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(enter Pallas)

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who else getting emotional over the proud five year old Damen gave him

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Not pictured: King Laurent balancing on his royal tippy toes. …on top of King Damianos’s toes.

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Hands in Denis Sarazhin’s art

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you're gonna be seeing more of this man

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In my defense your honor I had really good music on and it made me want to do something evil

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Simon Marmion - Man of Sorrows (c. 1460). Detail.

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i hate when girls feel dumb for trying to see the best in people and then end up hurt or disappointed like no!! it’s those people that were dumb for misleading you. they took advantage of your kindness and generosity, and they’ll rot for it 

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Wolf by Lili des Bellons

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Cozy cottage

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i love paleolithic art. there’s something really beautiful about learning how the caves were painted; the time it took for the artists to make their colors, the method of spraying paint through bones or through lips for application, the care in linework and perspective. there is nothing rudimentary about paleolithic art, nothing to be looked down upon from the pulpit of modernity. people built scaffolds to reach cave ceilings and made fires to paint by, they traded with other people for materials to better their art and used the irregularity of the rock face to bring their animals to life. paleolithic art was intentional and treasured. whether they meant to weave tales or remember their pasts, to honor the world surrounding them or worship old gods, it meant something. i think it can mean something now too

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“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin (via 5139321966)

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asia

i’ve always wanted to do a piece that celebrates asia for it’s diversity and richness, and I finally got around to doing it 🙂

prints / twitter / ig

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midsommar was greatly disturbing but i can’t stop thinking about it

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“She has surrendered to a joy known only by the insane. She has lost herself completely, and she is finally free. It is horrible and it is beautiful” -Ari Aster

MIDSOMMAR (2019) dir. Ari Aster

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