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“There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the emperor was preparing to assassinate him. But because it was his painting, legend goes, he stepped inside and vanished, saving himself. I always loved that little allegory as an artist. Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.”
— Ocean Vuong, from an interview with Zoë Hitzig in Prac Crit
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rose's purgatory: photography by kolt huynh
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bro...what we could have had..
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in small fandoms you need to be grateful to the person who only accidentally hit you twice with a frying pan while trying to make you breakfast. in big fandoms you can block people for wearing a shirt you don’t like
#learning that a lot of people really value the abstract idea of fandom#which is distinct from intentional community to me. we like the same thing but it's a fallacy to assume we'll be friends#my finger is always on the block button. like mr burns with his 'the hounds' button#either it's a vibe or it's not a vibe#it's not that deep tbh#dh fandom is small but not so small that I have to suffer fools gladly#if I can't suffer the fool gladly I prefer to not suffer. tbh.#this isn't a club penguin server this is my timeline. blocking rules
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god he was literally in a little skirt and nylons and kitten heels and leather opera gloves . do any of you still care about that .
#is anyone gonna point out those are mary jane pumps and not kitten heels#affectionate#gerard your gender is 'hard act to follow' <3
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Turquoise inlaid bronze dagger axe (ge polearm), China, Shang Dynasty, 1600-1050 BC
from Sotheby's
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Reports indicate that after having exhausted all possible discussion of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Breadtubers will be reading a second book. The veracity of these reports is still unknown.
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thank you lesbians that make strange & unmarketable art
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thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)
like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it
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actually lifechangingly good books will be on goodreads with a 3.6 star rating at most with people fighting for their lives trying to be comedians in the reviews section while meanwhile the worst dogshit youve ever read in your life will have a 4.7
#the series that saved my life and inspired me forever is generally considered the worst series by this specific author#many people really look down on things that are half romance#specifically from an author that doesn't usually do romance. wrong audience I suppose#while I remain not a fan of romance as a genre I have no recognition of what my life would have been like#without having read those books#anyway much like I don't rely on blurbs I don't rely on reviews either unless it's nonfiction#rather read a bit and make my own decision
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