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deletes don’t count. this is how long you’ve known about/been part of this website. if you left and came back say when you made your first blog even if you no longer have access to it (but also tell me how long you were gone for because i’m nosy like that)

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While taking a nap today I dreamt there was a hazard sign called "never found" which was used to indicate a location where people disappeared never to be seen again

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im just a curious person so I was wondering how others felt abt their bra size tbh lmao if you don't like your size - why not?

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Dissolution of a Dreadful Dynasty

 Goosewing’s life is one marked by violence. 

He’s raised by his uncles and grandfather after the tragic death of parents he never knew (vampire attack, he’ll grow up hearing. They ran a red light and were T-Boned by a semi, he’ll later learn). They’re Von Goosewing vampire hunters through and through, eating, sleeping, and breathing the hunt. He has no choice but to follow in their footsteps. 

By the time he can walk, he understands that there is nothing in this world worse than a vampire. 

Vampires are soulless, Otto,  his family tells him every morning, noon and night,  Vampires are evil. His bedtime stories are long and bloody tales of Von Goosewings who failed in their sacred quest and fell prey to the monsters they hunted. 

He’s eight years old when one of his uncles places a stake-shooting pistol in his hand and tells him to aim at the practice dummy two dozen feet away that is shaped far too much like a person. 

You can never hesitate, Otto,  they say, steadying his shaking grip.  A vampire hunter who hesitates is a dead vampire hunter. You must stop at nothing to kill a vampire because they will stop at nothing to kill you. 

When he’s ten, they send him to the woods behind Von Goosewing Estate to practice on live targets. He is given strict instructions not to return until completion of a successful hunt. To protect him from the elements he is given a blanket and a stake-shooting rifle. 

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Hey you, yeah you, read this fic by @mighty-ant right now.

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So the Premier of Victoria (an Australian state) posted this on twitter yesterday

Someone shared it on Reddit asking if that was appropriate language for an Australian politician to be using and the entire thread is just Australians saying "only a dickhead would think this is a problem".

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This captures something I don't think I'll ever be able to put in to words.

Oh how I love shaun tan.

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how does being punched in the face feel like

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nosferatu? non. VOSferatu. c'est pas mon problème

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<Netizen 1> sculpture by Choi Jung Hyun (2004)

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being unemployed is rad but being unemployed in a world that treats employment as a necessity that completes you as a person while also having zero access to unemployment benefits is maybe not so good

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A recent book by Eric Ghysels' wonderful 5 Continents Editions - "Hidden Portraits, Volker Hermes Reimagines Historical Figures in Overwhelming Frippery"

"Whimsical, Surreal & Insightful: The Masked Portraits of Volker Hermes Breathe New Life into Classical Portraiture."

Article by Eric David

Apart from a few iconic paintings like the Mona Lisa and the Girl with the Pearl Earring, European portraiture during the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical periods is side-lined by narrative and genre painting whose subject matter is by nature much more compelling compared with the representation of a privileged elite – in other words, those who could actually afford to have their portrait painted. For most people, classical portraits of duchesses, marquises and other prominent people are different versions of the same parochial expression of vanity. Düsseldorf-based German painter Volker Hermes begs to differ. Based on famous Old Masters paintings, Hermes’ “Hidden Portraits” series of digitally-created photo-collages boldly highlights the intricate symbols of self-representation and social status embedded into such paintings.

From ostentatious ruffs, to richly embroidered trims, to elaborate headgear, Hermes masterfully manipulates elements found in the paintings to conceal the sitter’s identity in order to draw attention to their attire and pose, and reveal their connections with concepts of identity, gender and social status. As surreal as his masked portraits are, they look as if they were painted by the original artist, which is all the more impressive considering he’s a self-taught Photoshop user. In what started as a personal side project ten years ago, the series has since been thrust into the limelight during the pandemic as it evocatively captures the surreal mask-wearing reality we have all been living in. With masks suddenly becoming an integral part of our self-representation, and even acquiring cultural and political connotations, Hermes’ masked portraits are as timely as ever as but they also draw parallels between the coded messages of classical portraiture and the semiotics of the most contemporary of self-representation forms, selfies. Yatzer recently caught up with the artist to talk about his project, his passion for historical portraits and his relationship with social media.

Read more https://www.yatzer.com/volker-hermes-hidden-portraits

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my mom warned me about these kinds of internet users

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It won’t let me reblog EVERYONE LOOK

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Smth I’ve thought about ever since I first saw wreck it ralph is that in universe king candy is basically an irl creepypasta. Like he’s a racer that only exists in this one specific sugar rush cabinet, every other version off the game has princess vanellope. Literally no one knows he exists except for ppl who went to this one small arcade in the United States. And if the code for sugar rush has been dumped there is no trace of king candy bc he only exists in this one cabinet. I bet there’s ppl who traveled cross country just to see if king candy actually exists.

And then after the movie king candy disappears from the roster forever and is replaced by vanellope but she’s different than every other vanellope, different outfit different personality different kart different voice lines etc

It’s literally that one arcade cabinet creepypasta discussions and YouTube videos about it in universe must be crazy.