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the smiths is so fucking funny. i was looking for a job and then i found a job and heaven knows im miserable now. yeah alright. top ten relatable lyrics. steven patrick morrisey wails in his stupid wobbly english and im like yeah. if a double decker bus crashes into us to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die. you're so right. god. just shoot me now

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reblog for sample size !!

#calico. can't say why

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my first favorite hobby is yapping. second is being extremely quiet and not talking ever at all ever.

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need to make a distinction between "pdfs i wish id want to read" and "pdfs i want to read" and delete the first one

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fascinating things happening on hannibal tiktok

#hm!

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sorry @quixoticanarchy needed to screenshot this because it's reassuring to know i'm not the only one fooled by post tone. No it's a real thing people watch and not just a denigrating meme way to talk about The Youth on tumblr:

i thought 'skibidi toilet' was a meme term for stupid meme humour in general, i thought there wasn't actually a skibidi toilet show. It sounded like a made up word. got reverse gonched by post tone alone. i thought it didn't actually exist and people were just pretending it did as a shorthand for annoying internet shit the preteens were into. but it's an entire actually existing thing apparently. learn something every day.

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i thought 'skibidi toilet' was a meme term for stupid meme humour in general, i thought there wasn't actually a skibidi toilet show. It sounded like a made up word. got reverse gonched by post tone alone. i thought it didn't actually exist and people were just pretending it did as a shorthand for annoying internet shit the preteens were into. but it's an entire actually existing thing apparently. learn something every day.

#goncharov'd myself....

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Giacinto Fuga - We live in the Mystery that we have Violated (1930)

#Giacinto Fuga #paintings

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so I wondered about this painting and found some interesting speculation! The article explains it was long assumed they were meant to be the flames of love, but there is another possibility:

"Hitherto, the man among flames has remained stubbornly unidentified, but new evidence suggests he may be William Strachey (1572–1621), one of the early Virginia colonists, whose account of being shipwrecked on Bermuda is widely thought to have informed Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Shortly after his return to England from Virginia in the autumn of 1611, Strachey published a short pamphlet setting out the laws of the Virginia colony that had been introduced by its then-governor, Lord De La Warr. The title page of For the Colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes Divine, Morall & Martiall etc. (1612) bears the motto Alget qui non ardet. Not only was this the first time this exceptionally rare motto had appeared in print, Strachey also used it in an eyewitness account of Virginia that he hoped would make his name, The Historie of Travaile into Virginia-Britania (c. 1612). A presentation copy of the manuscript now in the Bodleian Library (MS Ashmole 1758), dedicated to Sir Allen Apsley, purveyor to the King’s Navy, bears the motto on the title pages of its first and second books. As we shall see, if Strachey is the man among flames, his motto refers not to the ardour of a lover but to the Protestant zeal of the colonist-cum-missionary." (it goes on to give some more arguments and offer other potential identities)

A Man Consumed by Flames 🔥 c. 1610

Issac Oliver (c.1565-1617)

Watercolour and bodycolour on velum with gold.

Collection: Ham House, National Trust

Text on painting: Alget qui non ardet. ‘He grows cold who does not burn’

#history

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everyone remember this 2014 classic... really don't think it's been topped yet by anything this year, though the bloodied horse and eclipse were very good.

everyone please list your favourite probable omens of this year so far. for me it's the white horse dripping in blood running through london.

not sure what that means but absolutely sure it's the kind of thing ancient people would have loved to interpret in some way. I'm sure there are more omen candidates however.

#we don't need more IT people we need competent augurs <- joke. #going to start a new brand of conspiracy based on that roman practice of chicken divination. not yet sure how but it'll be fine

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it’s like every month there’s some shit from the us that’s like “congressman for iowa john hamburger has introduced the Put Everyone Into A Meat Grinder bill (s.911) & it’s about to get passed to the senate everyone call your reps now!!!” & it’s something that affects the entire world

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In further research into Yiddish collections of Arthuriana, my father found a story of Gawain. You'll never guess what it is, I guarantee. Go on, guess. You're wrong.

It's a Yiddish story about Sir Gawain becoming Emperor of China.

#arthuriana #everyone just loved putting gawain in situations

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love how tumblr in browser takes very long to load anything and tumblr in app is fast but has decided to no longer open any links when i click on them. This thing is dedicated to keeping the variation in frustration.

#but it has finally stopped raiking so who care. gootbye #*RAINING

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more stories where falling in love is a horrifying fate worse than death rather than a source of comfort and hope. more stories where love is understood as a terminal affliction.

#poetry

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the prado just restored antonio fillol's "friends of jesus" and it looks crazy good... if i can't go to the upcoming social painting exhib might as well end it all lmao

#thank you for the context!! such a beautiful painting. #paintings #antonio fillol

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hi just realized in the whole prison sequence where arthur falls in love with the false guinevere he never once says he believes that she’s his legitimate wife! he just….likes her better than the first one. everyone keeps asking him why he believes her and he refuses to answer!!!! he says I know we talked about having a trial but we’re not going to have one!!! because he knows what he’s doing!!!! once again husband of the year im going to kill him with my bare hands

#arthuriana #argh. easily a horror story. one day an imposter takes your place and everyone understands it is a doppelganger. but no one says anything #because this person is just like you but nicer. a bit easier to be around.

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A Man Consumed by Flames 🔥 c. 1610

Issac Oliver (c.1565-1617)

Watercolour and bodycolour on velum with gold.

Collection: Ham House, National Trust

Text on painting: Alget qui non ardet. ‘He grows cold who does not burn’

#!!! #issac oliver #paintings