chalala
Chalala
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Mostly cats, fandom, pretty pictures and good stories
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chalala · 3 days ago
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chalala · 7 days ago
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Tell me a soft memory
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chalala · 7 days ago
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yall the comedy wildlife photography results are coming out atm and
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LOOK AT THIS LIL MAN
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THANK YOU BRIAN MATTHEWS HOLY SHIT HES GOT SUCH A CASE OF THE MONDAYS
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chalala · 7 days ago
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IM SO READY
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chalala · 10 days ago
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« If you have to ask yourself where you will find the time to read, it means the desire isn’t there. Because no one has the time to read. Children don’t, teenagers don’t, adults don’t. Life is a perpetual obstacle to reading.
“Reading, I’d love to, but what with my job, the kids, the housework, I don’t have the time.” “You have so much time to read—I envy you!”
How is it that Ms X, who works, runs errands, raises kids, drives her car, loves three men, goes to her dentist appointment, is moving next week—how is it that she finds the time to read […]?
Time spent reading is always time stolen. Like time spent writing, for that matter, or time spent loving. Stolen from what? Let’s say, from the duty of living. Which is probably why the subway—this stinking symbol of the duty of living—is the world’s largest reading room.
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
If we were to consider love from the point of view of our schedule, who would bother? Who among us has time to fall in love? Yet have you ever seen someone in love not take the time to love?  I’ve never had the time to read. Yet nothing has ever stopped me from finishing a novel I loved. 
Reading doesn’t belong to the societal organisation of time. Like love, it is a way of being. The issue is not whether or not I have the time to read (no one will ever give me that time) but whether or not I will gift myself the happiness of being a reader. »
— Daniel Pennac, Better Than Life
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chalala · 10 days ago
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Jan Koet, Moon & Saturn
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chalala · 10 days ago
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Dylan O'Brien photographed by Brad Ogbonna for Men’s Health. (October 2024)
📷©: menshealth.com
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chalala · 10 days ago
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this is simply the greatest video i have ever seen
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chalala · 16 days ago
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"save me, substance abuse!" i cry. before you can moralize to me about the dangers of addiction, a noble and powerful steed gallops into the room - my horse whom i have named "substance abuse". you learn an important lesson about making assumptions. i snort a line off its back
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chalala · 16 days ago
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The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this:
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chalala · 16 days ago
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Ballet folclórico lgbttti Jalisco es diverso. Jalisco, Mexico.
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chalala · 17 days ago
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chalala · 17 days ago
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There's a village in Fife that holds a primary school competition to design Christmas lights..
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and the kid that wins gets to switch on the village lights!
That would be my entire dream as a child!
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chalala · 17 days ago
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When you're a kid/teenager everyone expects you to base your career around your passions and interests and that works for a lot of people but it's not the full story. I wish they would also teach students to consider the lifestyle that career would require.
Like... if I had to choose a passion and work a career around it, I would probably work at a zoo or aquarium. But those jobs require a lot of schooling with STEM classes (which I hate) and a lot of early mornings (which make me feel ill) and an obligation to work in person with no flexibility to move (which makes me depressed). So even if I'd enjoy caring for animals all day, it's not a good career path for me.
My current job is travel writing, which is not my passion. I like it, but it's not my passion. But I work a flexible schedule, I can live anywhere, I get a travel stipend, and my team is really chill. So it works for me.
Rather than solely focusing on "What topics do you like?" I think we should ask students "Of the careers that suit your preferred lifestyle, which are the most interesting?"
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chalala · 17 days ago
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chalala · 18 days ago
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chalala · 19 days ago
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woke up and immediately checked the news to make sure they hadn't caught him
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