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I Am Of The Ancient Times

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I've been on this bitch since April 2007. Before fandom. During the Karp Years. I had Tumblarity. Just know.
“I absolutely loved every filming experience I had, working 10 years with Marvel and with that amazing cast, and I love the character Natasha. I have a lot of empathy for her, and it was amazing to build that character over such a long period of time.”
“I also feel really good about her story coming to a close. I think she has a lot of dignity in her legacy.”

SCARLETT JOHANSSON for Variety (May, 2023)

Source: variety.com
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downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

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is such a funny sequence

i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

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I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

No, y'all don't even understand.

There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

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That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

Yall don't know how much I adore all of this

This is important.

This is what people are.

We want to be useful, and we want to make people happy

Pay attention to this.

Motherfucker effortlessly whipped out a balloon animal while talking about entropy and looking like a regular contributor to the Washington Post. I wish him nothing but the best in life

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The ancient Japanese art of kintsugi — which repairs broken ceramics with gold to make them stronger and more beautiful — has become a powerful metaphor for self-development. Translating literally as “golden joinery”, this beautiful concept from is now considered an important art form, but also one that teaches us to embrace the beauty in our imperfections. Repair after adversity is like therapy. “Dating back to the 1400s, it was thought to be the invention of Japanese shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who charged his craftsmen with finding a more thoughtful, aesthetically pleasing way of fixing a broken tea bowl, rather than the traditional method of using ugly metal staples. Using precious metals… (drew) attention to, rather than away from, the breaks, which in turn had the effect of making the break the most important part of the piece itself.” - ref.