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Jemima Kirke they could never make me hate you.

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James Cowie (British, 1886-1956), Still Life with Gloves, Glass and Book, c.1930. Mixed media on paper, 8 1/4 x 11 in.

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Camouflage by Pejac, birds in broken windows of abandoned power plant Rijeka, Croatia

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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

by Adrienne Rich

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon’s eyelid

later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere

Tonight I think no poetry will serve

Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action

verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb    disgraced    goes on doing

now diagram the sentence

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watercolors by trans artist tuesday smilie

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Stevie photographed at a party in 1977.

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something something the poetry of science etc

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woah

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guys genuinely how do you get a job

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📸: brian rasic

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it's a free play buddy, clocks all zeros

9 years ago I read a little comic that would change the way I think about the world forever. It's hard to believe we actually got to this day bc it seemed so far off in 2017 that it might as well have not existed, yet here we are. It's after the end of the world <3

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Bob Dylan & Joan Baez, Viking Hotel, Newport, RI, 1964.

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Call me old fashioned, but I think the president saying "a whole civilization will die tonight" is the part where he should be deposed immediately.

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a rare photograph from the Lord of the Rings set

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#needthat

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more aragorn (and legolas!) thoughts

sorry y'all i like to think...... about how aragorn and legolas are like opposite parallels... antiparallels in fact. aragorn is a man raised amongst the elves, disconnected from his identity, who journeys to rejoin his people and through that unite his own self and actualize his destiny. over time he becomes more man than elf, and maybe comes more to terms with the elements of his humanness that would have been impossible to grapple with as a child in rivendell surrounded by those who will not understand.

on the other hand, legolas is raised completely within his home environment, almost secluded in it, in mirkwood and satisfied completely by it (as far as we can read from the canon). but maybe he wonders about the outside world, experiences and feels in a different way, and so over the course of the quest/war, he explores his own uniqueness amongst his kind. he dedicates himself entirely not only to the problems of mortal cultures but to specific mortals themselves, becoming almost human-like over time, ingratiating himself amongst them, and while doing so is ominously informed that this flirtation with difference and mortality will bring about his own demise in a way. this being, of course, a sudden rupture with the landscape and culture he has always known and belonged to--because for one who loves mortals and middle-earth, to be sentenced to pass on from it in a final way, never to be reunited with those you cared about in their own afterlife, is a death sentence.

so aragorn goes from man amongst elves to man amongst men and legolas goes from elf amongst elves to elf amongst men, both through the same journey. which of course represents also the end of the age of elves and the beginning of the age of men, but also the different effects that great tribulations have on people. in my last aragorn post, i talked about how aragorn's story is sort of tragic in the sense that he brings about the end of the world of his childhood. of course legolas experiences that too, and i wonder if when he went to the undying lands, even with gimli, even surrounded by his people and back in that place where he is natural and not disconnected, he yearned for that place of disconnection, elf amongst men, in the way that aragorn maybe yearns to be a man amongst elves.