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hundredsofsmallbirds · 4 months
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energeticwarrior · 2 months
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PLEASE COLLAB
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elisaenglish · 1 year
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“The poem resists. It resists coming into being. It resists eloquence. It resists transmitting unpleasant or embarrassing knowledge. It resists grammatical constraints. It resists moving away from simple utterance. It resists revision. It resists completion. It resists success. Hopefully, the poet resists as well.”
-Jennifer Moxley, Fragments of a Broken Poetics-
You can expect me to take it back. Doesn’t mean that I will...
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bread--quest · 6 months
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It's 2012 somewhere. Welcome.... to Night Vale Tumblr.
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Hi guys! I'm Intern Sarah! Excited to be joining you all!
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To the friends and family of Intern Sarah, she was a good intern and social media manager, and we are sorry to see her go. We will work to find a new intern as soon as possible.
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CALL OUT POST FOR CECIL PALMER
hes gotten away with shit for too long and im sick of it. tl;dr horrific intern mistreatment with no compensation, mountain denier, homophobic
keep reading
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Hey uh. Aren't you a company account? Why are you posting this
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L + ratio + god forbid women do anything + your music taste is trash
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Isn't Cecil literally gay?
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he's homophobic
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he has a husband...
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yeah and he won't fucking shut up about it
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🤫 cecils-private-blog
Carlos hasn't liked any of my woodcarving posts in THREE DAYS!! I'm so scared what if he's going to break up with me :((
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Cecil he's your husband he's not breaking up with you. also this isn't a private blog you just put private in the url
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HOW DID YOU SEE THIS
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tamika flynn spotted in ralph's dairy aisle "slaying" the milk
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op i know this is a joke but one time i was in the ralphs dairy aisle and there was some butter up on a really high shelf and someone said "don't worry, i'll get it" and i turned around and it was fucking tamika flynn
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fake story :/
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No it's true I was there
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TAMIKA FLYNN??
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what the fuck is happening on my post
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👁️ nvcr-official
can you guys please stop sending cecil weird shit... i don't want to have to explain to my boss what a dilf is
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🐚 mariella-shella
Hey guys!! Sorry for the lack of posts recently! I entered a hole in the wall and when I got out I realized I didn't know how long I'd been in there, or where I was, or who I am, and I'm not sure that I'm still the person who entered that hole however long ago. Anyway, the normal posting schedule will resume as soon as I remember what my normal posting schedule was, and if I'm still the person who had that posting schedule!
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omg mariella!!! missed u so much girl glad ur back!
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i miss me too
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😎 Anonymous asked: Response to the homophobic allegations?
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Huh??
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@nvcr-official What does this mean? Is it new slang?
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uhhhh dont worry about it buddy
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hey guys im in quarantine for eating wheat and wheat byproducts uh...send asks?? i might be in here for a while lmaooo
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oh lights in the sky its been 5 years since i made this post
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how's it going op
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i miss my family
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hey if anyone remembers anything about the person running this blog can you tell me? trying to recover the fragments of my identity from the void of memory lol
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you were really hot
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FUCK YEAHHHHHH
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just a reminder that new residents of east night vale are fully welcome to interact with this blog!!!! you will not be harassed and any hate will be blocked. this blog is safe even if this town isn't sometimes <3
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This is so sweet, thank you so much! Just so you know, even though it's officially called East Night Vale now, a lot of people still call it Desert Bluffs! Just thought you might want to know :)
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i'm not calling it that sorry
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What??? Why??
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just kind of sucks. as a name
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?????????
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what does this mean....
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another great post from huntokar herself
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you don't like pine cliff? 👻 oo ooo?
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NIGHT VALE SWEEEEEP
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Hi everyone!! Since Twitter went down, I figured I'd try my hand at this Tumblr thing! I'm so excited to meet all of you!! Hope you're ready for some pictures of CENTIPEDES!! Feel free to AMA about the Smiling God!
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innitmarvellous · 13 days
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So here it is, my great mystery project - now finished!
On my search for a new crochet project that's at least sort of unique, I had the insane idea to recreate one of my favourite works of art. And well, I did. I'm honestly pretty proud of this one too because it took obviously quite a bit of effort and I'm still a beginner at crochet. Well, I'm sure someone else did it before and most likely even better, but if so I couldn't find it ;) (Not even a crochet pattern for the full thing!)
And because my photo skills aren't the best, just as usual...here's another photo taken with flash where you can actually see the stitches pretty well. Not sure if you should actually look at them closely though, lol.
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darqx · 5 months
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Upgrading the 'polaroid magnet' idea of 2019 for 2023's Xmas card trades, these ones are made from wood and use actual magnets! Luxurious! |D All the poses are also referenced from actual party photos i've taken of other people, to add to the candid vibe lol.
The dreamcatcher is kind of a gag gift (yes the craft project i reffed here) for some friends. Since they don't have the ability to fight their nightmares i have offered to [try and] do it for them XD
Made from: Wooden craft polaroid (plus some backing MDF pieces), magnet, misc decorating items (glitter, wooden shapes, gel pens, paint etc). The dreamcatcher is just a storebought one with laminated paper mes wired to it
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Walking into a yarn shop like it's an art museum. Admiring all the colorways and textures of the various skeins. Nodding my head at the tasteful displays of handmade items by the local knitting/crochet group to demonstrate the different yarn brands. Talking to the owner to learn more about the local fiber art scene and learning about different dyers, and crafters in the area that I would have never found on the internet. Buying one too many skeins to continue my pursuit of creating beautiful things to bring joy into mine and others lives. My way of paying homage to this wonderland of fibrous beauty.
Fucking glorious.
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thoughtportal · 6 months
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how to make origami ninja stars out of sticky notes
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sparring-spirals · 8 months
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ah, siblings
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wels, upon entering cub's tcg pyramid: does the loser get sent to the shadow realm
cub, immediately: we're working on implementing that, yeah
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energeticwarrior · 2 months
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elisaenglish · 2 years
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Reproduction By the Action of Light
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“Of image-making there are two kinds—the art of making likenesses, and the art of making appearances. The latter may be illustrated by sculpture and painting, which often use illusions, and alter the proportions of figures, in order to adapt their works to the eye. And the Sophist also uses illusions, and his imitations are apparent and not real. But how can anything be an appearance only? Here arises a difficulty which has always beset the subject of appearances. For the argument is asserting the existence of not-being. And this is what the great Parmenides was all his life denying in prose and also in verse. “You will never find,” he says, “that not-being is.” And the words prove themselves! Not-being cannot be attributed to any being; for how can any being be wholly abstracted from being?”
-Plato, Sophist-
As voyeurs, we are not first-born. Nor are we pioneers of passive consumerism and the stark detachment that comes from having seen too much, too young and failing to understand that we should want to go back. But we are the experiment, so to speak, and our concept of life via imagery has never been more potent, more crucial to the human core of our intimate and phenomenological selves. We are an apex now, as ever is the case with present preoccupations—except we exceed ourselves in pushing exponentially through barriers that simply don’t present as such. After all, pixels reign and few are the tangible forms of older photographic types.
The image is the moment, indexical, captured. Yet within the shifting parameters of the digital realm in which one must now necessarily exist in order to exist, multiple truths and their opposite untruths attach meanings that obfuscate an objective eye and encourage a lack of critical thought. Overwhelmed and undernourished, we do what we can to keep up. But what? What really is the cost? And how do we reconcile expedience and its perfunctory disregard of subject with higher understanding?
Pause, you could say. But just because you do it doesn’t mean it does. Everything moves—now we need the means to see, to compute in the most essential way; that which eschews base instinct and lightens upon reflection.
With this in mind, one might conjure Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida and the “ontological desire” he sought in considering photography “in itself” and its relation to us as “spectator” in this carnival of signs. As he writes:
“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. In the Photograph, the event is never transcended for the sake of something else: the Photograph always leads the corpus I need back to the body I see; it is the absolute Particular, the sovereign Contingency, matte and somehow stupid, the This (this photograph, and not Photography), in short, what Lacan calls the Tuché, the Occasion, the Encounter, the Real, in its indefatigable expression.”
There is power, then, in the raw depiction of subject and its attendant context. But Barthes settles not on temporal value as the fixed distinguisher, but rather the notion of the “referent” who cannot, who must not, be separated from the source material:
“A specific photograph, in effect, is never distinguished from its referent (from what it represents), or at least it is not immediately or generally distinguished from its referent (as is the case for every other image, encumbered—from the start, and because of its status—by the way in which the object is simulated): it is not impossible to perceive the photographic signifier (certain professionals do so), but it requires a secondary action of knowledge or of reflection. By nature, the Photograph... has something tautological about it: a pipe, here, is always and intractably a pipe. It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus. The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive.”
In this way, other modes of art may speak in the absence of their referent; in photography, the two are inseparable. “The referent adheres,” Barthes explains. However, it is not the photograph itself that we see. Instead, the spectator looks through the image—it is “always invisible” and, rather, we see only what it represents.
Of course, couched this explicitly in semiotic terminology, it’s easy to dismiss Barthes’ interpretation as one that reduces the photographic medium to just another text; and whilst there is mileage in weighing its similarities with narrative-based genres, the rules of composition are different, and even Barthes himself writes of being torn between “two languages, one expressive, the other critical” and the “several discourses” of the latter which frustrated his endeavours.
Hence, he writes:
“I began to speak differently. It was better, once and for all, to make my protestation of singularity into a virtue—to try making what Nietzsche called the “ego’s ancient sovereignty” into an heuristic principle. So I resolved to start my inquiry with no more than a few photographs, the ones I was sure existed for me. Nothing to do with a corpus: only some bodies. In this (after all) conventional debate between science and subjectivity, I had arrived at this curious notion: why mightn’t there be, somehow, a new science for each object? A mathesis singularis (and no longer universalis)? So I decided to take myself as mediator for all Photography. Starting from a few personal impulses, I would try to formulate the fundamental feature, the universal without which there would be no Photography.”
Under this framework, he goes on to define the three practices of photography, “to do, to undergo, to look” and their associated roles:
“The Operator is the Photographer. The Spectator is ourselves, all of us who glance through collections of photographs—in magazines and newspapers, in books, albums, archives... And the person or thing photographed is the target, the referent, a kind of little simulacrum, any eidolon emitted by the object, which I should like to call the Spectrum of the Photograph, because this word retains, through its root, a relation to “spectacle” and adds to it that rather terrible thing which is there in every photograph: the return of the dead.”
Here the spectator’s experience occurs at the point of “chemical revelation of the object” and Barthes writes of how the referent is so often self-consciously transformed in advance of the photograph so that degrees of authenticity are variable at best. “For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other,” he writes. “[A] cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity.” A doubling, a separation, a strange discomfort as he contemplates:
“This disturbance is ultimately one of ownership. Law has expressed it in its way: to whom does the photograph belong? Is landscape itself only a kind of loan made by the owner of the terrain?”
Beyond that, there is the question of selfhood. Not merely of belonging but of inference:
“The portrait-photograph is a closed field of forces. Four image-repertoires intersect here, oppose and distort each other. In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art. In other words, a strange action: I do not stop imitating myself, and because of this, each time I am (or let myself be) photographed, I invariably suffer from a sensation of inauthenticity, sometimes of imposture (comparable to certain nightmares). In terms of image-repertoire the Photograph (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object: I then experience a micro-version of death (of parenthesis): I am truly becoming a spectre.”
And the crux of the nightmare? It is “what society makes of my photograph, what it reads there, I do not know.”
Here objectification rears its head, even in this pre-social media era, even when the personal only is on display. But the personal is the political, as we know; and crises may stand or fall upon readings that mutate to misreadings and viral animosity may perpetuate a war, whatever its ideologocal flavour.
So it is that Susan Sontag conveys the importance of ethical engagement with photographs in her 2003 book, Regarding the Pain of Others. Like Barthes, her discussion is both salient and prescient in its exploration of the troubling disconnect between subject and viewer, and the consequent need to ensure that the privileged and relatively safe are confronted with matters they “might prefer to ignore.”
As Sontag writes:
“Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half’s worth of those professional, specialised tourists known as journalists. Wars are now also living room sights and sounds. Information about what is happening elsewhere, called “news,” features conflict and violence—“If it bleeds, it leads” runs the venerable guideline of tabloids and twenty-four hour headline news shows—to which the response is compassion or indignation, or titillation, or approval, as every misery heaves into view.”
How to respond shouldn’t even be a question, but it is—and continues to be, even after the almost-two decades that have elapsed since Sontag had the courage to state:
“Something becomes real—to those who are elsewhere, following it as “news”—by being photographed. But a catastrophe that is experienced will often seem eerily like its representation.”
As such, she posits that photographs may beautify and uglify with relative ease. But to “accuse” or “possibly alter conduct,” they “must shock.” In a world of constant spectacle, there is almost no other choice. As for the fatigue? The general malaise from too much choice? Sontag writes:
“We—this “we” is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through—don’t understand. We don’t get it. We truly can’t imagine what it was like. We can’t imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can’t understand, can’t imagine. That’s what every soldier and every journalist and aid worker and independent observer who has put in time under fire and had the luck to elude the death that struck down others nearby, stubbornly feels. And they are right.”
Perhaps this might suggest surrender, but acknowledgment of the fact doesn't negate the general principle that we must see nonetheless. Thus to return to Barthes, he too recognises the “primitive theatre, a kind of Tableau Vivant” in images transposed from one generational epoch to the next, from setting to stage and back again. After all, he asserts that photography is “a figuration of the motionless and made-up face beneath which we see the dead.” And ourselves and, at Sontag’s urging—the living.
“Such are the... ways of the Photograph,” Barthes concludes. “The choice is mine: to subject its spectacle to the civilised code of perfect illusions, or to confront in it the wakening of intractable reality.”
And so with us, it lies.
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seeing ghosts everywhere you go?
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are they all in your head or are they here causing that chill in your bones?
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fuckyeahpaperco · 6 months
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𝑷𝒆𝒅𝒓𝒐 𝑷𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊 𝑻𝒂𝒑𝒆
I'm so excited to finally be able to launch these adorable sticky notes and washi tape! These are small batch prints so stock is very limited. If I'm lucky enough to sell them out, I'm not 100% sure I’d be able to restock before in time for Christmas after factoring in shipping times 🎄
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They are now available for purchase at my shop on Etsy - as always, I would be very grateful if you could shop via the link in my bio or below as I get a discount on processing fees.
🗒️ Shop Pedro sticky notes & washi tape ✂️
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Eagle-eyed Narcos girlies will probably spot the no context Javier Pena notebook - currently in development! These are stamped by hand so I'm still tweaking my process. I'm hoping these will be available for purchase soon 🗒️
P.S. Fuck Yeah Paper Co. is now on Instagram! It's still pretty sparse but please do give me a follow ✌🏼
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xB: Like I said I am not quotable, you shouldn't quote the things I say. You've been warned.
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777rare · 1 year
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ASTROLOGY OBSERVATIONS PT.5👑
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special for ma @1994l love u queen👑❤ thankyou for ur unconditional love and support.😘
disclaimer:
DO NOT READ FURTHUR IF YOU ARE A MINOR!! THIS CONTAINS MENTIONING OF seggs so please scroll if ur below 18+
THESE NOTES ARE ONLY A STUDY OF MINE AND HAS/HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN YET, SO IF IT DOES NOT RESONATE WITH YOU, FORGIVE ME AS IT WAS ONLY A STUDY/OBSERVATION OF MINE.
I DO NOT PLAGIARIZE, COPY OR REWORD ANY OF MY FELLOW ASTROLOGY OBSERVERS POSTS AND I DEMAND THE SAME IN RETURN
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Heyooo, I'm back❤🫂 les goo
Native having sun,moon,AC,MC in virgo/ in 6°/6th house are most likely to have OCD or become perfectionists. It stings them to see something unassembled or informal. Let it be order, colour, shape, etc. These pics gon satisfy them so much⬇️❤
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If earth signs were a clothing, it would be cardigan.🤎
Natives with earth ascendant or venus in earth signs/houses tend to look really good in earthy colours, esp.brown shades. Like these⬇️❤
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Mercury in pisces/12th house have very sensitive skin🪶☁️☘
(2102)Tantalus-Mars(esp.Square or conjunct) attracts a lot of agressive, harsh, intimidating people. In a ladies chart, the native can feel attracted to men with manly features or someone harsh, hot and goddamn sexc🥵🔥💦
(5011)Ptah-pluto(esp. Conjunct) natives have so much intense beauty. They are so sexc, hot, intense, mesmerizing, ugh..too much🥵🔥
(47) aglaja-black moon lilith(esp. Conjunction,square) natives make such dark intense beauty in people. Such raw sexc energy, intimidating energy is plenty in these natives, goshh🔥💓
Aglaja in libra/libra degree(7°,19°) have a touch of grace and softness in their beauty💅🏻👑
(6593) Destinn mostly in harsh aspects to chiron, natives are destined to go through hell lot of roller coasters in their life and heal themselves.💥🥀
(149)Medusa aspecting the ascendant natives usually have nice curly wavy combined hair, or even thick hair💁‍♀️
(H58)Waldemath lilith being in aquarius sign. These natives are very distant, cold, isolating and cut ties with whomever they know even if it's close friends when they are at their lowest🥀
(92891)Bless in 2° or in taurus natives are blessed with wealth and luxury in this life.👑💅🏻☀️
Bless in libra or in libra degree(7°,19°) natives could probably marry someone rich.🫂❤
Check the sign that Bless is in. The ruler of that sign has blessed and protected you in this lifetime. Check the house house is in to see where That planet will give you the best of benefits and opportunities in this life. If it is saturn then you'll first be put into a lot of tests and struggle in your early years(birth-30) and then reap the benefits out of it. If it is pluto it's first hell lot of transformations and turbulence in your life and then the benefits start appearing in your life.
To Check the rulers of signs:⬇️
ARIES-MARS
TAURUS, LIBRA- VENUS
GEMINI,VIRGO-MERCURY
CANCER-MOON
LEO-SUN
SCORPIO-PLUTO
SAGITTARIUS-JUPITER
CAPRICORN-SATURN
AQUARIUS-URANUS
PISCES-NEPTUNE
(6583)Destinn conjunct pluto makes a native destined to face hell lot of transformations and turbulence in their life till they are strong. These natives are destined to have so much intense,dark power, lots n lots of intense,strong,unbreakable power after all the struggle in this lifetime🔥💥👑
Mercury in sagittarius degree(9°,21°) or in sagittarius are amazing jokers. They can make anybody, i mean anybody, laugh. They can make a joke out of anything🤠👑
Lilith in 6th house/virgo have very self destructive habits🥀😞
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sorry if it's short but i really hope you guys enjoyed!!💓👑 Feel free to reblog and tag me when you do,have a great day ahead!❤🙌🏻
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