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#Denzel has no business being this funny

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absolute emotional devastation

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It's actually agonizing to read this comic, where Bruce is like ":)! Just here visiting my son! I sure love and am proud of him and will show it by offering helpful suggestions about what he's doing here!"

And meanwhile Dick is seething in the corner because Bruce is treating him like the junior partner in his city and thinking about how Bruce sees him as inadequate and not up to the job.

Like!! Communicate!! Please!!

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The Glass Essay, Anne Carson | Molly Brodak, Molly Brodak

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Morning Star by Alphonse Mucha (1902)

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You ride to war, but not to victory.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson

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love for other things by Tom Hennen

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Haiku

by Karen Yuan

Have we met? The way we navigate this far, tired planet is the same

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sometimes, when the light by Lisel Mueller

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Feed on what you will. Rats, chickens, poodles, I'll leave you to it and watch you come around. But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable. — Tom Cruise as Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview with the Vampire (1994)

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“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points,' one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, this was not the impression one had. Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding. There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.”

― Kazuo Ishiguro, from The Remains of the Day

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video proof that every creature is dogs

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Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.

I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.

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Toad, Norman MacCaig

Published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2011)

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spiderweb by Kay Ryan

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choices by Tess Gallagher

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