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Tan, blonde, and fun :)

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adamasnemesis, to movies
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Somehow in the past week or so I've fallen back in love with the aesthetics and vibe of the Star Wars prequels (especially "Attack of the Clones") as well as the Old Republic games. Nothing else quite looks like them. I want to live in that world...

adamasnemesis,
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Why do I have a sinking feeling that I really just want to live on Pacific Coast Highway in an exact replica of Padmé's apartment?

#film #StarWars #thoughts #scifi #cinema #sciencefiction #spacefantasy #spaceopera #aesthetics #life #dreams

adamasnemesis,
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Well...maybe not an exact replica. I might want to change out the hues to be red-dominated...but I wouldn't need to look too far for inspiration. Another politician from the same planet indulged in this most Sith-like of color schemes. 😉

adamasnemesis,
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I think it might be because I went to the villa last April and it's only now truly sinking in. Yes, where Padmé got married is a real place: Villa del Balbianello. And having seen it in person I'm not sure if I could abide being married anywhere else than at that same spot.

adamasnemesis,
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It seems a person can get married there. It's expensive for a wedding venue, but since my dream wedding doesn't involve a crowd, that helps to keep costs down, so splurging on the venue might be more financially attainable than I'd expect.

adamasnemesis, to art
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It was So. Totally. Awesome. From my telescope's lens to your screen, my best view of the corona during the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024.

#art #photography #solareclipse #eclipse #totalsolareclipse #totality #corona #moon #sun

adamasnemesis, to art
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Yes, it's that time of the year again! Enjoy the sight of Jules Joseph Lefebvre's "Morning Glory", and have a very happy spring equinox day! 🌺🌼🌸💮

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #spring #flowers

adamasnemesis, to Blog
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So many ideas for what I could do to make something of myself, close yet so frustratingly away from being a coherent thrust in life...

Spitballing, really, but you can read it at my #blog if you like: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2024/01/08/ventures-too-many-or-just-enough/

This post's featured image is Ottilie Roederstein's "Portrait of Elisabeth Winterhalter".

#self #dreams #goals #business #entrepreneurship #careers #jobs

adamasnemesis, to philosophy
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People are ridiculing this bit of advice volunteered by one privileged feminist, but TBH she's right; if you want to "transform your life" it needs to be something big and upwardly mobile like this, that you can get into incrementally. Anything else is a waste of your time.

adamasnemesis,
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@mxtthxw Admittedly I'm a bit biased, since the "learn jousting!" suggestion sounds a lot more fun than e.g. the one about taking a cold shower every morning. 😄

adamasnemesis, to Blog
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Christmas 1941: the first man reaches orbit. A novella revealing a slice of life at the dawn of an alternate history's space age.

Read it at my : https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/12/23/the-christmas-rocket/

adamasnemesis,
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Can't help but wonder: I never get any sales, never get any comments, never get any click-throughs...does anyone even read this stuff I write, or am I just wasting my time? It all seems so pointless...

adamasnemesis,
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I notice other people when they go to the effort to write things and post things they actually get sales, click-throughs, readers who comment, and all that good stuff. Me? Nobody ever even wants to engage with my works at all.

Painting is Alexandre Cabanel's "Phaedra!".

adamasnemesis,
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My whole life has been a pattern where literally nobody has ever truly liked me or really wanted me. When I became active on here I hoped it might be different, but no...nobody wants me or likes me online either. There's something about me that's just defective... 😔

Painting is "Melancholy" by Albert von Keller.

adamasnemesis, to art
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Lovely Gladys Cooper poses in front of a romantic gate, all dreamy-eyed and arrayed in the most delightfully long braided pigtails, dolled up with a romantic dress and a big flower at her waist. Might make a fantastic inspiration for a Christmas look this year...

lauren, to Youtube
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It really drives me nuts to see videos where the creator is trying to demonstrate something and is obviously struggling to do it with ONE HAND because they're using the other hand to hold their damned phone! I've even seen people trying to untangle wildlife from dangerous situations (a noble cause, indeed), but only using one hand for the same reason, making the task far more difficult.

adamasnemesis,
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@lauren Have they never heard of a tripod or a stand?

thor, to random
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my idea of having a conscience and a sense of morals permits a wide range of views to be expressed, but you have to be civil about it.

if you came on here and began talking like Trump or Xi Jinping, i wouldn't raise an issue about it.

but if you start being rude to people, you're out of here.

adamasnemesis,
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@thor Old-style webmaster mentality. Gotta love it.

adamasnemesis, to art
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Always such a gorgeous vibe; imagine living next to a place like this during the tide of leaf showers, where the whole world turns so warm, so rustic, and so vivid. 😍 Hans Andersen Brendekilde's "A wooded path in Autumn". 🍁🍂

thor, to random Norwegian
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there is a lot of variation in how old people look and act compared to their biological age.

adamasnemesis,
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@thor I've noticed this a lot.

coreyspowell, to space
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This is what it looks like when a supernova explodes and blasts its guts into interstellar space.

Supernova 1987A lit up Earth's skies 36 years ago. Now JWST has provided an extreme close-up of the chaos it unleashed. Heavy elements ejected by the star will help seed the next generation of stars and planets. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-136
#space #science #astronomy

adamasnemesis,
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@coreyspowell Neat.

thor, to random
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i think one of the things that sets the Nordic countries apart from the Anglosphere is that you can't hide stuff behind fanciful language here. i mean, you can, but the more fanciful it gets, the more foreign it comes across as, and the more distrust there is of it.

the Vikings had no polite words for a penis or a vagina.

penis was "kuk" and vagina was "fitta" and no other words existed, so you either said it or you didn't. these words aren't considered polite these days but that's all the Vikings had.

English masks itself more. hides behind veiled words. Nordic languages get a bit more real.

adamasnemesis,
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@thor Ah, the wonders of having an entire alien superstrate (namely Latin through Norman French). 🙃

djlink, to random
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have I watched too much Alien or does this kinda looks like a facehugger?

adamasnemesis,
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@djlink IIRC "Alien" took inspiration from real deep-sea creatures.

moffintosh, to random Italian
adamasnemesis,
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@moffintosh What I find astonishing is that it takes $1000 a month to live in Texas. Texas. Like, it's a place that has no desirability whatsoever, yet it's unaffordable to live on your own there with half the jobs available for people to work at in this country. In what world is this economy even sustainable, much less acceptable?

lauren, to random
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One of the creepier tech-related incidents I remember was many years ago when I wanted the Sam's Photofacts (a third-party creator of device specs and schematics, etc.) for a very old portable TV. Way out of date, but I was trying to help someone with it.

I mentioned to a friend that I was looking for old Photofacts, but I did not say anything about the TV. He scribbled an address on a scrap of paper, an address locally here in L.A. "Try him," he muttered.

I drive over. It's a small unmarked storefront. I go in, the bell on the door rings. Sitting inside, like the caterpillar in "Alice in Wonderland", is this little guy perched on a stool, with immense stacks of paper surrounding him everywhere. Total mayhem.

I walk up to him -- knowing that this was a waste of time and really wanting to get out of there -- and asked if he had the Sam's Photofacts for that specific very old TV model.

Without saying a word, he reached over to the pile of papers right next to him, took the TOP item off the pile, and silently handed it to me. It was the ancient one I needed. Stunned, I paid him the amount marked on the item, and left with it, not completely sure what had just happened.

When I drove by there a month later that storefront was something else entirely. He was gone.

adamasnemesis,
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@lauren Wow.

roobre, to random
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Once again forced to witness the deepest horrors of our reality

adamasnemesis,
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@steve Ugh.

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