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Nina Leen: Margaret Severn - Mask dances

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When I was in Canada, I went to a coffee shop and accidentally ordered two iced chai lattes with a shot of expresso and when I went to pay I just thought “god the cost of living has really gone up in the past two months!”

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Paul Gadd, “The Messenger”

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Gustav Vigeland

Mann og kvinne (Man and Woman), 1899

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there are certain men I'm attracted to with whom I would not like to have sex but I would like them to sleep at the foot of my bed like a dog

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San Sebastián by Aurelio Cabrera y Gallardo (1870-1936).

Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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Alfred Agache, Enigma (1888)

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Ary Renan (1857 - 1900) 

The transformation of Daphne

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Jacob elordi will never be Clark gable

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Sorry not sorry but I think trying to make other young women feel bad for not upholding misogyny because you decided to is a skill issue and I don’t envy your life

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It’s always people who put their whole existence into being with someone or getting married that become uncontrollably angry when you say you aren’t doing that and have no desire to

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Very funny that my sister likes to interject when I say that I won’t want to just be in a relationship for the sake of it or because I’m scared of dying alone with “that’s cause you’ve always been alone” like girl your husband cheated on you and can’t take care of your child without calling you every five minutes. Let’s not be throwing stones alright

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Constantly remember how full of choices life is and how if you let your guilt or shame lead you instead of joy you truly will have no one to blame but yourself when you are living a life that feels heavy and constrained instead of happy and free

When you are not a child anymore you have to make decisions based on your own beliefs and no one else's and if you can't then no one is gonna save you - it's something you do for yourself regardless of how it looks to people around you and no one is gonna tell you to choose yourself

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the one time the aeneid shows aeneas and ascanius talking together, aeneas kisses his son "through his helmet". the familial love is literally obstructed by the divinely ordained war aeneas never wanted to wage! and in book one we see aeneas pleading with aphrodite to just once come to him as a mother and hold him instead of a distant goddess in disguise telling him what to do. consider the loneliness of aeneas who is isolated both from his parent and as a parent himself.

like even hector was able to take off his helmet to hug his son, you know?

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‘Chevalier de la Nuit’ perfume by Ciro, bottle by Julien Viard, 1924.

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Embrace by Wilhelm List (Austrian, 1864-1918)