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sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

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See, making mean quips about people who are being awful can be fun and all, but you should really be careful since mean quips are AoE spells and include friendly fire.

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does anyone else's android phone keep trying to persuade them to send a big scary crying cyclops with every text

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only 5 seconds

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Homotherium and friend

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Hey what the fuck is “the science board” and how can they banish people from being scientists (because they are evil)?

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Beautifully-observed & realistic figure of a sleeping Antelope incised on rock up to 10,000 years ago at Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria, one of the largest & most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world.

ph: Linus Wolf

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i am not immune to collective homotherium cub sentimentality but also isn’t it lovely that even though this little thing might have been alone when she died, she’s now being grieved and celebrated so passionately by thousands and thousands of people? just a little animal that only lived a few weeks. maybe her mother watched her disappear under the snow, but i’ve seen dozens of beautiful art pieces dedicated to her JUST TODAY. she’s a miracle for paleontology, biology, our understanding of evolution and the history of life on earth. papers published dedicated to describing her whiskers and her paws and her little beard. i wish there was a way to let her and her family feel how happy we are just to know she existed.

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wirt from otgw really is one of the best written teenage characters ever i think. like. he's 15-16-ish and wants people to take him seriously SO badly, but he also struggles to take responsibility for most things. he's dripping with anxiety. he overcomplicates everything in his mind but sometimes he has lapses of impulse. he can be surprisingly blunt when he's angry. he can't help but hate his little half-brother (and stepdad) out of spite and it takes both of them nearly dying for him to start working through those feelings. he's really creative but he keeps his interests in poetry and the clarinet a secret because he thinks it's fucking embarrassing. he reads real estate magazines and knows a lot about architecture and interior design, which is such a random little detail but i love it. he's self-conscious and lowkey suicidial and always assumes the worst in other people's view of him, but BASICALLY EVERYONE BACK HOME LIKES HIM, including the girl he has a massive crush on, and he just can't see it because he never makes an effort to reach out. every minor stepback feels like the end of the world to him. he has no idea who he is or what he wants.

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Little one, your cries are heard You sleep in frost and dreams unfurl A dream of being loved and held Freed at last from frozen shell To sleep eternal when life's begun You've rested long, homotherium

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

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“That’s why high school, or a crappy job, or any other restrictive circumstance can be dangerous: They make dreams too painful to bear. To avoid longing, we hunker down, wait, and resolve to just survive. Great art becomes a reminder of the art you want to be making, and of the gigantic world outside of your small, seemingly inescapable one. We hide from great things because they inspire us, and in this state, inspiration hurts.”

— One of the best articles I’ve ever read. Rookie Mag. By Spencer Tweedy. (via wildyork)

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“Don’t worry about what other people think” is common advice that I used to misinterpret.

“Literally don’t CARE about the consequences your actions have on other peoples feelings.” = um… doing this is pretty selfish? I DO want other people to be considerate of my feelings in situations, why should I be entitled to not care about theirs? Like am I just supposed to put my empathy on mute?

“Don’t live your life based on your assumptions of what other peoples thoughts are about you." = so much better and actually good advice. you dont actually know whats going on in someone else's head, if you put effort in to understand them, you realize that we can be WAY different from each other up there. Not having an assumption keeps you open-minded.

Also, even if a mean thought DOES cross someone's head, it's possible they themselves dont agree with the thought. if youre just being a little unintentionally inconvenient to people, even if theyre annoyed, other people have the capacity for kindness.