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nooooo don’t redeem yourself by coming away from your loaded obsessive relationship with the righteous god-chosen hero unwillingly but irreversibly changed making you defeat your baser impulses & grow a spine in the face of your homophobic tyrant ex-god-chosen father in order to protect aforementioned hero & break the cycle of violence you’re so petty and sexy aha

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Students of the Turkmen State University in Ashgabat, Turkmenia. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1950s).

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forget david and michelle and their bullshit the real love story of this show is whatever thomasina and that one guard have going on

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Pierreuse (Carmen Gaumin) 1889

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One endlessly good man who is still just a man being made into a legend he didn’t want as a side product of attempting to do the right thing (and pulling it off by sheer luck and an overabundance of balls) in order to be used for propaganda by people who always have something to gain from him and then being attacked for that same legend by those same people because it was meant to be an easily manipulated myth. It wasn’t meant to be a prophecy, it wasn’t meant to be true. All the butterfly story really is is just that, a story. That’s not how the world actually works and nobody can be that good anyway, right - but if somehow this one nobody man really is just naturally that good despite the way of the world around him, what does that mean for them? What does looking in that mirror make them? What light does his presence cast them in but an ugly shadow? So they try to tear him down to prove that he’s just a man and he is - he meddles and oversteps and fumbles his way through the shadowy workings of politics like a blind man, letting his faith in the good of people get in the way of good judgement - but he’s the kind of man that keeps choosing to be good and true over and over despite his doubts, despite what the world throws at him, that in doing so he inevitably inspires the people around him to do the same.

listen just. hold on. hold on I need a minute I am. thinking

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“You don’t have good causes. You pretend to be a good man, like you pretend to be a young man.” is SUCH a savage line my god. mama shepherd my beloved

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“Bird Cherry” by Yelena Romanova (1986)

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I went to college for four years to get a degree and all I’ve used it for so far is dissecting an obscure cancelled network tv show from 2009. and accusing captain america of socialism and homosexuality

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quit being a nail in my coffin, i don’t need another one

are you all sick of this shade of orange-red yet

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Spyros Vassiliou (Greek, 1902-1985), Golden Dawn, 1978. Acrylic and gold leaf on hardboard, diameter: 44 cm.

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sunday drive by Kate Baer

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he has a destiny in him. people with destinies … things don’t go well for them. they die old and unhappy, or young and unfinished. 

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okay but something about the question “choose: son or daughter” being asked with the full knowledge of what the choice will be. something about rose choosing to put michelle through the pictures being leaked both because it would ultimately make them more alike (and if she had to suffer misogyny her whole life then by god so will her daughter) and force michelle to fill the position rose always meant for her and because that’s a path and a narrative she can control and predict as opposed to jack’s “mistake of character” (and how that getting out on the other hand would spin him further out of her reach by removing shame&secrecy from the equation). something about how that choice is made in the name of love because she projects michelle will survive the fallout whereas jack won’t survive his (or rose herself won't), but it’s also just a 100% a punishment for both michelle and jack for daring to stray from their parents’ ideas of them. something about how that choice would make them stay tied to her forever. something something purposefully choosing to hurt the ones you love because you’ve conditioned yourself to see control as protection and love something something

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Forgiveness is a form of love, and I do not love you. Yes you do.

Kings (2009) + ocean vuong // margaret atwood // ocean vuong // chen chen // leila chatti // emery allen // nimmieamee (ao3) // elizabeth lindsey rogers // richard siken // susan sontag // halsey // fatima aamer bilal // honeytuesday (tumblr) // ocean vuong // sophokles

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funniest character dynamic in the world to me is when you have one guy knows hes gay but doesnt realise hes in love with his best friend and another guy who knows hes in love with his best friend but does not know hes gay

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Tony Hoagland, from Application for Release from the Dream; “The Complex Sentence”