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Doctor prescribed me 100mg of true love’s kiss

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19th century hand pressed antique wax seals

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Tabriz carpet, North West Persia (Iran), 1920. 

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Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee

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what i’d really like is for someone to objectively watch me for a week or so and then just sit down with me for a few hours and explain to me what i am like and how i look to others and what my personality is in detail and how i need to improve where do i sign up for that

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Budapest: Insight Into Gellért Hill’s Huge Water Reservoir Photography by Zsolt Szigetváry

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A girl, a pretty speck, a part of summer and passing through it.

— Christine Schutt, from “A Happy Rural Seat of Various View: Lucinda’s Garden,” Pure Hollywood and Other Stories (Grove Press, 2018)

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daily tasks are: wake up haunted, get sick, wallow, memory loss, grief, get sick, do the dishes

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Details: Lilith and the Serpent, by A.J. Hamilton.

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Andrew Wyeth, “Wolves” (detail)

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Aleksandra Bujnowska (Polish,b.1979)

Untitled, 2016

Oil on canvas

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Simple.

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Dmitry Kochanovich (Russian,b. 1972)

Phillosophy, 2019

Oil on canvas

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Resting by Wojciech Gerson (1895)

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love fighter by cyber bunny ss24

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i learned why executioner swords have holes.

There was a huge mystique about execution by decapitation. It was reserved for nobles and only performed by a skilled executioner who could take the head off with one blow (as opposed to the English headsman who often required several blows with his axe). This was considered the quickest, most humane way of executing someone. The commoners were hung, strangled, or worse.

Part of the mystique was that the executioner had a special sword that was only used for executions. It was used two-handed but was shorter and heavier than a normal two-handed sword. It usually had a blunt tip so it would never be used for stabbing. The sword usually had three holes near the tip so that it could not be converted into a stabbing weapon without cutting off the end of the blade, making it even shorter.

This was mainly a way of showing that the sword would never be used in war for killing common people.