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A poem by Paul Tran
Bioluminescence
There’s a dark so deep beneath the sea the creatures beget their own
light. This feat, this fact of adaptation, I could say, is beautiful
though the creatures are hideous. Lanternfish. Hatchetfish. Viperfish.
I, not unlike them, forfeited beauty to glimpse the world hidden
by eternal darkness. I subsisted on falling matter, unaware
from where or why matter fell, and on weaker creatures beguiled
by my luminosity. My hideous face opening, suddenly, to take them
into a darkness darker and more eternal than this underworld
underwater. I swam and swam toward nowhere and nothing.
I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going
even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far
away from the rest of life, the terrestrial made possible by and thereby
dependent upon light, I did what I had to do. I stalked. I killed.
I wanted to feel in my body my body at work, working to stay
alive. I swam. I kept going. I waited. I found myself without meaning
to, without contriving meaning at the time, in time, in the company
of creatures who, hideous like me, had to be their own illumination.
Their own god. Their own genesis. Often we feuded. Often we fused
like anglerfish. Blood to blood. Desire to desire. We were wild. Bewildered.
Beautiful in our wilderness and wildness. In the most extreme conditions
we proved that life can exist. I exist. I am my life, I thought, approaching
at last the bottom of the sea. It wasn’t the bottom. It wasn’t the sea.
Paul Tran
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Published in the print edition of the The New Yorker June 28, 2021
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Jean Paul Gaultier: 'Les Tatouages' collection spring/summer 1994,
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Wake up babe, new pics of Pedro in Malta just dropped.
#pedro pascal#paul mescal#malta#gladiator 2#este hombre es tan hermoso que no sé como puedo seguir respirando
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Necrons vs Eldar
by Paul Dainton
#necrons#necron noble#sautekh#lychguard#doomsday ark#necron barge#eldar#asuryani#biel-tan#farseer#warlock#wraith construct#xenos#vehicle#aircraft#battle#paul dainton#40k
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Ling Tan @ Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Fall/Wint 1998
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Look at these happy vacation boys!
#paul drake#perry mason#tcot feather cloak#Perry looks SO CUTE we hardly ever get to see him in anything except a suit!!!#also Paul's little swoopy hair!!!#they both look so tan and relaxed i love it
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X-Month reaches new heights with 60 years of the Avenging Angel!
#marvel comics#the angel#steve rude#neal adams#john byrne#dave cockrum#paul smith#john romita senior#carlos pacheco#boris vallejo#mark texiera#billy tan
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"Mortal Kombat" (1995)
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
(Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Video Game)
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"Mortal Mombat: Annihilation" (1997)
Directed by John R. Leonetti
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"Mortal Kombat" (2021)
Directed by Simon McQuoid
(Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Video Game)
#mortal kombat#mortal kombat: annihilation#2021#1997#1995#paul w. s. anderson#john r. leonetti#simon mcquoid#ed boon#lewis tan#christopher lambert#film#cinema#cinema title cards#mortal kombat 1
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#sophia wilde#margot robbie#cord jefferson#Lewis tan#emerald fennell#archie madekwe#carey mulligan#paul mescal#Celine song#EE baftas nominees party
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more transfem scout (feat. an also trans sniper)
#nursesart#tf2#tf2 fanart#tf2 scout#tf2 sniper#tf2 soldier#team fortress 2 scout#team fortress 2 sniper#team fortress 2 fanart#team fortress 2 soldier#soldier tf2#scout tf2#sniper tf2#scout x miss pauling#(implied anyways)#did my girl dirty with those godawful tanlines but i just know shed have them#ik shes pasty as hell but tans rlly well in the sun
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Jean Paul Gaultier: Japanese Tattoo Mesh Top spring/summer 1999
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Jia Yi wearing Chanel and photographed by Shawn Paul Tan for Harper's Bazaar Singapore February 2024
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Paul Forman
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Blackstone Fortress
by Paul Dainton
#imperium#rogue trader#noble#servo skull#eldar#asuryani#biel-tan#eldar ranger#men of iron#ur-025#robot#abominable intelligence#kroot#mercenary#xenos#blackstone drone#location#architecture#bionics#paul dainton#40k#blackstone fortress
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1994)
Director - James Foley, Cinematography - Juan Ruiz Anchía
"I'm going to tell you something. Your life is your own. You have a contract with your wife? You have certain things you do jointly? Bond there. And there are other things, and those things are yours. And you needn't feel ashamed, you needn't feel that you're being untrue. Or that *she* would abandon you if she knew. This is *your* life."
#scenesandscreens#glengarry glen ross#james foley#Juan Ruiz Anchía#jack lemmon#al pacino#alec baldwin#alan arkin#ed harris#kevin spacey#jonathan pryce#Bruce Altman#Jude Ciccolella#Paul Butler#lori tan chinn
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Quicksilver pt 2
#marvel comics#quicksilver#john byrne#paul smith#ron lim#ramona fradon#chris sprouse#steve rude#todd nauck#humberto ramos#philip tan#joe jusko
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