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@lotrweek 2024 — day 2: histories and legacies ↳ aragorn + arwen and the lay of leithian

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HELLO there's news about a new spiderman movie mcu im begging you bring back harley keener

peter post nwh is in desperately need of someone who is smart and trustworthy enough to help him from time to time to deal with spiderman and also his life because he's a mess and that kid who ramdomly showed up out of nowhere at tony's funeral because he met him when he was like nine is the perfect candidate to fulfil that role me thinks

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the ending to a six thousand years love story reduced to a ninety minute long episode is crazy

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"I hated the lot of them: my parents with their pure-blood mania, convinced that to be a Black made you practically royal..."

"..my idiot brother, soft enough to believe them... that's him. He was younger than me, and a much better son, as I was constantly reminded."

"From what I found out after he died, he got in so far, then panicked about what he was being asked to do and tried to back out."

"For years he talked of the Dark Lord, who was going to bring the wizards out of hiding to rule the Muggles and the Muggle-borns... and when he was sixteen years old, Master Regulus joined the Dark Lord."

"To the Dark Lord. I know I will be dead long before you read this, but I want you to know it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more - R.A.B."

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i fumbled an exam after spending days reading only the brave im living the way god intended

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getting dishonorably discharged from the idgaf war for giving af

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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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the fuck you mean i have to write my own thesis?? can i write a fic instead?

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beautiful take on grief by Andrew Garfield

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It’s two weeks late as I started it two days before the date and then had TIC5, camping and a Brno trip back to back, but happy one year ineffable divorce anniversary! Have a painting inspired by/repaint of ��A Huguenot on St. Bartholomew’s Day” by John Everett Millais.

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“You can’t leave this bookshop.”

“Oh Crowley,”

“… Nothing lasts forever.”

Happy (late) GO2 Anniversary ‼️😄

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"No one remembered my birthday-" Well, but did YOU tell anyone it was coming up and you wanted to celebrate it with them?

"I wish someone would see through it when I tell people I'm fine-" Well, but have YOU considered not lying when people ask you how you're doing?

"I am so resentful of my friend because they keep doing this thing that really bothers me-" Well, but have YOU directly communicated that the thing is bothering you?

"I am burning out because my friend keeps expecting me to help them with serious struggles-" Well, but have YOU tried to establish the boundaries you need to feel okay?

"No one ever asks me about this thing I really care about-" Well, but have YOU brought it up yourself?

"I miss my friend but they haven't texted me-" Well, but have YOU been reaching out to them?

Sometimes people are mean, uncaring assholes, in which case you get to be mad. But sometimes you just need to communicate better. Try communication before you assume someone doesn't care!

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The case of Phineas Gage is one of the great medical curiosities of all time. Phineas was a railroad worker in 1848 who had a nightmarish accident. A large iron rod was driven completely through his head. Phineas miraculously survived. He seemed fine. And physically, yes, he was. But his injury resulted in a complete change to his personality. So much so that friends that knew him started referring to him as "No Longer Gage."

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— David Foster Wallace

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— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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i signed up to do an oral final exam on my birthday about international public law im my biggest hater

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I just finished reading Nando’s book about his journey in the Andes and I highly recommend it for its honest retelling of those 72 days, and his personal experience dealing with them.

I wanted to share some quotes that truly made me appreciate his and Roberto’s friendship even more. He spares no words to define Roberto’s stubborn, competent and unique personality and that’s how you see they’re truly brothers.

“After seeing how Arturo and Rafael suffered at night as they lay on the floor of the plane (and bellowing at them fiercely to stop their pathetic moaning), Roberto spent hours the next morning fashioning the swinging hammocks that gave those two injured boys some relief from their pain. It was not compassion, exactly, that spurred him to do these things, it was more a sense of duty. He knew his gifts and abilities, and it simply made sense to him to do what he knew no one else could do.”

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“But more than anything I wanted him with me simply because he was Roberto, the most determined and strong-willed person I had ever known. If there was anyone in our group who could stand up to the Andes through sheer stubbornness alone, Roberto was the one. ”

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“Roberto was Roberto, on the field or off, and even in the middle of a hard-fought match, he refused to be told what to do.”

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It reassured me that Roberto was becoming his grumbling self again.

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“Roberto,” I said, “can you imagine how beautiful this would be if we were not dead men?” I felt his hand wrap around mine. He was the only person who understood the magnitude of what we had done and of what we still had to do. I knew he was as frightened as I was, but I drew strength from our closeness. We were bonded now like brothers. We made each other better men.”

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“Roberto stood beside me. I saw the fear in his eyes, but I also saw the courage, and I instantly forgave him all the weeks of arrogance and bullheadedness. […]

Roberto nodded. “You and I are friends, Nando,” he said. “We have been through so much. Now let’s go die together.”

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“He was forcing himself forward now through stubbornness and the sheer power of his will. As I watched him, I knew I had been right in choosing him as my traveling companion.”

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“But no one has been a better brother to me than Roberto Canessa, my partner in that long trek through the Andes.”

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“In that moment, neither of us trusted that we had any kind of future, but we did, and more than thirty years later I am proud to say that I am still best friends with Roberto, who has only grown more resourceful, more confident, and, yes, more hardheaded with the passage of time.”

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I tease him mercilessly about his ego, but I would not have him any other way.