Child's Heart

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Figured the winter solstice was an appropriate day to post this one. These two funky crows are here to wish everyone happy holidays ‘n all that!

[movie-gifs]

Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma Woodhouse

EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

[theartofanimation]

Jakub Rebelka  -  https://www.artstation.com/artist/shz  -  http://drawcrowd.com/shzrebelka  -  http://shzrebelka.com/  -  https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/shzrebelka

[zhouszishu]

a little red flower 你一朵小红花 (2020)

yi yang qianxi as wei yihang 

[remo-ny]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

why are birds so cursed

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

A Non-Comprehensive List of Birds That Piss Me Off

1. Dracula Parrot. This thing pisses me off like, a bunch

2. King Vulture. the felted craft project equivalent of a haunted ventriloquist dummy

i will never not resent this bird 

 3. Jacana Bird. This is the most unnecessary cursed nonsense. i deserve an apology for having to look at this. I can feel its fingers stroking my ears

No it does not have SIX FREAKING LIMBS. it’s carrying its stupid creepy spawn under its wings. A+ parents but still, piss off. even the normal 2 legged version isn’t much better

put those AWAY.

4. The Shoebill, which i’m sure we’re all sick of hearing about. this thing is the epitome of a crappy photorealistic cgi disney villainy. i despise this bird.

also this is what they look like standing up. i just feel like i shouldn’t have to deal with that, i really do.

5. Inca Tern. truly, hipsters ruin everything

6. Tragopan. it looks like a star wars species, which i dislike on principle 

7. The Secretary Bird. it wears yoga pants.

also i’m uncomfortable with the length of its eyelashes

8. finally, i really dislike this one specific parakeet

in conclusion, these birds exist to haunt me and this knowledge is a burden. birds exist to observe our sin; always watching, they are filled with malice. flee from them

[montgomery-obsessions]

Letitia Wright - Elle - [United Kingdom] (November 2020) 

[laere]

great

[thecollectibles]

Art by Akiya Kageichi

[guzhuangheaven]

the longest day in chang an :: li bi  

[ohsehuns]

Joy of Life | How to approach enemy, Fan Xian’s style

[sykt]

Russian Red Army in Berlin on May 9, 1945

© RIA Novosti / Yevgeny Khaldei

[ovadiaandsons]

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in Giza, 1961

[movielosophy]

[wirwerdensiegen]

My Roommate Is a Detective - New B&W Stills.

[laere]

[vengerberg]

those cast photos were so cute i had to draw them in character!

[aswithasunbeam]

It was in cunning that [Burr] conceived a duel with my father, whose antagonism to him was more moral than political. Burr saw that in no extremity of political strategy would Hamilton aid Burr’s advancement, even to defeat a rival like Jefferson. He had lost the confidence of the Jeffersonians, and argued that, with Hamilton removed, he could combine all the anti-Jefferson elements. He therefore deliberately went into practice before challenging. I have seen two men who loaded his pistols and trained him, both professional men around the shooting galleries. My father fought Burr without firing at him, and expected to be killed. He was an Episcopalian, opposed to duels, but he did not see his way clear in that period to avoid letting Burr take a shot at him. He went out to be shot and Burr went out to kill.

John Church Hamilton, interview with the Times of Philadelphia, 11 July 1878

JCH (understandably) has a very uncharitable and biased view of Burr here, but that last sentence always get me– ”He went out to be shot and Burr went out to kill.”

It’s very interesting how the point of view can determine the subjective truth. Hamilton could quite easily reject the call, citing the fact that he did not remember the circumstances of the sticking point. But his second, Nathaniel Pendleton, wrote to his friend after the duel: “The truth is that General Hamilton had made up his mind to meet Mr. Burr before he called on me”. John was twelve in 1804, and he could not see those who “trained ” Burr —the whole “training” story was spread in newspapers by James Cheetham, who spent three previous years spreading slander about Burr (and Hamilton). Hamilton was not going to firing at Burr? Maybe. But why did he need to study his weapon for so long, why did he need to wear glasses? And he shot at Burr, intentionally or unintentionally, which means that Hamilton aimed at him at least. (And come on, it’s sad, but Hamilton approved Philip’s duel. He was not so against duels after all.) Did Burr want to kill him? After many years of slander and insults he hardly had warm feelings for Hamilton. But Pendleton said that Burr tried to approach Hamilton after the shot, Van Ness said that Burr, sitting in the boat, wanted to talk to him, and Commodore Truxton, mutual friend of both Burr and Hamilton, said that he was upset after the duel (”He appeared to me to feel much more sorrow and regret than I have observed in any other person on the occasion”). So did he really expect to make a fatal shot or aimed at the hip (as often happened in duels) and missed? The whole thing is one big mystery in which you can dig endlessly from any perspective.