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the cyerce elegans sea slug srsly has no business looking this ethereal

Lapland | Jaasim Sarker

My favorite tik toker strikes again!

Numb // Linkin Park 80s Remix

I didn’t know how much I needed this until I heard it.

The original song is how depression felt at first, this version is how it feels now

@l-heure-du-the this is so VIOLENTLY your fucking aesthetic

From “… nothing matters…” to “NOTHING MATTERS! :D”

LOVE THIS

not what i expected, but what i needed.

Diversity wins! Your tumblr mutual is a monsterfucker

I’m deep in the 19th century art hole and every time I think I’ve seen them all I find another painting that makes me go !!!!

?? you cant just say this and then not share the painting in question!!

you are absolutely right!!

Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1887 - Captives

Honestly where do I start? The movement? The composition? The lighting?

Look how much more it seems like she's leaning forward because the tree and the man curve away and around her? Like Tantalos who reached for fruit but the tree would bend away from him? That's what this feels like. And then there are these other two, pulling her away into the opposite direction. So there's a lot of movement! But what makes it even better is how he still stabilized the image with a lot of hidden vertical lines!

Also the contrasts? Fantastic! Like the one between the metal of his armor and her flowly dress or her light face vs the other faces kept in darkness or the light foreground vs the dark background,...

Also the edges are amazing! Everyone tells you corners are not important but here? Wrong! Her foot is like an anchor that stop the eye from falling out of the image so it's a lot more rendered than the flower petals.

And don't even get me started on the rendering...

Ok I'll stop here tl;dr: BEAUTIFUL 10/10

you know what I'm not done, I found something else:

The reason why it doesn't look like they're senselessly pulling at her? Because the action is actually built up like a spiral, whoa! There's a lot going on behind her back, but because of the spiral your eyes don't linger there and instead are lead towards her body and then towards her head.

It's not just the spiral, though, there's another line of movement hidden in those hands:

And not only that, they're grouped together in the shape of a pentagon! Simple shapes are easy to recognize, so it tells your eye where to go immediately.

What is or isn't a slur can be highly contextual, y'all.

"Jonny Sims bummed a fag off my ma" doesn't contain a slur, but "What are you, some kind of fag?" does.

"Queer studies", "the queer community" and "I'm queer"? Not a slur. Some bigot calling you a "dirty queer"? Slur.

"Be gay, do crimes" and "He's gay" ≠ slur, but "Ew, that's so gay" = slur.

In conclusion, stop buying into this fucking "q slur" bullshit. Queer people talking about the queer community aren't using it as a slur any more than a gay man calling himself gay is using that term as a slur.

Everyone tagging this as "Don't call people 'queer' if they aren't comfortable with it", I don't disagree with you, but I do have one question for you:

Why are you singling out "queer"?

Hi, I'm queer and I don't like being called gay. Why is it always "don't call people 'queer' if they don't like it" but never "don't call people 'gay' if they don't like it"? Or just "don't call people words they are uncomfortable with"?

Why is it only ever "queer" that gets singled out?

And why do you even feel the need to tag that onto this post? All I said was "stop tagging people referring to themselves this way as if it were the same as bigots hurling it as a slur".

Honestly, people generally don’t want much… They want to eat their favorite food. They want to go to the seaside and smell the fresh air. They want to nap on the grass and listen to music. They want to hold their loved ones in their arms, and be held in return. They want warm clothes, be occupied with a profession/a hobby that does not smother them. They want to feel safe and unafraid. Mostly, they want to live without being ridiculed, manipulated or being forced. And this is why capitalism/modern life overall is so upsetting, depressing and even destructive. Because thinking about how small and simple things you yearn for & how hard it is to even be able to have them really wears you off

Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho

at this point I’m just laughing at my own jokes

also thinking about this like gay sephardic poet from like the 13th century who wrote that moses would not have written down the laws against being gay if he had seen how beautiful his lovers face was and im like god the layers the romance the religious emotions..

the poet is rabbi yehuda al-harizi/judah ben solomon harizi! it’s from his book of taḥkemoni iirc, and the quote is “if Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”

Really concerned that anti capitalism Discourse has developed into “if you have any money at all, you’re evil and part of the problem”

Like someone who spends $200 on a practical purse is not the problem with capitalism

John Boyega having a net worth of $6 mil after multiple high profile years in the film industry is not the problem with capitalism

The enemy is the billionaires that hoard wealth and banks and companies that control entire swaths of the economy

Don’t let the guy with $200 billion convince you, who makes less than $30k a year, that the doctor making $150k a year is the enemy

The enemy is like a few dozen people and a few dozen huge banks and companies

roll up, roll up one and all to the uquiz, and let me describe you with one adjective!

Death Note has the funniest premise of all time. Like. A death god is bored so he tosses his funny little notebook into the human world. The guy who picks it up just so happens to be a police chief’s privileged brat who has gone his entire life being praised for his intellect, talents, and looks, so it takes like ten seconds for him to start serial killing. The only people who can stand up to him are a trio of autistic orphans with dubious morals. Misa is there

in the words of the great Elizabethan wordsmith William Shakespeare, in Hamlet Act IV Scene V, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” or, in the words of the great Twitter wordsmith @Horse_ebooks,

this is 1947 Cincinnati Enquirer erasure

please do not forget your smash mouth

NATSUME YUUJINCHOU IS COMING BACK FOR SEASON FIVE IN THE FALL THIS IS REAL FUCKING LIFE RIGHT HERE SOMEONE FUCKING HOLD ME!

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