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LOL

#eat shit #glinner

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Meet the Mona Lisa of the Prado, the earliest known copy of Da Vinci’s best portrait. Similarity in the undersketch of the painting indicates that this was very likely painted concurrently with the original Mona Lisa, by a student of Da Vinci.

There is much controversy in the art world over the question of whether or not to clean the fragile Mona Lisa, but her sister has been restored and some fairly odd later alterations removed to show the original vibrant colors and lighting. Some details, such as the sheerness of her shawl and the pattern on the neckline of her dress, have become utterly obscured in the original, but in the restored copy they’re perfectly clear.

It blows my mind a little bit to look at these two sisters side-by-side and imagine how much vivid detail could be hiding in the Mona Lisa under 500 years of rotten varnish. 

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https://x.com/layla_alammar/status/1713154509231226927

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Our Flag Means Death 2.06 "Calypso's Birthday"

#gotta be real wif youse its the izzy hands show for me #ofmd

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#loml #ofmd

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New York City, New York.

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thanks everyboadie <3

happy birthday to me!

#i had a good birthday

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happy birthday to me!

#weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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queerness under apartheid

#palestine

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dionysus big naturals

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the 5 love languages: song recommendations, parallel play, talking about The Character, offering to kill each other’s parents, gifting little trinkets

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if u are reading this i am pouring positive vibes on u from a lil watering can

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We finally know what happened when Crowley got sucked back to Hell in 1827 and tbh I get it 🧐

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UwU

#ofmd s2 #jingle jingle

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Ten and Donna are himbo/lesbian solidarity I don't take criticism

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So, like, the thing you have to understand is that prior to the mid-2000s, the "Young Adult" genre as we now know it didn't exist. The expectation was that you would graduate to the adult aisle of the book store at, like, 13-14. This worked because the only people still reading long form novels into their teens were precocious bookworms who were better read than their parents.

Harry Potter changed all this. The success of the Harry Potter books convinced the publishing industry that selling full length novels to normie children was a business model. The thing about the Harry Potter books, though, is that at least for the early books, the target audience was a bit younger than what we think of as the YA demographic; tweens, rather than teens. Now, the publishing very much wanted to keep all these normie kids buying books into their teens and beyond, but the previous model of treating teens as functionally adults for marketing purposes would not work; there was simply no way that normie parents were going to let their normie kids read fully adult novels where the characters, like, do drugs or have unprotected sex and stuff. So, in order to be allowed to market to the teen demographic, the YA genre was created.

However, teens have an inherent interest in reading about sex and violence and drugs, and so authors who are able to incorporate these kinds of themes into their YA novels in a discrete way such that it flies under the radar of the moral guardians are met with success. But this is a precarious tightrope to walk. Not enough "mature" themes and the teens will loose interest, to much or to blatant and the teens won't be allowed to read it. And so, it should come as no surprise, that the first person to successfully navigate this tight rope was a Mormon housewife with a vampire fetish.

#i love it when people who never read books before harry potter insist there were no books to read before harry potter #i grew up reading YA bc my sister was 8 years older than me and had a bookshelf full of YA books lol #HP didnt change anything

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i had a sudden violent impulse to make a crowley version of this meme/image, hopefully other people enjoy it too bc i certainly do