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Cover of The Cat Who Loved the Sea by Rhoda Goldstein, illustrated by Len Ebert. 1968. Source.

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reblog to bonk the person you reblogged it from with a hollow cardboard tube

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Edward Steichen, Woods, Twilight 1899 (platinum print)

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@giftober 2024 Day 29: Doors

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something fascinating about thomas' comment in season 3 when he thinks he's going to be let go without a reference 'I've a cousin in Bombay' is that both Manchester (a popular birthplace for Thomas) and Bombay had large cotton mills around that time period. nothing to do with Thomas, of course- he's not a mill worker. but maybe his cousin is???

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🍂🐈 Quilt

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So I was googling to try and find the original tweet in the screenshot I rb'd the other day about Emily Wilson who translated the Odyssey into English but, like, without the misogynistic reading of it

Instead I went down a rabbit hole and ended up thinking about Gaimangate and the victims, because of course I did.

This article. I want to make everyone read it.

It's from 2017. It's not about NG and his victims but it could have been.

And it's not specifically about art, either. It could be about anything the survivors wanted to do with their lives.

If Claire hadn't needed $500 worth of therapy every month. She didn't know he would eventually pay her back. What might she have invested that time and money in?

If Caroline had just been able to concentrate on her pottery and not what NG did to her and whether she and her children would end up homeless

If Scarlett hadn't ended up in mental health crisis

If Julia hadn't avoided him for years after his assault

If. If. What else would K and Courtnee have done. What about whoever else he victimised, because no way have 100% of the survivors come forward. What might they have done if he had left them the fuck alone.

If all the victims of all the abusers in the world could have done what they wanted to do instead of live with the consequences and all the time and effort and money you have to put into healing

What would exist?

What have we lost?

I would feel so much better about this whole situation if this was acknowledged every time people mourned the loss of Good Omens.

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I also want to link this post by @xtasteslikeburningx (heed the warnings; it's a painful read) about why the loss of GO is so painful to her. Because I'm glad there have been consequences, and I would have been happy to see it all cancelled. But although I've said in individual conversations with people that I get why some people are so devastated by the loss, I've not really made a point of talking about it in general, because it's felt like everyone is making that point while comparatively few of us were talking about wanting it cancelled.

But we should be listening to survivors.

And for what it's worth my own story, or at least part of it, is under a cut in a reblog here. And although I've mostly come to terms with what happened, it still hurts, and I'm still processing it and dealing with the fallout, and it's one of the many reasons that both the allegations and so many people in the fandom not calling him out have been so painful to me.

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getting emotional over footage of an amateur scuba diver interacting with a coelacanth. they are hunted by large deepwater predators, and here comes a large creature bearing the brightest lights it's ever seen, making strange noises, but it does not shy away. it hovers, calmly, as the diver reaches out and trails a hand down its back. im strongly against the anthropomorphizing of real life animals but the stupid emotional part of me loudly insists this is because it recognizes us, the alternating movements of its four paired limbs matching the diver's four paired limbs, & it is thinking, "hello, cousins, we missed you these 66 million years, it's so good to see you again. welcome back, welcome home."

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One of the nicest things about how dark it is in the evenings at the moment is getting to light cozy lights and sit in a cozy chair and drink a cozy tea while reading a cozy book. Here’s Terry the forg mage doing those things.

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Ted is an Obama Democrat who has one of those yard signs that says "IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE...LOVE is LOVE 🫶🏻" etc. Rebecca votes Conservative purely for economic reasons until her redemption era, then starts voting Labour. Beard is writing in 4th party candidates you can't even imagine. Roy keeps up very closely with politics (votes Labour obviously) but always hates all of the candidates and yells at his TV screen during political coverage like American dudes watching football. Keeley is like an online communist in her teens but quietly deletes her social media and abandons the cause in favor of liberalism when she starts dating millionaires. Jamie doesn't vote

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some dudebros: tom hardy must be held at gunpoint to still be doing these sony venom movies

tom hardy: WRITES the movie, PRODUCES the movies, repeatedly states how much venom and eddie means to him, reads all the comics, #1 veddie shipper

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"Let him tell the joke."

S18E03 outtake

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[ID: Five screencaps from Taskmaster, each showing a contestant replicating a famous artwork, alongside the original piece. Emma Sidi lies on the floor, surrounded by a yellow sheet, gold sequins and flowers in imitation of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss. Andy Zaltzman uses a life-sized model cow, toy animals, mannequin parts and Alex Horne to replicate Pablo Picasso's Guernica. Jack Dee wears an orange wig, bandages and a fleecy hat to recreate Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. Rosie Jones' piece is three metal barrels labelled "SOUP", with a logo of Sam Campbell's face in the centre of each, in the style of Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. Babátúndé Aléshé poses with his face covered, ready to hurl a bunch of flowers like Banksy's Flower Thrower. End ID.]

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Made of Blackness by Ben J