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"Do I deserve this?" "Am I worthy of this?"

So irrelevant. Do you want it?

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“Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Gate of All Lands, Colossal Sculptures Depicting Heads of a Bull: View before Excavation, Looking North-East”

1923-1934

glass negative 

Freer and Sackler Archives 

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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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rays of sunlight in the early morning forest

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Spike Spiegel

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there’s nothing wrong with me plus i don’t have any wants or needs plus i don’t feel or think at all

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A pair of red crowned cranes (Grus japonensis) perform a courtship dance in Hokkaido, Japan

by ted smith

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so i wore a pride flag pin to work the other day and the kids were all interested (obviously) (find me a classroom of preschoolers who are not obsessed with rainbows) (i'll wait) so they crowded around to see.

"aww!" they said, "it's a flag!!"

but the thing is: they're little. a lot of them don't really have a handle on all their mouth sounds yet.

such as, notably, that tricky tricky "L" sound.

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Tbf I feel like it's a fact well acknowledged that for a large proportion of heterosexual men and women, a s/o or a spouse is just something they want so they can show it off to people of the same gender, or something they idealize in the abstract as the thing that will solve all their problems and give them a place to belong without ever considering whether the person they're eyeing as a partner is willing/able to be that ideal, it'd be nice if there was more drama focusing on those realities. The real bleak shit

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Dimitris Papaioannou: Primal Matters - Performance

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Art school confidential, Jean Gaumy

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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

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Torah Ark curtains from Italy, ca. 17th - 18th century

The art of weaving has always played a crucial role in the decoration of houses, palazzi and places of worship in the Italian Jewish world. Italy's diverse Jewish communities, in osmosis with the society around them with which they interacted, ended up taking on board local and foreign artistic expressions and styles. Textiles from Livorno, Pisa, Genoa and Venice, for example, clearly reveal the influence of the Middle East, with which Italy's Jews came into contact through family or trading ties – unlike the textiles of Rome, Florence or Turin, which tend to reflect a certain proximity with the tastes of Italy's royalty. Fully-fledged "needlework paintings" that glittered in the flickering light of candles and torches in a triumph of coloured silks and of gold and silver thread, these pieces were mostly produced by the skilled hands of women who, though shut away inside the home, displayed astonishing creativity and vast knowledge.

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they said that they'll pay for my college if i go to america and kill americans. im forced to accept their offer because college is literally so expensive:( btw im not like the others who take up this offer because im doing this to pay for my college while the others are doing this because they hate americans. ill fight you if you criticise me 🤬 im just a girl ☹️