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harvest pluto x kade x rivi palomino

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#ianowt #ohio river #pennsylvania #the empire never ended #sophia lillis

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are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

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You know that feeling , about three seconds into a song you’ve never heard and you know you’ll love it?

shitty little spontaneous demo of a song i wrote a while back ♡

#talent

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desire is indeed the root of suffering but i can’t let the longing go

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No Trains Today by Terry Amstutz

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There’s not much here - but everything here works perfectly together. Unexpected but somehow familiar in the way she stresses certain vowels.

open mouthed, she bit you

“you can’t hurt me if i never loved you”

i was wrong when i met you

about who i thought would save who

chose to be alone 

and walk the whole way home

soaked to the bone

hid your face

said i don’t wanna play

but you were born game

#thank you Hayden

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You're like a relic, you're like a ghost - Can't see a thing cause your eyes are closed - Dirt cheap love is a thing of the past -I feel hate cause I move fast - You think the whole world is incense, peace and love

You can't escape the signals from above.

#monolith #the empire never ended #ohio river #west virginia #pennsylvania #mass and gravity are intrinsically related

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AI IS A BITCHFACE

Today I learned of Tumblr's plan to begin (or continue) selling user content to OpenAI and Midjourney, which is the last straw for me and my presence on the site. Regardless of their claims that users can opt out of this, I frankly just don't believe them.

I've used Tumblr since 2010 when I started photography, and this blog is the largest existing archive of my work on the internet. It's a liability for me to continue to allow it to be hosted on a site that is now actively contributing to the theft of art, directly from artists. I know my photos have already been stolen, repurposed and claimed countless times over the years from Tumblr and other sites, but I have to draw a line here. I will unfortunately be removing all my past work from this blog, perhaps something I should have done when the suspicions first arose about Automattic's greed.

Many aspects of my creative career have been negatively impacted by AI already, I just see this as one less path in which to be exploited.

That being said I want to thank all of you for the support over the decade plus I've been active on here, I stuck around much longer than most because of my appreciation for a website that was a huge influence to my early creativity as a kid. I still think it was the best format for social media, and I really am going to miss Tumblr and the creative community it used to be.

I will still do my best to utilize this blog as a place to make announcements about any new projects, such as my upcoming book I aim to release at the end of the year.

You can still find me and my (Glaze/Nightshade protected) work elsewhere on the internet at Instagram, Twitter, and my website.

So long,

Brendon

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Under The Bridge Of Winter by Terry Amstutz

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Ohio by Ron Himebaugh

#somewhere in ohio

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It Aggravates it pacifies feel the power in the lines

Untitled by Seth Tisue

Via Flickr:

Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Carroll Township, Ohio

#carroll ohio #the empire never ended

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Dawn at Dunkirk Substation by Neal Linebaugh

#the empire never ended

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the empire never ended

Power of a Rainy Day (2) by Epiphany TT1530

#the empire never ended #ohio

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