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first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

#🙏💘🐢🤝🪱 #um. praying for cupid to make a turtle and worm fall in love ?

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#me

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fascinating that when you tell people "you have to learn the rules to break them" when talking about drawing/painting etc everyone nods and agrees but the second you say "you have to read books if you want to write better" there's a horde of contrarians begging to be the wrongest people ever all of a sudden

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not my prodigal ass returning

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Art by Natcha Ngamtweerat

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Actually Boromir’s death being at the beginning of a chapter (and of Two Towers, tho my pagination is pointedly NOT returning to 1) is an striking fucking death, especially as someone so familiar with the films. There’s no proverbial swelling music or sudden silence and Aragorn doesn’t manage to ask where Frodo is fast enough and unlike Gandalf, Boromir’s last stand is offscreen. As he dies he despairs and Aragorn tries to correct him but he doesn’t live long enough for anyone to know if it got through.

It’s scattered and awful and if you stop and think you can reason that maybe he drew the orcs away from noticing that Frodo and Sam had left. But what he does is confess and despair and die! And then Aragorn doesn’t remember to ask an important logistical question fast enough, and frankly no one gets to fucking stop and think. Aragorn sobs kneeling on the ground holding Boromir’s hand because there are no good options and someone else is dead. The prose around this is just. Yeah!

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Illustrations from Pierre Louÿs’ The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926)

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Percussion pepperbox revolver, Belgium, circa 1850

from Czerny's International Auction House

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Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Margaret Stoddart - Riverside, autumn (ca. 1930)

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Astrolabe clock crafted in Augsburg, Germany, circa 1580-1600

from The British Museum

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give that girl a grilled cheese

#dunmeshi

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Evening dress, 1880s

Fashion Museum Bath

#fashion

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if i think about this too much i will sob my heart out

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Before you speak, SHIT:

STUPID: Is what you are saying stupid?

HAUGHTY: Are your words arrogant and disdainful?

INCONSIDERATE: Are others insulted or inconvenienced by what you are saying?

TERRIBLE: Is what you want to say truly heinous?

#valorant voice chat

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Had a debate with a friend and now I gotta know

please reblog for larger sample size, my friend bet me no one would say Gimli and I wanna prove her wrong

#faramir.....

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To recognize TERFs, anti’s, fash, incels and other internet shitstains, one pattern you need to recognize is this:

They take some normal human behavior

Explain it in the darkest, most bad faith way possible

And then ignore any other, often more realistic, explanation.

A simple example:

A lot of adults watch TV shows about high school relationship drama.

Dark bad faith take: all these adults are obsessing over teenager sex lives because they want to fuck teenagers.

More realistic explanation: a lot of adults have memories of their own high school relationship drama that they like to relive, process, etc through media.

Another realistic explanation: People can empathize with the stories of hobbits, dragons, defense lawyers, plucky detectives, space rebels, talking dogs and teenagers in high school without always having a desire to fuck the characters involved. It is possible to just enjoy a story as a story without it fulfilling some emotional of sexual need.

Like, when you take a tiny step back, it becomes clear that the jump from ‘adults watch high school dramas’ to ‘they all want to fuck teenagers’ is absolute moon logic.

This logic only works if you assume the absolute worst possible things about the group you’re talking about. This logic works if the only lens you can see a group through is ‘predator’ and you do not acknowledge that they are completely humans who can just do non-predatory things like ‘enjoying stories’.

And assuming the absolute worst possible things about a specific group while denying their complexity and humanity… well, that is absolutely key to what TERFs, anti’s, fashos, incels, etc. do.