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Granada, España

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“me looking at her looking at me” by jenna gribbon

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The love language of annotating a book

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grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. I see bricks, I see mortar, I see a trowel, I see a cask of wine, I see that asshole Montresor glaring at me over the top of the wall…

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Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954), LE CARREFOUR DE MALABRY, 1917. Oil on canvas, 61 x 38.4 cm

#matisse

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~ Pottery bowl containing paint, once belonging to a fresco painter.

Period: Roman

Date: A.D. 1st century

Place oforigin: Egypt

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from today (january 9, 2023) until january 30th you can stream for free about 60 works from indigenous filmmakers courtesy of the media city film festival. includes films from alanis obomsawin, macarthur recipient sky hopinka, and many more.

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going through the horrors (sunday evening)

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Today I went to the American Library of Paris to open an account, and I stumbled upon a random page in a random book and it couldn’t feel more relevant to me. I love pretty moments like this :’)

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google docs HATES them! writer has a style that actually sounds like someone talking, not like a perfectly grammatically correct robot!

#this is so real

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winter in art [autumn]

claude monet / vasily ivanovich surikov / jakub schikaneder / edmund dulac / loré pemberton / gustave caillebotte / richard savoie / mikhail markelovich guzhavin

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𝔚e should start writing funky initial letters like in medieval manuscripts again

#cant understand why we stopped doing this tbh

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i might do a longer post on this at some point but my biggest recs for people who want to read more are

1) try every medium you can (digital, print, audio, etc) and embrace whatever brings you most joy and understanding

2) throw out quantity-focused expectations and focus on quality, not in the sense of the "finest" literature but instead what feels most emotionally resonant, necessary, impactful, and interesting to you at this moment in your journey

3) remember you can reread as much as you want, whenever you want, and you are not obligated to understand anything the first time. the beautiful think about books is that they will be there with you whenever you want to enjoy their company again.

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i did it!! i graduated!

#a truly comical amount of bad things happened to me over the past 3.5 years #but here i am #i have a degree

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Detail of Ophelia by John William Waterhouse (1894).

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  Owen Jones, Egyptian Ornamental Design,from The Grammar of Ornament, 1856

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you’re laughing. i told you i loved you against my better judgment, my family's expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance, and you’re laughing.

#lmaoo