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Hass Idriss | 2024

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Custom Monica Ivena

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Cucculelli Shaheen | Fall/Winter 2023

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Every single time there is a catastrophic flood (so, every six weeks or so) the news will post pictures of people out in their kayaks or canoes pretending its Venice without any commentary and it makes me completely insane. This is dangerous and people die doing it.

Do not go into the floodwater unless the risk of staying where you are is somehow greater than the risk of going in the floodwater. Do not get in the floodwater except as a last resort.

The water itself is bad news (raw sewage, fire ants, industrial runoff) but the danger here is in the movement of the water: water flowing down a street has currents. Sometimes you can see them and sometimes you can't. 12 inches of water can move a car. What do you think a few feet will do to you in your dinky little sit-on-top if you get tired? Who is coming to rescue you if the water starts taking you somewhere you don't want to be?

Visibility in floodwater is shit. You cannot see obstacles (submerged cars, mailboxes, trashcans, etc). Trees and fences will become strainers (imagine pouring pasta into a colander. Now imagine you are the pasta and the force of constantly moving water is holding you in place). If you come out of your vessel you could potentially encounter open manholes or storm drains that suck people in (a lot of water draining through them creates powerful suction!!). People walking in floodwaters regularly step off a curb and are suddenly immersed in moving water well over their head.

Somehow, despite all this, these people NEVER have LIFEJACKETS on!! You own a boat but not a lifejacket?? Not that a lifejacket would make this a good idea, but if you are forced to abandon your home/car/whatever and get in the water a lifejacket might very well SAVE YOUR LIFE.

Look at a picture of professional swiftwater rescuers operating in a flood situation. They have on lifejackets, drysuits, helmets, boots, and a shit ton of gear. You are in a two-piece bathing suit and a shitty walmart paddleboard. DON'T BE STUPID. IT'S NOT WORTH IT.

sorry for the all caps lecture but one drowning is too many.

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when there’s an old photograph, AND the guy in it is really old, it’s like, wow, that guy is super old

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obsessed with characters being saved against their will. being knocked unconscious and carried away from a danger they won't stop trying to fight. being shoved through a portal somewhere far away and safe right before it closes. trying to self-sacrifice only to have the exact person they're trying to save swap their places at the last second. getting the only cure to the disease or curse bc the person administering it loves them too much to give it to anyone else, including themselves. being thrown to safety right as they had accepted dying. someone else they thought had gotten to safety running back to drag them out of danger. it's so fucking tasty

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Anis Mojgani, from “Here I Am”, Songs from Under the River: A Collection of Poetry

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i'm pretty sure nick is bi, actually 😝

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Bottle green details: Rolling Waves. Painter: Constantin Westchiloff (1877-1945).

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PERIOD DRAMA + SLUTTY SHIRTS

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright Bridgerton (2020-) created by Chris Van Dusen War & Peace (2016) dir. Tom Harper Poldark (2015-2019) created by Debbie Horsfield Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright Jane Eyre (2011) dir .Cary Joji Fukunaga Peaky Blinders (2013-2022) created by Steven Knight Pride & Prejudice (1995) dir. Simon Langton