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Lisbon, Portugal, 1998. Photos by Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

#Lisboa when will I return to your slippery streets

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they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

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It's gonna be May

#end this cruelest April of my utter anguish!!!!!!

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this is advice I've given friends directly before and I've probably also posted it but I really like giving it so here it is potentially again: do not create something for an imaginary bad faith reader.

there will always be someone who finds fault in your work. there will be people who read the messages on it wrong. there will be people who will take every compelling aspect about your work off of it so they can put in their own.

you cannot make art for these people.

you will never write a story that is free from criticism. you will never draw a piece that everyone finds appealing. you will never compose a song that everyone enjoys hearing. you cannot, fundamentally, set out to create something and only think of how you can avoid someone not liking it.

because, and this is key, there will be someone who sees every angle of your story and feels its intent in their heart and gushes to their friends about it. you will draw someone's favorite art and they will make it their phone wallpaper because they want to see it every day. someone will fall in love with your song and loop it on their way to work because it gets them through the day. and THOSE are the people your work is for. THOSE are the people you have to care about, because they love what you make for what it is - because it's itself.

if you set out to create something and file off every sharp edge, prune every thorn, you will be left with something fragile and weak, and it will be fragile and weak for the sake of someone who does not exist but that you were scared of anyway.

sharing art is complex and tangled and powerful, and anything you care enough to create deserves to flourish as itself. get sillay.

#yeah that viral tweet about the book is about a horse and imagine that reader or whatever #you could simply not cater to the lowest meanest common denominator #you could cater to someone like yourself with your tastes

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“So who’s gonna get it?”

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#oooo #oohhhh

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Listening to each other’s dreams

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April 28, 2024 - An unintentionally funny video by a zionist propagandist shows off some good organisation and discipline at the UCLA encampment for Palestine.

#???

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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

#are there two queer female singers with a last name of monet/monae #interesting #also interesting - why does anyone think Taylor swift is gay…. #one of my great agonies is that she is constantly in the news and saying things in her own words #making not knowing about her impossible #how can you construct a conspiracy about someone whose every thought is seemingly always out there and being talked about #how do I erect this kind of tower against being aware of Taylor swift

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They’re in a Disney movie

#they’re probably just in London

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this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby

#leggings tear constantly? news to me as someone who exercises 5-6 times a week in leggings

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I'm built different. like incorrectly i think

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[at Achilles's funeral] Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs* Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

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wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

#civil war I took a chance bc my friend said he liked it and that reviews were good #should have stuck to my instincts after seeing the trailer that it’s not for me #few days ago I saw monkey man and was so excited to bc dev Patel x Jordan peele #also not for me SAD #I would have known that if I’d seen a trailer but I didn’t want to spoil it in any way #a trailer would have quickly disabused me of my assumption it would be weird and strange and supernatural in some way like green knight #like anything else Jordan peele #at least dev Patel is super hot so it’s not difficult to look at him for 2 hours #well I mean the parts of the two hours that aren’t just extremely surface level fridged mom flashbacks

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Being a french reader is being distrustful/fascinated by fancy book covers you see on booktok because the best books you've ever read had this kind of covers:

Or worse

OR Toussaint Louverture, who really said "oh you want to know what's the book is about? Read it"

#what’s wrong/not fancy about any of these covers