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the switch from ‘a girl worth fighting for’ to coming upon the decimated village in mulan is THE MOST kick-in-the-teeth mood change IN ALL OF CINEMA

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“The First Stone” (2023) Private commission.

“They said to him, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?’ They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, ‘Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’ And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground.” - John 8

#biblical art #jesus christ #gospel of john

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In case any of my followers are interested in this, Celsys has decided not to implement the AI generator feature that was to be included in the next CSP update after receiving a lot of negative feedback from artists. Great job everyone we did it 👏

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Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:

Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:

Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?

Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.

Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.

Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?

Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.

It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:

Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?

Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.

When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.

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everyone who wants that sweet sweet 10-20k of student loan debt relief: you have to apply for it by the end of the year, and while the application isnt live yet u can learn when it is by signing up for a reminder here: https://www.ed.gov/subscriptions

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I think England should have its Stonehenge privileges revoked. I think we need to put another power in charge of Stonehenge. Nobody asked themselves “Is a sacred Neolithic burial site really the place for tacky holograms of a woman everyone hates?”

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"he is not my president" bumper sticker with a picture of some random guy that has never been president

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Dude, my doctor ordered me to listen to this three-hour podcast interview with Matthew Walker to encourage me to fix my deteriorating sleep habits. It’s been extremely…I want to say “eye-opening” or “a real wake-up call,” but those are manifestly inappropriate terms for it. I guess it was a “go to bed earlier!” call.

"Many of the explanations for why we sleep circle around a common, and perhaps erroneous idea: sleep is the state we must enter in order to fix that which has been upset by wake. But what if we turned this argument on its head? What if sleep is so useful—so physiologically beneficial to every aspect of our being—that the real question is: Why did life ever bother to wake up? Considering how biologically damaging the state of wakefulness can often be, that is the true evolutionary puzzle here, not sleep. Adopt this perspective, and we can pose a very different theory: sleep was the first state of life on this planet, and it was from sleep that wakefulness emerged."

Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep

#MatthewWalker #PeterAttia #sleep

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girl what the fuck is even the theme of a midsummer night’s dream. is there even a lesson to be learned. is it just vibes or what

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The Unapologetic Self as the Truest form of Self

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evidence that ancient paleolithic venus statues were made by women who were examining their own bodies and sculpting them from their own point of view, not, as previously assumed, exaggerated features from an outside perspective

source: toward decolonizing gender: female vision in the upper paleolithic, catherine hodge mccoid and leroy mcdermott, 1996

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The Lamb, 1920, Paul Klee

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actually there were 0 time travellers on the Titanic, because the time cops have an entire outpost to safeguard that one particular point in history. every rookie spends a least a month on Titanic duty and they all complain bitterly about it since it is, essentially, the time travel equivalent of being the guard who has to stop tourists from licking the Liberty Bell.

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Populations and relative sizes of the Dakotas and Manhattan