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Happy Lucy's polycule day to those who celebrate 🎊

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Francis Alÿs, The Green Line, 2004.

In 1995, Francis Alÿs realised an action in São Paolo called The Leak in which he walked from a gallery, around the city, and back into the gallery trailing a dribbled line from an open can of blue paint. This action was reprised in 2004 when he chose to make a work in Jerusalem. Using green paint, Alÿs walked along the armistice border, known as ‘the green line’, pencilled on a map by Moshe Dayan at the end of the war between Israel and Jordan in 1948. This remained the border until the Six Day War in 1967 after which Israel occupied Palestinian-inhabited territories east of the line.

Though palpably absurd, and greeted by onlookers with some bewilderment, Alÿs’s action of dribbling green paint behind him raised the memory of the green line at a time when the separation fence was under construction to the east of the green line. He later encouraged various commentators from Israel, Palestine, and other countries to reflect on his action, and their voices, sometimes sceptical, sometimes approving, can be heard while the video of his action is screened. Most importantly Alÿs wanted to ask what the role of poetic acts could be in highly charged political situations, while acknowledging that the relation of poetics to politics is always contingent.

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Hi guys, I’m Sollay! Still here!

If you don’t recognize me, this is some of my most reblogged art. 

I accidentally deleted my main blog earlier (which happened to be my art blog) and I’m a pretty upset about that, because since I have a very bad memory I’m having a hard time getting back to all the people I followed… and well because I deleted everything, including sideblogs and likes lol. I really want to get back to everybody and build back my blog and keep posting art, and maybe reposting some of my old stuff? And I really to let everyone know I’m still here in this URL if they were following me n_n; if you’d please spread this it would probably help me find some people back either following me or that I followed! Thanks!

I’m putting this in the HS tag because of the art and for promo reasons, too.

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could you define those words in that post about terminology, please?

“Is there a ghost kissing me right now?” is a metaphysical question, it asks about reality.

“How would I know if a ghost is kissing me right now?” is an epistemological question, it asks about how we acquire knowledge about reality.

"What does it actually mean for a ghost to kiss someone?" is an ontological question, it asks about the nature of reality.

"Is this ghost's only purpose to kiss me?" is an teleological question, it asks for a reason for something's existence.

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me writing the worst paragraph of my life knowing that a sexier, more hydrated version of me will fix it later

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when she says she doesn’t send nudes

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BUT YOU HATED WHEN MOVIES DID SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Yes, I did. Still do. The difference is that while movies mocked books, tried to force certain things, took away the depth of most if not all characters the series gives us something completely opposite.

New series explore the characters more, even more than books do, give us so much more diversity that is not forced, creates a certain vibe of those kids and shows that they, like us are humans, that are affected by what happens to them

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***SPOILER FOR 6TH NOVEMBER***

QUINCY MORRIS FUCKING DIES??????????? I WAS SURELY NOT PREPARED FOR THIS OMFG WHY THE KING OF TEXAS???? I THOUGHT HE HAD AN ARM INJURY NOT A FATAL WOUND HELP ME LORD I AM SO FUCKING SAD RIGHT NOW

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In this drought, I figured we all would need some smooches 😙

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you know the ship is good when the actors are basically holding up little dolls of their characters and making them kiss

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Matching couples' shirts, just in case your willowy ingenue boyfriend gets taken away by the undead. A redraw of this post from last year.

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The general perception is that Van Helsing has a secret backstory full of vampires, meanwhile what he has been doing so far is the 1890s equivalent of frantically googling "wikihow stop bloodsuckers from window"

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Stuff I thought I'd learn from reading Dracula: How to kill vampires, fun vampire facts and trivia

What I actually learned from reading Dracula: You can get back and forth between London and Amsterdam pretty quickly