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'A Wreath of White Roses' by Alfrida Baadsgaard  (1839–1912).

Oil on mahogany.

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'Ellen Terry' 1864, (1942) George Frederick Watts. (detail)

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Chimera

Acrylic on canvas, August 2024

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Insectes - Émile-Allain Séguy - 1925 - via Paris bibliothèques

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When a “funny” dude likes you and anytime he sees you anywhere he will be like “yoooo wassup it’s Jelissa!” (Or whatever) like “omg Miranda is here whaaaat” for literally no reason why do they do that

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I fucking love Alex hirsch

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5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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GOD. still the funniest transition in the show bar none

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Like at the end of the book, you know? Boats and tides and all. It's like you can change up, right? You can say you're somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story but what came first is who you really are and what happened before is what really happened.

The Wire 2x06, "All Prologue"

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Abbas Kiarostami’s “Taste of Cherry” ( …طعم گيلاس ) May 16, 1997.

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im normal

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i feel like fandom would really benefit from adopting the idea of readings, as in interpretations. anyone can interpret canon as saying anything on even the most tenuous of justifications. if you interpret a detail or moment in a particular way, great! but if someone interprets that thing in another way, even in a way which directly contradicts your interpretation, that’s also okay. multiple readings can exist at once without invalidating any of them

a lot of fandom drama seems to arise from people acting as if their interpretations are True or Factual in some way, when really all anyone can do is speak to their own interpretations & experiences. which is natural! and good! many voices with many interpretations and approaches is healthy and good. the trouble is depicting a reading, which is a very personal thing, as universally true, and then getting frustrated that others don’t interpret events the same way. & i get it, that can be annoying, especially if you think those other interpretations are misunderstanding the canon. but so much of the time it’s just a different reading, taking into account details you might not have noticed or maybe just viewing them in a different light, informed by different life experiences & values & everything else that goes into a personal interpretation of a creative work

by trying to depict One Single Reading of a text as Correct, fandom loses all the nuance of interpretation & also just turns everyone into a bunch of rabid raccoons fighting over different ways to look through the same kaleidoscope

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The Jacaranda Years by Yiwei Chai

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A group of people lying in a drunken heap in a living room, 1954. Photographed by Kurt Hutton.

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new favorite YouTube comment just dropped

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Philosophy - Lionel Lindsay - 1925 - via National Gallery of Victoria