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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 years ago

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photo from Bodie ghost town, 2021

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Not sure who wrote this, but it's in my 2016 quotes collection (I compile quotes as a word doc, annually, and it seems a beautiful essay on post-traumatic growth, about which my friend and Not Too Late contributor Roshi Joan Halifax has so much to say.) The essay: Last year, the poet Jane Hirschfield shared with me that her life broke open when she first read a haiku by Izumi Shikibu. Izumi was a tenth century Japanese poet of the Heian period. This beautiful haiku is about risk, suffering, permeability, tenderness, and courage, the inner integuments of altruism. Izumi’s haiku: Although the wind blows terribly here the moonlight also leaks between the roof planks of this ruined house. Jane later wrote, “Wall up your well, and you will stay dry, but also stay moonless.” I believe that we have to let life into our lives, let others into our lives, let the world into our lives, let love into our lives, and also let the night into our lives, and not let the roof over our head, our knowing, our fear, keep out the moonlight. Altruism is exactly this permeability, this wall-less wilderness of the world, this broken roof that lets the moonlight flood our ruined house, our suffering world.”

[thank you Rebecca Solnit]

#Bodie Ghost town #Izumi Shikibu #Japanese poem #Rebecca Solnit #Jane Hirschfield #let life into our lives #wisdom

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mothskinnedman · 23 days ago

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There are wild animals on the loose, don't let yourself be touched, fight back, defend yourself.

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gentlebeard · 9 months ago

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If I could hold you for a minute, Darling, I’d go through it again

For @edsbacktattoo & @stedesearring 💕 Show: Our Flag Means Death - Season 1 & 2 Music: Francesca by Hozier YouTube

#ofmd #our flag means death #gentlebeard #stede bonnet #edward teach #ofmdedit #ofmdaily #ofmd source #ofmd fanvid #ofmd s2 #ofmd edit #blackbonnet #ella’s edit #HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMS ❤️#AND A BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAITLIN ❤️#i'm killing two (impossible) birds with one stone by dedictating this video to both of you absolute angels!!#jams i love you so much. you're so incredibly talented and hilarious and kind and amazing. i'm so grateful for you.#if you didn't live halfway around the world i would come over and give you the biggest and warmest hug #thank you for letting me scream in your dms all the time. whether it's about our pirate boys or your writing or cancellation hell™️#and just THANK YOU for being such a wonderful presence in my life #oh and kaitlin. lovely sweet kind kaitlin. the one we all love to call a human ray of sunshine because you're just THAT lovely #your little yellow hearts in the tags brighten my day every time i see them. whenever i talk to you you're just so sweet #thanks for every single lovely word. for every music rec. for every sweet message or ask. what a gift you are. ily!!!#speaking of gifts: i couldn't think of a more perfect song for the two of you than francesca #so i hope you like my little creation that i've put together. once again shoutout to #evil gang 😈

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suave1foru · 2 months ago

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Never letting go

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liam-summers · 1 year ago

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AtS 2.22 | BtVS 5.22

"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me."

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ae-cha08 · 5 months ago

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When you truly Love Jesus and spend time in Prayer and the Word, the way you Love people changes. You'll become patient and compassionate towards them and you'll start seeing them through the eyes of God.

Only then, it is possible to Love a person unconditionally.

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brainrotcharacters · 1 year ago

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peak scorpio behavior ♏

#bro really claimed first mate and then made it his life's mission to know what the captain needs #scorpio zoro #one piece live action #zolu #zoro and Luffy #one piece #btw I'm not a star signs expert #the scorpios often get labeled possessive and territorial #very rarely acknowledged for how intensely loyal they can be #maybe I'm just coping with my zolu feels #I just love them ok #let me cope #no one piece character more intensely loyal than zoro #mackenyu himself is a scorpio so our opla zoro is DOUBLY scorpio #man i wish a scorpio was obsessed with me too #i'm pisces aries i'd be able to vibe w the besties

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bibxrbie · 8 months ago

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It is so difficult loving Luke Skywalker and being Jedi positive.

#what if i told you that Luke loves his dad without it being attachment?#what if i told you that at the end of ROTJ Luke practices non-attached love when he lets Vader die instead of dragging him to escape?#because instead of letting Vader suffer through Luke’s desire to see him live; Luke sets it aside and removes Vaders masks #stays with Vader until he dies; fulfil Vader's last request even when it isn't something Luke really wants to #'our attachments make us strong' Luke literally lets Vader go! he mourns and moves on #Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi!#he is the foundational cornerstone of all things Jedi #i hate you 'time travel fics where Luke judges all of the Old Order'#luke would absolutely be the people's padawan bothering all of them about learning new things #luke skywalker #pro jedi #jedi positivity #luke skywalker loves being a jedi #their philosophies and way of life isn't for everyone but it's a life HE chose and he chose it out of love #star wars

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icantalk710 · 2 months ago

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Brb gonna go torch a Saab like a pile of leaves 🎶

#ore no kao #first vw show is finally in the bookssss #after 11 years (and a few streams this year alone) heard Diane Young live and i am renewed 😌#(did kinda wish a guy was with me--esp with the couples nearby being lovey during 'never known a love like this before ya' in This Life #[and if this guy i've missed would read/reply to my texts and communicate and not just view my IG stories it could've been him...]#buuut that aside i had a blast ✌🏽)#was fun relating with the guy next to me about our top songs and what we thought their encore would be #i am still so surprised they havent really played Cousins on this tour but tHEY BROUGHT OUT GIVING UP THE GUN AHHHHH 🔫#v fun v fun #did wanna throw in some of my Diane Young recording too but lemme let these selfies breathe lol

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juney-blues · 4 months ago

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not the biggest fan of how "society should be structured with basic care and regard for the germ theory of disease" is now apparently a fringe left position even to the fringe left, reserved for wokescolds and loony lefties who don't know when to let things go.

it is quite depressing to see that "maybe we shouldn't let large groups of people die to preventable illness" is, very much a lost battle at this point.

#juney.txt #I'm not gonna be able to go outside without a looming sense of dread and anxiety for probably the rest of my life i think.#good to see we've reached a party line of ''better things aren't possible'' though #glad we've finally unified on going out to brunch and going to see concerts and letting strangers spit directly into our mouths #hashtag back to normal #we've learned to live with covid!#and by that i mean we've learned to pretend it isn't there #while many of us . Don't Live. with covid #we live in hell. the material conditions for revolution will never arise in our lifetime #and even if they do they will be squandered in the name of the status quo #we will compromise on everything and build a world absolutely no better than we left it #how fucking bleak

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skania · 2 months ago

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I've received a few messages asking for my thoughts about the latest OnK chapters, but I'm sorry guys, to be honest, I'm giving this manga as little thought as possible for the time being 😂

It seems to me that this handful of chapters will best be read as an ensemble. Right now the pacing is all about Aka misleading the readers just to create cliffhangers and shock value (Aqua wants to kill Kamiki! No actually, Ai wants to save him so Aqua won't kill him! Kamiki is evil! No actually, he's just misguided, Nino is evil! ACTUALLY, Nino is just misguided and Kamiki is evil! Aqua may have finally chosen to live! No actually, Aqua is still planning to die!), and personally, I feel like thinking too hard about any of it before Aka gets to the point isn't really worth it.

He will stop his shenanigans and get somewhere eventually, likely (hopefully) by the end of the volume. So in the meantime, I'm going to take it easy and just let the man get there.

#this gif is truly the most accurate to my reaction to every onk chapter nowadays lmao #writing for cliffhangers and shock value rather than organically is one of the biggest flaws of aka's writing #this latest chapter was entertaining sure I'll give him that but at what cost lmao #I'll probably just make a post about this batch of chapters once aka wraps up the call backs to mephisto #so I can discuss all of it in one go #particularly because this last chapter is clearly meant to be the spiritual successor to chapter 150 #but let it be known that if in the next few chapters aqua doesn't realize and accept that he wants to live #then everything he has gone through will have been meaningless and a waste of our time as readers #so I'm expecting crowli to intervene and help him out if he chooses to live #probably at the expense of her own life if aka feels like being dramatic lol #fandom: onk

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nostalgicmiscellaneous · 6 months ago

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Season 3 - Colin & Penelope's Triumph

Stop listening to loud people in bubbles who want to bring down your enthusiasm and crumple your joy with how much we have to enjoy Penelope and Colin's season. There are some people with a clear agenda of hatred because of their own couples that will straight up lie, cherry pick and manipulate to try to get people turned off or to feel insecure about saying they love what they love. Sometimes, people with a weaker personality and herd mentality fall for that and start thinking oh, maybe it's not good or i shouldn't like. Some nonsenses that we read sometimes and some fall for it: Nonsense: "Polin is not popular, the show would be doomed by them. People wont watch" Reality:

Nonsense: "Polin is being dragged by negative reviews by public and fans who doesn't see chemistry" ( lol, i can't even with that one...) Reality:

At this moment, very near season 1 in critics ( 87%) and above in audience score and higher than season 2 in both aspects. Does it make anyone like or dislike more? because it sure wouldn't make me like more or less something. Nonsense: Only negative things go viral. Reality:

That tweet is from 13 hours ago. You read that right. 13 hours ago and look at views, look at 139K ( HOLY SHIT) that have liked and an insane 65K have already bookmarked. That's viral in a insane level by people loving their chemistry and them together. If anything they have too much chemistry. lol Artists, famous figures and all saying they watched and loved also on SNSs. The general audience loving it. We, from inside the fandom, might have our issues, things we wanted more or less, but it's glorious what we have and how much Nicola Coughlan & Luke Newton gave and are giving us. The hatred is being silenced by the simple truth and the enjoyment people are having. They tried to hate on their popularity, it didn't work. They tried with their chemistry, it didn't work. They tried telling us it was fast or forced even with all we have already got of their relationship ( a couple that actually has been developing from season 1 and that already had a bond and has a different personality and path from other couples) and with 4 episodes left. They tried with their acting. Were proved wrong and more and more people are realizing the characters paths and the acting choices and praising. They tried with their looks. Made them look bad instead. So they tried with lies and look what they got back on their faces...a glorious triumph. So, have a great time. Be a fan and just be happy, enjoy without worrying, without comparisons. Some people are so bitter that they just don't want to like anything. It's their loss.