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"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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Oregon Coast on film by Dillon Jenkins

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“Caravaggio was a heretical painter: his works were rejected or criticized by the Church because of their subject-matter, although certain Church figures defended him. His heresy consisted of transposing religious themes into popular tragedies. The fact that for The Death of the Virgin he reputedly took as a model a drowned prostitute is only half the story: the more important half is that the dead woman is laid out as the poor lay out their dead, and the mourners mourn her as the poor mourn. As the poor still mourn:

“There’s no cemetery at Marinella or Selinunte, so when somebody dies we take him to the station and send him to Castelvetrano. Then us fishermen stick together. We pay our respects to the stricken family. “He was a good man. It’s a real loss, he had lots of good years ahead of him.” Then we go off to tend to our business in the port, but we never stop talking about the deceased and for three whole days we don’t go out to fish. And close relatives or friends feed the mourners’ families for at least a week.”(Danilo Dolci, Sicilian Lives)

Other Mannerist painters of the period produced turbulent crowd scenes but their spirit was very different; a crowd was seen as a sign of calamity—like fire or flood—and the mood was of terrestrial damnation. The spectator observed, from a privileged position, a cosmic theater. By contrast, Caravaggio’s congested canvases are simply made up of individuals living cheek-by-jowl, coexisting in a confined space […] In the daily theater of the underworld everything is close-to and emphatic. What is being “played” may any moment become “for real.” There is no protective space and no hierarchical focus of interest. Caravaggio was continually being criticized for exactly this—the lack of discrimination in his paintings, their overall intensity, their lack of a proper distance.”

–John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

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found more discworld books its so over for me

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Ok, loves, so we've all got the message that joking about suicide is bad for your mental health. Now we need to get on "joking that the planet/all of humanity has no future" is bad for societal health/encouraging resistance to bad shit."

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~ May '25

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Vimes isn’t short

it’s people around him are too tall

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Mo Dao Zu Shi: Lan WangJi, Bearer of Light

Happy birthday!

(His title was just asking for it. I had to make the pun. I had to.)

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'no one understands me' STOP. 8 BILLION ALIVE PEOPLE. 15 THOUSANDS YEAR OF HUMAN HISTORY. SOMEONE HAS FELT WHAT YOURE FEELING

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i can’t believe that dragon keeps eating people. i’m going to [remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health] reform the entire police system.

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Nøkken by Theodor Kittelsen

in it’s true form and disguised as a white horse

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I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

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haikou海口, hainan province of china after typhoon bebinca by 小笨笨蛋子

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'byzantine' + 'starstruck' in erté at ninety-five: the complete new graphics (the extended edition) - marshall lee + erté (1988)

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One of the coolest things to remember is that because prey animals have eyes on the side of their head, they are looking at you when they're in profile, not facing you! Hot tip for artists and animal lovers!

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this is qwilfish, a generation 2 pokemon

im just posting this to say, i have never, in my entire life, seen anyone acknowledge its existence.

not only have i never seen fanart of qwilfish, ive absolutely never seen it mentioned in any kind of pokemon discussion, ever