasty in Greece but it is not mentioned very often that Greek snacks and Greek junk food also tends to be flavourful and more cautious with the use of additives, food colourings etc than in most countries.

As for Fanta in particular, what I read is that when Fanta started exporting to Greece, they realised Greece already had successful and flavourful local fruit drink brands (all hail to IVI, EPSA and Lux) and in order to have a chance in the competition they had to make Fanta HEALTHIER with more juice content like them. Honestly, well done to us this time.

BONUS:

bruh

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✦ Dream of the Endless ✦

(fanart based on season 2)

Once again, I'm absolutely convinced that "The Sandman" adaptation is pure aesthetics 🤌🏻

The storyboarding, color palette, camera angles, close-ups, the stunning use of light and shadow (especially in portraits!), the theatrical narration, and, of course, the characters.

The main one - Morpheus, aka Dream of the Endless - has officially become the embodiment of my personal ideal of attractiveness, combining all my weaknesses and concepts of beauty and aesthetics 🖤 In other words, he is ideal of male character for me, In terms of visuals - absolutely.

Am I in love with the on-screen Lord of Dreams? Oh yes. Hopelessly and irrevocably ❤️‍🔥 Both as a woman, and as an artist. You'll definitely see it in my upcoming artworks - no doubt about that.

So, if you're curious what my personal standard of dark fantasy looks like (visually, atmospherically, artistically) - just watch Season 2 of "the Sandman". It aligns with my vision of beauty 100%.

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