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[โ€“] redline@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I like the cloud, satisfying element

[โ€“] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I agree. And if it was a gif - it would need some birds flying across. There's a Wiki page for what I mean but I can't for the life remember what it's called. I'll quote a very tedious, very ponderous Atlantic article.

The digital flock of birds functions as a convenient proxy for "Nature" in the modern cinematic imaginary...

In context it's cringe.

The digital flock of birds functions as a convenient proxy for "Nature" in the modern cinematic imaginary, that realm of living energy against which Man, surrounded and beset by Nature but somehow set apart from it, acts out his private and public traumas.

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Staff*ge!

In painting, staff*ge are the human and animal figures depicted in a scene, especially a landscape, that are not the primary subject matter of the work. Typically they are small, and there to add an indication of scale and add interest.

The "removed" filter got overzealous.