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Hello! I have started a new blog after mostly abandoning this one for the last 8 years, would love to reconnect with anyone who still follows this blog after all these years!

Photos by Ellen Rumel

photographer based in tacoma, washington, usa

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Photos from my peak tumblr era circa 2011-ish

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Hello!

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I kinda want to start using tumblr again lol

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Double window Boise, Idaho

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Wow this is such an old picture!!

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In case you forgot what I looked like

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Returning to Tumblr to announce that I just watched a live video of Veruca Salt playing Seether where everyone’s going crazy and I starting crying because i thought it was beautiful, like they’re rockin the f out in floral dresses and crop tops and are so happy.

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Ryan Cabrera hasn’t had a hit in like 15 years, but omg, he’s my new favorite person. Also All4doras is amazing. I walked in and Ashlee Simpson was blasting and I felt so at home.

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I think this my favorite love story. Even just this gif warms my heart 😭

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3-2-1 Battle! Seattle, Washington

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Kirkham Hot Springs Idaho

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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE I AM

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I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

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When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

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They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

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2017 Review: May

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Christmas Eve/Christmas Day 2017

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Someone found one of my zines at Goodwill lol I love that so much

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Dyrhólaey cliffs, Iceland

These do absolutely no justice to the sunset that evening, but this might be the most beautiful place I’ve ever been to. There were 100s of puffins, cows walking on the beach, so much green and a glacier in the distance.

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I think this was my favorite thing I did all year. I tear up thinking about the beauty