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Olympic National Park, 4/7/2024

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

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Marin Majić (Croatian-German, b. 1979, Frankfurt, Germany, based Brooklyn, NY, USA) - There Somewhere, 2022, Paintings: Colored Pencil, Oil Color and Marble Dust on Linen

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oh so when other people say "eat the rich" it's a rallying cry for the working class, but when i, sweeney todd,

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in a kinder world i live in an i spy page

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since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this

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I found the lamp HERE

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So many stories about good people getting evil objects that corrupt them into doing evil things, not enough stories about the reverse. I want to hear about a group of absolute bastards seeking to get rich off some ancient artifact only to realize it's subtly influencing them to defend the helpless and be kinder to each other.

"Boss! The haunted treasure chest is controlling you! You have to resist!"

"I can't!" *tosses giant bag of gold into orphanage charity box*

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Someone left a comment about the difference between couture and haute couture and I lost it so hopefully this post finds the right audience.

The difference between the two is one is a regulated term. Anyone can call themselves “couture”, all that typically (not always) means is that their pieces are hand-made and one-of-a-kind, though many brands just stick it at the end of their name to sound fancy. It’s a glorified marketing buzzword.

Haute couture, on the other hand, is determined by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (formerly the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture), which is a part of the French Ministry of Industry. They have somewhere around 100 members last time I checked, and only these brands can present at Paris couture week, though they don’t have to have a live show.  These are some of the criteria for selection:

“To qualify as an official Haute Couture house, members must design made-to-order clothes for private clients, with more than one fitting, using an atelier (workshop) that employs at least fifteen fulltime staff. They must also have twenty fulltime technical workers in one of their workshops. Finally, Haute Couture houses must present a collection of no less than 50 original designs — both day and evening garments — to the public every season, in January and July.”

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fuck it. post gustave doré octopus blowjob

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everybody give it up for this brand of green. round of applause for most under appreciated green

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150 meter aluminum sea serpent skeleton sculpture in Nantes, France. Artist Huang Yong Ping

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i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.

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honestly my favorite line from “Uptown Funk” is definitely “make a dragon wanna retire, man” because that’s honestly such a great mental image. an elderly, tired dragon taking a look at Bruno Mars and going “alright then, that’s my sign. time to let the young ones have at it.” taking out their 401k gold hoard. moving to a cave in Miami. collecting dragon pension

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whitby abbey, where dracula arrived in england