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Judges and attorneys hoping to avoid unflattering portraits have spent years trying to stay on her good side. “The lawyers love me,” she said. “They all come up to me and they want to buy sketches.” The men tend to be “much more conscious of how they look” than the women. “They all want more hair, they want me to make them thinner. It’s so funny. I just love it when male lawyers talk to me. It’s so cute.”

Mona Shafer Edwards.

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almost put 'anne boleyn' in the tags and was unfortunately bowled over by the memory of this exchange last week

ancient aliens narrator: imhotep ascended in status very quickly and mysteriously. who (or what 🤨) was responsible for his political staying power?

me: this happened in wolf hall

c: guy who has only read wolf hall...

people who convert to catholicism specifically for mary always send a chill down my spine bc they consistently have this narrative about not feeling welcome anywhere as a woman and then go 'i know what will help. the catholic church'

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people who convert to catholicism specifically for mary always send a chill down my spine bc they consistently have this narrative about not feeling welcome anywhere as a woman and then go 'i know what will help. the catholic church'

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just noticed op of the cute viral story about their nonverbal brother has a worrisome url/icon so clicked on their blog and screamed

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Me and my handful of broken twigs

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Grant Wood - Young Corn (1931)

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Sleuth (1972, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

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Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881-1961, American) ~ Messengers, 1932 

[Source: Phoenix Art Museum]

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( Nothing without ) PAIN, Helena Minginowicz

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ppl complain abt everyone being so boring/inauthentic/detached these days but the second u have interests they deem unusual theyll be like "waitttt thats giving neurodivergent..." like damn its so awesome that were pathologising giving a fuck about anything they dont sell at a tj maxx

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overheard these two guys talking and they're like. very obviously cowboys and one of them goes "man when I was young I used to think everyone had horses I didn't even know there were ppl w/o horses" and the other one goes "shows how horseified we are"

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really don't like that 'very tiresome today until (i'm sorry to say) i was stern and a trifle shitty' sounds like something i would say/write

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this quote is going around again and it's funny every time.

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P.C. Sheppard

Bonsecours Market, Montreal

oil on board

signed lower left; titled on the reverse

Cowley Abbott