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the forest mother of pearl butterfly (protogoniomorpha parhassus) | butterfly.eden on ig

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one thing about me i’m the leaver. i will leave

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Easter morning on the Isle of Islay, Scotland (via)

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probably don't watch severance on a Sunday night it will make going to work on a grey office the next day so much worse

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I'm rewatching severance season 1 before getting to season 2 and it's so much weirder (and scarier) now that I know what a corporate/office is like

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one of my top ten french behaviors is that i find it deeply jarring to see croissants (as a whole) be considered as "pastries". a Pastry is an éclair or perhaps a millefeuille or lemon tart or macaron. it is colorful and sugary and generally dainty (not always) or indulgent (not always). croissants (including chocolate/almond croissants) are Not! Pastries. but carmine, you cry! what are they then? VIENNOISERIES. like wien. you know. the city. we stole them from the austrians like a william years ago. no yeah no it Is a stupid name. still not a Pastry however,

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Nosferatu (2024) is unquestionably a multifaceted work, but what I personally consider to be the unifying idea behind its facets is that, for Ellen, Orlok represents validation.

Her fears are dismissed and called childish?.. He's a nightmarish manifestation of them.

She is consistently disrespected by everyone around her?.. He considers her his only equal. She never uses his title, it's permitted.

She is told to fix herself, misunderstood, and always isolated?.. He knows all the darkest parts of her and is delighted by them. He wants her just as she is, so much that he will lie, kill, and cross the ocean to find her.

The scene in their death/wedding bed is a direct parallel to the scene of her waking in that bed at the beginning of the film. She complains to Thomas that the "honeymoon is yet too short" and tries to pull him down with a kiss - however, he is worried about being late for work, and so he extricates himself and leaves. Cut forward to her sharing the same bed with Orlok, similarly early in the morning; he is startled by cock-crow and begins to rise, but she guides his head back down - and, even though he knows that he will die, he stays. He is her sexual and emotional desire, realized.

Given that there is a plethora of emotions Ellen is forced to suppress on daily basis, there is no singular correct interpretation of her relationship with Orlok. To erase any one of them is to render it shallower than it actually is; but there is no doubt as to why their attachment is mutual. To each, the other is something they’ve never had before.

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2.11 | 6.03

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don’t think intimacy will ever feel normal for me but i’m being really chill about it

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I feel like maisy mouse should get more love on here I think she'd be besties with snoopy, miffy, etc.

look at her she's so cute

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Late Victorian Brooch with a man-in-the-moon cameo carved from transparent moonstone, set in white and rose gold with a border of diamonds and rubies. Victoria and Albert Museum

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The Temple of the Goddess Hathor, Egypt. 2300 years old melted stairs

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i simply dont fall for ragebait. i have a latina for a mother

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made this post transparent