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Kelly Louise Judd aka Swanbones aka Ly Lou (American, Kansas City, MO, USA) - Wolf’s Breath, 2011, Drawings: Ink, Watercolors

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otaku eater

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background actors in sinners, photographed by eli joshua adé, smpsp.

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1930 c. "Le Chemise Verte" by Jan Stuijters. From Art Deco, Art Nouveau

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Albert Camus, from a letter to Maria Casarès written in August 1948

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"X-RAY OF PAINTING, 1946, AFTER BACON" ROBERT LONGO | HUNGRY GHOSTS, 2017 [charcoal on mounted paper | 120 x 81"]

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you ever think about the intricacies of smoke & stack's dynamic and go fucking crazy?

their abusive father zeroing in on stack as the outlet for his beatings, smoke killing their daddy, half way done burying him by the time stack came to - smoke being the BIG BROTHER from the start, keeping stack safe - stack becoming who he is - bit reckless, full of charisma and whimsy because of smoke, in a way, shielding him from the world ("doesn't know how to watch his own back").

thinking of smoke saying how stack is the best thing about him, how stack talks a big game but how it's smoke who kills the snake, smoke who shoots two men for stealing out of his truck, smoke who pulls a gun on sammie and pearline. does he ever think he got more of their daddy in him than stack? where stack can connect with people in a way smoke can't quite follow. stack laying out clothes for him, doing his hair, rolling his cigarettes- giving smoke back some of what the war took.

but I also can't help but think that there is this slight ....almost paternalistic element at times - the way stack looks around for smoke when he's with mary, worried he'll be caught, worried he'll displease him and yet that thing he says when he's turned "don't let that witch come between us again" - there's no doubt that stack loves annie and is clearly DISTRAUGHT when smoke kills her but ...was there ever resentment? did he ever feel betrayed? was it ever only meant to be the two of them against the world?

"he was the best thing about me" "i ain't doing it without you there ain't no me without you" "sorry for not keeping you safe - you always did" the way stack is just that one person smoke can't kill, the way the only time he wavers in his resolve is when his vampire brother talks with him.

(this is borderline incoherent but I have a lot of thoughts)

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Kerry James Marshall

Study for ‘Slow Dance’ (1992)

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I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself.

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"for a few hours, we were free"

prints proceeds to Cooperation Jackson & Hey Y'all Detroit

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Nikoleta Sekulovic, Virginia Woolf, 2024

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family photo

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another night of sensuous pleasure with my wife the Concept Album

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salzburg on film 📷

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Fairy trees of the Baltic Coast II by Heiko Gerlicher

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I bet getting crossed off a to do list feels good as fuck for a task