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#cat #motto #life #birthday

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Exit From Apartment Delayed 20 Seconds To Avoid Pleasantries With Neighbor

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#moomin

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PRO: Get to puncture child with needle

CON: You have to go to a place

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What cunts. Thankfully I live in England where minimum wage, whilst still low, allows a person to get by, and our tips are extra on top of that. I can't imagine having to survive on tips to make up the minimum wage. I can't imagine how that's fair. I can't imagine how any decent person would, knowing of that situation, would actively choose NOT to tip. My tips become my savings, they allow me to save, but thank god I don't have to live off them, because cunts like this actually exist.

I also hate this idea that working in hospitality isn't having a real job. The only people that think this are people who've clearly never had to deal with shitty fucking customers making shitty demands, expecting to be treat like royalty like it's their god given right. STFU, try working in a service industry. It's far more impressive than lifting any weight.

#rant over

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Anorexia isn’t a joke. Anorexia isn’t posting pictures of girls with “thigh gaps”. Anorexia isn’t making countless text posts about how you wish you hadn’t eaten. Anorexia isn’t making hundreds of suicidal threats per month on twitter. Anorexia isn’t getting attention. Anorexia isn’t not eating. It’s funny, all the people who claim to have anorexia and saying they haven’t eaten, when truly, they’re completely full; feeding off all the attention they attract with their stunts and claims. Anorexia is an illness. Anorexia isn’t a competition of whose been in the hospital the most times. It isn’t a ticket to sympathy. It isn’t a tag on tumblr. True anorexia is a toxic, life-devouring illness. You’re starving in body but also in soul. Anorexia feeds on your heart, dreams and passion until you’re a shadow. Anorexia isn’t weighing 75 lbs. you could weigh 500 lbs and be a horrifyingly self-abusive anorexic; even more so than someone who weighs 100 lbs. It isn’t a physical condition, it’s a mental one. It’s one people don’t show; on the Internet, on their face, or in their words. It’s a haunting, consuming ILLNESS. Not a phase, fad or fashion.” (via notoriouskweeks) This is just too perfect.

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We have, together with the Tove Jansson Seura, created a map of places that in some way relate to Tove’s life and art, a map you can use to take a stroll through Helsinki and discover the places that were important to her.

Later this year there will also be guided tours so watch this space for more information. The map will also be continuously updated.

1. Tove Jansson’s childhood home, where the family lived during the years 1914-1933 (Luotsikatu 4)

2. Tove used to play by the Uspenski Cathedral and the park next to it will soon be named Tove Jansson park. (Kanavakatu 1)

3. Tove used to go skating on the ice and later on this was also the place from where the ferry to Pellinge departed (Halkolaituri dock at Pohjoisranta)

4. Market Square, Helsinki

5. The water fountain Lek II / Vattennymfer by Viktor Jansson can be found at the Esplanadi Park. Tove Jansson stood as model for the larger mermaid.

6. The water fountain Hejsan / Snålskjuts by Viktor Jansson (The western part of Esplanadi Park next to Svenska Teatern)

7. Tove Jansson’s studio where she lived from 1944 until she passed away in 2001. Tuulikki Pietilä alos had a studio in the same building. (Ullanlinnankatu 1)

8. Tove’s elementary school (now The Design Museum at Korkeavuorenkatu 23)

9. The Observatory - a place to see comets (Kopernikuksentie 1)

10. Tove studied at the art school that is now known as Ateneum from 1933 to 1937 (Kaivokatu 2)

11. The statue Sjöjungfru by Viktor Jansson. Tove Jansson is said to be the model for the statue. (The inner yard at South Esplanadi 22)

12. Tove Jansson was laid to rest at Hietaniemi cemetery. You can find her grave next to the old chapel (Mechelinkatu 2)

13. Lallukka Artists’ Home, where the Jansson family lived from the early 1930s. Tove moved to her own studio in 1944 (Apollonkatu 13)

14. The Convolvulus statue by Viktor Jansson (In Kaisaniemi Park behind the National Theatre)

15. The Arvid Mörne memorial by Viktor Jansson (The corner of Itäinen puistotie and Ehrenströmintie close to Kaivopuisto)

Map by Heidi Ettanen and Jonas Forth. Photos by Per Olov Jansson, the Jansson family and Wikipedia.

#I need to go here #tove jansson #artist #helsinki

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Tove Jansson

She’s so wonderful/such a huge inspiration!

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When one’s dead, one’s dead… This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there’ll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that’s so very sad?

Too-Ticky – A friend of the family, craftsman and practical philosopher. The character and the name are modelled after Tuulikki Pietilä, Tove Jansson’s life partner. (x)

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Girls are raised in a society where flattering clothing means clothing that makes you look skinnier. Where fat is an insult more often than a noun and not just a physical description but a reflection of personality. Where “you look healthy” is what you say when a girl gains weight, but “you look good” is what you say when a girl loses weight. Girls are raised in a society that teaches them it is their own responsibility to be as small as possible because they do not deserve to take up space.

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But that’s how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don’t have to carry a suitcase.

Tove Jansson (Comet in Moominland)  (via fuckyeahmoomins)

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Art by Tove Jansson

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FedEx Confirms More Than 600,000 People Try To Mail Themselves Each Year

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Garden of Vegan - Smoothies from February & March - [1][2][3][4][5][6]