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I’m supposed to treat you like a fucking kid again, eh? Keep you away from guns and fucking rope, is that it? You think I haven’t got enough on! The war is done! Shut the door on it! Shut the door on it like I did, eh?

PEAKY BLINDERS | S02E02

#prev and prev prev #unrelated (?) it's so interesting how this scene is interpreted in fandom in a total vacuum from the fact arthur had literally #just beaten a kid to death #like is tommy's reaction here *really* that terrible *in context* i mean c'mon #of course you can't 'shut the door' on trauma etc etc #but like. #please.

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When you're driving home at night and you meet a Ford F-150 on the road

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Virtually every survivor of trauma, whether or not they experience diagnosable post-traumatic stress, returns to the regular world and quickly recognizes that things are not as they were. People behave differently. There is an element of strangeness, a sense, often uncommunicated, of being marked by a kind of scarlet letter, even if one has not violated any moral code. In fact, in these situations, one’s degree of innocence or complicity in events can seem almost beside the point, as if one’s luck or simple fate is what is at stake. Often this change of perception is expressed in physical, spatial terms, as if the scope of what has transpired is so vast that it serves to alter one’s material position in the world.

David J. Morris, The Evil Hours

#i guess if the trauma happens in childhood you're just Always Like That?

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Liz McGowan: Fern Ammonite (1992)

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with the exception of weird medieval christian stuff, I used to be uninterested in 'old master' art (or anything prior to the 1800s/Manet/Cezanne) but I realized the other day it was because I really hadn't seen much of it in person, unlike more contemporary art. I still am not super into some genres of it but man, there really is something about standing in front of a Rembrandt! They're much more interesting in person than they are in reproduction, which is generally true of most art. Still!

i'm not really a fan of 'art has degenerated in the modern era' but there is something to be said for lost techniques. when I was doing my BFA all of my professors were of the abstract expressionism generation (or slightly later) and idk, they just weren't into teaching *any* technique at all. or really teaching anything, tbh. And i don't think i'd want to paint like an old master necessarily but there's something to be said for learning *something* about how paint works and how painting works so you don't flail around getting really frustrated that everything turns to mud if you don't handle things right.

The point is to learn the technique/rules and then do what you want after that. Maybe it was just my school but I do feel like I would have had a better experience if any of my professors outside of printmaking, where they *have* to teach you some technique, would have taught literally anything about how to paint.

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My take on the Sherlock Holmes books

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Fandom Problem #4403:

Do fanpol know that most "normal people" are capable of watching / reading problematic or questionable content, properly identifying certain parts are problematic or questionable, going "yeaahh that part was a little yikes" then continue on watching / reading as normal without having a meltdown over it or accusing the author and every other person who's read / watched and enjoys it an any capacity of endorsing every single action and idea presented in the work?

Sometimes its necessary to go "yikes" and then move on with your fucking life. If the "yikes" is TOO Yikes for you to continue on, that's totally fine, but don't act like everyone else having a higher Yikes tolerance think everything is absolutely fine.

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TINY WRLD (2020)

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fandom tumblr was another casualty of streaming services. we used to be on here posting about the episodes that were coming out weekly and posting gifs and writing insane shit about the tv shows we liked. now a new season of a show will drop and we’ll talk about it for a week. two weeks tops. and then that show will leave collectively conscious for 1+ year till the next season drops. there’s a reason succession sundays was a blast on here

we used to have real television

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Gilded Tides ✨Opulent Atlantis

Insta : @ illusorybeauty

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fantasy story: but we grew complacent, indulgent, arrogant, spoiled by this era of prosperity and splendour, and in our short-sighted greed and vanity, we ended it. me at 15: I hate this stupid trope. People aren't going to just turn stupid and ruin everything just because things have been "too good" for "too long". Why does this author think that people are inherently stupid and evil? people on social media in 2024: I'm not going to vaccinate my dogs or my children because polio, measels and rabies are so rare they're not a real threat anyway uwu me at 30: Ah. I see.

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Τhe Horror of Living by Tyra Kleen , 1907

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Snailing. Flawed ballpoint on A4

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I’m terribly sorry, madam. I have absolutely no idea where he learned that word.

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Mayfield, Kentucky movie theater after 2021 Tornado