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my skills include reading an entire page of an academic text without absorbing a single word

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Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) - Céline Sciamma

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i may be a romantic but i’m not hopeless.. love is in everything and that’s just the truth

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Hilarious Cat Snapchats That Will Leave You With The Biggest Smile ( part 1)

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Ampio orizzonte, Ettore Tito 1910 // Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma 2019

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not to be horny on main but i’m a big slut for thunderstorms

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“One afternoon, I sat with my field ecology students by a wiikwegamaa and shared this idea of animate language. One young man, Andy, splashing his feet in the clear water, asked the big question. “Wait a second,” he said as he wrapped his mind around this linguistic distinction, “doesn’t this mean that speaking English, thinking in English, somehow gives us permission to disrespect nature? By denying everyone else the right to be persons? Wouldn’t things be different if nothing was an it?”

Swept away with the idea, he said it felt like an awakening to him. More like a remembering, I think. The animacy of the world is something we already know, but the language of animacy teeters on extinction—not just for Native peoples, but for everyone. Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion—until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation. Saying it makes a living land into “natural resources.” If a maple is an it, we can take up the chain saw. If a maple is a her, we think twice.”

‘Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants ; Learning the Grammar of Animacy’ Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Everyone knows there are only two human emotions: Freddie Mercury crying out “I don’t wanna die, sometimes wish I’d never been born at all” and Florence Welch declaring “I am done with my graceless heart, so tonight I’m gonna cut it out and then restart”.

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being a historian on tumblr is such a uniquely bizarre experience. almost everyone will believe what you say as long as you write an all-caps rant starting with something like “LISTEN UP YOU DUMB FUCKSHITS” but god help you if you attempt to factcheck a single statement or disagree with someone else’s opinion. it’s like a conference on steroids except half of the academics have never even touched a database in their life. one time i got an ask calling me an idiot sjw because i said julius caesar, a guy who wrote seven whole books about his war crimes, was a war criminal. this place is an academic’s hell and i love it

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More than 700 years old home. Carved out from volcanic rock in Mount Sahand. Kandovan, Iran

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why would she sell sea shells by a sea shore when you can just pick them off of the ground for free that’s not how you run a business

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“We often have to explain to young people why study is useful. It’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. Nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. And so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. It introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. It allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. It creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. And all this is very beautiful.”

Umberto Eco (1932 - 2016, RIP)

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remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

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straight brain: Janis Ian was probably gay lol

lesbian brain: Regina George is the biggest lesbian in the history of cinema and she started the lesbian rumor about Janis to deflect from her own feelings and used hyper femininity and bullying to do the same when she entered high school in the rest of this essay I will-