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i will give tiktok one concession and that is that it has spawned a comment that contains a phrase that i think of often at relevant moments: pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

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every day i discover more and more beautiful things. it's enough to drive one mad. i have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

claude monet

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“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”

— Claude Monet

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“I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint…”

— Claude Monet

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Claude Monet - Water Lilies

"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment."

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le bassin aux nymphéas, claude monet / black beauty & violet bent backwards over the grass, lana del rey / worth the wait, schuyler peck / une allée du jardin de monet / marie antoinette dir. sofia coppola

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The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.

- Claude Monet

by ryancantyloupe

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Claude Monet, from a letter to Camille Pissaro, featured in Monet By Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

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As if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. — Claude Monet

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Roar

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Don’t forget to heal your inner child

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Somehow it’s very soothing

[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

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Au where Danny flees to Europe after identity reveal gone wrong and finds himself in Paris France at the height of Akuma Activity and being the massive ball of angst he is Hawkmoth instantly zeros in on him.

He spends like 20m listening to some French guy in his brain ramble menacingly, not comprehending an ounce of it.

And like, it’s not like it’s doing anything.. so he kinda just?? Keeps walking around like hm. Free white noise ig,,

People notice the telltale sign of an akuma, but watch on as … nothing happens.

The French guy in his brain sounds a little upset now which is kind of a bummer, but whatever.

Local heros Ladybug and Chatnoir watch on as this guy just. Sits down at a fountain. Doing nothing. Wearing them butterfly walkie talkie glasses… nothing.

It’s almost 27 minutes before he opens his mouth and everyone realizes he’s foreign atfsajkbkk

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I scribbled this out this morning. These are the major differences between seals and sea lions.

If you’re going to use “seals” in your project, PLEASE make sure that they actually are SEALS. ;;;A;;;

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Tumblr In The Wild

Have you ever seen a meme floating around somewhere in the great beyond—your family group chat, your friend’s Instagram story—and you’ve thought quietly to yourself, I saw that on Tumblr first, ha! Or maybe you even said it out loud. And then everyone looked at you funny. 

Well, this is a post about those special moments: seeing Tumblr in the wild, when a meme or trend or really good post breaches containment like a particularly powerful cryptid. 

First and foremost, in 2021, there was gaslight gatekeep girlboss, a meme that sprouted in Tumblr’s native soil early in the year. Following its spread to Twitter, it took the whole internet by storm until it became part of everyone’s standard vocabulary. 

Then there was the whole #2014tumblr phenomenon on TikTok, which continues to be a Whole Thing. Basically, people are obsessing over the historical aesthetic of this very website. From a mere seven years ago. Which has been WILD to see for all the people on Tumblr who were around to invent it.

In 2020, iconic Tumblr account @thatsbelievable, a compendium of Victorian-aesthetic jokes with a modern twist, had a successful post in the form of The Best Gorilla Joke of 1897. But when it went viral on Twitter in 2021, people uninitiated in Tumblr vibes believed it really was from 1897, and others had to jump in to clarify. 

We all had a good laugh at the Tumblr post about “vertically oriented igneous intrusion,” but many of you took a non-zero amount of offense at an aggregator website kicking off their reporting on the meme with the sentence, “Tumblr’s no longer popular, but that won’t stop content from spreading on other platforms.” Because come on! 

On Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest, there are a bunch of accounts devoted to reposting Tumblr screenshots, the most impressive being @exaltiora’s Twitter thread which runs to over 11,000 continuous screenshots of Tumblr posts! But as a Tumblr user so winningly put it, this is akin to selling bootleg tickets to the clown carnival. 

Finally, to cap off the year, we had the feminine urge meme. Like gaslight gatekeep girlboss, this one began on Tumblr and then flooded the channels on many other platforms. But WE know that a meme this good could only have come from one place: right here. In other words: do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was on Tumblr when it was posted.

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“too much love” - photo sequence by katja kemnitz