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Akio Hino (Japanese,contemporary)
Red fox, Hokkaido, 1980s
So a while back I won a cheap eBay auction listing for a collection of love letters from the first world war.
They arrived today, and…the listing was WAY more than I expected for the price I won it for. There’s over 100, and they’re not just from WWI, but from 1906 (earliest I’ve found so far) through to 1915.
Charlie writes to his girlfriend, Gertrude. This is the most beautiful, lovesick stuff I’ve ever read. He sends her so many letters, sometimes twice a day, and lots of poems. He seems to have been an artist, as he talks a lot about small exhibitions of his stuff, and included a flyer for one. He also talks about how her parents don’t approve of them and how he’s desperately awaiting the day they’ll be married.
I haven’t found the latest of the letters, but the fact it’s up until 1915 and then stops…doesn’t give me hope for a happy ending.
This man continuously refers to his precious beloved Gertie as his queen and goddess, and whilst most of it is sickly sweet, there’s some raunchy stuff too, with him talking about how he can’t wait until they have a little house together and can ‘please each other all day’…
There’s. So many.
I’m going to put them in order by date, read them through, and then maybe even transcribe them so we can find out a bit about Charlie and Gertie’s love story.
Andrei Tarkovsky . Stalker . 1979
“i asked chatgpt-” ohhh ok so nothing you are about to say matters at all
If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"
curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape
(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)
bug haters will be like "thanks i hate it" and then show you a picture of the cutest animal you've ever seen
I have a little paperwork tray next to my computer, and my cat will set next to me and scream until I pick her up and her in the tray like a freshly submitted assignment.
She won't settle for food, or for pets, or for being in my lap. She specifically wants to be in the paperwork tray. There's a stapler there, and a charger, and a bunch of lumpy things that would be annoying to sit on, but she insists.
Really, the worst part is already over, which was figuring out what she wanted. I spent months getting yelled at before I figured out that she wanted to be filed. In my defense it's a pretty unusual request.
lino cut series, inspired by photos of the Trans - Antarctic expedition, lead by Sir Ernest Shackleton, photographed by Frank Hurley
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Rosettes of beautiful, emerald green, translucent lobes.
Funny, little tufts of white rootlets on the underside of each lobe.
In shady places, closely appressed to the substrate, where there is unlikely to be much light shining through to show its true colours.
Blennothallia crispa
Albrecht Dürer, Heavenly Body in the Night Sky, c. 1496
In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.
if you're interested in experiencing the most undignified way of having a bad time ever devised, then look no further than having a body
yeah I'm a serious gamer
*plays oregon trail on the oregan travel website*
99% of captains abandon ship right before they’re freed from the pack ice. KEEP OVERWINTERING 💯