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Members of Hastings Wildmen (and Women) take in part in Wilde Volk near Rottingdean, East Sussex, UK on July 28, 2025, a festival exploring pagan and masked rituals across northern and eastern Europe. (Photo by Jon Santa Cruz)

Members of the Hastings Wildmen (and Women) participate in Wilde Volk near Rottingdean, East Sussex, UK, on July 28, 2025. The festival explores pagan and masked rituals from Northern and Eastern Europe.(Photo by Jon Santa Cruz)

Festivalgoers attend the DJ Lost Frequencies performance on the Vega stage during the 48th edition of the Paleo Festival, in Nyon, Switzerland, 23 July 2025. The Paleo is an open-air music festival in the western part of Switzerland with about 250,000 spectators in six days and takes place from 22-27 July. (Photo by Cyril Zingaro/EPA)

Festivalgoers enjoy DJ Lost Frequencies’ performance on the Vega stage during the 48th Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland, on July 23, 2025. The six-day open-air event attracts around 250,000 spectators.(Photo by Cyril Zingaro/EPA)

Kevin Vauquelin of France and Team Arkea - B&B Hotels reacts after the 112th Tour de France, Stage 7 a 197km stage from Saint-Malo to Mur-de-Bretagne (Guerledan) / #UCIWT / on July 11, 2025 in Saint-Malo, France. (Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)

France’s Kevin Vauquelin (Team Arkéa-B&B Hotels) reacts after completing Stage 7 of the 112th Tour de France—a 197 km route from Saint-Malo to Mur-de-Bretagne—on July 11, 2025.(Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)

«Sharon Wild (from the series The Valley)», 2001. Larry Sultan grew up in California’s San Fernando Valley, which was a source of inspiration for a number of his projects. His series The Valley (2004) addresses the use of ordinary homes as sets for pornographic films, and asks why the ideal of middle-class domesticity lends itself to this most curious form of cultural appropriation. (Photo by Larry Sultan)

Sharon Wild (from the series The Valley), 2001. Larry Sultan’s The Valley (2004) examines the use of suburban homes as porn sets, questioning why middle-class domesticity fuels this cultural appropriation.(Photo by Larry Sultan)

Bohdana Zhupanyna, a 30-year-old mother-to-be, stands inside of her apartment damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 23, 2025. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

Bohdana Zhupanyna, 30, stands in her damaged apartment after a Russian drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 23, 2025.(Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

Watford town centre hosted firefighters from across the UK and Europe in the British Firefighter Challenge on July 26, 2025. The annual event pushes crews to their limits and raises funds for charities that support emergency services. (Photo by Toby Shepheard/The Times)

Firefighters from across the UK and Europe compete in the British Firefighter Challenge in Watford on July 26, 2025. The event tests endurance and raises funds for emergency-service charities.(Photo by Toby Shepheard/The Times)

Britain's Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage speaks at a press conference in London, Britain on July 28, 2025. (Photo by Jaimi Joy/Reuters)

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage addresses a press conference in London on July 28, 2025.(Photo by Jaimi Joy/Reuters)

France's forward #12 Marie-Antoinette Katoto eyes the ball during the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Group D football match between France and Wales at the Arena St.Gallen in St. Gallen on July 9, 2025. (Photo by Sébastien Bozon/AFP Photo)

France’s Marie-Antoinette Katoto (#12) tracks the ball during their Group D match against Wales at Arena St. Gallen, Switzerland, on July 9, 2025.(Photo by Sébastien Bozon/AFP Photo)

Residents leave the site of a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine on July 24, 2025. (Photo by Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters)

Residents flee the site of a Russian air strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 24, 2025.(Photo by Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters)

A demonstrator clashes with police officers during a protest against gentrification in Mexico City, Mexico on July 26, 2025. (Photo by Henry Romero/Reuters)

A demonstrator clashes with police during a protest against urban displacement in Mexico City on July 26, 2025.(Photo by Henry Romero/Reuters)

Benjamin Mogen, father of Madison Mogen, cries at the sentencing hearing of Bryan Kohberger at the Ada County Courthouse, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students nearly three years ago. (Photo by Kyle Green/AP Photo)

Benjamin Mogen, father of victim Madison Mogen, breaks down during Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing in Boise, Idaho, on July 23, 2025. Kohberger killed four University of Idaho students in 2022.(Photo by Kyle Green/AP Photo)

Bride Jamaica Agular prepares to enter the flooded Barasoain church for her wedding in Malolos, Bulacan province, Philippines on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)

Bride Jamaica Agular prepares to enter the flooded Barasoain Church for her wedding in Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines, on July 22, 2025.(Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)

Lead choreographer at Circus Extreme, Hollie Exton, lays on the top of a piano as it is lifted towards the roof of the big-top during rehearsals, where Hollie, who has a fear of heights, visits the Circus Extreme band and dance troup members at Branksome Recreation Ground in Poole, Dorset, UK on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Wire)

Lead choreographer Hollie Exton (who has a fear of heights) lies atop a piano as it’s lifted during rehearsals for Circus Extreme in Poole, UK, on July 29, 2025.(Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Wire)

Allison Tabitha, of Orlando, Fla., dressed as Zelda from the “Legend of Zelda” video game, poses for photographers before the 2025 Comic-Con International Preview Night on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in San Diego. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/AP Photo)

Allison Tabitha of Orlando, Florida, dressed as Legend of Zelda’s Princess Zelda, poses at Comic-Con International’s Preview Night in San Diego on July 23, 2025.(Photo by Chris Pizzello/AP Photo)

Performers from Crash Theatre Co dressed in pink netball vests on Edinburgh's Calton Hill on July 28, 2025. The House of Oz production, Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence will open at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from  30 July until 25 August. (Photo by Rich Dyson/Alamy Live News)

Performers from Crash Theatre Co. pose in pink netball vests on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill on July 28, 2025. Their show Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence runs July 30–August 25.(Photo by Rich Dyson/Alamy Live News)

Groups of traditional dancers perform through the streets of the town as part of the “Santa Maria Magdalena Patron Feast” on July 20, 2025 in Xico, Veracruz, Mexico. Thousands of people visit Xico to celebrate the town's patron saint, Santa Maria Magdalena. The event offers many cultural and religious activities, as the streets are decorated with sawdust carpets, many groups perform dances, and people gather to take part in different processions. (Photo by Hector Quintanar/Getty Images)

Traditional dancers parade through Xico, Veracruz, Mexico, during the patron saint festival on July 20, 2025. Streets feature sawdust carpets and processions.(Photo by Hector Quintanar/Getty Images)

A woman removes a broken glass in a damaged apartment building after the shelling, which local Russian-installed authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on July 19, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)

A woman clears broken glass in a damaged Donetsk apartment after a strike (blamed on Ukraine by Russian-installed officials) on July 19, 2025.(Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)

People transport Palestinians who were shot while seeking aid at a US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution point, at the entrance of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP Photo)

Palestinians transport wounded individuals shot while seeking aid at a U.S.-backed distribution point in Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, on July 27, 2025.(Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP Photo)

Lucy Bronze of England takes a selfie as she celebrates following her team's victory in the UEFA Women's EURO 2025 Final match between England and Spain at St. Jakob-Park on July 27, 2025 in Basel, Switzerland. (Photo by Maja Hitij –UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)

England’s Lucy Bronze takes a celebratory selfie after defeating Spain in the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 final in Basel, Switzerland, on July 27, 2025.(Photo by Maja Hitij –UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)

An Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae dinosaur skeleton is displayed during a press preview at the Natural History Museum in London, Britain, 24 June 2025. The skeleton from the Late Jurassic period is of a species new to science and is will be on display on 26 June 2026. (Photo by Neil Hall/EPA)

The Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae skeleton, a newly discovered Late Jurassic species, is displayed at London’s Natural History Museum (opening June 26, 2026).(Photo by Neil Hall/EPA)

Julia Everson
Julia is a freelance writer and lifelong learner with an ongoing curiosity to study new things. She enjoys checking out the latest grammar books and writing about video games more than anything else. If she's not running through Colorado’s breathtaking landscape, she's indoors hidden away in her cozy game room trolling noobs and leveling up an RPG character. She is a Final Fantasy IX apologist (although she loves them all… except XV), coffee aficionado, and a bit of a health nut. Julia graduated from Western Kentucky University with a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing.