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seeking to unbalance my hormones in a way previously unknown to humankind

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ameircans talking about red note like they have never spoken to anyone from another country ever about anything

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Join me on my journey to finally unbalance my hormones, toxify my body, boost my inflammation, maximize my cortisol and absolutely destroy my gut health.

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the conditions for sleep are bad and if anything only getting worse

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Peter Mitchell. Nothing Lasts Forever. Leeds, England, 1970s

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Are you trapped on tumblr right now?

Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Consider this your save point.

Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.

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The next classic I plan to read.

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LUCA MARINELLI for M - Il Figlio del Secolo (2025- ) for SuperGuidaTV on January 5, 2025

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translated by richard mckane, as I didn’t say when I first posted this because I was probably like 22 and clueless. anyway, i think about this poem all the time.

In the Forest

Four Diamonds — four eyes — two of the owl and two of mine. The end of this terrible tale is how my bridegroom died.

I lie on the thick, moist grass, my words ring senselessly, looking down self-importantly the owl listens keenly to them.

Fir trees crowd close round us, over us the sky — a black square; you know, you know they killed him, my elder brother killed him —

not in a bloody duel, not on the battlefield, not in war, but on the deserted forest path, when he, in love, was coming to me.

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anna akhmatova

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I don’t think there is any art in the world quite as astonishing as Kinuko Craft’s illustrations for Patricia McKillip’s novels

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“By the late 1910s, one-on-one domestic intimacy with movie stars began being sold as a multisensory experience. Combining an “unbreakable phonograph record with a photo of your favorite star; an autograph; and an intimate chat with a star,” the “Talk-o-Photo” mobilized movie lovers “not to worship from afar” but, for thirty cents apiece, welcome shadow players “in your own home” to have “a little chat.” Photoplay ads promised fans that their “favorite stars . . . will talk to you on your own phonograph [and] answer to your wishes.”Together with two-dimensional paper paraphernalia, these novelty items exhorted spectators to “take the star home” and, through ancillary technology, enact fantasies of propinquity and interactivity denied by the very incorporeal one-directionality of film projection.”

1910s cameo [from a queer way of feeling: girl fans and personal archives of early hollywood, diana w. anselmo

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u used to be able to put a dvd in your computer. and then u could watch it

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the vegan alert woman on letterboxd has fully changed my internal voice forever and not in a good way. was watching a documentary yesterday with a section showing people driving motorbikes around shanghai carrying animal carcasses to a butcher’s or whatever and my brain is going OH OH I KNOW: VEGAN ALERT!!! and then im watching some farmers shearing sheep in Patagonia and it’s going VEGAN ALERT VEGAN ALERT and someone is pouring milk or cooking meat and once again my brain is happily running the vegan alert sirens.

I cannot stress enough that i am not vegan and i eat butter and cheese every day

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The gelatin in film stock was made from the hide, bones, cartilage, ligaments, and connective tissue of calves (considered the very best), sheep (less desirable), and other animals who passed through the slaughterhouse. Six kilograms of bone went into a single kilogram of gelatin. Eventually, the demands of photographic industries generated so much need for animal byproducts that slaughterhouses became integrated into the photographic production chain. Controlling the supply chain became key to Kodak's success. In 1882, as Kodak began to grow as a company, widespread complaints of fogged and darkened plates stopped production. The crisis almost ruined Kodak financially and resulted in the company tightly monitoring the animal by-products used in gelatin. Decades later, a Kodak emulsion scientist discovered that cattle who consumed mustard seed metabolized a sulfuric substance, enhancing the light sensitivity of silver halides and enabling better film speeds. The poor-quality gelatin in 1882 was due to the lack of mustard seeds in the cows' diet. The head of research at Kodak, Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, concluded, "If cows didn't like mustard there wouldn't be any movies at all." By controlling the diet of cows who were used to make gelatin, Kodak ensured the quality of its film stock. As literary scholar Nicole Shukin reflects, there is a "transfer of life from animal body to technological media." The image comes alive through animal death, carried along by the work of ranchers, meatpackers, and Kodak production workers.

—Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

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tomorrow i might make a list of other books i’m excited for this year — a lot don’t have covers yet and i wanted to focus more in that post on books that i already have. but as ever there’s a lot of cool stuff coming…

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i was tagged a while ago in a meme about nine books i want to read this year. had fun making this in response!

tried not to spend too much time on this or to overthink it — almost all of these are books we own or that i have out from the library right now, except for the two that are still upcoming — that is there’s no turning back, and thank you for calling the lesbian line.

I’m bad at tagging people or frankly remembering usernames — everyone reading this should do the meme in response, it’s fun!