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Soft serve, Romain Laprade

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i got some video essays to share w/y'all too:

We Need to Talk About Film Criticism

Talent Belongs to the Beautiful - How Media Manipulates Your Tastes

Jeffree Star and Performative Activism

The Demonization of the Working Class

I'm Kinda Over This Whole 'LeftTube' Thing

Yo Homes to Bel Air, A Retrospective of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

90's Black Sitcoms Warned Us

We Need to Talk About Lolita

Roseanne of The Conners: A Leftist Reading of the First Nine Seasons (Part 1) / Roseanne of The Conners: From Revival to Reboot (Part 2)

Space Jam: A Revolutionary Text

Political Messages in Kids' Shows

What RUINED VeggieTales? - The Tragic Fall of Bob and Larry

Jennifer's Body and the Horror of Bad Marketing

The Horrors of McKamey Manor (Is the Waiver Legal?)

Lesbian Bride Surprise on Living Single

The Gay Nightmare

A History of "Bisexual"

Comedy Ages Poorly

The Problem With Auto-Tune

Phantom of the Paradise: Creator vs Producer

The Broken Formula of Music Biopics

WHAT KILLED MTV? Why don't they play music anymore?!

Another "Cinderella" Story: Girl Groups & Recycled Singles

SO WHAT HAPPENED?: TLC from Fanmail to 3D...

WHAT KILLED SKA-PUNK?

WHAT KILLED HOT TOPIC?

BABY PHAT ENTERPRISE: How Kimora Lee Simmons Pioneered 2000's Fashion

FASHION NOVA'S SHADY HISTORY OF RIPPING OFF BLACK WOMEN & IMMIGRANT WORKERS

MISS CLEO: THE FRAUDULENT PSYCHIC EMPIRE

The Strange World of Breatharianism

The Internet's Most Controversial ARG | Junko Junsui

The Story of the ESRB

Space Channel 5: The Complete History

Defunctland: The History of Action Park

The Pure Ideology of Kitchen Nightmares

FlexiPlay: The Disposable DVD That Failed (Thankfully)

The Decline of The History Channel

How Documentaries Lie to You

addendum: terfs and radfems are not welcome on here girl. don't interact with this post

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Lost horizon, Carolyn Marks Blackwood (because)

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“There is, I hope, a thesis in my work: we may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody-two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it’s just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats—maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats—but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. There’s no real mystique. Every human being, every Jew, Christian, backslider, Muslim, Shintoist, Zen Buddhist, atheist, agnostic, every human being wants a nice place to live, a good place for the children to go to school, healthy children, somebody to love, the courage, the unmitigated gall to accept love in return, someplace to party on Saturday or Sunday night, and someplace to perpetuate that God. There’s no mystique. None. And if I’m right in my work, that’s what my work says.”

Maya Angelou in an interview with George Plimpton, 1988

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Tenerife, Spain

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Nevada State Route 376, Somewhere, Central Nevada (2024).

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u really do have to forgive yourself

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Apartment building, Papendrecht, the Netherlands, 1979

© picture by Klaas Vermaas

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Hof, Germany (by Aleksei Smagin)

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The Woman Behind The World’s Most Famous Tarot Deck Was Nearly Lost In History

For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.

The cards’ enigmatic symbols have become culturally ingrained in music, art and film, but the woman who inked and painted the illustrations of the most widely used set of cards today – the Rider-Waite deck from 1909, originally published by Rider & Co. – fell into obscurity, overshadowed by the man who commissioned her, Arthur Edward Waite.

Now, over 70 years after her death, the creator Pamela Colman Smith has been included in a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York highlighting many underappreciated artists of early 20th-century American modernism in addition to famous names like Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Nevelson.

CNN

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Home office, Frank Kunert

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Something, like nothing, happens anywhere - Laurence Biaggi

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[transcription:]

She kissed me gentle, kissed me slow, kissed me like Grace Kelly, a porcelair princess, a lace-curtain lesbian.

I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life—the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.

Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

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Georges Lacombe - La Mer, coastal scenes of Brittany.

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KIsses. Atta Troll. 1913. Illustration by Willy Pogany.

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