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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light

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kitten

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it’s december 1 where’s the christmas tail kitten bring him to me

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Art by Philip Giordano

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Purple Starling a.k.a. Purple Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis purpureus), family Sturnidae, found in tropical central Africa

photograph by Edith Hoffman

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evanescence bring me to life and britney spears toxic are sisters to me

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Did you know that there's another Chocolate Guy called Kris Zhaokai?

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when a pelican bites you there's no malice in their eyes. they aren't upset at you. they are just hungry and want to see if you fit in their mouths. and if you don't then it's no problem and everything is fine. and if you do then well i guess your fate is sealed but that's ok it's a beautiful animal

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The problem with shipping a niche ship: you read all the fanfiction in one afternoon and if you want some more you have to write it yourself.

The problem with shipping a popular ship: 16,835 results on AO3. You start playing with tags and sorting through it, full of determination, confident that with so many fanfics you’re bound to find something you’ll like. Two hours, 30 instances of awful writing, 8 squick-outs,13 wtf AUs and 157 just plain uninteresting later you have to rush back to the canon to even remember why you liked the ship in the first place.

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All the felines, minus a few extra lynxes

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双面三异绣 shuāng miàn sān yì xiù  is a new genre of suzhou double-sided embroidery. It is done on both sides, but the patterns, stitches and colors are different, hence the name 双面三异绣( literally double-sided triple difference embroidery). It enables the viewer to appreciate the image of traditional chinese embroidery art with different patterns, stitches and colors on one embroidery. 

cr 花锦城手工

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Love the random censorship in Victorian novels. Mr. ------- came down from -----shire in the summer of 18--. Who? Where? When? Wouldn't you like to know, book boy

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Liver of Piacenza - bronze model of a sheep’s liver for the practice of Haruspicy -  Etruscan - 2nd century BCE

In ancient Babylon the liver was considered the source of the blood and hence the basis of life itself. From this belief, the Babylonians thought they could discover the will of the gods by examining the livers of carefully selected sacrificial sheep. Haruspicy in ancient Italy originated with the Etruscans, but was incorporated into Roman culture. Roman haruspicy was a form of communication with the gods. This form of Roman divination allowed humans to discern the attitudes of the gods and react in a way that would maintain harmony between the human and divine worlds.  This bronze model of a sheep’s liver was found by chance by a farmer in 1877. Names of Etruscan gods are etched into the surface and organized into different sections.

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"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway