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Lido, Italy 2018.

Nikon 35ti | Kodak Ultramax 400

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Shopkeepers of Lebanon, a series by Elie Yobeid.

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Il serpente (The snake)

Mosaic in San Demetrio Corone, Cosenza/Italy 11th-12th century

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they should make nervous systems that are less nervous

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it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

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writing isn’t hard it’s just emotionally devastating and time-consuming and requires full body possession by an idea

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Gertrude Jekyll Garden, Hestercombe Park, Taunton, Somerset, England   

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every time someone mentions the little prince I almost forget it’s a children’s book because I literally cannot get through the part about being tamed without crying

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Charlotte Brontë, Villette

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Spirited Away

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Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Burg Scharfenberg at Night, 1827

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Photo: David Castenson

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Kedi (2016), dir. Ceyda Torun

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i, one of many, am happy you exist

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I bet it feels good as fuuuuck to slightly draw your sword with all the other knights in anger when a treacherous knave shows their face in the court

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still at the time museum in lisbon

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I don't know exactly how to articulate this but... if you repeatedly show historical fiction women rejecting traditionally female skills/duties and doing swords instead, because swords is obviously the Most Important Thing, you are kind of implying that all the work that has been traditionally done by female hands for millennia was useless all along and not, you know, keeping civilization going. Because it's usually rejected not as a personal preference but as This Is The Important Stuff (male work) and That is The Dumb Useless Stuff (women's work) and that kind of bothers me. The message was supposed to be Vital But Underpaid and Underappreciated, not women's work is insignificant so let's all go do swords.