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missing someone is crazy because you’ll have dreams that r like “we went on a nice walk together :)” and you’ll wake up feeling like you’re gonna throw up

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>the goblin leaps to attack!

>the goblin misses!

>the goblin has scraped his little knee!

>oh, his little knee!

>oh, his little knee!

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nothing will ever live up to the moment when after devouring over 250 pages deeply immersed in the characters and story and after the emotions of the proposal I reached the very end of the letter that turns everything on its head only to find out that Mr Darcy's name is Fitzwilliam

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Vote with your heart not with your pussy

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“Are you fond of roses? It feels to me: as if all the roses in the world bloom for you and by means of you, —and that only through an act of royal condescension do you mantain the pretense that they aren’t really yours and allow the Spring to keep them.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke to Lou Andreas-Salomé from, Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

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i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"

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@scattered-vernal i need your expertise on this

Vote with your heart not with your pussy

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“Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything.”

— e. e. cummings, Spring is like a perhaps hand

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I wanted to show you this tiny seal I got to live with your otters! They're friends :)

YAY what a perfect seal!! the blue/orange color scheme among them is so handsome <33

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Fungi from soil samples

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Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

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this is almost certainly not a novel take but

i do wonder how much of the derisive language you hear toward "resistlib winemoms" or whatever is just "people who grew up in Safely Blue Coastal Enclaves rebelling against ppl who remind them of their mom b/c they are emotionally stunted adults"

like, as A Child Of A Very Conservative Area, i have a very vivid recollection of the first time i encountered this type of person, and my reaction was mostly baffled delight. wait you're telling me this PTA mom with unassailable Wholesome Americana credentials is gassing up the cause of trans rights at her book club. you're telling me she's batting her eyelashes and "think of the children"-ing, except instead of doing that to promote some obnoxious "ban this book from the school curriculum" agenda, she's shaming her state representative into actually funding the damn schools? i do not care how cringe her UV-bleached "i'm with her" bumper sticker is or whatever, she is working extremely hard & successfully on shit i care about and i will brook no slander against her

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how does one develop discipline in the first place. it seems like discipline requires initial discipline to develop. it's a paradox.

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In a fantasy setting, my job would be exactly the same

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got bored after exams and decided to invent a new school of philosophy by taking five opinionated and well-read friends with wildly differing views and doing a road trip where we discuss for the entire drive for ten days while visting cities with historical significance. every time we agree on something we write it down. it's day two and the words ontology and materiality have already lost meaning. the only two points we have after thirty hours of driving are that the earth and the moon are not the same place but exist in the same reality and that democracy was invented (point in time pending). it's going great

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I'm out of here