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Hands in art

Psyche in the Temple of Love, by Edward John Poynter,

The Anger of Achilles, by Jacques-Louis David.

Young woman with daisies by Émile Vernon.

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I don't get people who criticize others for "reading too fast." They'll be like, "Did you even understand it?" I don't know about you but I don't find most fiction novels to be challenging enough to need a full month to read them. They're like 400 pages. Chill.

#booklr #iphi.post #that's like three days worth of book right there. #that's like. 6 hours of book #if it takes me more than a week to read a book it probably sucks #or it's like. midnight in chernobyl #but that's not fiction #it's fine to be a slow reader but to assume those who aren't don't understand what they're reading. weird

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Saw people praising Anne Rice and I just want to say as much as I enjoyed TVC she was an absolute freak (derogatory) and doesn’t deserve praise.

#iphi.post #'people criticized the problematic elements in her work and she doubled down on it' o do you love joanne too ???

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A Corner of the Villa by Edward Poynter

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Kind of annoyed at this point about adaptations that whitewash the Count of Monte Cristo not only because a huge bit of the Counts character and experiences are based on Dumas himself (who was black) but also because at every point when the Rich Assholes™️ are trying to guess the Counts nationality as if it matters, they assume he's Maltese, Egyptian, Arab, Turkish, Levantine, Indian, everything EXCEPT French. I rest my case that Edmond Dantés is NOT white.

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Promises

The King’s Men // The Sunshine Court

#aftg #nora sakavic #words words words #tsc spoilers

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Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna

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#booklr #manga #literature #comics #bookblr #iphi.post

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the relationship between jean and neil in tsc is so important to me

#tsc spoilers #words words words #aftg #nora sakavic

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Charles Edward Perugini

Italian/British, 1839-1918

Dolce Far Niente, 1882

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I don't remember if Nora ever specifies what kind of numbers they use for the tattoos but I do enjoy that like half the fandom is sure they're Roman and the other half has decided Arabic.

#aftg #they were kids when they started drawing them but riko would absolutely be pretentious and use roman numerals #booklr #could be fun if they were Japanese numbers #for the symbolism of neil being number 4 #iphi.post

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The reason most people are bad at offering cogent criticisms of other people's work is because they're evaluating those works on the basis of The Thing They Would Make, not The Thing You Would Make. Indeed, a great many people don't understand that those are different things, interpreting The Thing You Would Make as a defective or incomplete version of The Thing They Would Make.

This gulf of understanding is not an impassable one. Learning to correctly identify the author's creative goals with respect to a particular work, and to formulate criticism in terms of how best to achieve those goals, is a skill which can be cultivated. In its proper place, it can be a hugely valuable skill – there's a reason many authors will tell you that a good editor is worth their weight in gold.

Unfortunately, developing this skill will not make you any less prone to being a hater. Learning how to correctly identify other people's creative goals simply means that you'll graduate from picking at specific choices to saying: "I understand this work's goals, and those goals fucking suck. I hate everything that this chooses to be."

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hands i saw at the sargent & fashion exhibition

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the thing about aftg is that it's gay sports AND the mafia. like i didn't even stand a chance

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Girl at the Window, Eugene von Blaas, 1889

Oil on panel 54 x 37 cm (21 ½ x 14 ½ in.)

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International mafia meets made-up big time div 1 sports is the stupidest premise ever and has no business being a brilliant look at the psychological aftermath of abuse but here we are

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Italy post n. one

I haven't found God in Vatican, but at least I found The Hot Priests calendar and bought it.

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