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"For women, only one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl. The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man. The beauty of a boy resembles the beauty of a girl. In both sexes it is a fragile kind of beauty and flourishes naturally only in the early part of the life-cycle. Happily, men are able to accept themselves under another standard of good looks — heavier, rougher, more thickly built. A man does not grieve when he loses the smooth, unlined, hairless skin of a boy. For he has only exchanged one form of attractiveness for another: the darker skin of a man’s face, roughened by daily shaving, showing the marks of emotion and the normal lines of age. There is no equivalent of this second standard for women. The single standard of beauty for women dictates that they must go on having clear skin. Every wrinkle, every line, every gray hair, is a defeat. No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to want to continue looking like girls." — Excerpt from Susan Sontag's 1978 essay The Double Standard of Aging

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hold on babygirl dont die there will be a new freaky little character for you get insanely obsessed with

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like genuinely unironically if i was actually animating a cartoon version of mash i would do bj's talking animation like the mayor in powerpuff girls. do you understand my vision

no i don't know how i'd make it feel contiguous with however i would animate him talking in his shaven forme. no i also don't know how i would animate it when he gets half his mustache shaved off. and of course i ALSO don't know how i would make this feel tonally appropriate for when he's in a serious scene. i guess that's what the surgical masks are for

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i will never stop thinking about this poem my greek professor showed us

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Sometimes, When the Light - Lisel Mueller /We Hug Now - Sydney Rose / idk :( I’m looking for it

Everything is alright, you’re back where you belong

? (I looked for the source but I genuinely could not find it, sorry) / @ DnzlWshngtn on twitter (July 25, 2012) / Funeral by Phoebe Bridgers / @ryebreadgf / @inanotherunivrse / @body5000 (deactivated) / Jonny Bolduc, Ending

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some linocuts. can't decide which ones I like better so I'll post both versions

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20% of Germans voted for the alt right party that is being backed by M*sk and Tr*mp in case you’re wondering how we‘re doing 🙃

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some monochrome margret studies I drew today while watching M*A*S*H

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hey sexy. I can tell by the frequency of your blog updates that you are once again avoiding it all

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Go touch some grass. Not hating, grass is just fun to roll around in. I'm right.

I'm allergic to grass. What God does that to his own invention?

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writing badly and cringily is actually an essential part of the writing process, both in terms of individual projects and in gaining voice and confidence as a writer in the long term. there is no way around the cringe. there's no way around the work.

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your honor, in my defense: who cares like omfggggggggg who cares???????????? like. come On

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to be loved is to be changed

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my favorite thing about elves vs hobbits is their names. elves will be named things like “maiden with the moonlight woven in her hair” and then hobbits are straight up like oh yeah my names domble bingus rumbubo

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