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She took the pages.

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HAAANK! THAT'S NOT ART BY THE OP HANK! OP REPOSTED IT WITHOUT CREDIT! HANK!

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Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly Bitter and True

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am I at least weird and off putting in a pretty way?

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[names my sons cain and abel] alright. get to it

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Feeling sixk.. cougf cockf… im so shick

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I’ve been doing some field work with geologists this winter and I’m kind of amazed by how these dudes can pick up a handful of dirt and talk about it for an hour using terms I’ve never heard of. Like wow you see a whole universe in there that I don’t. The world is truly full of beauty and we only comprehend a fraction of it.

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Lionello Balestrieri - The Departure (1960)

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Letter from John of Lancaster, warden of the East March of Scotland, warning the king and council of his plight, 1406

May it please my very honoured and redoubted lord the prince and other very honourable and very wise lords of the king’s council…to consider the articles under written touching the state and governance of the Lord John, the king’s son, and of the East March towards Scotland committed to him in ward, and to ordain for him by your wise discretions good, speedy, and convenient remedy; or otherwise if any peril, grief, or harm should result in default of such governance, which God forbid, that the warden should be held excused and fully discharged of responsibility for it.

First, may it please you to consider the distress which both the soldiers and the burgesses and inhabitants in the town of Berwick have suffered by the burning and destruction which have lately happened there, as is well known to your high discretions; nevertheless the same soldiers are in arrears with their pay, and have not received a penny since last Easter, so that their arrears amount to the sum of £4,430 17s 9d, and now victuals are becoming scarce and begin to be dear in these parts, so that they cannot have any provision for their sustenance without payment. Thus they experience distress on distress, which they cannot in any way endure without being furnished with good and ready payment in this situation. Also, a great part of the walls as well of the town as of the castle are ruined and fallen to the ground, some from feebleness, some by force of the destruction by the king’s guns at the time when the castle was held against him by way of rebellion, and more sections in various parts became in a short time decayed, in so much that no soldiers, burgesses, or others of any estate dare or wish to stay there for fear of the enemy, unless speedy repairs are undertaken. Also, may it please you to consider how the truce recently made on these marches will endure only until the feast of Easter next coming, and that the warden must have notice in time how and under what security these marches shall be governed after that, whether under truce or war, so that the lieges of the king in these parts can be put in security of their governance without loss or damage by the enemies of Scotland…. And moreover if war must come at that time, may sufficient ordinance be made by your wise discretions in time for the honour of the king our sovereign lord father and of his realm and for the safeguard and surety of the marches. Also from the feast of Easter next following until the feast of Michaelmas after that, for the truce—£2,415 8s 10½d. Sum total—£7,246 6s 7½d.

Source: A. R. Myers, ed. English Historical Documents: 1327-1485 (Routledge 1969), translated from S.B.Chrimes, "Some Letters of John of Lancaster as Warden of the East Marches towards Scotland", Speculum, vol 14, no. 1 (1939)

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If people were too mean to you when you were growing up, a newborn animal will materialize inside your brain and it’s so so scared and shivering and it will stay there for years. Decades, even. And whenever you say something kind of weird but true to your heart the animal will tell you “Noo! You can’t say that! If you say that, everyone will hate you!”. The animal means well. It’s so so small and everything is so scary for them and it’s just trying to protect you. But listen to me. Listen to me. Whenever this happens, you can’t do what the animal says. You can’t. If you do, you’ll become as scared as the animal. You have to keep saying weird shit. You have to keep doing things the animal wouldn’t approve of. If you do enough things that scare the animal, maybe one day it’ll go to sleep.

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it’s talking heads kermit friday

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and is “party rock” in the house with us tonight? 

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Perovskite, Nepheline, Fluorapatite

Feuerberg, Hinterweiler, Daun, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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some recent pterosaur art :] ferrodraco, a pair of campylognathoides and otogopterus

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