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It really is 2003 again Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

Like, all Republicans did was replace Iraq and gay people with Iran and trans people.

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Hey, fellow fantasy nerds, I invite you to vibe along to this lesser known early 2000s fantasy banger 

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My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill... before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)

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this post is so funny to me because this is absolutely a thing and was very popular at one point. people already did it 40 years ago and its called new romantic

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My new art book Faraway Dreaming is available on Kickstarter! The campaign ends June 24th.

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'A Clutch of Vampires' by Edward Gorey, 1974

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Cygnus Constellation

A cascade of handsaw stars each one different dangling from a brass or sterling solver swan.

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From Strong's Book of Designs, A Masterpiece of Modern Ornamental Art 1916

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the penguin logo on angela carter’s books (heroes and villains, saints and strangers, fireworks, the bloody chamber)

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by _nancy_dc

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The Argonath has always confused me because the two kings have their palms out like “please stop” but you’re literally on a river that flows past them, what are you supposed to do?

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"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!" - Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

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joan baez for rolling stone, 2025. photos by ulysses ortega

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remember what’s really truly important in life : local bookstore

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"It wasn’t until about two years into the pandemic, when the “vax and relax” era was clearly not going to work, that I had to reckon with my system for organizing time. I couldn’t delay the future any longer; I couldn’t continue protecting the story of my life from the pandemic’s incursion. So I accepted the terrible fact that the pandemic was going to continue indefinitely and was not merely an event in my life but rather the container in which the rest of my life would take place. This was a difficult reckoning. It required that I come to terms with a great deal of grief about the failures of those around me; about what I lost and will have lost; a privilege in thinking that these were the sorts of world-historical changes that happened to other people, at other times. But it was also a reckoning that rescued the orderliness of time, for me. It was as if the clock was un-paused, and life resumed its forward march. I think most people stabilized their warped sense of time by other means. Instead of accepting that the pandemic continued on, that we failed to contain it and so would need to incorporate its ongoing reality into the stories we tell ourselves about our own lives, they instead transformed the fantasy of after into their reality. After the pandemic, after the lockdowns, after our world ruptured. They were able to interrupt the prolonged uncertainty that the pandemic had brought to all of our lives by erecting a finish line just in time for them to run through it. And as they ran through it, celebrating the fictional end of an arduous journey, they simultaneously invented a new before. This is the invention of memory. The Pandemic became something temporally contained, its crisp boundaries providing a psychic safeguard to any lingering anxieties around the vulnerability and interdependence of our bodies that only a virus could show us. No longer did it threaten to erupt in their everyday lives, forcing cancellations and illnesses and deaths. It was, officially, part of The Past. And from the safety of hindsight (even if only an illusion), people began telling and re-telling the story of The Pandemic in ways that strayed from how it all actually went down. It was a way to use memory as self-soothing."

--Emily Dupree, The invention of Memory

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its so sad that radfem just means transphobe and not like. this