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Okay but surrealism aside all of these Southern Gothic posts are literally how the South is and I’m cackling. 

We’ve got creepy ass 24/7 diners that say open but you can’t find the staff for half an hour. 

There’s a haunted house and a murder/ghost story in every town. 

There’s always a fishing hole no one goes to because of a tragedy living in the waters. 

The woods are dark and hunting season is the only time you enter them. So many ghost stories. Haunted everything. 

The mountains are alive with the sound of screaming. 

Devil’s tramping grounds, hollers, woods, stones, you name it, we got it. 

The old people may be racist and bigoted, but they have skin-crawling tales of caution and they’re all true. 

Everyone knows someone who’s drowned. 

We’ve all got a weird cousin who left the family and never came back. No one knows the circumstances of their disappearance but they were always an “odd duck.” 

Community is a foreign concept to many until autumn. People come in droves from the mountain valleys and hollers bearing crafts and baked goods for sale. Apple butter can be smelled from half a mile away and the sound of fiddles fill the air. You will not see these people again until next autumn. 

There are cemeteries everywhere, but the ones unloved are left for a reason. 

Do not step on the graves, but behind them. If you step on them, apologize to avoid haunting. 

Old oak trees = do not fuck with the tree. 

100% Facts, I’m not even joking. 

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I’ve been thinking a lot about compassion in Judaism, and being kind. In that light, I would like everyone to know that my current favorite Jewish supernatural headcanon is that, instead of driving vampires away with crosses or stakes through the heart, we say the Mourner’s Kaddish for them. I mean, that’s just so adorable. You see this threatening undead creature, and instead of yelling murder, you feel bad for them, and you mourn for them. Imagine being a vampire at the receiving end of that, having been chased away for years and years and told you’re a monster when you come across someone who sees you and your existence and accepts that you’re in a pretty bad place and offers help in the best way they can. I’m actually tearing up about this a little. If someone adds to this post I’ll love them forever.

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Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.

Karen Salmansohn (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself

Albert Camus (via harrlson-wells)

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Leon Levinstein :: Untitled, 1954 / src: howardgreenberg

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But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. All my life long.

Blue Is the Warmest Colour. Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche  (via featherumbrellas)

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Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malroux. (via sublimequotesilove)

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Juno’s trajectory. [x]

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nobuyoshi araki

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“We don’t have any hobbies. But we do try to get together a few times a month to judge people and complain about things.”

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G-G the book - G-G on Facebook - G-G on Twitter

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The speed of light will always be faster than your racing thoughts. The Planck length will always be smaller than you feel.

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If this requires blood, I
have been waiting all my life.

Venetta Octavia, “calf and heifer” (via venettaoctavia)