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i've been focusing deeply on not giving a shit about what people think. if i notice my thoughts going down that path, then i shut them down. i'm not trying to read anyone's mind. i'm just going to be myself and try my best. if i fuck up, then i fuck up. if i look stupid, then i look stupid. everyone looks stupid, sometimes. it's so much more important to be yourself earnestly and passionately, in all of your stupid glory

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laura sciacovelli, 2003 + silvia camporesi, 2004 in italian eyes: italian fashion photography from 1951 to today - fondazione pitti immagine discovery (2005)

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Lamia and The Soldier, John William Waterhouse (1905) 

I love, love Lamia And The Soldier because it’s been, for a long time, one of my favourite picture of romantic love, wrapped in the hybrid fantasy of greek mythology and medieval influences that makes symbolism to me so exquisite; until I became curious about Lamia herself.  In fact, Lamia was a child-and-men-eating, demon-fuelled seductress; her true nature is symbolised by the draped snake-skin around her arm and waist. I fell in the trap head-first. The picture is inspired by Keats’ Lamia, “about a bridegroom who discovers on his wedding night that his bride is a monstrous half-serpent who preys on young men.” A second version of the painting shows Lamia after the deed, and the calm savagery of her newly-shed submission is extraordinary.

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thats a very nice tanktop you got there.. completely unrelated can yuo reach that top shelf for me

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it's your right as a pedestrian to cross the street whenever you feel like it

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very busy. i have to pace in circles for 6 hours. you understand

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Life is just so much better when you’re out and about. Walking around a shop, grabbing lunch at your favorite restaurant, a cold beverage of your choice as both hydration and accessory, the fresh air and loud busy surroundings of a world constantly moving forward. I feel like the plastic bag camcorder freak from American Beauty. The pure poetry of it all.

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Dancing bugs. The population of an old pear-tree. 1870. Book cover.

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Igor Panov (b.1969) - Summer Evenings. 2016. Oil on canvas.

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Worst thing I ever did in my life was try to play it cool to protect myself because all that ever did was attract people who also had their walls up or who were interested in people they wouldn't have to actually take care of

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katerina shukshina

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You just wrought a giggle from my body lol

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abandoned gas station