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on the one hand it's pretty cool when athena disguises odysseus as an old man, but what if that was a lie to spare him from the pain of knowing for certain that no one could recognize him anyway?

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all quiet in a western font

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Source: The Art Of Lesbian Lovemaking , by Rose Black and Lilly Glück - Illustrations by Paula

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"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

vs

"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

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Paul Newman as Capt. Edward W. Hall Jr. The Rack (1956) dir. Arnold Laven

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did you lie again

Believe my unsourced claims wtf!!!!!!!!!

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a blue jay taking a bath 🛁 | source

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Jakob Jokerst and Tom Bellini by Alfonso Anton Cornelis

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Laundrosaurus, a piece of household surrealism, by Helga Stentzel

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Two views of Canadian trenches. c1916.

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Nancy, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1904

Julian Dimock

American Museum of Natural History Library

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People gathered beneath the Washington Square Arch, September, 1956. 35 mm color slide.

Photo: Harold Mayer via the Univ. of Wisconsin

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sometimes I think the pandemic didn't impact me mentally *that* much and then I'll hear about something that happened in 2019 and my immediate thought is, "oh, only last year!" and then I Remember™ and I have to make a metaphysical effort in my head that, actually, 2019, was almost 5 years ago and I want to die a little bit. we lost and continue to lose so much time to this virus. whether it's time in the world or time with people we lost. it's such a strange grief we all carry and are expected to be normal about.

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i never aimed to give you a talisman!! i had something to say to you!!!!!!!!

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I bitch and I moan its what I do