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notre dame is burning.

this is ok.

it has happened before. it will happen again. it has been lost before. it will be lost again. and again. and again. and again. art and architecture are transient, and temporary, and 850 years may seem like a lot to the individual, who will live maybe 100 if they are very lucky and very healthy, but even the pyramids at saqqara have only existed for about 6000 years and that’s still not all that much, if you consider the grand scheme of things.

yes, this is terrible. as someone who is deeply religious and literally a professional historian with a focus on art and architecture, this is terrible. im mourning. im gutted. im horrified and upset and miserable. but.

it’s not over.

victor hugo wrote hunchback because notre dame du paris was in the process of collapsing and falling apart, and revitalized the entire world’s focus and love for this church, and that was not even 200 years ago. it led to it being renovated.

the roof has fallen in. the scars of fires are on its buttresses. the rose window has fallen out. the beams and piers have collapsed. the spire has toppled. the stones have suffered, and will suffer again, but it is not gone.

renovation work is essential. sometimes things collapse and burn and break and have to come back. it’s not a terrorist attack, it’s renovation, an accident, but we have so much evidence, history, carefully documented everything on one of the most studied places in the world.

it’s not the end.

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★ Emmm | FMA Major Arcana collection ☆ ✔ republished w/permission

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its AJ’s anniversary!!! im celebrating it with the best kids 

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新世紀エヴァンゲリオン

c o l o r f u l

Special Jpn exclusive card set release for the film Rebuild of Evanglion 3.0 +1.0

オディオ

O D I O

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elves of xadia

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23 YEARS IN THE MAKING!

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these designs are so CUTE

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Baptiste wields an assortment of experimental devices and weaponry to keep allies alive and eliminate threats under fierce conditions. A battle-hardened combat medic, he is just as capable of saving lives as he is taking out the enemy.

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Konpeito Pokemon Pins made by jonpeito

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everything about this family hurts me

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Apollo Justice is a game about two lost kids pretending to be lawyers and tries to solve cases together.

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dA - http://fav.me/db7mobe

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she seems really cool.......

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[ryo voice] that’s how it is on this bitch of an earth