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Emancipated duels. Photo by Pavel Kurmilev

Baroness Lubinska who presided over the famous duel between Princess Pauline Metternich and the Countess Kielmannsegg in 1892, insisted that the duelists remove their clothing above their waists to avoid infection in the event that a sword pushed clothing into the wound it caused. Being a doctor, the baroness had seen many instances of septic infection in soldiers for this very reason throughout her years of medical training.

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flat babbit <3

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even the top gets called a faggot

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Creature party

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they need to add two extra hours after ten pm where time doesn't pass so you can do some nice reading before bed

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i read CS Lewis’ A Grief Observed one time years ago and i’m still not recovered from it

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Sex is great, but have you ever shared food with your lover in the middle of the night like two raccoons in love?

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Since y'all like food I painted some ribs

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fuck "girl lunch" fuck "girl math" a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.

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Trying to get big on a budget? Always missing your daily protein goals? Miss the childlike wonder of hide and seek? There are bugs in your house. Eat them.

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Have you heard about mole genders?

I’ve heard of this concept in sci-fi, but thought it was absolutely made up. I know some fish and frogs can change genders, but not in cycles like this. Wild. If I slapped this down in some alien world without explanation, I’d laugh in my own face. But no, real biology IS that bizarre.

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Alisa Shea, ‘A Feminine Touch’, 2021 Watercolour on paper, 35 x 50cm

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(pnw local voice) mountain’s out

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Relationships that have real king/lionheart energy, that whole “I have sworn myself wholly to you, I am your sword arm, I am your dog” to someone else’s “you are the one person in this world I can rely on, and I am both bolstered and burdened by your absolute faith in me” vibe, but it’s in circumstances that are like. so low stakes. Manger of a movie theater/the one usher who doesn’t smoke weed at work.

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rigging & power lines r like siblings i think.