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Wisptober Day 24 : Bound

“The ghost gazed across the beautiful horizon and brilliant stars.  The full moon was warm and gilded where it hung in the sky.  Perhaps being bound to an old sailing ship was not such a terrible fate after all…”

Another Nautical ghost! I normally try to not repeat themes too often but I have been listening to a lot of sea, ghost ship and haunted lighthouses stories lately so it wont leave my head.XD

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every day i have to remind myself that there's no secret conspiracy to make my life hell that everyone is in on except me, it's just that i'm wired wrong for existing

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[ID: A Black woman in a black headscarf and a black skirt with a yellow flame design stands in a patch of ground foliage, holding a bowl and a walking stick. Behind her are concrete buildings, palm trees, and smoke from a fire. End ID.]

from 'i am not your animal' series by aline deschamps, 2020

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atheist Toffler: I'm writing a secular hymn

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not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

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[ID: A green ceramic tile with a relief of a hare surrounded by botanical shapes. End ID.]

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[ID: Peter Tork with long hair and a beard. End ID.]

Screenshot from footage (via YouTube) featured during Micky Dolenz Celebrates The Monkees.

“The mass media has a tendency to distort. As long as capitalism remains the underpinning of society, what is good will always take a back seat to what will sell. General Motors isn’t concerned with making a quality automobile. Sears isn’t concerned with offering a quality television set. All that counts in a capitalistic society is selling. And to the mass media’s way of thinking, a picture of Peter Tork as a so-called ‘burned-out hippie’ with a beard and long hair implies a hopeless case who can’t lift his hand to his face to get his razor up and who has no interest except in stealing to support his drug habit. If that’s what sells, they’ll print that. The truth of the matter is, my primary concern was and is self-realization in a social setting.” - Peter Tork, Blitz!, May/June 1980 “He took the sixties to heart, and if the failure of the sixties took the heart out of him for a while, he hasn’t let that failure break him. ‘You’ve got to struggle over the material,’ he said. ‘The struggle involved in keeping those people who want what you’ve got from getting it deprives you of the time to really be yourself. Instead of struggling to keep things out of everybody’s hands, if you give what you’ve got – as Jesus said – if you give away what you’ve got, life unfolds for you. And the Catholic church would have us believe that heaven doesn’t happen until after the death of the body. But I report differently. I report that heaven is an experience available in this life. And it comes from giving your shit away. If you give away your heart, your life, your soul, your goods, and live as close to the bone as you can prudently do, and don’t worry about next week, if you live as close to that level as possible, you will find yourself as happy as possible. If you put your faith in the future, you’re going to be chasing something all your life. Put your faith in the present; it’s all right.’” - When The Music Mattered (1984)

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[ID: And why they should be born in the fire and die in the air others must explain. End ID.]

aelian really said "fuck if i know, ask someone else." iconic. more biology textbooks should do this

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Well well well. How the wheels on the bus have gone round and round

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do you think the elevator has a favorite floor

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chainmail glove by jean paul gaultier

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[ID: A figure in a white coat and a white headscarf with red patterning holds a bucket of blood. Where their face would be is entirely black. Behind them is a landscape of green meadow and a log house on the right, with a sea of blood to the left. End ID.]

the first plague

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people really need to stop using “harm reduction” to mean “pressuring people to Stop Doing The Behaviours” 

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[ID: A gif of Moomintroll reading by candlelight in bed, then closing the book. End ID.]

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i LOVE when people leave their scarf in my life and come back later for it. Literally it’s about old friends it’s all about old friends

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I got a heart monitor & I really hope the data it gathers is usable

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[ID1: "But grief compels me, maybe even more than sleep. I am waiting for something to last. I know nothing will."

ID2: "Grief is not a feeling, but a neighborhood. This is where I came from, everyone I love still lives there." End IDs.]

Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun // Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still