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One of the best stories I ever read as a child was a fantasy novel by some local dude selling books out of a suitcase on the sidewalk downtown, and I don't remember what it was called or who the author was, and it's so obscure that no matter how many elements I remember, I've never been able to find it through web searches. I only vaguely remember the story - it was a love story, something about a tower on an island and two characters on a quest to discover their forgotten past. They fall in love and at the end the only way to stay together is to allow themselves to forget again, and you realize that they're right where they started, in the exact same tower, and they're doomed to go on this same quest over and over again, never completed, but that also means they'll fall in love over and over again forever. And I remember how that ending blew up my little child brain into a million pieces.

I don't know what happened to the book, and I'll probably never read it again, but if you're somewhere out there and you were once selling fantasy novels from a suitcase on the sidewalk in the suburbs of Chicago, and if you ever felt like your writing never meant anything or went anywhere except a hundred copies you had printed yourself and sold for almost nothing, please know that your story buried itself in my young brain and has probably shaped my worldview in ways even I don't understand.

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i think it’s important that more people know that parrots and falcons are each other’s closest relatives. falcons are more similar to a parrot than a hawk. this is bad information only if you are a parrot owner

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Rouge would 100% try to use "I'm Just A Girl" tactics as a way to get out of trouble

...It would not work on Shadow

Dialogue from one of my favorite pics ever:

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*trying to say i like a fictional character* yeah he activates my predator animal drive

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I’m religious but not generally superstitious and my dad and brother are atheists so it’s interesting how we’ve formed superstitions around ourselves anyways. Maybe it’s because we’re theatre people.

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I swear to god I am going to (remembers nothing) (stares directly at the fucking

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shoutout to the people who for the longest time didn’t see a future and thought their lives would be over by now. you made it. you’re still going. i know it’s hard building a future you weren’t prepared for, but i believe in you. you’re a survivor.

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I’m such a “nah I got it” and suffer in silence type of person

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Your quality of life will increase ten-fold when you learn to appreciate the sight of a little bird

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Common Toad (Bufo bufo), STANCED, family Bufonidae, Finland

photograph by Jarkko Jokelainen

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PRESS Ⓐ TO BE WEIRD AND UNSETTLING