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if russia launches a nuclear strike, you’ll have 22 minutes before the first missiles hit the east coast, during which everyone should argue about who was right or wrong on the internet. unless, of course, they’re launched from submarines. in that case you’ll have much less time. this is why you should save your best takes now in the drafts

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Achievement society is the society of self-exploitation. The achievement-subject exploits itself until it burns out. In the process, it develops auto-aggression that often enough escalates into the violence of self-destruction. The project turns out to be a projectile that the achievement-subject is aiming at itself.

Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society (tr. Erik Butler)

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gardens in art 💐

jardin benlliure by jose benlliure gil / mission san juan capistrano by gustave baumann / glorieta al atardecer by santiago rusiñol / jardín by eliseo meifren i roig / milton park by cressida campbell / kiki’s delivery service by studio ghibli

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Ivanka Demchuk, Appearance of Christ

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“Who knows whether this tumult of triangles inscribed in stone, first brought about by nature and then invented by art, does not contain one of the secret cyphers of the universe? At such moments it seems to me I see why these images exert such a powerful fascination over the mind; I seem to detect the underlying reasons for the unwearying and irrational zeal that makes man give a meaning to all appearances devoid of it, to look for parallels everywhere, and to create them where they do not already exist. I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things. I can scarcely refrain from suspecting some ancient, diffused magnetism; a call from the center of things; a dim, almost lost memory, or perhaps a presentiment, pointless in so puny a being, of a universal syntax.” –Roger Caillois, The Writing of Stones

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Bahareh Babaei (Homa Art Gallery) 2014 Acrylic and pencil on canvas 120x120 cm.

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Rhodochrosite slice from Argentina

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~ Funerary urn with dragon and cover.

Culture/Period: Chinese, Southern Song Dynasty

Date: A.D. 1200's

Medium: Stoneware with glaze, Longquan ware.

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chrysanthemum in the mirror, moon on the water

(鏡菊水月)

Chapter 5 - Water Lullaby

read on ao3

ShiIta | Samurai AU | M (violence & sexual content) | 7.5k words

A/N: I took a long while to prepare this chapter, sorry!

I really wanted the quality to match how I envisioned the scenes here, since this is one of the parts I was most looking forward to writing for this story ^^

#perfect!