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Chroma V - Yunchul Kim

Video: a metres-long serpentine robot suspended from a ceiling. It has flexing panels with a fluctuating mother-of-pearl pattern. No audio.

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Scientific Method

by James Tadd Adcox

Picture the ocean. No. Picture the entire thing, all at once. You are not doing it. It’s okay. One day something terrible will happen, and I will not be prepared.

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My single page illustration for @dungeonzine. Leftover sales are open until August 30th here, so grab them while you can: https://dungeonzine.carrd.co/

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Jacob A. Riis - Sweatshop in Hester Street, 1889/1946

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"And tell them that I believe women should play more of a role in the curia." "Let's, um... Let's not mention women."

Conclave (2024)

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the ao3 ship list discourse is annoying this year because it puts me in a position to defend arcane s2. i didn't even like arcane s2

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can we see the holographic unicorn print? <- loves unicorns

Lmao absolutely, step right up to the see unicorn. Don't mind the weird angles, I was trying not to block the lamp and demonstrate the quality of the foil.

I have only the vaguest memory of its origins, I think I got it in a souvenir shop? Maybe at the Jersey Shore? Somewhere in the early 2000s. You can spot some scratches on it from being tossed hither and thither on the sea of my youth.

Last night I re-discovered it and decided to put it in a spare frame. I removed the dented matting it was in and hacked off the backing, which is how I was able to read the artist's name, Anne Grahame Johnstone. I'd never heard of her, but apparently she and her twin sister Janet were a prolific mid-century illustrator duo and worked on a lot of books of fairy tales and the like. I really loved looking up their gorgeous work, I feel like I discovered a hidden gem in what I assumed was a silly y2k tchotchke.

Bonus, the lineup:

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Achilles kneals over patroclus, by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone. From Tales of the Greeks and Trojans by Roger Lancelyn Green, 1963. Goauche and watercolor on paper

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Ship of two people who both think of each other as the angel and of themselves as the dog.

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Respectfully, the /reader people need to stop adding gifs to their posts. Every single time I have tried to look up gifsets for a movie by using the gifs only filter I still have to wade through a dozen nsfw posts about the most busted man in any movie and his coquette y/n babygirl

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hate the weird self-infantalizing “but i’m just playing with my dolls” shit people will pull in response to any critique of overall fandom trends, especially wrt racism, misogyny, transphobia, etc. very embarrassing to be a grown ass adult yet still so myopic and devoid of self-reflection

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Cueva de las Manos, Argentina

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nothing happened to me. i happened.

–  HANNIBAL (2012 - 2015)

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“she’s not evil she’s traumatized” actually she’s both. women contain multitudes

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In a language that contains words like devotion, passion, enthusiasm, love, fascination, obsession, etc., I can’t help but regret this tendency to cram all those meanings into "hyperfixation," a word which manages to pathologize and medicalize the act of having interests.

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Tennessee Williams, “We Have Not Long to Love.”

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unparalleled homoerotic moment in fiction i fear