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svnsetromance

“Uploaded to the cloud. Sounds like heaven.” | insp.

@lgbtqcreators • creator bingo — movie posters

#always always always #san junipero #q

lesbianprophecy

what the fuck was that

#the many wonderful sounds of #ilya rozanov #he's a goddamn child. he's also the sexiest mf'er around (somehow? in spite of? because of?)#heated rivalry #q

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National Museum, Paris

photo via besttravelphotos

#art nouveau #interiors #architecture #q

handsywoman

shoulder kisses and backshots

#the swinging cross glinting in the firelight. the intensity of his focus. the MOST reverent of kisses right between the shoulder blades...#...he is WORSHIPPING!!!#gahhhh #heated rivalry #q

nobrashfestivity

Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Flower, 1919

#georgia o'keeffe #art #q

space-bakery

sorry please let me hurt myself for a while --

here is ilya, who has finally, finally, finally kokuhaku'd his little heart out and achieved the nirvana of reciprocity - and last night he was so naive to think this meant an end to the pain, but. guess what. as the morning goes on and he continues to have what he wants, we catch like so many shadows across his face the realisation..... that that relief was temporary. he doesn't actually have what he wants, it is dawning on him. what he wants is this, but crucially - this full time. and even under Shane's Plan™ they just won't see each other often enough, because "enough", he is learning, is all day. every day. now he knows what it is to be so entirely loved he cannot un-know it. he might have this time currently, but this time is rapidly running out. second by second he watches it pass in total helplessness. all the more important to get out of his head and enjoy it while he can, but having noticed the flaw he..... cannot. oh but then his stupid fucking soulmate tells him he wants to name their hypothetical joint charity after his dead mother. haha. he has secured literally the most perfect person of all time and this person loves him!!!! he loves him!!!!!! he's literally right here in his arms!!!!!! oop but back to the undeniable truth, his brain cannot let him forget: ottawa might be two hours from montreal but that means four hours round trip. for who knows how long, because let's face it, "till we retire" is a pretty big window. and he hasn't even left boston yet. and he's basically only going to have this again for any proper continuous stretch in the summers. and so he suddenly rams right up against a question he cannot say out loud: can he do this? is he strong enough to endure awareness of this life without truly being able to have it? well, guess what, babe????? no other option!!!!!!! hahahahaha!!!!! saddle up cowboy we'll have to find the fuck out!!!!!! sure hope it's possible to return to the other, lesser world with the knowledge of this one feather light brushing up against you and almost completely out of reach!!!!!!!!!!!! it's the amber spyglass all over again baby!!!!!!! PAIN.MP3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#fucking OUCH #*hysterical laughter intensifies*#(yes haha YES)#heated rivalry #q

polkadotmotmot

Rachel Sharpe - Pomegranate, 2023 - Oil on cxanvas

#pomegranates #art #q

hudsonswilliams

ILYA WEEK - DAY TWO ❤️ - FAVORITE LOOK

Beanie

#OH.MY.GOD.#i love beanie ilya so of course i LOVE this gif set #(yes. i'm a millenial. are beanies a millenial thing? i think they are???)#ilya rozanov #heated rivalry #q

thingsfromthedirt

from Summer Places by Brendan Gill and Dudley Witney (1978)

#people #places #photography #q

heatedrivalrysource

Power Play: Behind the Music of “Heated Rivalry” | The New Yorker

The show’s creator, Jacob Tierney, on his sonic past and future.

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#heated rivalry #in the boooorrrring new yorker!#we have come full circle #this is such a fun format #also. tbc. i love the new yorker. have a subscription and everything. i... am... the david hollander in this situation...? oh god.#jacob tierney #q

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you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

itsoldjohn

that last one is literally a LOOK

cassiocantdrink

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree.

petermorwood

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)

This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.