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by Laerte Coutinho

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Adèle Haenel by Laurent Lancaster for the New York times

October 2023

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Solar eclipse shadows

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Tell me when you get bored. A story about doses. [x]

I posted this on twitter and had a variety of aggressive ableism thrown my way.

This is a story about changing what I can in spite of what I cannot for the comfort of my loved ones. The thing that others find to be hurtful about me is that I like to spend time in silent solitude. People who love me often feel hurt that I tend to solve my own problems instead of leaning on them.

When we spend too much time together, people find my neutrality to be concerning, and it becomes too much for people to be unable to read me.

To show the people I love that I enjoy their company in ways they can understand, I pool my energy together to be high-energy, peppy, and social. Since this is not my natural state of being, it takes effort, which can only be expended in small doses. I amplify the things people like in me while filtering out everything they dislike about me when I am in their company.

I change my behaviors for those I love, but at the end of the day, I cannot change my neutral state of being, which is the thing that they want most out of me.

This is a story about me accommodating people in the best way I know how, not the other way around. I would truly appreciate it if people don't misconstrue this anecdote as me asking for dismissal of hurtful behavior when in reality, people find hurt in the fact that I simply exist, and I must change for them.

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Solar Eclipse Shadows

These solar eclipse shadows form due to the distance between the sun and the leaves on the trees. The distance and the proximity of the leaves to one another cause for a "lensing" type effect, making the eclipse shadow clearer to the human eye.

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CASUAL Chappell Roan

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Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

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"If It's Sex You're Looking For..." Designed by Judith Johnson for Hallmark, 1971. Archived from The Peculiar Manicule.

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ready for a night out, 1960s.

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la scarzuola in umbria, italy ⋅ ph. stefan giftthaler

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“Love of a Lifetime” - Coco Rocha as Juliet, Roberto Bolle as Romeo photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue magazine (December 2008)

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Peter Harris (Canadian, b. 1974)

NYC with de Chirico / I Saw the Figure 5 NYC / Broad Street with Hopper / Early Sunday Morning, 2024

Oil on canvas

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mods are asleep post let's get married by josé olivarez

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Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

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"i love..." playing cards from the deck i wrote on as a gift for my wedding annversary. 52 things i love about her!! these nine were her favorites <3

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Sylvia Rivera at the 1983 Christopher Street Liberation march. Her banner features the S.T.A.R (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) Logo, and reads "And God Created He and She But He Also Created Me!"

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