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The most dramatic moment during my Camp Counseling career at an all girls camp was when a girl got a letter from a friend saying that Zac Efron had died and one of her bunkmates ran out of the cabin and shouted “ZAC EFRON IS DEAD!!!!!” and the camp immediately fell into chaos girls were crying in the middle of camp and running around spreading the news everyone was yelling and the counselors had to look up wether or not Zac Efron was dead (this is a wireless camp so the girls couldn’t access the internet and check for themselves) and then get out a megaphone and be like “ZAC EFRON IS NOT DEAD PLEASE REMAIN CALM” outside of all the cabins it was insanity. 

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honestly, especially in the current state of the world, you all have GOT to kill whatever puritanical voice inside your head keeps insisting that if something is erotic it has no social, artistic, or intellectual merit.

stop acting as if someone can’t enjoy both erotica and literary fiction or classics. it’s not some dichotomy.

stop acting as if erotic art can’t be poignant and meaningful. and that includes all erotic art - not just fine art.

stop insisting that sex scenes or erotic material ruin movies and shows just because you, personally, get icked out watching it.

no, not all erotic art is high art, and not all erotic art is meant to invoke deep intellectual discussion - but insisting that makes erotic art valueless, a disservice to intellectualism, or whatever else - does nothing but add fuel to a fire built on conservative ideology.

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Something I imagine the revival might reference

Ok now with the hundreds of bonus/alternatives I made lol Bonus 1:

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if you're in the throes of cosmic despair i cannot recommend museums enough. art or science or history it doesn't matter. oh we're all connected, all of us and everything, throughout all time and space, and no one, no one, no one is alone? awesome. that's what i thought i just wanted to make sure.

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young man. what is that you have found.

I said young man. you picked it up off the ground.

I said young man. you should put that thing down.

I don't think! that! you! should! eat that!

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Formation of a black hole

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ID credit: 879382678 on 小红书

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This hand-painted map to The Mabinogion, created in 1988 by the remarkable Margaret Jones, is overflowing with the ancient myths and legends of Wales.

Rich with story and symbolism, every corner of the map tells a story.

Look closely and you’ll find Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, trading places with Arawn, lord of Annwn (the Otherworld); Blodeuwedd, the woman made of flowers, destined to betray; and Brân the Blessed (Bendigeidfran), the giant king whose head kept watch over Britain.

What makes Margaret’s achievement all the more remarkable is that she didn’t begin her career as an illustrator until she was 60 and she had never received any formal artistic training.

In 1979, she approached Aberystwyth Arts Centre to ask if she could hold an exhibition of her work. That exhibition caught the attention of the Arts Council of Wales, who invited her to illustrate a new edition of The Mabinogion.

The rest, as they say, is history, and the results included this map, now a cherished poster in schools and homes across the country.

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No, but this is actually crazy in the most dystopian sense.

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Hedy Lamarr, Ziegfeld Girl, 1941

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A gorgeous little puma cub checking out a wildlife cam 

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