When people get a little too gung-ho about-
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
That’s…wild. What was I talking about?
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Peter Ferguson (Canadian, 1968) - The Grotto at St. Michel (n.d.)
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Cloud study, John Constable.
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Margaretha Roosenboom (Dutch, 1843-1896)
Distels in een blauwe vaas
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so many male characters are held back by the fact that they're not wearing earrings when they so clearly should be wearing earrings
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dishonored watercolor fun+practice pages!
not really cool and impressive things, but it was really such a pleasure, cause, honestly, im obsessed with that game so much, although I don't draw it often
on the second sketchbook spread there are things dedicaded to my old forgotten overseer oc Erkul, sad that I didn't managed to finish this pics, but at least mask looks good ahah
[pages from spring 2023]
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Faeq Hassan - Street scene (1968)
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Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT
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this meme but with stephen posting a bottle of laudanum
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Americans be drinking Big Drinks I know I know but sometimes you make a mistake and underestimate the size of a large dr pepper and it comes in a cup that you could fit your fist in comfortably and really this size of peb should be consumed via drinking horn with the dahvana headley beowulf as audio accompaniment
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Any suggestions for what I should do in a rural B&B with unexpectedly terrible wifi?
Suggestions are going to have to be in text form because I can't load anything else.
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Cream silk gauze Madras lace frock with silk satin detail, 1817
Fashion Museum Bath Twitter
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life is eternal suffering (grabbed the wrong dye TWICE for my hair and now it is the wrong shade and i have an event tomorrow)
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i was cuddling with my boyfriend last night when his shoulder started tensing up (like he was readjusting or gently pushing me off) and when i asked him if he was okay or needed me to move or something he went “no you’re fine, i was just imagining myself pulling a large rope. i didn’t even realize my shoulder was doing that lmao” then refused to elaborate and i have never been as attracted to him as i was in that moment.
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