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are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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The Green Knight (2021) dir. David Lowery // Anne Carson

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gwaine merlin bbc is my new babygirl

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One of these lads absolutely shredded my tent and it made a wildlife person so so happy because the shredders tend to be young males and kea weren't usually seen in that area, so young ones settling was great. Would have been nice if little man had gotten me a new tent but you know, I forgive him for not having any money and celebrate his new living place!

today's bird: this new zealand bin chicken, aka a kea

but here is a nicer picture

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When people look at abstract art and go "uh I could make that"

Fuck, I wish you would!

I wish you would let this inspire you. I wish that seeing a piece of abstract art would move you to self expression.

I wish you would go to the craft store, buy a cheap canvas and some cheap paint and let yourself play with color and form just to see if you can.

I wish that there were more amateur painters, trying their hand at geometric abstraction and color field painting. That would be so fucking cool.

"I could make that" should be a joyous revelation, not a snarky dismissal.

You could make that? Holy shit. please. Please make that.

Jack Bush

Kenneth Noland

Piet Mondraine

Pat Lipsky

Joan Mitchell

Helen Frankenthaler

Kikuo Saito

Marilyn Kirsch

Mark Rothko

Adolph Gottlieb

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narratives about doomed love that aren’t romantic in nature. the love between siblings who understand each other the most but are growing apart no matter how much they try to come back to one another. the love between friends whose life paths pull them apart and they never see each other again, only remembering the face of a once kind childhood. the love for a hometown that year by year becomes less and less the one that raised you until you are a foreigner in your own backyard. there was no stopping it. the love was there and it mattered and you can never come back again.

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Gérard Dubois 

Rroû 

Maurice Genevoix 1931 Éditions La Table

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St Andrew’s Cathedral (Scotland)

by Javier Cortina

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food cravings are kind of funny to me bc it’s ur body’s last resort to convince u to properly nourish it. dragging a dollar on a string kind of scheme. ‘tuna would be sooooo good right now huh? wouldn’t you just love some yummy tuna? BOOM. u just got played bitch u were low on omega 3.’

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The women of Black Mountain College

c. 1940s

Cynthia Carr, Barbara Sieck, Ruth Asawa, Elaine de Kooning

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platonic confessions and acts of love and devotion. I will follow you to the ends of the earth and I will NOT be falling in love with you about it.

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it goes against so much of what i stand for to share "palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry" kind of posts because i've spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all

but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help

i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.

the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.

i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they're evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.

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(10/29/23)

queer and standing with palestine. we're not free unless we're all free

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May Allah protect and honour our men. Ameen.

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Someone said "Jonathan Harker but what if he was a Vampire but also still a dork?"

That someone might have been me.

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you have to let "dennys parking lot at 3 am" go. you have to think independently. you have to come up with your own strange places, and indeed your own strange times to be there. there's authenticity in that