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[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[remanence-of-love]

[dvnlyguided]

[remanence-of-love]

[remanence-of-love]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[anths-girl]

Well fuck, this hits uncomfortably close to home... 😕

the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

[strokeofserenity]

[prokopetz]

If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

[abreathlessplace]

"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."

[academiario]

change is nature (ratatouille)

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

—Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula Le Guin

[futuristic-koala]

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

[thoughtcascades]

idk how to flirt but i can make things awkward if you're into that

[mage8]

I've been thinking about that man and child too. Everything ends and our lives are so short and nothing matters in the end. And yet these small acts of kindness, that will mostly never be remembered because everyone involved is dead, are somehow so important. How is this life so important to us when our entire lives are just a blip in existence that is extinguished almost as soon as it is lighted?

Also, the DNA sequencing of the bones from Pompeii showed that it was actually a very diverse city, with a lot of people descended from North Africa and the Middle East.

I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.