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Siouxsie Sioux

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Photorealism in video games is disgusting. I get nauseous any time I see a clip of characters in Death Stranding 2. It's a mix of uncanny valley and basically creating a puppet of a real life person that could be used for anything. Literally feels on par with deep-fake porn. Game characters shouldn't be nearly indistinguishable from real life people.

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madoka magica magia exedra x gekidan inu curry (Doroinu)

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Vulcanized rubber cosmetic masks from Hygeine of the Face and Cosmetic Guide by Richard W. Müller, 1917

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A jumble of photos from Cats! Cats! Cats! Cats! Cats! (1961)

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Silent stay

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Farewell My Concubine

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ming xiao shading study hehe

[ alt under cut + silly doodle ]

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Timothy H Lee

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Ballet costume worn by Anna Pavlova for “The Swan”, silk and sequined cotton

believed to be worn c. 1910s-1920s

credit: Museum of London

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Mana-Sama

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Beannacht Dé leat

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“The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth; and all the things which you cannot do, your money can do. It can eat and, drink, go to the dance hall and the theatre; it can travel, it can appropriate art, learning, the treasures of the past, political power – all this it can appropriate for you – it can buy all this: it is true endowment. Yet being all this, it wants to do nothing but create itself, buy itself; for everything else is after all its servant, and when I have the master I have the servant and do not need his servant. All passions and all activity must therefore be submerged in avarice. The worker may only have enough for him to want to live, and may only want to live in order to have that.”

— Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (via nonbinarybriarmoss)

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Djuna Barnes