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about to say something mean but i feel like every "male-specific" issue is something that also happens to women its just that a lot of you dont seem to see women as people

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Pacific Wilderness, 1989

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'grand palais (paris - france)' 1980 in manfred thierry mugler: photographer (2019)

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it felt a little bit cathartic. i guess. in the way that putting down a loved and longsuffering childhood pet is. miri got her wife back wrong and she was so frustrated being unable to connect with her while she still had her somewhat. and eventually she just had to let her go and die and turn into water. it's all so very i had all and then most of you, some and now none of you. take me back to the night we met. etc

our wives under the sea was just fucking depressing. like yeah it's lesbianism and water motif these are two things i love and it was beautiful but it was also just awful awful awful. it was like they were getting divorced while they were still together and alive. and leah turned into water in the end. she was just sent down there and basically fed to the creature and she came back but she came back so so wrong. and yeah it's a good story but man. i very naively thought love would prevail. im so sick of coming to terms with grief. and im drunk and it's raining out and i sound like an adult ya fan complaining there are no stories with happy endings nowadays but idk. i guess ive just been finding the sad ones lately

#EVIL BOOK #painful #tragic #too close to home #i hate letting go #everything ive ever let go of had claw marks in it

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OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

miri + leah

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our wives under the sea was just fucking depressing. like yeah it's lesbianism and water motif these are two things i love and it was beautiful but it was also just awful awful awful. it was like they were getting divorced while they were still together and alive. and leah turned into water in the end. she was just sent down there and basically fed to the creature and she came back but she came back so so wrong. and yeah it's a good story but man. i very naively thought love would prevail. im so sick of coming to terms with grief. and im drunk and it's raining out and i sound like an adult ya fan complaining there are no stories with happy endings nowadays but idk. i guess ive just been finding the sad ones lately

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Blackwater Dive

2024, hand bleached and dyed denim, cotton batting and thread

inspired by blackwater photography of plankton! this was my first time layering bleach painting. All the silhouettes were painted with bleaching gel, loosely tie dyed, and then bleached again to make the highlights. I quilted the piece using my free motion foot to outline each individual animal and tacked down the rest of the quilt with small satin stitches that remind me of marine snow. I dyed bias tape to match. super happy with this one and excited to show it in a gallery setting soon!

#REALLY REALLY GOOD #fiber arts #underwater thing

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walked back to my dorm in the rain listening to sober to death and almost cried. world is still so beautiful nonetheless

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was going to complain about the rain but then this beautiful rainbow appeared…

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hrmm. well hold on now ive been filled with a sudden joy and whimsy for the world

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very important imagery

#horse girl agenda

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fear me

#weird fishes #fashion

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Acropolis Ruins at Night by Hiroshi Yoshida (1925)

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I think about the beauty of horses for more than 30 seconds and I get too overwhelmed they’re like angels to me

#horse girl agenda

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?