The Boston Globe has assembled a stunning 120-photo retrospective of mostly totally horrifying tragic things that happened this year (e.g., The Oil Spill, Haiti Earthquake) and also some beautiful things that happened this year and these photographs are really f*cking amazing, whether they’re reminding you of beautiful things or reminding you of massive natural disasters of epic proportions that should make you feel lucky just to be alive and sitting on a computer machine. It’s in three parts: One, Two, Three.
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Fucking amazing, yes. Wow.
woah
Thanks for that Riese–
And also, thanks for Autostraddle–the best present this year !
awwwwww
I’m writing a dumb paper that is already a week late and this was a fun/depressing/captivating way of procrastinating. Thank you!
part 1 – #29 gave me a lot of feelings
number 37 in part one makes me sad. i can’t visit my family in mexico for new years because of this.
fact: I can no longer pretend the world will not end in 2012. Did you SEE that sinkhole?
that’s one scary sinkhole..
These pictures. So many feelings.
wow. amazing.
i think i need a hug..