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If love could kill

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‘Perhaps it was a dream. Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists and it is only raining outside. Maybe the bird never existed at all.’

Angels Egg

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WOW! NOW! KAPOW! Fashion spreads from the late 1960s by Jay Scott Pike. (These appeared in magazines such as YOUNG LOVE, FALLING IN LOVE, GIRLS’ ROMANCES, etc.)

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Designing with Light, Carol Soucek King, 1997 📚

Salvaged & scanned by @jpegfantasy 🖨️

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‘trifocal’

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Inside a Bangkok bar in 1972 through fascinating photos.

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Fruit and vegetable market, Venice, 1960s. Photograph by Giulio Corinaldi.

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Rare color photos show the Sedro-Woolley Celebration of the July 4, 1939.

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It’s such a beautiful day (2012), directed by Don Hertzfeldt

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Unintentionally hilarious vintage Valentine’s Day cards from the early 20th century. See more here…

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The Body as a Bargaining Chip

This essay is going to go some pretty bad places, places I’ve personally had to confront. I just want to tell you up front that if you can’t handle discussions of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, do not read this essay, because that’s what this is all about. As well, this essay does not assume that Anthy was an innocent who was taken advantage of by Akio, for reasons that will be explained.

Very few people note the relationship Touga and Anthy have in the television series, and for good reason. It’s a non-relationship. The few times we see them alone together they never talk about anything important or personal, and sometimes ignore each other completely. The question here is– why? Why would Touga, so ambitious and so grasping, pass up the chance to try to turn Anthy to his ends? Why would Anthy refrain from her passive-aggressive digs and spare Touga her more subtle machinations? It just doesn’t make sense. These are two characters who have been shown in almost every other situation to manipulate everyone around them. So why wouldn’t they try to use and manipulate each other?

I believe the answer lies in something that most people overlook– Touga and Anthy are the same base character expressed differently because of their genders. And further, I believe that Anthy and Touga use themselves and their bodies in the same way, again, expressed differently only because of their genders.

Now, that’s a lot to swallow, and I get that. Touga is ruthless and cunning and manipulative, and he is active, moving schemes forward on his own, toying with the people around him, and always reaching for more and more power. Anthy is also ruthless and cunning and manipulative, yes, but her actions are much smaller, more subtle, and generally seem to forward Akio’s plans rather than her own– if she even has a plan of her own. Despite this difference, the base motivations and character traits, I would argue, are roughly the same.

So let’s dig a little deeper here, and see what we uncover. And you should know by now that it’s not going to be pretty.

Czytaj dalej

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Guest room is furnished with a suite from Mongiardino’s parents’ Genoa palazzo. Walls and bed covered in a Rubelli fabric. Boldini-style portrait of Mongiardino’s mother is by Maggi, a Turin painter.

House & Garden’s Best in Decoration, 1987

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