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Victor Servranckx (Belgian, 1897-1965) - Opus 9 (1931)

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watching death note with my family and after the college entrance episode my mom asked offhandedly if anyone had ever pictured L and light as a couple before. it felt like one single white dove had landed on a crystalline lake in a beautiful pure clearing. no i dont think anyones ever thought of that before

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Juergen Teller, Sigmund Freud's Couch

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howin wong by matthias vriens for masses magazine

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They also very much look like that group of heterosexuals you kind of knew from afar in uni and got reaaaally bad vibes from. That girl bree has the most college girl appearance i've ever seen in my life i know like three girls who look exactly like that. And lucy is the embodiment of really conventionally pretty straight girl who's completely beyond saving like no escaping samsara for her in this life she'll need to be reborn as a beetle in order to learn an actual lesson because as a human being she will never do anything but go back to her fuckass boyfriend.

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I think what separates shitty soap operas from prestige TV is genuinely just the notion of consequences and weight. First season of "UnReal" was really good and stomach-turning in the sheer levels of dysfunction and toxicity on display but the following seasons somehow couldn't stomach throwing realistic consequences at its characters so they deus ex machina'd an ex bofriend suddenly deciding to murder a journalist to keep the main character out of trouble. and then no one has a proportionate emotional reaction and no consequences are ever delivered to him for doing that, which fucked all the stakes and made every bad thing done after that feel kind of meh. Meanwhile tell me lies is very literally just a bunch of college kids lying to each other mostly about hookups they've had or not had. And yet i thought i was going to kill myself like several times from the levels of pure evil on display. Just because they all react appropriately and when anything happens it impacts the story in a realistic manner.

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hmmm "tell me lies" is great if you distantly knew a group of heterosexuals in university and distantly felt like they might be the worst people alive but never got close enough to know for sure. I recommend it if you like to feel bad without catharsis attached. Just watching a car crash with no resolution or moral worth or possible end in sight. It's what i wish reality tv would show me & also what i imagined the harry styles fanfic "after" was before learning that it was genuinely unwatchable. 10/10 would watch again if im feeling like i need a little bit of moral ocd self-harm

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everything can be derived from anything, it's actually quite simple so here's an example: "evil lesbian nuns" implies the existence of 1) evil and everything which is not evil; 2) everything which is lesbian and everything which is not lesbian; and 3) everything which is a nun and everything which is not a nun. any one of these would do, but three is good for triangulation, that is, it creates a spatial awareness. so the all is derived from the one by its absence within the three. you might be asking, though, is the inverse also true? can the one be derived from the all by its absence? and the answer is no, or yes, depending on which side of the question you're on. but i always say honesty is best in these kinds of things.

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Frog Paints a Water Lily Pond 🪷🎨🐸

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

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Portrait, 1938. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Salon 1884 Spring-Summer 2025

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Don McCullin.

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Federico Ribas Montenegro (1890-1952)

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“Angel of Grief” by William Wetmore Story for the grave of his wife Emelyn Story.

Rome, 1894.