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leonard cohen’s house in hydra, greece 2002

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@USERGIF​ 1 YEAR CELEBRATION: SHUFFLE CHALLENGE

DAY 2: Blending | Typography | Blorbo

“Princess …” he began.

“Why do you call me that? […] Viserys is dead. I am his heir. […] Whatever was his is mine now.”

“My ... queen.”

— AGOT, Daenerys X

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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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Barrington Watson - Conversation (1981)

#art

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thousands of years apart, ships are burning

find me on instagram!

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#dystopian

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Glaurung was the first of the dragons and one of the foremost lieutenants of Morgoth during the First Age.

Acrylic painting 297x420mm

2023

...you can see more on my instagram account @gnome.the.artist. Thank you for your support!😊

#lotr #fanart #art

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emperor palpatine is so fucking cringe dude he doesn’t even have a court jester

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people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what are cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Homesickness", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone) [ID'd]

#marina tsvetaeva #quotes #and I won’t be seduced by the thought of my native language it’s milky call #russian poetry

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I hate the way people use the word Romanticize. Romantizing Bad Things in art is not wrong or immoral. Romanticization as an artistic concept often portrays the beauty in dark themes. You wouldn’t say that Goya’s painting of Saturn devouring his son means that he loved child abuse and cannibalism. You wouldn’t say that Percy Bysshe Shelley advocated for more brooding despair and suffering in the world because that’s what he wrote about. It’s fine to romanticize horrible things in art. That’s the point. Romanticization isn’t the same as glorification or endorsement of something. Not every goddamn piece of art has to hold your hand and say BTW abuse/incest/violence/etc is bad. Sometimes the point is to express how normal and beautiful something felt or seemed despite being victimized by it, and how horrifying that is. Art doesn’t need to spoon feed you answers and assure you of it’s purity

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David Lynch at home

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by your bedside

#art

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Suppose that, in our Western culture, movies, radios, television, sports events, and newspapers ceased to function for only four weeks. With these main avenues of escape closed, what would be the consequences for people thrown back upon their own resources? I have no doubt that even in this short time, thousands of nervous breakdowns would occur, and many more thousands of people would be thrown into a state of acute anxiety, not different from the picture which is diagnosed clinically as “neurosis". If the opiate against the socially patterned defect were withdrawn, the manifest illness would make its appearance.

Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

#erich fromm

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A Kabyle Beauty, 1875, Frederick Arthur Bridgman

#art #fashion #frederick arthur bridgman #culture

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I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

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Waves and Time.

An artwork by Chris Drury inspired by the ice and water that shaped the landscape, incorporates a dewpond. Yorkshire Wolds, England. 

#photography #art #nature