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isaacbookclub · 3 months ago
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New profile pictures for Isaac and Charlie in season 3 - both photos from Paris
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
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adam-trademark · 15 days ago
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Jabberwock Island
(March 19, 2023)
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detroitlib · 8 months ago
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View of indoor swimming pool at the Women's City Club of Detroit. Swimmers, wearing bathing caps, are lined up at edge of pool, kicking the water. Women and girls sit at card tables and chairs poolside. Stamped on back: "Mar 28, 1946."
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
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icewindandboringhorror · 6 months ago
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If you became super rich and could design your own house, but could only add THREE unnecessary/random/expensive home additions (like how people will have bowling alleys, movie theatres, closets with museums of shoes, car display rooms, spa rooms, wine cellars, etc. in their mansions) - what three would you choose?
#I think I would have: an indoor pool (but like heavily customized with a faux weather system so I could get the feeling of swimming in#rain or fog or snow etc.). a very small arcade consisting only of skee-ball and DDR machines. and an old Library Room with authentic#historical furniture/interior design to store old books/tapestries/study room equipment/whatever other antiques I'd collect. It'd be#like some fully intricate movie set or something that would feel completely like stepping into another world/time.#Though I might would trade out the arcade for a roller skating rink.. i DO love skating....#And I wouldve put rock climbing gym because I love indoor rock climbing but.. as I understand it they have to change out the rock things#on the walls every once in a while so that you can have new routes and it doesnt get boring. and I'd rather have an activty room thats like#self sustaining and doesnt require me to hire some person to come switch things around once every month. Otherwise I would#totally do that instead.#I'm also personally not counting ''craft'' type stuff like having a pottery room kiln sort of thing because#that doesn't count as 'unnessecary' to me. since stuff like that would not at all be just a hobby I 'happen to#do sometimes for fun'#but would definitely be a career sort of thing. Like if I had the money for a fully stocked sculpture room and and a sewing room#with a good machine and etc. then I would literally be professionally selling pottery and designing clothing and etc.#so I wouldn't count it as 'just a random side room I dont need' etc.#The same way that if I played tennis professionally or as a very intense hobby that takes up most of my life/time#then I wouldn't count having a tennis court in your house to practice in as 'unncesscarry' etc.#wow that is the worst I have ever spelt that word ghbjh#Un Cess Carry#ALSO would obviously have an underground bunker of some sort with food and emergency supplies which also does not count as unnecessary to m#since it's literally like... survival.. And I thought most health organizations literally reccomend that even#the common person has a small 'go bag' prepared in their house. and like an evacuation plan in case of fire or other things#It WOULD be an unnecessary rich person thing to have a full on undergRound village or something stocked with 9000 guns and#whaetever. but I think just a basic emergency room with basic supplies could still be counted under the 'not unnecessary' requirement.#Like I would say that a sprawling courtyard of flower gardens and fountains and hedge mazes that takes up like a hundred thousand#dollars a year in maintenance would count as one of the three 'unnecessary and expensive' things. But having a small garden in the#back yard with a few planters in a little greenhouse or whatever would not. The 'excessiveness' of the thing matters lol#ANYWAY!!!#Just curious what other peoples Three Main things would be... hrrmm
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headlesshorsemanxiii · 1 year ago
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A small selection of some more digitally derived delights from @unstabledreams. Head over to their blog for more, many of which are far spicier than these.
Reposted with permission.
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gayskogul · 1 year ago
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Listed off some of the books I’ve read in the past year to my little sister, who works as a librarian, and she just gave me this pitying look and said a soft, “Oh, babes...”
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soldiertransgender · 1 year ago
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Guys did you know the Level 3 Dormitories are a level in Half-Life Decay. Guys.
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quenthel · 6 months ago
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im starting to get a bit depressed again after having a horrible stressful week so thats awesome -_- trying to stay positive and hopeful but its kind of difficult... and i was thinking i might not need therapy anymore LOL
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narutomaki · 8 months ago
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I hate that I hate doing things in my own dude but it's so fucking boring !!!
#i dont go out to eat and i dont go to the movie theater so like the two biggest Default Hang activities are completely non-options for me#i dont like seeing movies in theatre 1) the local one sucks and 2) i cant sit still for over a half hour in a chair that makes me want to#become an arsonist.#ive been to Fancy Good Fun movie theatres and seen Incredible Higjly Rated films and still been like#20 mins in. is it going to be over soon? can i leave? please?#i like going to the library and shopping and walking down by the river and in the woods#but i also Dont Like The Beach because sand makes me want to become a fucking terrorist and the water safety index thing#sent me on a spiral sooo bad ♡ also im too body conscious to enjoy myself#the public pools okay excepts its expensive and over crowded 100% of the time#rock beachs are good i like swimming i just eugh#i also. dont like going to the gyms indoor pool.#its so fucking echoy in there i get a migraine thinking about it#i do like their sauna tho but. again. priced out of that experience! wahoo! also the stairs there are designed to torture me#i like eating outside i like picnics in theory i just cant get comfortable sitting in like 98% of places for more than like 30 mins.#at some point some part of my body is going to start hurting so bad i want to throw up.#i like playing video games and board games but i dont have any consoles or board games so like.#man. idk!#i hate doing things alone bcus i Was Alone for 3 years with my only social contact being my abusive family#i would speak to them maybe 3 times a month and get out of the house maybe 2 times and#idk! idk its just like! okay! im done being socialy isolated!!!#>every activity that you can do to hang out with people is unappealing to me or causes me physical damage#😭 okay nvm!!!
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holoprisms · 1 year ago
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isaacbookclub · 7 months ago
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The Swimming Pool-Library by Alan Hollinghurst.
Charlie selects this book at Shakespeare and Company in Season 2 Episode 6.
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onebluebookworm · 1 year ago
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30 Days of Literary Pride 2023 - June 24
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The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
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detroitlib · 1 year ago
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View of the swimming pool at the Blythefield Club in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Printed on front: "Swimming pool, Blythfield Club, Grand Rapids, Mich." Printed on back: "Pub. by the Wayne Calendar and Novelty Co., Fort Wayne, Ind." Handwritten on back: "Dear Gaga, How are you. I just went out to the farm to see [undecipherable]." Card is postmarked August 1940.
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
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tryingtimi · 4 days ago
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renewed obsession with the water is happening
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unsoundorange · 4 months ago
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Vacation in The Paradise 🌴💙
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thebraxiatelcollection · 10 months ago
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Debating whether to join a gym near work...
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