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river screen, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

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— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

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My Reddit feed glitched and gave me this masterpiece.

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Fady Joudah, from the poetry collection [...], excerpt pub. The Yale Review [ID']

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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

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alexander horn in sex: take a walk on the wild side (masterpieces of erotic fantasy photography) - tony mitchell (2002)

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Shina Ringo for Rockin’On Japan (2000)

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in my sophomore year of college this guy made these items which quickly became a craze across campus. i myself bought one of his sweaters, which says “GOOD AND DEAD” across the chest and “ARM PAIN” along the sleeves. he showed up at 11 pm on a bicycle to deliver the goods in the dead of winter, wearing a metal t-shirt tucked into khakis. his facebook screen name is an indecipherable series of symbols. i have no authentic way to credit him but i want to share his art with you.

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Guilty as Sin? should be on all y'alls Unholyverse playlists

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'sex and death by murder and suicide' by bruce nauman, 1985 in twentieth-century erotic art - gilles néret (1993)

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going to the grocery store is the most fun a girl can have without staying in her bed drenching in her own loneliness and thinking about what could've been

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April Adness Losers Bracket Semifinals

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my cellmate’s¹ a killer² he makes do push-ups³ in drag

¹ Inferred to be Bert McCracken due to numerous interviews where Gerard described Bert as his cellmate

² According to an interview with I*n W*tkins, then friends with Gerard, “kill” was Gerard and Bert’s way of referencing sodomy.

³ Implied to mean blowjob, as based of live performances of that song.

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im fucking sobbing why did they kill him twice in a row in the community notes

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I'm sick of internet negativity, so let's combat it: reblog this and saying something nice/pay a compliment to the prev in the tags.

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein manuscript.