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shout out to music. sound is crazy

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Cosmovitral: Mexico’s Amazing Stained Glass Botanical Garden

Photos by Lucy Nieto.

Art deco building originally used as a large market transformed into a stained glass botanical garden in Toluca, Mexico.

Many more gorgeous photos and details here.

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How about your top 5 songs?

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Of all the questions to ask... you have to give me this one?!?!? Don't you have any mercy for my poor indecisive self?!?!

Okay, okay, in all seriousness, this question is pretty hard and the answer changes pretty regularly. But since this is a list and not a single favorite song, maybe it can be answered kinda easily. So, here are my top 5 songs, in no particular order:

Drinking Song For The Socially Anxious by The Amazing Devil (One of the songs I relate to the most. I love it with all my heart!)

To Be Enchanted by Sleeping at Last (simply enchanting song (I mean, it's in the name))

Secret Worlds by The Amazing Devil (I honestly don't know what to say about this one, but it's a really great song. I actually wish to get a tatoo of some of the lyrics)

Viva La Vida by Coldplay (Cover by Reinaeiry) (A cover that's in my opinion leaps and bounds better than the original, and I associate it with arcane a lot (I have a whole mv with it and arcane in my head but I have no skills to make it))

Next Up Forever by AJR (similarly to DSFTSA, it's one of the most relatable songs to me and the most relatable song of AJR to me)

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pokémon game plots will forever be some of the wildest things to grasp for me. a bunch of environmentalists dressing up like pirates actually almost drown the world. oh yeah you can also dress up your pikachu in silly outfits and pick berries for them. jeff bezos creates a death laser using gods to try and destroy france. oh yeah you can also participate in cutsy pageants w your pokémon and yassify your poodle. meanwhile, in hawaii, aliens sent by your girlfriend’s abusive mom are trying to kill everything and many of them look like lovecraftian horrors. have fun surfing on manta rays though. meanwhile, in meiji era japan, you have to battle The Devil from The Bible TWICE because this loser who’s been Just There the whole game has religious trauma and wants to fistfight god. everything wants to KILL YOU and you’re getting paid minimum wage for groundbreaking scientific research. GOD from THE BIBLE gives you an iphone -11 reality is BREAKING NOW GO CATCH 20 BIDOOF AND THREE LAKE SPIRITS

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someone needs to stop him he’s getting too powerful

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No one realizes that in watching and dreaming, Amity and Willow may have been paralleling each other in this scene

Willow's using a fire glyph in this scene to save Amity from a falling rock. And fire magic is definitely what Amity uses second most to abominations,

IF YOU HAVENT NOTICED.

She might as well be a pyromaniac. So using this type of magic to specifically save Amity is so badass and such a secret parallel.

And right before that scene (before she almost gets crushed with a falling rock) Amity's using a plant glyph to get the puppets down from the wall. AND PLANTS ARE OBVIOUSLY WILLOWS MAIN MAGIC USE. You couldn't miss that even if you haven't seen any episode of the show. *sigh*

So I just thought that was cool, like, friendship goals. Go pooks, heal your broken friendship, I believe in you

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he said charlie looked like a lemur then decided to go buy him a lemur plushie

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People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from

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strech marks, freckles, spots, and scars are all what make you human. your body is beautiful.

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Ask me my “Top 5″ anything...

I’m in the mood to write lists. Make me write lists.

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There's something extremely depressing to me about how many people just don't want to get weird with female characters the way they do with male characters.

Like, I can kind of see why a lot of people feel weird about writing about bad things happening to female characters, but what it leads to is everyone putting female characters up on a shelf where you can admire them but you can't actually do anything interesting with them because that might be sexist or just make people feel bad. And I think that's actually a whole lot worse in the long run.

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When I tell you I said “what the fuck” when I opened the fridge and saw Shadow the hedgehog on the back of my sisters yogurt

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& if you have $3 to spare kindly consider donating to @yazan-famillly s gofundme (vetted here w 41% raised). he has reached out to me in the hopes of getting more attention to his campaign

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when i was a high school senior, there was a kid in my grade who wouldn't run the mile. everyone was required to run a timed mile to pass gym, and he wouldn't do it. the thing was, if he didn't pass gym, he wouldn't graduate. it was already spring.

it wasn't like he couldn't run a mile -- he was a football player, athletic. huge popular kid, boisterous, with a warm smile and a swarm of friends, who gave people nicknames. you know the kind of guy. for that matter, one could walk the mile if one wanted, you just had to do four laps at any pace. it didn't matter to him. he didn't say so, but it was a pride thing. it was demeaning. he was right, we all knew it and admired him for it, but like. he wasn't going to graduate over this.

this standoff went on for weeks. the principal was not going to allow it. this kid didn't come from a family where everybody graduated high school, and the principal wasn't going to let this kid be denied a diploma over something this stupid. but he was up against -- if i was informed correctly -- a state law. you had to run the mile to pass gym, and you had to pass gym to graduate.

the principal, who is a man i knew well, and still know, and admire, didn't make an exception for this kid. he also didn't force the kid or threaten him or even try to reason with him and wear him down. instead, he made the following deal.

"you and me," he said, "are going to run the mile together. we're gonna do it after school, so nobody is there but us, and your friends, if you want. and i will wear the stupidest, goofiest, ugliest tracksuit i can find, so nobody will be looking at you, they'll be looking at me. tell your friends to take pictures." and that is what they did. the track suit was cyan and magenta and yellow and purple and our principal looked like a goofy dumbass. the kid graduated a few months later.

i work with kids now and i think about this all the time, and why what the principal did worked. he could have cracked down. he could have said rules are rules. he could have said, ok that's your choice. he could have even had the idea, and dismissed it because of some notion about not undermining his own authority. but he didn't. he identified exactly what the actual problem was -- why won't this kid do this thing he clearly must do? because it hurts his pride. and instead of insisting, as so many adults do, that pride is a luxury that young people neither deserve nor can afford, he said ok. how can i fix that. and by making it seem, in a fun and harmless way, like the kid was humiliating him, he made the difference between the kid having a high school diploma and not. sometimes that's all it takes.