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Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

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Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

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Mary iconic looks in Bohemian Rhapsody

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Still Life with ‘Dance’, Henri Matisse

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse/still-life-with-dance-1909

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River at the bridge of the three sources, Paul Cezanne

Medium: watercolor,paper

https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-cezanne/river-at-the-bridge-of-the-three-sources-1906

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Tom and Jerry reaction pics are my favourite

Don’t forget the best one

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All timeless classics

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oh i forgot

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Y’all missed one.

aymerictheblue

you fools you absolute fools

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I love Tom & Jerry!!!

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No matter if you enjoy taking or just watching images of space, NASA has a treat for you. They have made their entire collection of images,

GUYS o_O

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Love this site. Mind boggling photos

#my brilliant friend #backstage #spoilers

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Love this (and Michael B Jordan)

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Now open, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power presents the complex work of Black artists who—at a time of dizzying political, social, and aesthetic revolution—produced some of the most innovative and electric art of the 20th century. See it now through Feb 3. And, don’t forgot to grab your tickets for tomorrow’s horn-infused dance party with Soul in the Horn! Dance to hits from the 1960-80’s, enjoy a special after hours viewing of Soul of a Nation, and have your portrait taken by Paper Monday.

Barkley L. Hendricks, (American, 1945–2017). Blood (Donald Formey), 1975. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Dr. Kenneth Montague | The Wedge Collection, Toronto. © Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy of the artist’s estate and @jackshainman, New York.

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“I am not asking for him to be spotless. I know there is too much blood on his hands to ever be wiped clean as he was when he was ten years old and the only blood he knew came from scraped knees and swollen knuckles. I am not asking for him to be free. I know that his hands are tied to his weapons now. I find blades under his skin, and mines buried in his heart, and bullets clenched between his teeth. I have spent hours picking out gunpowder residue from under his fingernails and between the lines of his palms. I know that his feet will always drag under the weight of a world he only thought to save. I am not asking for a miracle. I am not asking for the sun and the stars to move for him. I am not asking for a do-over, a fresh start, a time machine. I am not asking for absolution, even though I say he has done nothing wrong. I am not even asking for happiness, even though he damn well deserves it. All I am asking is a little peace so that he may sleep without his fists clenched battle-ready at his sides and ice dripping from his bones.”

— prayer from a soldier’s lover ( j.p. )

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One of the most powerful prayers I have ever read

bookmania

Seven years after, I see you again 😚

scripturient-manipulator

Guys this completely changed my writing, heed it. I often do an entire draft just looking at sentence variation and oftentimes the results are absolutely transformative in the difference.

athenadark

Let’s take it futher

your pacing can alter the narrative and you can absolutely manipulate the reader doing that

for example

if you have a series of sentences which are long and sprawling you can lure the reader into a comfy state of unawareness. If you finish that with a short sentence, or, even better a one word sentence, it feels like a slap.

If you have sentences that are the same length the inevitable variation jars and you can do that. For example, if you had a robot breaking its programming you can do that subtly with sentence length.

Sentences steadily getting shorter make the action seem faster. Sentences steadily getting longer slow the action down.

short sentences are good for action

long sentences are good for description

fragments [incomplete sentences] work to show a disconnect in the narrative, you can use them in prose not just dialogue

this skill [which is entirely learned] is called Juxtaposition [or the art of putting things next to each other]